Resonance is an essential function of the conscious mind and, as it is highly important as a generator and maintainer of wellness, it seems to be a very important habit in life. The central metaphor embodied by the use of this term herein is for something to move from the head, which is the central location of the conscious mind, downward to lower body point/s and then back to the head, as if it were bouncing, as sound does when projected from a source and into a material. Of course, the concept runs into a wall when one considers the complexity of the connections between mind, body and spirit, the wall being the perhaps over-simplified nature of saying, conscious to body, then back to conscious. The arising of this wall makes it necessary to incorporate just a few lists, each that contain several terms. Each list is full of tools that can be used to describe and understand all things that ride on and have to do with the technique of resonance. They are like the relationship between the alphabet, or, one letter per one list member, first, then the language that uses that alphabet. And every practitioner's alphabet and language is different, if only slightly.

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Now, there are several concepts that it is necessary to establish initially. One of these is the premise that resonance in action thoroughly seems to contain something, at least a thought, feeling, or image, in it's origination in the conscious mind, and something else, or something more, in its completion from body back to conscious. That is, the mentioned movements of this Resonance necessarily constitute things that are concrete, definable – as opposed to the way it sometimes is in ideas about “transcendence,” or “enlightenment,” wherein there is often something beyond words, beyond terms. Also, the lists' purpose is to make something present in their use that is more compatible with the reader's resonance than merely your writer's own choices of alphabet, and how he then uses the language that then incorporates the alphabet. Your writer tends to have a more cerebral style of what he would call mental karate, and others may have a more physical style, or a more emotional style, etc.. It seems that these listed possibilities can be used in just about any combination and in any of many ways. And – yet – to this writer, it also seems that the habit has a unity of function and purpose for all of its practitioners, whether they are or are not aware daily when they are experiencing Resonance.

 

Before the lists themselves, as your writer believes that there is a variety of part physical and part mental substances throughout the workings of all consciousness, it is important to mention that included in these lists are things from the astrological, the new age, the eastern, and the pagan – as well as from ancient philosophy, mythology and from modern psychology.

 

For only a handful of examples, there seem to exist, earth, air, metal, flesh, wood, bone, a plant, an animal, the lower mind, kundalini, chakra, and/or any of many other things from the same category – as if the nature of such listed substances sometimes define, affect, or exist in some deeper part/s of the mind and body. Then, there sometimes appear things from a list of the parts of the mind used by the late Psychologist Carl Jung in his writings, like conscious, subconscious, Self, the anima/us (the completing influence of an internally known metaphorical and opposite gender figure), or persona/ae (a role taken on by a subject). There are also other psychologists that have coined terms, some of these that are commonly used, like, collective unconscious, psyche, complex, diagnosis, theme, archetype. There are the terms of philosophers, like Plato's “forms,” Heraclitus' “arche,” and Aristotle's “immanence.”And, lastly, there are your writer's Lesser, Slow Thinking, Fast Thinking, Fold, and any of the definitions of Superconscious (to mention only a few), found in another of this website's writings. A short sample of the Superconscious includes an instance of “the Soul's” appearance, or an instance of “Truth,” or God, a deity, a smile, a chant, etc.. While these lists pretty well cover the way people with some depth think about their consciousness and that of others (including non-human living things), even together they represent a very short sample of all of the alphabets, then languages, that are out there.

 

Further, there are terms used in Eastern medicine or martial science, for only two categorical examples, which contain brilliant, extremely old, and very empirically-derived information about the meta-substances (like the examples of astrological elements in the list above), and about their workings. Then, under these two categories, one may find even more, that being another series of conceptual containers, like naturopathy, yoga, martial science, Tai-chi, Hinduism, Zen, acupuncture, meditation, mindfulness, massage, etc.. And they are infinitely as complex and amazing as Western sciences of consciousness, like anatomy, psychiatry, or biology, especially the newer Western, and simultaneously Eastern, Quantum Physics.

 

Onward, now, to a few vital points about this resonance itself, it seems that the motion that it implies happens almost exclusively on subtle levels and is analyzed almost exclusively on subtle levels; it is noteworthy, here, to mention that when by means of resonance something is happening on a subtle level, that the joy that also defines it is not little, but rather thoroughly noticeable. Still, while your writer feels, senses, and even tastes elements like bone or earth commonly, having practiced a great deal of mindfulness over many years and having been a student of the Eastern with deep commitment, these stimuli are not the same as touching a plant, seeing the color orange, or hearing the music – they have a different kind of presence. While clearly palpable to some, by means of their own chosen or spontaneous technique (taste, touch, hearing, logic, attraction, external input, or perception, for example), they still can be said to happen largely in very gentle, momentary, or little way/s. It is a paradox.

