{"id":3045,"date":"2016-04-08T01:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2016-04-08T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:16:28","slug":"song-of-the-day-dave-matthews-digging-a-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/04\/08\/song-of-the-day-dave-matthews-digging-a-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Dave Matthews- &#8220;Digging a Ditch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7kEJJ4-_KY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>run to your dreaming when you\u2019re alone. unplug the TV. turn off your phone. get heavy on with digging a ditch. cause I\u2019m digging a ditch where madness gives a dam, digging a ditch where silence lives. digging a ditch for when I\u2019m old, digging this ditch my story\u2019s told. where all this trouble weighed down on me will rise. run to your dreaming when you\u2019re alone, where all these questions spinning around my head will die. digging a ditch for when I\u2019m through. digging this ditch I\u2019ll dig it for you. where all this worry weighed down on me will rise, where all these habits that pull heavy at my heart will die. run to your dreaming where you\u2019re alone, not what you should be or what you\u2019ve become. just get heavy on with digging a ditch. cause I\u2019m digging a ditch where madness gives a damn. digging a ditch where silence lives. where all this disappointment grown angry out of me will rise, will die. run to your dreaming where you\u2019re alone. unplug the TV, turn off your phone. get heavy on with digging your ditch.\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>The song subtly articulates meditation, as it contains captivating key concepts\u00a0signifying the practice\u2019s elements. The words essentially illuminate the liberation a tranquil mind carries.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The initial diction \u201crun to your dreaming\u201d supports the decision to ride beneficial thought patterns. The qualities associated with dreaming (imaginative, limitless, playful, unrestricted, wonderful) are youthful and essentially pure. The artist honors the subject\u2019s capability to produce stories, derived from raw experience and revealed unconsciously. The artist values beautiful material the mind effortlessly generates, suggesting innate human divinity.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Matthews empowers the attuned by illustrating\u00a0the heaviness sensitivity breeds as wonderful without its overwhelming characteristic. To propel\u00a0personal growth, we \u201cget on heavy with digging a ditch\u201d. We lovingly embrace the sensations by creating space for them to manifest fully and therefore be more clearly\u00a0understood.\u00a0Consequentially,\u00a0feeling deeply becomes celebrating the\u00a0stimuli\u00a0itself, rather than struggling with our personal impressions. The artist assigns humans agency, as we are capable of digging a ditch to surpass seeing sensitivity as inhibitory. To move forward is not to diminish one\u2019s sensations, but rather to lightly create space which alleviates their overwhelming quality.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>With awareness, \u201cmadness gives a dam\u201d. Dam is defined as\u00a0a barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, the resulting water being used as supply. Digging a ditch involves optimizing the madness with thought-management. With the breath, the individual gradually ceases contemplation about the madness. It transforms into a supply of\u00a0passion without judgement. The emotion remains strong but there is not a need to identify it. Therefore, it is simply good. The breath\u2019s function originates with constructing a barrier to combat madness and eventually disintegrates it into nothing.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The purpose of the dreaming is to create free-flowing habitual thought patterns that eventually fade into nothing. Silence allows for total absorption, complete emptiness so that the world\u2019s life force is potent within. We feel complete connection because it is the same wave from which our own essence is derived. One love. Essentially, the practice creates silence, and closeness with our most fundamental source.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>run to your dreaming when you\u2019re alone. unplug the TV. turn off your phone. get heavy on with digging a ditch. cause I\u2019m digging a ditch where madness gives a dam, digging a ditch where silence lives. digging a ditch for when I\u2019m old, digging this ditch my story\u2019s told. where all this trouble weighed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-for-life","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-N7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}