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In this blog I’ll focus on resonance, just as I have focused on frequency and tuning in earlier entries. Technically speaking, resonance is a quality of reverberation. Specifically, it an increase in amplitude of oscillation of an electric or mechanical system exposed to a periodic force whose frequency is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system. It is the resonance of an instrument (musical instruments, your body) that initially determines the beauty of its sound. Following that, it is how that instrument is played that further determines the beauty of expression that emanates forth.
Resonance is a quality of wholeness: something cannot be somewhat resonant (like being somewhat pregnant, or very unique). It either is or it is not, as in activating a tuning fork and then damping it. The way that I am using the concept of resonance in my writings is as the third phase of self-healing: it’s the end result of identifying frequency and tuning-in to yourself. It’s the phase that requires surrender, because you can’t make yourself be resonant; you can only allow yourself to come into resonance with the whole (your whole system, the worldly system and the cosmos).
Resonance is the full and free expression of precisely who you are, in the moment. Being a quality of fusion rather than conflict, when you feel resonance in your body, it reverberates all parts of you equally and in harmony with the All.
In doing so--in self-creating an accurate reflection of who we are--we heal ourselves. Since all pain dissolves unless we willfully hold onto it, when our will is otherwise engaged with sensing resonance, then the only pathway before us is to let go and move on. Resonance shows the way because it is the way.
The blessing of resonance is to see the outlines of the issue, glowing skin against skin and energy infilling, expressed as loving kindness. The touch of resonance is the sensuality that sparks and kindles true being into flame. Swirling space surrounds us; our bones become touched by goodness.
To feel resonance simply feel what is already there. To recall the feel, feel it again, this time with all the dimensionality that you can possibly imagine. Resonance is a signpost erected by yourself that points to Love incarnate, giving lie to the divine as being separate from the cosmic. And, in doing so, being released from pain is the gift.
All my life I have played beautiful music on beautiful instruments. I grew up with a Steinway and a Strad. Pulling a gorgeous tone out of an instrument, being a channel for that gloriously free and alive sound... its resonance becomes my resonance and I am thrice blessed as I feel it All. Find the instruments you love to play, be they musical, in nature, in your mind, in your body, with others or alone: discover what resonance feels like to you, and then go there, over and over again, to be healed by the love of the All.
From joy to resonance and back again,
Laurel
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