Sympathetic Love

When I started writing in this space, my initial motivation came from a realization about myself and about life. A realization that came to me in a svasana and was, I now believe, a turning point for me on my Path. I realized that the place inside me that feels this life, that place where love resides, is really the same in all of us. It's the same place and it serves the same purpose for all of us. It's also fueled by the same energy - that energy that holds up the Universe. It is essentially the full and personal realization of what we say to each other after each yoga class - Namaste.

I described this place as my Me place. And I set out to express my spiritual Journey in this space because ultimately it's not about me at all but about all of us finding our way on our own Paths. All of us joined together but unfortunately more often than not separated on our Paths. I hoped (and hope still) that what I express and have expressed here has an impact. Even if only fleeting. Even if removed and indirect.

I now believe that part of what sprouted from that "svasana moment" is something that I will never know and can only imagine. Something I can never understand because it's so much larger than me. Something that truly isn't about me but more about what I write and how I write and who may read it and when and why and where and on and on. What I mean is that what I write here may be for me on the surface, it may be that it is fundamentally to help me take more steps down my Path, but I think that it may be more about something that I don't and won't ever understand. Something beyond me that I am not supposed to understand.

Last night, Marcia and I and the girls were at the studio participating in the Kirtan with Dave Stringer and his band. He mentioned something that I was already aware of but had not necessarily thought of in this way before. The concept is technically labeled "acoustic resonance" but also referred to as "sympathetic vibration." The easiest way to explain this is thus; if you pluck a guitar string on a guitar on one side of a room and on the other side of the room is another guitar with another string tuned the same, that string will vibrate even though it was not physically plucked. Dave's metaphor was that if you raise your own energy during a Kirtan, the overall energy of the Kirtan will rise with you and vise versa.

This to me is also a perfect metaphor for what I am being guided to do in this space. The vibration that I have always underlying my writing is one of love, one of spiritual growth through love. I believe we all need help when it comes to finding our Paths. God chose to leave us very little clear direction when it comes to these matters (at least in my humble opinion). And although I don't preach nor profess to know any more than anyone else when it comes to God or spirituality, I do know what I feel. And I do know that sharing what I feel makes me feel better. And in feeling better, I hope to make others feel better.

I have my moments. As do we all. Moments in the day-to-day where love is farthest from my mind. That's what life does to us. It throws things at us and we forget in those brief moments what it's really all about. We get too busy ducking and blocking. It happens to me daily. But all of it only serves to bring me back here consistently so that I can help myself remember and in so remembering, vibrate that out to anyone that is tuned to the same frequency.

Call it sympathetic love.