The Frequency of Emotion- 7 a.m. (Day Two)

Woke up thinking about this blog, which I perceive as a writing-in-motion project. And thinking about sound, one of my particular obsessions!

What do my thought-filled meanderings have to do with sound? What doesn't have to do with sound? Everything is frequency. The outward silence of my inner thoughts have powerful frequencies. My emotions (which rarely remain silent!) are all vibrational energy running through my body. For me, they may be the most challenging vibrations to simply allow, be with and listen to. It is a lesson for me, maybe the biggest lesson in my life, and it brings to mind something that struck me in a very powerful way here on the desk where I am working.

"Be patient toward all
that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves
like locked rooms
or books that are written in a foreign tongue.

The point is
to live everything.
Live the questions now.

Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it,
live your way
some distant day
into the answers."

-Rainer Maria Rilke-

This is on my dear friend Sharon's desk. I am house sitting her apartment on the beach. She has inspirational quotes on almost every surface. What is so amazing is that she seems to have integrated so much of what she uses for inspiration. I know her to be someone who is able to sit with the questions- which for me would translate to the frequency of emotion- to be silent with them, to listen... I quality I have come to admire and respect deeply. For me, almost nothing goes unvoiced!

In sound healing classes and meditations I teach people to just be with whatever sound they are hearing. Certain instruments bring up various levels of discomfort in people, sometimes in the form of a memory, sometimes a sensation in the body, and I tell them "If a sound brings up something that you perceive as disturbing or uncomfortable, try breathing into it... breathing it into you, becoming curious about it and following the sound rather than resisting it." Remarkable experiences come from this practice.

So today, this is my lesson for me. Just be with the feelings. Breathe into them, become curious about them. Follow their movement in your body. Breathe them in and allow them. Don't resist them, don't try to change them. Just allow!

Every moment in this life is so precious, such an incredible gift. What if it were the last time you were ever to experience this feeling?