Music at 13

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This is one of my favorite tools and I found it quite by accident. A few years ago I was speaking at a couple of events in New England. I had a two hour drive from one event to the next and my rental car came with satellite radio.

Whenever I have access to satellite radio I listen to the 80s channel. While I was driving they were playing the top 40 countdown from some week in 1987.

I was 13 years old in 1987 and with each song I felt a rush of emotion as time and again I was placed back in my 13-year-old self.

I don’t know about you, but age 13 was an emotional rollercoaster for me. As each song started I tapped on my collarbone point for about 60 seconds until the emotion slowly subsided.

The next song would start and more emotions would show up, and I tapped until they passed too.

This continued for two hours. By the time I got to my destination I had cleared lots and felt great.

This week I want you do this exercise at least 3 times, spending 15 minutes on each occasion. Here are some options for how you can do this:

OPTION #1: Find an internet radio station that plays music from the decade of your teenage years. Play the music in the background while you are getting ready for your day or cleaning. As the emotions and memories arise, tap until they pass.

OPTION #2: Go through the top 40 of the year you turned thirteen. Here @ top40charts.net/ are lists of the top songs for every year back to the 50s. Most of the songs have a YouTube link right next to them so you can play them right away in your web browser.

OPTION #3: Dig out your old CDs, tapes, or records and play the music from your past.

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6 responses to “Music at 13”

January 29, 2013

Nancy Forrester

Thanks Gene, for sharing this fabulous idea and resource … top40charts.net/!

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January 29, 2013

Karen Laube

great idea! just looking at the song titles brought waves of memories and feelings. I will definitely work on this one!

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January 30, 2013

Sue Rahilly

This was totally amazing. All the songs (from 1964!) made me cheerful and bouncy, taking me back to how I felt at 13. This is definitely a feeling I would like to get back to, perhaps not all the time, but definitely some of the time.

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January 30, 2013

Lee Carter

When I first read this, I thought, “Nope. Not gonna’ do it. This is ridiculous.”

Then I followed the link to Top40Charts.net, saw the list of songs for my 13th year, and felt so many powerful emotions.

So I tapped and tapped and tapped – it was great.

Can’t wait to do it again tomorrow.

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1. January 30, 2013
  
  gene
  
  yeah….I knew this one is a bit cheesy….and wouldn’t written it if I hadn’t experienced it by accident.
  
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February 4, 2013

Renée Robertson

Thank you Gene for this tool!
I’m 77 I realised that between 10 and 13 music was” forbidden” in Saïgon, South Viet nam , under Japanese occupation .
So for me silence still is necessary for survival, I can’t think when any kind of music is playing.
My first memory of music triggering emotions was when I was 13 the English army libereted Saïgon.
The english langage was like a new music to my French/Vietnemese ears.
Thanks a lot for this information that allows me to understand and clear numerous blocages around music and silence. Music was dangerous because it could hide sounds of approaching dangers.

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