Attune

Attune : To bring into harmony ; To make aware or responsive

How did I learn to love my body? a coaching client of mine asks, in an email the other day.

It happened in her subtle body of attunement so she couldn’t recall ‘how’ she did it.

Harmonizing. Bring awareness to. Responding.

To the brooding desire to see herself, her body, to be with life, with the inner direction of the Light of Love that informs her natural way of being.

Not exactly the answer her ego wanted to hear from me.

Which brings me to the daisy as metaphor for reflection.

The daisy is a flower among the family of Sunflowers. Beyond my childhood memories of ‘He Loves me, He Loves me nots,’ it is one of many flowers that turn their blossoms towards the sun. A heliotropic process thought to be passive by the Ancient Greeks and even later by Aristotle himself. We now know that this is indeed an active process, phototropism and that there’s inner attunement happening inside the plant.

Today I contemplate this inner desire to bring into harmony, to make aware and respond to the Light in my life with the face of Love that is my true nature.

I know that it is silent.

And in the silence is where I feel the magnificence of this desire,

gently attuning me towards her Light.

Attunement isn’t a series of actions that receives achievement accolades in our current society as it is and is often overlooked by even ourselves. It is silent + yet magnificent. It’s a mechanism of living that, for now, appears mostly invisible, although there are studies to support this, they are not mainstream and science is due to catch up soon as it did with plants and phototropism.

Perhaps embodying this wisdom, as with the daisy, begins with a willingness to be curious and humble with regards to that which we cannot see with our human eyes.

What does Jeffery Eugenides’ quote on daisies ATTUNE you to?

I’d love to know in the comments below.

With Deep Love + Reverence,

Billy