 

At some point during these last years' growth, the subtle level of your writer became the same as its opposites, the conscious level and the sensory level. And so there has been a true unity of mind, body, and spirit – all because of this Resonance. While it occasionally carries away a practitioner a little bit, it is most often very much included into the levels of pairs not other than, creativity vs. the every-day, or the abstract vs. the very down-to-earth, as far as the way only two sets of opposites are relevant. In other words, the high value of resonance is established by the fact that it is so very well described by both of either of these opposites - these pairs of opposites that contain such wisdom (word-descriptions that are always of value).

 

Onward, again, our resonance for this writer is  nearly always practiced while acknowledging the expression, Feeling the Force, as our beloved Yoda might say. And another movie-moment from a sage, or sage-like character, came from none other than Bruce Lee, the Kung-Fu master, in Enter the Dragon, when he whacks a student who is thinking too much and says, “Don't think...feeel...Or you'll miss all of that heavenly glory!” So note here that the mind-function of feeling, also according to this writer and long-time practitioner, seems to be one of a small handful of the most important ingredients for keeping the habit of Resonance. Resonance can also be used to seriously philosophize, to make a little study of something of interest, simply to satisfy a moment's curiosity, or just to be spontaneous - these all without feeling. While there are many ways to use and incorporate feelings and sensations using the pagan elements, there are of course many ways to incorporate any other alphabet lists with feeling without using the new age one at all – all of these while still very much keeping a very nice resonance.

 

Perhaps the most amazing characteristic of the habit is in its ultimate form, wherein it turns into the like of a dance of the mind, just like the title of a book about spirituality that was written maybe twenty years ago, Thinking Body, Dancing Mind. (Of course this title is applicable to much of the material in this whole website, too.) In at least this writer's experience it seems that there can be a slower dance or a faster dance, your writer having happened upon the latter years ago. Spread out over years of application this faster dance became no less than highly magical and blissful, both, during nearly every use. In other words, the speed of a faster dance is what makes a practitioner blissful, which in turn is what defines it.

 

One of this mind-dancing's greatest uses was perhaps a mix of two simple exercises: consciously imagining the receiving and feeling of information from inside his psyche, heart, or subconscious, like why you are sad, or how to make a date laugh - and deliberately applying your thoughts in very easy and/or basic ways, like reading the other people on the sidewalk, or using the senses by talking to oneself about the colors of the neighbors' house. And being creative here about your use of mind-functions and their objects is one of the trick's fun parts. So by means of continuous and fun little mind games and puzzles his flow of consciousness became a dance - and with practice, a faster dance.

 

It is important to add here that the application of thought and consciousness must be in ways that can be repeated over and over throughout a period of ten or fifteen or twenty minutes. And attentiveness is  vitally important, too. That is, if the practitioner is spacing out, it is hard to make a faster dance. A slow dance can be made by alternating spacing out and then by using one's consciousness in some way, both over and over. But a faster dance is a flow of constant activity. The point of this continuous mind-function is so that the mind begins to do all of the work by itself, leaving an internal space that then naturally develops into the mentioned dance, thought by thought, or move by move.

 

Furthermore, Resonance is highly useful in keeping emotional well-being, often without affecting emotion deliberately - often by means of the same tricks. For one out of very many instances of exorcising the demons, one night during and after watching a very bad horror movie, your writer was disturbed because of repeated noise as if someone had intruded into his apartment with violent intentions. And so he went outdoors and, receiving from his internal and somewhat deeper consciousness, thinking very much of dialoguing with spots in his torso, and using his mind to admire the night-time forest in his neighborhood, he danced and effectively cleared away the nasty psychic imprint of the whole event. 

 

During the latter half of this span of twenty minutes, then, he became peaceful, happy, and like-new again. And thus it dawned on him, especially after the many more of such successes that followed, that deeper parts of the mind, other but very connected to the conscious mind, root and associate with different points in the torso. And, by extension, it became fact for this writer that emotion and feeling, these having obvious relation to the conscious mind, could well be very much related to the torso as well, although it is hard to define or even to feel what those relationships are. After this event, or, after having repeated this emotional cleaning technique dozens of times, this writer had several memorable and bigger corrective emotional experiences that have made his conscious and torso very close for many years now, with the effect of generating a very strong wellness, a very consistent and warm peace, markedly.

