I want to share a few thoughts I went through in the past weeks and months which led to a personal reset which has started in these days which in fact will alter my artist work a bit and probably make it more personal then it was before.

I think the past 12 months were challenging for nearly everybody on this planet in many ways. I always said to my close people or those I spoke to that the Covid crisis brings people to what they really are. And so I thought about my upcoming path as an artist and musician also with this new situation that hit artists probably most.

I know that I have been very successful as an online instructor in the past 15 years. I have been an instructor at gibson.com at guitartricks.com and now since 2013 on my HPCrazy Guitar Channel. But beside this guitar player and guitar instructor there was always a second person with another artistic expression. I am a very spiritual person who dedicated my whole life to music and ways of expressing emotions with music but I am also an educated astrologer and trained in spiritual exercises. That was always my source of inspiration but till 2020 I always kept it more or less secret because I wanted to be seen as a mainstream musician. I made many thoughts about this in 2020 and in Nov. 2020 I decided to put my knowledge of Farbmusik, of Astrology and spiritual exercises into a brand new psychological - musical concept to help people in situations of crisis. So I set up a new website http://www.sternentherapie.com and one week later I had my first client. It was my Sister Monika - she got bad news from her doctor and needed support. So I took the challenge even I could see in her astrological chart that it was a " Make it or break it " situation. At the end she did not make it, but she left our world in complete peace and I must say at the very end of her life she got to her full spiritual strength and recognition. And that's what it's all about. When she passed away I knew that this was a sign for me that I also should start this. The principle of Sternentherapie is very much connected to music. Beside the councelling with astrology you get your personal meditation music to work on your themes. When a client asks for that additional feature I improvise a song on piano related to a person's current situation.

In my normal artist work I will now more include my full person and my full knowledge. Well it was always there but somehow I hid it behind pictures with no words or music with no words. This will change now. I said goodbye to the old mainstream musician I was, I will leave more or less my social media life on Facebook, Instagram and I will start to do Sternentherapie, Farbmusik and continue the HPCrazy Academy but will also bring more psychological aspects into it. And so this webpage here will be the center of my work in the future.

So this my personal reset which I liked to share.

If you also made a reset which you want to share please let us know in your personal profile. 🙂

Dear HP,

I’d really like to thank your for your very personal reflection of the last year. I’m sad to read what happened to your sister but at the same time I glad to see how you’ve changed or better say transformed. When I read through your thoughts I can see the human being behind it & hope that there’ll be much more people like you.

On my personal story: I was working for about 30 years at the IT and to be honest was never happy with my job. Of course salary was good but it never made me feel well. Almost 4 years ago I decide to quit my job, took some time off & than started to learn how to play the guitar at the age of 52.

This was always was a dream since I was young but cheating myself in telling there’s no time to do so. I always had an excuse. Beside that I worked on an pilot education project for 12 month which changed my entire way of thinking & style I was working with for decades. AND the most important: It made me thinking about MY life & what’s really important to ME personally. And for the first time my life I did decide to do things only I like.

I’m still playing guitar & learning every single day. I’m struggling & fighting, I have good & bad days and so on BUT it makes so much fun to continue and to improve. The funny thing is that when I started I quickly found your YouTube content and started to learn from it which was very difficult at the beginning. And I just found myself to review your video lesson of “Old Love” once again what I’ve tried about 2.5years ago. So there is a long way to go but I finally found my peace in life & would only do things that make sense in my eyes. So that was personal (light) reset.

Thank you for your motivation and your hard work to share content with us. And I promise I'll check your new project in the next couple of days.

All the best

M.

Hey M. 🙂

thanks for your words and your story about your life. For me your desicions sound right and you seem to follow your heart and calling way more then before. At the end it's always about what is important for each of use. It's not about money or fame or other things, it's about what fullfills each of us and makes us get up each morning with joy. Of course if one want's to reach a goal then discipline is needed but in such case it's should not be such a burden. 🙂

I truely hope my tutorials can help you to get closer to your goals you have on guitar.

HP