The Stage is sacred

The space in which I consider sacred is the stage. I hope this blog will not sound too cliche. I feel as though everytime I enter the stage and there is an audience waiting to be entertained, I meant to be there and inspire people through music. On stage, I am able to release emotions and feelings I am not able to express into words. I feed off of people's energy and it inspires me to sing or play music more passionately. This can be any stage. At my church stage, I have the motivation to inspire people to worship God and sing together as one voice praising His glory. That is the most "sacred" stage of them all in my opinion. Sometimes, I even forget people are listening, and I am able to just play for myself, and let out the words and emotions that I have been wanting to say, but just can't. The stage will always be a sacred space for me, because it influences me in many different ways and allows me to influence others. The stage allows me to be who I really am.

The stage obviously evokes right brain dominated experiences. Music and art is created on stage, and it includes a lot of emotion, speech, intuition, storytelling and much more right brain activities. There are, however, some left brain qualities when it comes to "the stage." When playing an instrument on stage, one must use math to calculate rythm, timing, and the counting of the notes. The stage itself was built, and math was definitly involved in the construction. When I am personally performing on stage, I do not think logically, as a matter of fact, I barely think at all, I just let my emotions take over. If I do end up thinking analytically, I start worrying about my perofrmance, which leads to insecurity, and then I mess up. So over all, the sacred space of the stage is connected more to the right brain.

The sacred space of the Aborigine Australian tribe had caves where their ancestors were buried, and the spirits can coommunicate with the shaman. The elders of the tribe sang ceremonial songs in their sacred space, just like I do in my sacred space. Their songs made them feel connected to their inner self and with their ancestors. The sacred caves evoked emotions that words cannot explain. 

Certain trees of indigenous tribes also found them as sacred space because it held connection to the gods and past ancestors. They too, sang ceremonial songs and chants to connect as a tribe and become one,  as they celebrated their ancestors. Sacred space has always meant a great deal to an individual, because it connects people to their emotions and allows one self to be who they are really meant to be, without any judgement.