Sensitivity without Reactivity - part 2 Resonance

Hello everyone, good morning is not really appropriate as I have no idea what time it is where you are reading. Hope it is Good anyhow. (hope you like today's picture also? I sort of wasted my artwork on yesterdays crap post)

For me it is nearly 9:00am, my day started about 3 hours ago, but this, right now, is one of my favorite parts of it. I get a big smile and hug from my daughter in the evening, that is also a highlight. Funny that adult relationships have a different quality, with lots of wasted time when one or the other is tense about something. Children, (and irresponsible fools like me) do seem to enjoy life more than adults. They have brand new bodies, great imaginations and worry less.

So lets dive into it.
Sensitivity, I define as the data streaming in through our nose, eyes, ears skin,(and other membranes) and mouths. In other words, reality.

Reactivity, is when we have a knee jerk reaction, to either that sensory data or to a thought it triggered. To keep it simple, lets look at a thought as any image or words that come to mind, this would include dreams. Reactivity is the triggering of a response.

The response could be the slight dilation or contraction of the smooth muscles lining our arteries, the release of dopamine, adrenaline or the swift kick in the balls to a perceived adversary. It could be sharply spoken words, change in posture, or facial expression, it may even be a huge beaming grin.

It will either be a tension or a relaxation.
Tension is movement, but holding tension is not.

Stand-by another big un-substantialised generalisation and sweeping statement coming right up!

"We sense
Via resonance"

To validate that statement we would need to go deep into quantum biology - because this stuff is happening at the infinitesimally small level, the level of electrons and waves of energy. Just because something is small does not mean it has zero influence, events cascade. That may be a blog for another day however, for now I will try to stay on track, (change is good right?).

Our ear-drums resonate to sound waves, the cones and rods in our retina to variations in light, our nerve endings to mechanical pressure, smell and taste are even more complicated, and beyond the scope of this post. They are also “moved” by relationship with environment.

When it comes to music, I love to listen, sway and jerk around like an electrocuted monkey. Other people can play instruments, sing and dance, but I cant be good at everything lol.
I did notice that the tension on a guitar string or drum skin changes the way it vibrates, changes the way it both receives and transmits - perhaps it is one?

Hmmm....yes...resonance knows no separation, how could it? For that we need a mind to divide and decide, but does it indeed truly separate or merely alter the tune?

That is the point I guess. We love to think, even when we dont, we cant stop, so thinking is changing the tension in our bodies. Altering the signal so that we change the music flowing through us. When we change it, how can we know what it was doing before we altered it? If we are constantly changing our reality with our intention, how can we read what was happening before or what will happen next?

That is why it is always now - this moment is being generated - reacting to it, alters it, both in perception and through physical interaction. We are always in relationship.
Ah but know what is happening, to truly understand it.
To appreciate it before we alter it.

That would require that we resonate freely, without adding any tension, or at least no tension that was disharmonious to the rhythm. How would we know the rhythm? Why by paying attention. How would we not interrupt? Why by not adding any disharmony to the music, to the wave-form, to what simply is.

So there are 2 kinds of tension,(sorry no warning this time)
1 - tension that is flowing in time, in rhythm, in relationship with the waves of incoming energy or sensation.
2 - tension that is disruptive, chaotic, turbulent, disharmonious, random, even violent.

How do we know what is graceful or harmonious movement and what is not?
By paying attention as we apply tension?

What is fear? Is it the loss of trust?
Is it what happens when we no longer understand what is happening?
When we feel “buffeted”, “forced” or trapped?

What is the fastest way to return to trust, to understanding, to resonance?
Could it be as simple as returning attention to our sensitivity and being careful not hold an tension that is not allowing that signal to move us, sway us, in-“form” us?

This is not where I expected to arrive,(it's way more fun to be surprised than to live with expectations and disappointments anyhow) - Thats probably enough for today - thank you, I hope it was fun!