Resonant Roots

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TL/DR:

Resonant Roots: Developing resonance from the ground up

Some thoughts and reflections on making it easier for ourselves to by leaning into a multisensory awareness to engage with the energetic landscape of ourselves and the world.

Resonance is a musical term, which can be defined as

• the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating.

• Resonance is the occurrence of a vibrating object causing another object to vibrate a higher amplitude.

• Parklife! (You're welcome)

Okay I had to copy the google definition of resonance as it worked perfectly for the ear worm

A chief feature of our times is we oscillate between plateaus of hopelessness and visions of possibilities. Part of the issue is, we are living in many different interconnected worlds all occupying the same space. Physically, energetically, ideologically, nationally, linguistically, and so forth all drawing lines between us for all manner of reasons.

Within all of this, the world was not ready for the level of mass connection and easy sharing of information so we are faced with a collective identity crisis playing out through a kaleidoscopic lens of human experience.

We haven't been given the language collectively to understand ourselves at a street level when it comes to what it means to resonate with something, someone and ourselves.

The World is on Fire - I know, but how can we relate to it through the lens of ourselves?

In some literal cases the above statement is true, but I want to take a different slant today. The world burns for expression, to be lived through, seen, experienced and expressed back outwardly.

It is as natural a process as breathing, but the issue is we have long come to view the systems of the world and the self as like a machine.

A machine has no margin for error in performing its function, it may have defined operational parameters, but in essence, there's no wriggle room.

(in my view) Part of why the world seems so f**ked up right now is we do not have a template or framework to fall back on. A root of this polycrisis in terms of our own experience of it is through social media and direct contact with local events. The world suddenly seems both small and big at once, it is very unsettling by design for any hope of inner balance. At least when we take things at face value, especially ourselves.

Seeking a more resonant perspective

If we think about what draws us towards and pushes us away from things/people/places/ideas in life, we start to get a working understanding of what we resonate with. That is good, but it is about foundations of this awareness.

As a neurodiverse person, I process a lot of situations somatically and emotionally first before I can get into the intellectual alone aspects. I conceptualise of it like a water filtration system (I have a water moon and rising in astrology so yeah, go figure lol).

Throughout the years it has been about improving the efficiency of that 'water system' in life, so i can return back to where I want to be in my own sense of self with more ease.

The next level of this understanding is asking ourselves why?

The way our world is currently operating, we are not given time to ask questions of ourselves.

We can at least ask ourselves why we are drawn to what we are drawn to?

What does it make you feel?

What do you remember?

In these questions we can start to nibble around the corners of our subconscious beliefs, the structure through which we experience the world.

We experience them as emotional reactions/responses/connections to life, each one is a thread to a belief validated or challenged by that experience.

In some cases, the beliefs we hold about ourselves emotionally belong to experiences and holding onto the energy of memory in yourself long after they have passed, they weren't necessarily yours to keep in the first place. They are part of your self concept as you have taken ownership of them, you are carrying them in the bag.

In some cases this is good, oftentimes in client work, it can be the opposite when I see people.

They have fallen out of their own sense of resonance and want to get back on track.

The thing is, if we started to observe at least at a deeper level as to what we resonate with and why, we'd develop a more immediate working understanding of who we are, not who we think we are.

Sometimes that gap can be quite eye opening.

I have no idea how many millions of times this has been said on the internet but...

Thinking of the mind and body as one unified organism, it allows a different approach. We are forever on some journey of realisation or becoming, IF we allow it and follow the cues.

Your mind can be telling you yes, and your body is saying no. We are not encouraged enough to listen to what our bodies are telling us based on information we have accumulated in the subconscious from life's journey so far.

Learning your somatic language, how your body speaks to you, how you support yourself, how you act for or against your actual interests in the situation. We are making so many subconscious decisions in every moment, not all of them might guide you towards what is actually 'for' you.

This doesn't mean everything you feel is a good thing to follow, its the mindbody as one, so if something feels conflicting, a 'part' that is out of place, or a shade to your personal colour you find difficult and want to integrate, it's about looking to create a bridge within yourself.

