Whatever your listening experience, you take music through the senses. Hearing is like breathing, but through the ears. Sound flows into and throughout your body like oxygen. You can think of the body, with its nerves and heartstrings, as the lyre upon which your life plays.

When music comes into this sensitive instrument it can stimulate the life force on the deepest levels. But you must be ready to receive it. And you must listen with your whole body.

from The Nature of Music