Steven Sharp Nelson: How to find peace with loss through music | TED
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Music can act as a guide, says cellist Steven Sharp Nelson. It has the power to unlock the mind, tap into the heart and bring light in the darkest times. Take a deep breath as Nelson takes you on a melodic, meditative journey that could reconnect you with your closest loved ones -- no matter how near or far they may be.
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I’m so grateful for these comments! I read every one of them. Hearing your heartfelt stories feeds my soul. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
@anupomasharminanonya4756
2 жыл бұрын
I was having an anxiety-ridden day. Thanks for the melody man!
@norsyazwaniahmadsazeli3885
2 жыл бұрын
you are my inspiration ❤️🥺
@stayarmy4797
2 жыл бұрын
I lost my grand-father 3 months ago...and i couldn't get out of the situation....but thank you so much Steven , you really helped me a, my family and a-lot of people out there by sharing your story and playing the sweetest and hear-warming melody...thank you so much for lowing down my stress .
@user-uc7wb2sv8e
2 жыл бұрын
My father had a serious anemia when I was 7 years old. Doctors also said that he may live longer than 5 years, but he loved me so dearly, he struggled to live and always standing by my side to support me. When I was 15, his condition was worse than ever, but I was so traitorous that I didn’t even have the chance to say goodbye to him, I didn’t have the chance to give him a hug, a kiss. I suffered a lot whenever I thought of this regretful memory, but just now, when I followed your music, I got that chance. I finally able to rewrite the memory with him. Thank you so much Steven. You healed me.
@TheKingofHearts777
2 жыл бұрын
You were amazing in this performance! Thanks for being you!
Watching him enjoy what he's doing only makes us love it even more!
The tears are still streaming down my face. I have always felt my dad near me since he passed nearly 4 years ago but I had so many things left unsaid, so many regrets for lost chances to tell my dad how much I love him, how thankful I am for everything he did for me, and how precious he is to me. How sorry I am for the trouble I often was. Thank you, Steve, for using your God-given gift to lead me through a chance to say all of those things to him and to feel his strong arms around me around me again. My tears are now tears of joy.❤
My high school band teacher passed away earlier this year and it was devastating. Although I had already been playing an instrument for 4 years prior to high school, he was the one who really ignited that passion for music that still burns inside me to this day. A piece of music in his honor has been commissioned and will be played for the first time in December. Miss you everyday Jason. RIP my friend.
His face resonates the music he produces! Lovely!
Thank you for sharing that with us. My mother too had the voice of an angel. She had a full paid scholarship to Julliard but gave it up to be a wife and mother. I often was a one person audience and when she hit that high 'C' note I felt like I was levitating.
@jmarie4056
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! May The Perpetual Light Shine Upon Your Mother, and May She Bring Harmony in Heaven with her Angelic Voice!
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing! Sounds like we’re in the same “C Note Levitation Club” - 😁 so grateful for mother’s who sacrifice so much! ❤️❤️
My brother, Jason, died by suicide earlier this year & my mother, Linda, has latter stage FT dementia. Watching this video brought me to tears, not only because of its passion but because of its beauty. I did close my eyes & imagine as Steven suggested...& the tears flowed freely. RIP Jason, I love you & miss you every day
You can literally see music emanating from his fingertips when he plays his cello in the beginning
I’ve never seen anyone project so much joy as does Steven when playing his music.
I have always loved this song, and especially the Piano Guys rendition of it
I've seen him perform live a few times and it's truly magical!
@breezyentertainment5764
2 жыл бұрын
Seriously we’re do you see him perform I really do love his musical especially his facial expression
@samanthagarner2926
2 жыл бұрын
@@breezyentertainment5764 He goes on tour with the piano guys, they play shows all over
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
@@samanthagarner2926 Thank you so much for supporting us!
@breezyentertainment5764
2 жыл бұрын
@@samanthagarner2926 hello
can we start every ted talk with a music piece ?
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
I’m totally in.
Music, every one's best anti anxiety drug. It have worked for me for decades
I almost stopped the video when you started to play the song at the end… I haven’t been ready for 9 years to willingly, really FEEL the loss and pain associated with our first miscarriage. And when you started playing (I’m crying as I type this), I could feel those walls coming down. I talked with our little girl and told her how much I love her... Thank you so much for sharing this with the world and with me :’-)
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
This comment lifted me, Carolyn! Thank you for your courage and for sharing your story!
