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For many years now, choral singers have known, intuitively and from personal experience, that singing is good for their mind and body. Modern scientific advances in microbiology, as explained by Dr. Bruce Lipton, have improved my understanding to a level where I believe I now know why this is so.
From this new found understanding, I now have a greater appreciation of how the more than 50 trillion cells in our bodies work and cooperate as a community, to a greater or lesser extent, as a function of the environment each one perceives. An ideal environment helps each cell attain optimum health, function and reproduction throughout its short life time (i.e. < 6weeks life cycle) in pursuit of its greater purpose, namely; to nurture and protect the community for which it works - a higher order entity - a person like you and me. Conversely, a poor environment adversely impacts cell health, function and reproduction that, in turn, jeopardises a person's growth and immune systems.
The state of the environment perceived by our cells is influenced by many factors, such as our diet, exercise and exposure to industrial and eco systems. A particularly influential factor, is way in which our mind contributes to the makeup of this environment. A relaxed mindset, living in the present and holding self-respecting beliefs, helps to promote a nurturing environment for the body. At times of imminent danger, our mindset automatically shifts into a very tense, 'fight or flight' mode, which redirects the body's resources away from our growth and immune systems to those involved with achieving peak physical performance. These momentary periods, when survival is quiet rightly of the highest priority, do not cause long-term injury to growth and immune systems. However, if a person's mindset is held in a tense state for sustained periods of time by drivers other than imminent danger (e.g. resentment about past events, worry about what the future may hold, self-limiting beliefs) the cells' environment is altered in a similar way to those times of imminent danger but is sustained for much longer periods. This situation can seriously compromise the body's growth and immune systems and may eventually result in its decline into a diseased state.
There are many ways in which this new scientific understanding, called Epigenetics (control above the genes), can be applied in the pursuit of better wellbeing. I lack the competencies and experience required to apply the new understanding of Epigenetics in diet, exercise and physical environmental fields. However, given my 36 year career in IT, 16 year experience in choral singing and life-long interest in personal development, I saw an opportunity to bring all three areas of my competencies to bear in establishing the world-wide Each Living Moment virtual choir (ELMvc).
What is a virtual choir you may well ask? Eric Whitacre can be credited as the person who pioneered the concept. Essentially, it is a means by which thousands of singers scattered geographically across the Globe can be sent practise music materials via the Internet. Having received the material, they can then individually practice and record their chosen song part(s) by singing into the now ubiquitous web cam equipped personal computer/tablet/smart-phone at a place of their choosing and at a time of their convenience. These recordings are then sent via the Internet to the virtual choir's headquarters where they are synchronised, cleansed and enhanced into a consolidated recorded performance and staged at an imaginary venue within a virtual 3D world model, the nature of which is limited only by our imagination. This virtual concert performance can then be enjoyed by the performers and their 'audience' in various multi-media form and shared across the Internet.
Unlike conventional choirs, where member numbers are limited by the size of practise and concert venues, the size of a virtual choir is conceptually unlimited. I have estimated there could somewhere in the order of 500,000 choir singers across the main English speaking countries alone. Given the nature of a virtual choir, the majority of these singers can be seen as potential members of ELMvc (i.e. all those with access to a computer and the Internet and an interest in retaining or regaining their wellbeing). If we succeed in attracting just 1% of this pool of singers to join our Choir, we will achieve a yield of some 5,000 members.
Walter Bennett
Original Founder and Music Producer
ELMvc
From this new found understanding, I now have a greater appreciation of how the more than 50 trillion cells in our bodies work and cooperate as a community, to a greater or lesser extent, as a function of the environment each one perceives. An ideal environment helps each cell attain optimum health, function and reproduction throughout its short life time (i.e. < 6weeks life cycle) in pursuit of its greater purpose, namely; to nurture and protect the community for which it works - a higher order entity - a person like you and me. Conversely, a poor environment adversely impacts cell health, function and reproduction that, in turn, jeopardises a person's growth and immune systems.
The state of the environment perceived by our cells is influenced by many factors, such as our diet, exercise and exposure to industrial and eco systems. A particularly influential factor, is way in which our mind contributes to the makeup of this environment. A relaxed mindset, living in the present and holding self-respecting beliefs, helps to promote a nurturing environment for the body. At times of imminent danger, our mindset automatically shifts into a very tense, 'fight or flight' mode, which redirects the body's resources away from our growth and immune systems to those involved with achieving peak physical performance. These momentary periods, when survival is quiet rightly of the highest priority, do not cause long-term injury to growth and immune systems. However, if a person's mindset is held in a tense state for sustained periods of time by drivers other than imminent danger (e.g. resentment about past events, worry about what the future may hold, self-limiting beliefs) the cells' environment is altered in a similar way to those times of imminent danger but is sustained for much longer periods. This situation can seriously compromise the body's growth and immune systems and may eventually result in its decline into a diseased state.
There are many ways in which this new scientific understanding, called Epigenetics (control above the genes), can be applied in the pursuit of better wellbeing. I lack the competencies and experience required to apply the new understanding of Epigenetics in diet, exercise and physical environmental fields. However, given my 36 year career in IT, 16 year experience in choral singing and life-long interest in personal development, I saw an opportunity to bring all three areas of my competencies to bear in establishing the world-wide Each Living Moment virtual choir (ELMvc).
What is a virtual choir you may well ask? Eric Whitacre can be credited as the person who pioneered the concept. Essentially, it is a means by which thousands of singers scattered geographically across the Globe can be sent practise music materials via the Internet. Having received the material, they can then individually practice and record their chosen song part(s) by singing into the now ubiquitous web cam equipped personal computer/tablet/smart-phone at a place of their choosing and at a time of their convenience. These recordings are then sent via the Internet to the virtual choir's headquarters where they are synchronised, cleansed and enhanced into a consolidated recorded performance and staged at an imaginary venue within a virtual 3D world model, the nature of which is limited only by our imagination. This virtual concert performance can then be enjoyed by the performers and their 'audience' in various multi-media form and shared across the Internet.
Unlike conventional choirs, where member numbers are limited by the size of practise and concert venues, the size of a virtual choir is conceptually unlimited. I have estimated there could somewhere in the order of 500,000 choir singers across the main English speaking countries alone. Given the nature of a virtual choir, the majority of these singers can be seen as potential members of ELMvc (i.e. all those with access to a computer and the Internet and an interest in retaining or regaining their wellbeing). If we succeed in attracting just 1% of this pool of singers to join our Choir, we will achieve a yield of some 5,000 members.
Walter Bennett
Original Founder and Music Producer
ELMvc