When I discover myself, I am a waterfall. Like a waterfall, a sacred spring, I feel a sound in my bones and my toes. When I am satisfied, I am this buzz, an agreement struck in the heart of a bowl, continuing at drum on its edges. When I am struck by a beautiful view, a sentence, a cry or a color, there is a vibrant feeling that sticks with me. I define this vibration, this prudent flicker, as a resonance.
We live in a fast world. Our desires are served on a silver tray. Obsessions appear on our front door or in the palm of our hands with a tap. We expect to delivery of satisfaction in an Amazon package. The bosses expect us to respond to the cats and e-mails of the teams in a few minutes. We feel a seal when we are emotionally unavailable and cannot respond to a text message. The buzz we want is no longer personal. It's shared. We lose a resonance. We are unscathed by reflection in a world that evolves too quickly for us to be able to sit with anything.
So, I challenge. How can we pay more attention to things that, rather, stick? What does this mean when we are cautious enough to take a break and be struck by this resonance rope? And how can we cherish and understand these moments and how they define who we are?
We are unscathed by reflection in a world that evolves too quickly for us to be able to sit with anything.
In the dictionary, resonance is the process of being deep, complete and reverberant. In its entirety, the resonance is quite mathematical, the initial definition of the word linked to formulas and calculations. For me, resonance is more than science. It's about taking the time to notice moments that slowly push us forward. We can benefit from the legs of its fullness, the marathon of holistic sound, and what is with us, by slow-down And ask us, “Why did it resonate with me? And what can I do to feel the energy in reflection more often?”
One of my favorite books, Large circle By Maggie Shipstead, tells a story about a daring woman translating her way into aviation. Somewhere in the book, a character discusses the potential of death; crash an airplane. Her friend said, “I was interested in what you said at this dinner, how we die everything evaporates. I think it was the word? It resonated with me. I try to pay attention to the resonance. ” This quote has been incremental to me. Being careful with what resonates with us can mean a dozen things. And pay attention to what prevents us on our traces will offer a fullness that can heal us.
I read somewhere that a playground swing was one of the most familiar human examples of resonance. A slight push (that is, resonance) helps maintain the amplitude of a swing movement. Couldn't this action be exact for humans too? A little energy and reflection maintains our width and our magnitude as a person. The resonance helps us to move and lift, accessing an upper part of ourselves that we could not know without it.
I haven't read Alice Waters' book We are what we eat: a slow manifesto of food But this quote on the understanding that things take time seated with me: “Speed is the engine of the culture of fast food, supplying all other values. The speed says things should happen very quickly – faster. You order, you get it. You want it, you should have it. But with speed, if there is no instant gratuity. Our expectations have become things that do not become distraction. Time – cultivation of food or cooking or learning a language or starting a business – or knowing someone is time.
Consider emotions. People tell stories about trauma and shock and note that they only felt emotion later. Last year, one of my dear friends died. When I heard the news, I didn't cry. Emotions have not shown a face before feeling the buzz of his life. When I heard memories of his friends, I was standing on the way to hundreds of his relatives, I melted in tears. Resonance gave me the opening and the time to feel.
A little energy and reflection maintains our width and our magnitude as a person. The resonance helps us to move and lift, accessing an upper part of ourselves that we could not know without it.
The resonance can also bring us closer to each other. BRYONY GORDON wrote on his depression for a test in The telegraph. By reading the roomI realized how important it is to get closer to depression and use moments to feel your strong mouth flowing over us. For what? Because depression Resonate. She describes the comfort of understanding why she feels depressed. In her time writing on mental health and things in her head, she learned that depression is a strange mechanism, a way of “alerting you that your life does not work as it is”. She writes: “In this context, a collective feeling of not feeling completely well is the goodest thing.”
The resonance can give us answers and help us understand us. We cannot access these ideas when we rush into the daily drum of life. Depression is one of the most frightening feelings, but if I take the time to understand its raison d'être, I am better for that. When I browse my fears – doubt, pain, joy and healing – I understand better why they have to sit with me.
According to my experience, the pandemic made me feel that I lost the power to notice things that make me take a break. The routine, in my mind, is the great thief of the way we discover things and we sit with what is moving to us. With the routine, we become complacent. When we do the same thing every day, see the same person, lift with our daily alarm, eat the same breakfast, get away from travel, we can lose what makes us feel expansive. We lack potential tickling of surprise; The urgent anticipation of the unknown. Resonance is important when I travel. I do not focus on a list of banal tasks. I feel new smells, to try food, to walk in the streets that I have never seen before. How can we go beyond the day by day stagnation and go beyond the numbness that we all feel?
Reflection and resonance are two different things. I wanted to be sure to include this here because I thought about it in a LURCH last night to take a bath. The resonance is when something is seated with us, and we notice that we propel forward. Reflection is to understand the importance of the break.
So what makes us resonate with things? According to This website (Note from the writer: And one of the only ones I could find on emotional resonance), things that resonate bring joy – and that is why we notice them. Regarding depression, which resonated was to note that depression did not resonate. Depression has become an indication that I needed to change my life.
We have to pay attention to what resonates with us and do not resonate with us, because this shared moment of push or pull signals a feeling of enlightenment. When something sounds with me, I know it's precious. When something does not resonate with me, I know I need change. When I read a good sentence in a book, which asks to underline it, it is a reminder for me to ask Why. Why does this sentence mean so much for me? Paying attention to resonance is to know who we are. To sort out its existence is to know who we can become.
Resonance is the reason why I write. Resonance is the reason why I read. This is why I like to be patient and calm. This is why I listen to horses. This is why I want travel, meditation and yoga. What a gift is to be reported by joy in our calm and, through this experience, understand what makes us who are.
When I read a good sentence in a book, which asks to underline it, it is a reminder for me to ask Why. Why does this sentence mean so much for me? Paying attention to resonance is to know who we are. To sort out its existence is to know who we can become.
What resonates with me reconstitutes me. So for fun, I made a list. So I can better understand how to feel reconstituted. And I strongly recommend that you do too. Deep breath (my little list of things that resonate): Metaphors, stories about ordinary people who do extraordinary things, songs on care and love, The blue colorChildren's advice, stories of origin, tender philosophy of time, horses, Mary Oliver, Cats in the sun, childhood memories, spring and ocean.
I can always come back to this list when I forgot who I am. I can come back to this list when I need to slow down; Take the time to think. I can come back to this list when I need to feel this buzzing of life, this swoosh always sweet in harmony in myself.
Therefore, in this wild and precious life, What resonates with you?
Brittany Chaffee is a passionate storyteller, a professional empath and an author. On a daily basis, it is paid to develop strategies and create content for brands. Outside working hours, it is a well -lit place, hot bread and good company. She lives in St. Paul with her little cat brothers, Rami and Monkey. Follow her InstagramLearn more about his latest book, LimitAnd (especially) will kiss your mother.
