BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

Just last night a client and I were having a laugh at ourselves. We were exploring her intention to create greater harmony within herself and in her living situation as she and her husband have a visitor for the summer and the housing situation is a bit cramped and conducive to grumpiness.

She was sharing a story and I began to laugh as I saw myself in what she was saying. Something happened and blah blah blah and she went to bed quietly disappointed in what had occurred.

Since her intention is harmony, she was looking at that which to her seemed disharmonious in order to learn from the situation. Hooray for her.

Disharmony is the lack of harmony or agreement. What had occurred was that she was not in agreement with how her husband had responded to a situation. She had expected him to be more receptive to the efforts she had gone to on his behalf but he arrived on the scene tired and minimally responsive.

In music, harmony is the combination of simultaneously sounded notes resonating with one another in a way that has a pleasing effect. In the art of cooking, it is mixing of ingredients that produce a satisfactory result. With people, it is the mutual blending of energies in an enjoyable way. Intrinsic in harmony are notes, ingredients, or persons who are not the same, but different.

What my client and I concluded was that she was expecting him to join her in the melody she was singing rather than finding a way to harmonize with him where he was at in order to invite a creation of music they both enjoyed.

Too often we look for harmony in sameness which is contrary to the essential nature of harmony. Harmony is the blending of differences.

I am not a musician but I do know when I'm making discordant music with another. I am now wondering how I will blend my sound with the sound of the other with the intention to create beautiful music. Life is indeed good.

QUOTES

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." 
  ~ Marcus Aurelius ~

PRACTICALLY SPEAKING

Perhaps you can begin to listen to the sound of your relationships and notice when you are making beautiful music or when there is dissonance. If dissonant, invite yourself to shift so that you begin to harmonize with the other person. Perhaps you'll learn to let music you have never sung before move through you and as a result you increase joy and pleasure in your life, in your relationships.

WONDER QUESTION:

How can you create more harmony in your life?

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