"Whatever you focus on, you create more of ..."
<p>[Re: depression and writing dark music.]</p>
<p>One of the things I realized was: <strong>whatever you focus on, you create more of</strong>. It's so simple. There's no debating that. You're not exercising your demons by entertaining them. You're inviting them into your life more.</p>
<p>So I just started going deeper and deeper into this darkness, and using the music as an excuse to prove my pain. [It was] so silly. I say it's silly, but it's part of the process; it's fine. <strong>But whatever you focus on, you create more of</strong>. It's so simple. So the more I was getting darker and darker [musically], the darker and darker [I felt], until finally it just becomes so painful and so heavy, that something has to give. ... The ego has a built-in self-destruct mechanism and it's called intense suffering.</p>
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