Spirit Grooves Archive

THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GRANDE BALLROOM AND THE YARDBIRDS Well, what can I say, folks? I am, or should be, speechless, humbled would be the better word, but you know I have to write about the 50th Anniversary of the Grande Ballroom and my time with the Yardbirds, and the groups co-founder Jim Mc...

Here are a couple of links of things I have done, just to be preserved as a record.

Michael 2008 Resume

http://traffic.libsyn.com/spiritgrooves ... Resume.pdf

http://spiritgrooves.libsyn.com/michael ... ry-of-work

Groove and Blues in Jazz by Michael Erlewine (Michael@Erlewine.net) Music is good for the soul. It is one of the best medicines that I know of and the better the music, the better I feel. Hearing the good stuff makes all the difference. And that is what this article is all about -- how to locate the...

I am a slow learner when it comes to giving up what is bad for me, slow beyond reason, probably the last of the last when forced to give up a bad habit. I don’t do it voluntarily and I don’t do it rationally. I give up what is bad for me only when faced with no alternative, like knocking on death’s ...

Here is a series of short articles on Resistance training for those interested.

The Dharma of Resistance

http://spiritgrooves.net/pdf/e-books/TH ... STANCE.pdf

How should I put this next thought? I don’t want to be overbearing, but at the same time, what’s the point of communicating without actually communicating? I’ve been pointing out the concept of “resistance” and the fact that for most of us this is some deep-down stuff that we may not even be aware o...

We each bump up against our resistances all the time. They are like a bad clutch, but most of you reading this have probably never driven a car with a clutch. At every turn, we find ourselves resisting this or resisting that. We may even translate our resistances into “I don’t like this” and “I don’...

IMO, deeper than our day-to-day involuntary reactions to life is our stubborn resistance to things. Often we are not even aware of our own resistance because we are too busy resisting. And while it’s not difficult to become aware of our knee-jerk reactions and learn to tone them back, it is much har...

This blog is about what we can do when we find ourselves in a funk, not feeling like ourselves. What are the most practical means to get “unstuck” when our life progress seems to come to a standstill and nothing seems to be happening for us? It can be a hopeless feeling. And I apologize if what is b...