Stop the noise?
Have you ever attended a concert or listened to live music and something felt just a wee bit off? Even if you’re not a musician or don’t have a perfect ear for pitch, if a voice or instrument is out of tune, there is a level of dissonance that all who are truly tuned-in can feel.
...As I speak with many of my friends and colleagues in the USA, Canada (+even some of my students in the wider world), I am hearing continuing reports of this sense of unease in the ethers, so if you are one of the many who are tilting your head like a puppy hearing an odd noise, let me assure you that, no, it’s not your imagination: Things are weird.
Though there is a part of many of us that wants to rush to the stage, pinpoint the offending instrument, and ensure its proper tuning, the truth is, security would promptly intervene and things would get ugly very quickly: You would surely be removed from the premises, hauled away, likely banned from the venue, and – whether with intention or as a result of a knee-jerk reaction - the dissonance would not only continue, but actually become even louder and even more prominent.
For millennia, this is the approach humanity has taken on both a personal and global level, but just like the scenario above, every time we try to control, silence, or throttle an offending “something” outside of ourselves, “harmony” only exists in a highly artificial, temporary, UN-sustainable form, much like attempting to permanently quell a foul smell with a little dash of potpourri.
So, what CAN a music-loving being who also longs to breathe and share life-giving fresh-air do?
Here are some ideas for finding harmony, even in a sea of dissonance:
1. It’s okay to hear the dissonance.
Please know that it does not make you less spiritual, positive, or good to notice and acknowledge dissonance when things are NOT okay and DON’T feel right. For example:
You have a favorite table in a little café, that you consider to be your unofficial “spot”, but today, you start to notice a stream of lava flowing toward both the café and your table. Do you:
a. Stay seated as you watch the lava approach, while you speak affirmations, and use the power of your mind to try to pretend it doesn’t exist
b. Decide you will stand your ground and face the lava head-on
c. Speak an impassioned monologue about the benefits of lava, as your flesh melts away
d. Notice the lava and promptly get up and leave, STAT.
If you have a pulse, you will, indeed, receive a very clear impulse to choose option “d.” This means your guidance is WORKING and this is always a GOOD thing, friends.
To all things there really IS a season, so when you wander in to a venue that is NOT playing your song (where dissonance or metaphorical lava abounds), it really IS okay to exit and choose something else.
2. Diss the dissonance, but don’t stay for the encore.
It’s 100% okay to notice the dissonance and have a reaction to it, but staying in a place where the dissonance only continues while ranting about it the entire time, accomplishes nothing but further assaulting your ears, mind, heart, and spirit.
In contrast, if you do leave ASAP, but continue to talk about how awful it was and replay that funky scene over and over again, you (unintentionally) bring the dissonance (and a wee splash of lava) with you and activate MORE of it in your next moment.
Yes, it sucks. No, this is NOT your jam. ‘Nuff said. Exit stage right!
3. Get in tune and tune IN to hear YOUR music and do what you CAN to move in THAT direction.
Rather than vanquish dissonance for the (perceived) benefit of all for all time - which is very much akin to doing battle with yet another head of a Hydra* - do all you can to soothe your soul, raise your vibe, and get in tune with your sweet SELF, so you can tune IN to the music that IS your jam, and listen for the songs that strike the chords of sweet harmony within in the form of calm & clarity pared with good-feeling energy.
A side-note about guiding others to harmony:
You can’t introduce or create harmony, friends, when YOU are out of tune, and no one knows better than you what jives with the soundtrack of YOUR soul. Though loving humans truly mean well when we do all we can to deliver others from an experience of dissonance (especially when it takes the form of fast-flowing lava), if you get out-of-tune for the sake of being “helpful”, you actually only introduce more noise, which benefits no-one.
Do what you CAN to be part of the sonic solution, but know that your greatest contribution to the band or orchestra that plays the songs that speak to the values you hold dear, comes when you stay tuned-in, in-tune, and when you are able to keep your music alive within YOU.*The “Hydra” is a mythological creature that is self-regenerating: cut off one head, 2-3 grow back in its place.
The Bottom Line: Finding Harmony Beyond Dissonance
These are, indeed, weird times, fiery friends, so the more you make it your mission to do all you can to stay in tune and tuned-in to trust the song that comes from within (+encourage your clients, family, and friends, to do the same), the more you can and WILL keep the music of hope, possibility, and harmony alive…
…And even let the dissonance of the moment be THE catalyst for creating a NEW musical masterpiece and sustainable experience of harmony that has become MORE possible because of it.
Onward. Upward. And. Forward.
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