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so why am I talking about getting a song

out of your head on a YouTube channel

that's devoted to rewilding and Bush

crap

well probably more than anybody those of

us who love to be out in nature know

that when we're walking through the

woods and trying to listen to bird song

pay attention to tracks keep our

awareness Keen because our friends might

be jumping out from behind a tree to

grab us at any

moment it doesn't really help when Lady

Gaga is playing over and over and over

in our heads

I've used this method to help a lot of

people get those songs out of their

heads and when I did some research on

the internet to see what other people

were offering as far as a solution

almost all the solutions were exactly

the same basically it was about

replacing the song that you're playing

in your head with another song that

supposedly is easier to get out of your

head well from a rewilding perspective

this is the same as a lot of our

civilization solutions to problems

instead of finding an actual cure we're

just treating the

symptom in this case we're talking about

our overall awareness or

mindfulness and when we're not tuned in

to our

mindfulness that's when things can start

to cycle in our head on autopilot and

one of the biggest symptoms of that is

having songs that play over and over in

our heads

so what I'm offering here is not just a

treatment for the

symptom but a treatment for the whole

disease a

cure here's what you

do instead of replacing the song with

another

song when you find yourself playing a

song over and over in your head

tune in to the

song I know it may sound

counterintuitive but what we're doing is

bringing awareness to it specifically

what we do is instead of just singing

the song in our

head flip a switch and listen to the

song in your

head if it doesn't immediately go away

which it probably

will listen for a specific

element of the song Try to hear the El

electric guitar and every single little

detail of it being played or hear the

voice and every inflection as the voice

moves through the different

words what you're

doing is exposing the

truth there's not really that song

playing in your head there's just a very

pale imitation of that song that's going

over and over when you tune in and try

to actually listen to it and

say let me hear it let me see what's

actually going on in

there it'll

evaporate the reason that this works

brings up one of the basic tenants or

principles of

mindfulness which is that usually we're

playing on autopilot and we live in a

culture that loves nothing more than to

distract us and get our mind doing that

more and more often

when we tune in with

awareness those Cycles can't repeat they

stop on their

own this goes for emotional Cycles as

well as something like a song playing

over and over in your head so when you

look inside you listen to it you'll be

listening for that actual song and then

the wool is pulled from your eyes and

you you see that there's not actually

that song playing there that you thought

was

there it's

gone the only people who this doesn't

seem to work for are musical Geniuses

and composers sometimes who are very

very good at hearing the actual details

in the song

another important thing to remember is

that if you play an instrument say the

acoustic guitar and there's an acoustic

guitar playing in that song don't try to

tune into the acoustic guitar you may be

familiar enough with that instrument

that you'd be able to fill in the

details instead tune into a portion of

the music that you are not able to play

yourself and what you'll find is that

there's not actually anything playing in

there just shift from singing it in your

head to

listening and you'll see it disappear