Explore how that channel of expression manifests itself, recognise it's push and pull, don't get lost in observation, create a process to take yourself through the line of questioning as for example: 'i am drawn towards this / why / is that good or bad for me / take action'.

When we are feeling into things, we are learning an internal language that is multisensory in nature. Because we are dealing with the senses, we are interfacing with the world around us by design. It is inescapable, one hell of a liberation and a potentially steep curve if you come at it backwards.

Which when emotions and the subconscious are involved, can and be absolutely mental. Which has been the case in... a lot of... (pretty much all) situations in human history.

Why is this important?

The systems and structures of the world live through us based in our emotions and responses as well as needs. Needs we cannot escape, but choosing how to engage is crucial to help support your overall sense of resonance (self/wellbeing/clarity/focus/alignment/locked in).

As there are so many factors involved, it can be easy on an intuitive level to have as your north star a sense of safety. That safety is primal, preservational as maybe you aren't designed to fit the old systems, designations and binaries of the old? Maybe you are here for something new, but it's challenging so to take a side step is key. But that side step can easily become more and more steps until you are out of the way entirely. Which in many cases this is okay, but remember - the world burns for expression?

The challenging part is we have to draw our own maps if we don't fit into the readily available seemingly acceptable social classifications, outdated ideas as to what makes a person 'good' or 'bad'. Things we can let go of, but because they are primally hard wired into us, you can end up turning yourself into a pretzel knot trying to fit into a situation based on standards that would never be fit for you.

When we start to take effort to actively know ourselves in motion, there is an immediacy to things compared to taking time out for a healing pathway or process. Doing things on the move allows us to engage with much smaller aspects and parts of ourselves on a daily basis through observing themes. This is how I got into Tarot, I'd ask what energy do I need to embody today, draw a card and then learn about the card. I'd try to carry that forward with me through my actions, responses and reflections over the day.

Anchoring into a theme, an idea, a concept, something small for a day or a week allows you to practically engage with yourself. We can make personal growth as straight forward or as challenging as we like, there isn't any romanticism in hanging onto constructs of pain and limitation. As someone who carries a lot of Scorpio energy, I have been ghost at the feast of my own past many a time. When things are wired in deep, you can't just rip them out. Even with fast change modalities, you'll still need a bit of time, focus, and action to anchor in the change.

That's why its advisable to approach this specific avenue of work as one of nuance, what lives between the bone, the connective tissue, how are you all linked up man?

Take a look at it, how do you move with it, does it work for, with or against you?

What do you need to lean into, and where is the opposite axis of what you want to let go of?

Focus your energies there and see what happens.

How taking a hyper specific focus of your attention and efforts can help you here

When we start to explore the smaller paths of our internal worlds, we can reclaim lost aspects of ourselves that got forgotten along the way of life. We can remember things about ourselves that got drowned out as we got older and our responsibilities continue to grow louder.

It allows us to alter perspective, just a slight amount that can over time change the trajectory of your entire life.

I was always struck by the idea of focused effort and momentum. I think life can function like that energetically when we consider ideas of the 'all is mind' / mentalism aspect to the human co-creative universal experience. If life is responding to our thoughts, and our subconscious thoughts are expressed through our feelings... If we can lean into creating personal, immediate and accessible pathways to our own understanding it can become the bedrock of an invaluable inner foundation.

As the end of the day, some aspects of ourselves are defined, we could say as solid as can be. Others will respond and change to influence, becoming more or less solid. We could look at how 'we' or the 'I' as a person/humans respond to the world around us through a mixed lens of perspective of our defined and adaptive aspects.

The key here is making the adaptive stuff - the subconscious reactions/responses to the external at our inner most layers - conscious as best we can.

Working with the maps of beliefs we carry is an ongoing process, but it is one we can tend to important foundations and our own efforts in awareness can be served well.

If ever I share any ideas, perspectives or suggestions here (anything you try as a result of reading this is of your own free will and I accept no liability whatsoever) it's about seeing how they sit alongside your concepts and practices.

I'm very much of the view that this is ultimately a group project we are all part of, I have my part to play as does everyone else, but through the discussion of ideas, experiences as accessible practice without having to spell it out, but posing questions to think about, it becomes a wider conversation.