Then you should tell your brain to shut up as it is interfering with your pleasure. Then the rest become automatic. You *FEEL* it, you don't have to think it, but that can happen as a follow up, not the other way around.Fretless wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:23 pm#1 is for me just relaxing into the music and enjoying an emotional response.Dr Bunsen Honeydew wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:02 pm That seems daft to me Fretless, by doing # one the thoughts about the rest should emerge naturally with the right stimulation, not artificial programming the mind.
The other modes are mentally active, analytical mindsets where my attention is directed to the different facets of the recording and reproduction process.
It's how my brain works.
The mind is the monkey. Until you learn it is not you, it is a corruption of your true self, your true self is how you feel not the inane chatter.
For thousands and thousands of years people have developed ways of stilling the mind - it is called meditation, and even that has been turned into a slurp. Shut the monkey up and a awful lot of truth and reality suddenly appears.