Over Forty Wellness Podcast

"Trust What's Inside" with Adrian Fu

May 09, 2021 vincent Season 1 Episode 39
Over Forty Wellness Podcast
"Trust What's Inside" with Adrian Fu
Show Notes

Adrian Fu is a Hong Kong born songwriter, producer and recording artist who has written songs for Eason Chan, Sammi Cheng and more. He also has two critically acclaimed albums to his name.

Adrian is also a corporate marketing and communications professional of over 20 years. He is a story teller and a humble student of meditation.

We hear Adrian's story of growing up in Hong Kong and his university days in Australia. A talented musician and songwriter who combined music and business and whilst being very successful still had feelings of not enough.

We go into some detail on Adrian's journey with meditation both as a practitioner and also as a meditation teacher and how this allows him to follow his feelings and to connect with his "Happy Place"

Timings
3:11 I am Adrian, I am born and raised in Hong Kong... I've been playing the piano since I was three
5:00 My parents had that competitive spirit ..... I was very competitive...
6:10 When I was a kid I never thought about it like that .... It felt like it was never enough...
8:39 The doubt was there... It was sown by my parents...
11:01 I went to Australia to finish my senior High School and University...
12:41 I went ninety degrees right.... I chose Politics and Public Relations ...I was a current affairs kind of guy...
14:24 You don't have to touch the Piano any more .... It was liberating...
16:13 I am really grateful..... I appreciate what my parents did .....
17:10 Everything happens for a reason ...
17:50 I ended up getting a job at a PR firm...
18:29 I stopped playing other peoples music ...
19:20 I was very very lucky to have that access to Eason Chan... During the day doing PR and in the evening I was working on my songs...
21:02c I needed the assistance of alcohol ....getting out of the corporate realities...
21:30 I started doing yoga ..... seven eight years ago I started approaching meditation...
22:17 I feel like marketing is the art form ... music is no longer art it's just a product...
23:52 In my younger years I listened too much to the powers that be ....
25:40 I enjoyed the fame of having a song published ...
26:20.   There is always that art versus commerce...
28:36 A record label offered me a recording contract...
31:18 Nowadays I take a slower step...
32:25 Every step of the now leads you to a place ...
33:40 I treasured my time as a recording artist
35:20 It's finding who I am...
37:20 I found meditation to be my redemption...
38:32 It's about two things inhale, exhale ....
40:35 Meditation is a real life practice .... allows me to focus and concentrate ....
42:35 It's how you see it really, how you perceive it ....
43:33 I ask them to close their eyes and imagine a "Happy Place" ....
45:55 I just wanted to go in and see what wrong with me ....
47:26 Teaching this group of students ... I learned something about myself too...
52:10 First lesson is about closing your eyes ... be aware of your breath....
53:00 Meditation is a practice of focus and concentration....
54:34 We are brought up not to trust our gut feeling... It drives you to somewhere....
56:15 MTR Saying: "Trust What's Inside"

Contact Adrian
IG: https://www.instagram.com/adrianfumusic/?hl=en
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AdrianMusic
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fu-2a688bb/
Email: adriancfu@gmail.com

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