Although his talent and technique has brought him to perform with among the greats, jazz legend, Kenny Werner has also struggled internally.
Faced with grief after losing his daughter to a car accident and then he himself survived a separate car incident – he was diagnosed with trauma – and no stranger over his lifetime to anxiety, bouts of depression or even drinking.
He has much to say about the power of music and healing. He didn’t see his diagnosis as trauma but a way to work on himself to move forward.
When we hear music, we often experience how the physical flirts with the spiritual in profound and moving ways.
But what we don’t realize is that this confluence is possible not just in music, but in life, and it’s easier than you think.
Kenny shows us how musicians, artists or even businesspeople can allow their “master creator” within to lift their performance to its highest level, showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and in our life.
Whatever you are trying to master, Kenny says the key is learning how to slip into The Space, the place beyond the conscious mind that allows us to effortlessly embody whatever we are doing.
As Kenny points out: “Mastery is not perfection, or even virtuosity. It is giving oneself love, forgiving one’s mistakes, and not allowing earthly evidence to diminish one’s view of oneself as a drop in the Ocean of Perfection. And here is the good news: You don’t have to be a musician to have the experience!”
