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Guided Meditation: The Bowling Alley Of The Heart

by Ben Varian

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Lesson 4 in The Smudge's "Guided Meditations" series, available on flexi-disc:
www.thesmudgepaper.com/product/guided-meditations-lesson-four-the-bowling-alley-of-the-heart

From 2015-2017, I would often begin live sets with one of my lightly comedic guided meditations, which I called Relaxation Scenarios. The premise was: "what if the person leading a guided meditation was well-meaning but extremely neurotic and easily distracted?"
They generally consisted of 15-20 minutes of gentle rambling, my voice pitched down through an effect pedal, following a general outline but indulging in whatever tangents and real-time self-evaluation that naturally came up.
When I heard that The Smudge was releasing a series of playful guided meditations, I knew it was a match made in heaven. Due to the flexi-disc format, this Relaxation Scenario has been edited down to a tight 6 minutes. An album of full-length Relaxation Scenarios is forthcoming.

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released December 3, 2021
Written, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Ben Varian
Cover Art by Robert Beatty

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