{"id":10,"date":"2006-11-19T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2014-11-17T21:13:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:13:14","slug":"brains-bicycles-and-brooks-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2006\/11\/brains-bicycles-and-brooks-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Brains, Bicycles, and Brooks Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"music4surgery\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2006\/11\/brains-bicycles-and-brooks-hill\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2533\/1997\/1600\/IMG_2685.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2533\/1997\/320\/IMG_2685.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000099;\">How does the brain think up music? Why do certain songs just pop into your mind at especially opportune times? Earlier today I was riding my shiny new red bike and I was thinking about a time about 20 years ago when I was doing a bike ride with the local bike club. Somehow I had missed the information that this ride would include a very, very steep hill, nick-named &#8220;The Wall.&#8221; I always hated to get off my bike and walk it up a hill and so I put it in the lowest &#8220;granny gear&#8221; and stood up to pedal up the steep, steep hill. As I slowed down to a crawl a song popped into my head and I suddenly found myself pedalling in precise rhythm to &#8220;one, little two little three little indians&#8230;&#8221; Over and over I sang this song (internally) as I made my way up this hill. It was amazing how this seemed to give me the rhythm and the purpose and the distraction that I needed. Much sooner than I expected I was at the top of the hill, ego and reputation intact. 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