Bill Protzmann was born into a Military family. His dad served in the Army Reserves, his uncle served in the Air Force, and his Aunt served as a Brigadier General in the Air National Guard. Although he was a highly sensitive child, emotions were not welcomed in the Protzmann household. He was expected to stand tall with his chest out and go through life with a stiff upper lip.

Those character traits did help him find success in his life through playing classical piano but the mental health issues developed from an emotionally neglectful childhood would play an even bigger role later on.

His mother was a piano teacher and thus, he took up playing the piano -- admittedly, it took him 9 years of playing before he actually liked it. He learned coming into adulthood that playing the piano was a way for him to express the emotions he was taught to repress within him. He attributes this fact to being about the only reason he didn’t go completely crazy.

He used the piano to work through negative emotions like fear, anger, sadness which he says are the main animators of music, upwards of 75% of the time. He received a Magna Cum Laude Degree from the University of California at Irvine for Piano Performance in 1999. He recorded two albums; one with a Master Tibetan Bowl Player and another with a Virtuoso Flute player.

His performance of Amazing Grace earned a place in the Library of Congress for his 2000 rendition of it. Although piano and music itself were important to him, he fell in love with the relief it brought to his life in the form of sound therapy. After a long bout with depression and even some consideration of "checking out," He realized that something needed to die but it wasn't him, himself.

He began studying energy and vibrations and how they affect human beings. He began to understand how important vibrations are to us with the Earth even having its own vibration of 7.83Hz (Shuuman Resonance) that reflects the vibration of Human Alpha Brain Waves. He began coming closer to God throughout his healing journey.

This experience became the basis for his belief that music has been around as long as humans have and that it is a direct link to the Divine: “I think we need music as much as we need food. We need sound and rhythm as much as we need to eat. Because sound and rhythm feed us in a way that we can control.

Music is something that puts us in sync with the wider Universal Energy, whether someone calls that ‘source energy,’ or ‘God,’ but whatever that is -- sound and rhythm is that gateway. We better feed our bodies but we also better feed our mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies too because that’s all a part of it.”

Bill Protzmann is a fellow "spiritnaut" that has found the importance of music and healing the overall human being. He is at the forefront of this massive awakening that the world is going through. He believes that humans need to do many things to find peace in their lives, to include making healthier choices, going through our trauma to grow and evolve, as well as doing the things necessary for every aspect of our being.

Above all else, Bill says that humans need to learn to have fun again. Not drug-induced fun that we have become addicted to in this culture but the fun music, community, togetherness, and love can bring into the lives of people who are open to it. Bill Protzmann is an incredible human being with an amazing story of being saved and turning around to help save others.

We are grateful at Task Force Zen for the time he gave, to teach us an entirely different aspect to something almost every human enjoys: music.

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Show Notes & Time Stamps

• 00:30 -- Show / guest intro



• 06:10 -- Interview begins



• 08:06 -- Stiff upper lip



• 10:50 -- Vibrating cellular organisms



• 13:45 -- The Schumann Resonance



• 15:45 -- Yelling before talking



• 16:50 -- Music as soul food



• 18:45 -- Music and the traumatized



• 21:30 -- Left & right hemispheres



• 23:00 -- Overcoming trauma



• 24:20 -- Release the stigma



• 26:40 -- Music Care International



• 29:45 -- Music Care, Inc.



• 33:38 -- Pain Nation



• 35:00 -- From darkness to light



• 37:30 -- Post traumatic hope



• 41:10 -- Legacy & vision



• 45:00 -- Message to the traumatized



• 47:40 -- Personal mantra



• 49:00 -- Contact info



• 49:50 -- Outro

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Supporting Cast

Shout out to Heroes Media Group for helping to produce and promote this audio podcast 

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Shout out to Bill Protzmann of Music Care Inc.

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Thanks to Adam T. Cummings of “Podcasting Completely” for assisting with this episode.