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gagement in music. We will also witness an increase in inclusion in mu-
sic education.
It is also professional musicians who will need a more deliberate and
systematic engagement with various holistic well-being support mech-
anisms, given that the high market demands are increasingly causing
them to burn out, develop depressive and anxiety disorders and, physi-
cally, a number of motor impairments.
A visionary look into the future of the music profession is actually a
look into the past, into the evolutionary origins of music itself as a means
of experiencing, connecting, and healing. I believe that we are enter-
ing a time when the holistic effects of music become its focus and music
regains its role as a means of promoting well-being at all levels of one’s
functioning, be it physical, cognitive, emotional, social, or spiritual, and,
consequently, as a means of promoting the well-being of society. The
performance of music will transcend the boundaries of comparison and
competitions and return to its original functions of inclusion and bond-
ing. The path to achieve this is through the experience of flow—com-
plete immersion, internal satisfaction, and motivation—while listening
to, performing, and creating music.
I conclude this monograph with a thought by Slovenian compos-
er Marij Kogoj: “There is nothing more beautiful and perfect in nature
than music. It guides a person into the depths of their soul.”
Thus, we musicians have an important mission, for we are the inter-
mediaries who help music to enter the depths of the human soul, always
bearing in mind that in this process we must first enter the depths of our
own. We need to get to know it well, and manage it, too, in order to gen-
uinely reach the audience with our music.