Thank you so much for this incredible experience. I lost my dad when I was 14 and through this exercise and the power of your music I was able to connect again🙏❤
This is F**king Amazing.....Agree?❤️
@lomaddevta5723
2 жыл бұрын
yo!
@ekam8770
2 жыл бұрын
@@lomaddevta5723 yayy ❤️😂
@ekam8770
2 жыл бұрын
@Ramesh 🏄😊✌️
this brought me to tears thinking of my dad who I lost 11 years ago - and it feels like yesterday. Thank you for this beautiful message and music.
Steven and Jon are just a bless to the world :') Have been following the journey of them as Piano Guys since the beginning ♡ Thank you, you two wonderful human beings! :')
If you've never heard of the Piano Guys look them up. Their work is amazing!
@aidialisleachman130
2 жыл бұрын
Extremely amazing 👏
@bravozulu0380
2 жыл бұрын
Hard to imagine anyone who hasn't.
@smxstreet3561
2 жыл бұрын
@@bravozulu0380 it ain't hard really 😂 I'm one of the people who didn't hear about them till now
When I listen to this I feel my mother near, I remember my father, friends that in the last 6/7 years passed away tragically. Thank you for helping me to remember them with love and forgiveness. Through music I feel all that I put behind closed doors (feelings I mean 😉) in my head. Also my children are the reason I resolve my issues and family troubles that I refuse to pass on to the kids. It sounds you have a beautiful and strong mother that was remarkable and raised a beautiful son. Thank you for your story and music. 🙏🍀🕯️🤗 8:22
When you started playing the second song, I sincerely lost myself in it and started crying. I’ve heard it before, but never with such emotion and depth behind it. It’s insane.
I believe that somewhere in paradise, your mom is still looking after you and she'll proud of you so much. Anyway, this is the extremely thrilling speech that I've ever heard.
And so sorry for the loss of your beautiful Mother. 🙏🏻❤️
Your guitar music wonderful.
I need the downloadable version of this
I lost my oldest brother in 2007, my parents, mom 2014, father 2015, my oldest son of 5 boys died at 19 in 2021. I needed this!
He is so happy the vibrato is really rich
Man I wish I was my dad so I could have been in the same mission field as Brother Nelson lol. My dad literally had jam sessions with him and now my whole family is like the biggest fan of The Piano Guys. I still remember my dad showing me my first Piano Guys video in 2012 and me being hooked ever since. Literally my siblings when they were babies would watch Piano Guys and it would cheer them up and we would just watch them as a family all the time so thanks for all the joy you've brought my family Brother Nelson!
I lost my best friend in the whole world just 5 days ago. As I closed my eyes and listened, I thought I'd become a watery mess. But I actually smiled hugely instead, as I pictured her in my mind, and just enjoyed these moments and memories. I have been a musician and singer all my life and I understand the power of music, but this was profound. Thank you for this video.
Music heals! Such a great mother!!
Playing music as the beginning is not only creating positive vibe but melting my heart. Thank you for your great music and your talk, I had a good morning with that.
What a beautiful and emotional Ted ! Thank you 🙏🏻💖🌹
Thank you for this! ❤️
that was the most beautiful thing that i have seen for last 2 months
Thank you for giving me such beautiful music, it is wonderful
He is shining on stage.
Thank you Thank you again because of you I got the chance to meet my grandpa and even now I can say him goodbye it ends on a good note and I feel that. That seems impossible to me to meet him again but just because of you I meet him even spend time with him. lovely
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
@MoniCastApp
2 жыл бұрын
@@romanski5811 music is always there with different form, right? from nature, from different sounds.
Thank you!! Really need this today. God bless 🙏🏻
This brought me to tears. Unexpectedly lost my brother a little over a year ago. Stings everyday that things were left unfinished and that I never got to say goodbye. This really helped me. Thank you.
hallelujah. The negative energy of the mind is known to gradually disappear by listening to this wonderful musician.GOD bless you
In 2015 I lost my Dad then my husband and a year later my grandson. It was hard but as we know grief has no expiration date. ♥️
Thank you for sharing this with us. Your mom would be so proud of how you make so many people happy with your music.