 

By further extension, this reasoning and these experiences make relevant to western psychology and western science two related paradigms from the East: those of seven or eight essential points from the bottom to the top of the spine in Hinduism, sometimes called chakras, which incorporate what seem to be the origin of the concept of a third eye in the forehead, for just one of these several body points; and the second paradigm is the parallel in Chinese Medicine of such chakras, which are several vital organs in their asymmetrical locations, whose functions are comparable to the functions of the chakras. Because the science of chakras, Hindu or Chinese, is very abstract, it is probably easier to use it or its like as a child would, simply. But either way, here again it is body and mind doing the same thing, together.

 

Now, do these experiences, and does this information, not constitute adequate grounds for doubtful people to look into, study, or spontaneously incorporate terms from the alphabets above, and grounds then to look into resonance as a hobby? Is there not in existence a unity of “spirit,” then, for those that can feel and manipulate a chosen alphabet until they are dialoguing with deeper consciousness on subtle levels, or are dancing, whether the feeling-result of a single given application is big or small? Does this not constitute enough reason to write an essay discussing it – discussing Resonance?

 

Of course, resonance also has purpose and definition that are very much consistent to the dictionary meaning of the word when used in relation to consciousness. When one is resonant, it can mean, simply, that they are in tune with their own desires, fears, purposes, feelings, observations of others, and/or with common sense, reason, or answers, to list a few items. And this more obvious meaning can be on just about any scale. It can mean that a practitioner has a knowing of God. It can mean they know why they have a certain project to do on some given morning. Or it can mean he/she knows what they want to eat for lunch. It can be about just whatever. On the other hand, it seems that even the described complexity above can apply to this common sense meaning of the term, or can be just the same kind of thing.

 

Back to the idea of a dance of the mind, while it seems that the faster dance makes for the most potent bliss, or feeling-experience – like being in a zone, or like effecting an exercise that is and example of truly high performance – it also seems that the slow dance exists on subtler and deeper levels and thus requires more experience to pull off or to recognize. Were there to be a version of Resonance that is between these two extremes of mental dancing, it seems that would be the “Fast Thinking” that is briefly discussed under the “Shorter Writings” bar elsewhere in the website.

 

On to some tips about how to make Resonance easier for beginners or other interested parties, it is sometimes helpful to project the mental image or presence of colors or simple, abstract drawings onto body points, with the premise that they affect what is moving through consciousness of the mind and body during it's resonated movement. And don't forget here that a practitioner's alphabet, as described above, could be incorporated into this trick in any of many ways (be creative). In fact, why not make a study of the use of chosen alphabet members – in action? Further, there are more physical tricks that could enhance one's resonance, too. Some practitioners like to close their eyes. Others like to sing. And still others like to use their hands, or throw a piece of pottery, or take a walk. Then there is your writer, who likes to stand up, plant his feet, and slowly drink a big cup of tea while deliberately practicing his resonance.

 

As far as the effect of adding a bit of resonance to one's routine, over time the habit tends to make consciousness in general more still, peaceful, discerning, perceptive, consistent, balanced, and on and on. And because such properties of this habit increase awareness of one's subconscious goings-on, they do seem to this practitioner to be no different from bringing the conscious mind a good deal farther and deeper into the subconscious, where it then sits, in the sense that this is where it then stays and from where it moves in general. For your writer, it is as if much of the psychic material that used to be in and between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, all of that unnecessary thought and feeling that can get in the way, just disappears, leaving the practitioner better off, leaving them happier and more virtuous – definitely for the long-term.

 

And there is more. Of course, your writer is sometimes a thinking type, which adds mental richness to his life largely through and because of his Resonance. Hence the questions, what are the reader's mental tendencies? Isn't this worth making a little study? Is the reader naturally more emotional or physical than your writer? What are the reader's experiences with subtlety, peak experiences, dancing moments, attentiveness? How do the reader's deliberate, spontaneous, or natural choice of psychological alphabet members and their subsequent use of language – for example, any or several of the listed alphabets above – affect their consciousness, in terms of your writer's resonance? The fascination is endless. The terms, direct knowing, psychoemotional cleaning, among others, are highly relevant here, too.

 

And back to simplicity, just consider that if someone does push-ups every day, over time the isolated muscles get bigger or they become more capable to exercise their function; it is exactly in this way that Resonance works for many people. Repetition makes it stronger. Training makes it stronger. It seems to this practitioner, who happened upon the habit of resonance inadvertently years ago, that oftentimes only receptive and nurturing repetition can transform something like Resonance into an asset, virtue, ability, or power for a given practitioner.