When musicians play together, they must first adjust their instruments to ensure that they are “in tune.” Firstly, this tuning ensures that each instrument will play the “right” notes and that everything on the instrument is in proper alignment and harmony. For example, all of the guitar strings must be adjusted to the proper tension in relation to one another. And, secondly, each musician must adjust his instrument so that it is “in tune” with all the other instruments in the band. When all the instruments are in tune, the relationship of the two (or more) instruments creates something greater than they could create alone.
Once tuned, the music they all perform, together, works to create consonance, assonance, and harmony, instead of discord.
Likewise, when people come together in relationship, they must first “attune” to one another. This process often happens automatically through a process called “emotional attunement.”
Our hearts emit a strong magnetic field. Research has shown that when someone experiences negative emotions, especially anger, this field becomes disordered; chaotic and this disturbance creates discord in this emotional attunement process between people. The phrase, “I could feel his anger coming off him in waves” is more correct than people realize. We feel this emotional discord as surely as we hear the one instrument in a band that is out of tune. It only takes one out of tune instrument to ruin the whole song.
When one or more people in a relationship fall “out of tune,” the “instruments” of their emotions no longer play together in harmony. The “song” of their relationship becomes discordant and grating.
However, when we become fully emotionally attuned with another, positively, our hearts coalesce upon the song of one shared emotion, especially the emotion of love.
When you are attuned positively, in a sense, you become of one mind and one heart. The field-waves of your emotions fall into coherence and become additive. And, like a symphony, you become greater, as one unified whole, than you were as two separate individuals. In a sense, you pass from duality to non-duality.
Attunement means, “a bringing into harmony.”
But there is another related word, similar to attunement that we must consider, and that word is atonement.
Atonement, or as some like to spell it, at-one-ment, is what happens when we drop our worldly egos and allow the instrument of our Self to become attuned with The Divine Symphony; the musica universalis; the SONG; the WORD.
When we are able to “take up our cross” and sacrifice our egoistic desires and worries, and, especially, when we enter a mystical or flow state, we become attuned with God. And when we become attuned with God, just like in human relationships, we become of one heart, and one mind. We are literally at one, which is what the word atone means.
In this state of at-one-ment, we are automatically reconciled to God and we pass from duality to non-duality where we don’t just become greater than we were as two, but we discover that we were always the greatest that can be. We were blind, but now we see.
Entering this state of sacrifice often requires solitude, and we notice, when we enter into deep solitude and silence; when we are truly alone (which means “all one”); that we attune into the divine flow and our sins fall away, as does even our desire to sin.
When we are at one, we are attuned. And when we are attuned, we are atoned; in atonement – samadhi. In this state, separation from God, caused by our egos, burns away in the vibration of the divine fire as we play our instrument in The Divine Symphony that is continuously creating all, and thus, never stops playing.
“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.” – Nikola Tesla
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Beautifully written, Clintavo, and so divinely true in the way that you state it. To be endeavoring to be more and more tuned in to the divine infinite is where we start to find refuge, peace, and joy.
Thoughtful post Clint. I find that leaving my ego behind, especially with paintings is so hard to do. That's why when I have a "bad painting day", I feel discouraged and even a little depressed and when I'm painting well, I feel like a giant and "worthy" of sales. Writing is different for me... it always feels like giving.