His expressions....waaaaahhhhhh!!!!starting play mind blowing......I lost myself in his music...❤️
I have no words to explain my feelings of love for this person!!
aqueceu meu coração nestes dias mais difíceis 🇧🇷 warmed my heart in these hardest days
I just love how the music makes me forget all the bad things in life and only think bout calmness and peace....
Thank you so much means everything to me.♥️🙏🏻
Lovely 💖 You're the best gift your mom has given to this world🎈
That song at the end - amazing… Thank you Steven…
This video really calmed my nerve and totally relaxed...love his vibration.
This is really beautiful, my own Mum passed away on Christmas Eve and so this was equally heart breaking and heart warming …but I totally agree those we have lost can be found 💕
I dont sing anymore but music is where I run to, aside from praying, when I need comfort. ❤️
Nuh uh, im not crying! You are!!!
You play beautifully , Thank you .
Love these videos.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou for this video
Music helps one's brain to 'reorganize' I have learned over the last 75+ years. Prefer instrumental as vocalists tends to guide the thots. What an amazing tribute.😊
Love to see Will Forte playing the cello again
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
😂😎🥸
sooo amazinggg
thank you for the music!
Thank you for that final piece. I was able to find closure by imagining my ex lover walk into the ocean of our once favorite vacation spot. ❤️
He looks enjoying his music!!!!!
i love this so much i've been grieving over my grandma's death just this sunday :( i'm really glad i clicked on this video thank you
@StevenSharpNelson
2 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
It's just......beautiful.
Life is a collection of moments each moment have a different meaning some moment are very special there are few moments that you don’t wanna remember. This video is special and I wanna remember.
Wow. Just wow!
Love piano guys 💕
Thank you brother 💙
Thank you.
Thank you...
Excellent
Music's helped me....👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Music does help🌹💕
That’s nice ❤️
I love it
"Isn't true that our lives' most sublime melodies tend to be written during the darkest symphonies of our struggle?"
He and his Family is Damn beautiful 🤩 Sweet as sugar yk😊
@octopops5414
2 жыл бұрын
YEAH lol i Got crush on his mother hehe just like love at first sight
@lomaddevta5723
2 жыл бұрын
they are cute :)
@eshmember719
2 жыл бұрын
so true mate
@ekam8770
2 жыл бұрын
@@octopops5414 lol yeah she is Damn beautiful
@ekam8770
2 жыл бұрын
@@lomaddevta5723 ❤️
I went through 3 tissues with this one. :)
heart breaking what if the person I've lost is the young myself and the missing piece is getting heavier day after day?
Does anyone know the name of the song they are performing? Genuinely moved me to tears
q hermoso ✨💐💐
old video re uploaded... anyways so brilliant
Music helps me get through so many things. It brings out the feelings of both highs and lows in my life and I'm grateful it exists!
How can we download and listen to your music? 🤍
@bravozulu0380
2 жыл бұрын
Look up the Piano Guys. This particular song is called The Cello Song.
Thank you so much! Pd. Please someone could tell me the name of the song? Thank you in advance
" the very thing that had wounded me was the same thing that healed me .."
This guys cool
❤
Blessings that great talent thank you it is magnificent congratulations great thank you it is beautiful music
omg Piano Guys!!!!
I know this guy
Yo, what was that last piece he played??? It was gorgeous...
@heddabedda306
2 жыл бұрын
Nessun dorma (from the play Turandot, written by Carlo Gozzi).
what is the music name?????so amazing!!!!!love it
@userhandle-l
Жыл бұрын
Serach "The Cello Song" by The Piano Guys. Check out their other music videos as well!
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Nessun Dorma was my mom’s favourite too 😭
I need to write an essay about this and its due at 11:59 I am so screwed.
@fatdinosaur6845
2 жыл бұрын
Dang, did you do good?
When the earth was being created by God all angels were singing at that very moment.. according from the Bible.. So music had been existing ever since from eternity that's why human learned music it's been passed down to humans from the highest authority.
@kineticenergy9613
2 жыл бұрын
Trippy! One of my favorite quotes is “if you want to know the Secrets of the universe, think energy frequency and vibration” ~Nicolas Tesla
@ronalddancaliva883
2 жыл бұрын
@@kineticenergy9613 I didn't know universe had a secret 😁
@kineticenergy9613
2 жыл бұрын
@@ronalddancaliva883 now you know haha
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When are they finally going to let Ted talk?