An angel playing a pretend prelude on a prelude harp with a prelude demeanor.
Halloween came and it went, and unfortunately, I didn't get to wear my costume to the adult party this year. So I decided to dress up for Halloween night and pass out candy. I even got a couple boys returning and asking my husband "Where is your daughter...you know, the angel? We didn't come for candy again, we just wanted to see her"
Haha! Kid stalkers!
Yeah, my poor hubs. Feels rather old-ish from that encounter.
I had a dream Wednesday night that I was in a waiting room at a hospital and it was filled with sick kids, kids with cancer, kids that were crying and in pain. I was observing them. I wasn't a harpist in my dream or providing therapy, and it broke my heart because I could not stand seeing them in pain.
Well, Thursday, I'm volunteering and setting up and looking for a chair (I am always looking for a chair now that I broke that little stool!) I grabbed a chair next to a family and the young Mother was holding her son, who did not have hair and was probably awaiting a procedure. He was fast asleep. He was probably 5 years old.
Anyway, he started to cry shortly after I started to play. I quickly remembered how we were taught to find the tone of the patient's cry or moan and match it. This helps to establish that "WE HEAR YOU!" and it is acknowledgment from us on their behalf that they are scared, in pain, or just wanting to be heard. I managed to find the tone (which was E minor) and played the basic chord, sometimes switching and harmonizing. They proceeded to carry the child past me and I kept playing those notes. He then went into the treatment room. The mother came out and I asked her if he was ok and she mentioned something about him falling asleep again...rather quickly.
I have no idea if my chords and tone-matching were working for him, but it was kind of strange with how that connected with my dream only the night before and also provided me an opportunity to practice my technique we learned at school.
I am taking a child development class this semester. One of the things we learned was that babies or young children learn social emotions when adults mirror them back and that includes voice tones. Yes, this helps their cognitive development and teaches them how to construct their emotions in a positive way, b/c not all children are easygoing. If these nurturing needs don't get met then the child becomes fearful or aggressive as an adult theorist have said. Emotional control is lacking very much as everyone can recall a 2 yr old upset. This is b/c their precortex area of the left brain (logic thinking) and the right brain (emotional control) are not talking to each other as of yet, but slowly matures as the child ages.
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