September 2023 Newsletter
The Art of Attunement
The principle of attunement is at the center of everything we experience in our life.
Increasing our capacity to be attuned is a fascinating and complex, yet also a simple process.
Thomas Hübl
The principle of attunement is at the center of everything we experience in our life.
Increasing our capacity to be attuned is a fascinating and complex, yet also a simple process.
Thomas Hübl
Dear Ones,
I’m very excited to read Thomas Hübl’s new book that is being released Sept 12th: Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma - and Our World. I haven’t received my copy yet, but I have been studying with Thomas for nearly a decade now and want to share some of my thoughts about the Art of Attunement. I do consider it an art and a practice and hope you will join me in purchasing a copy when it is released and applying some of the principles he talks about to your own life.
I’m very excited to read Thomas Hübl’s new book that is being released Sept 12th: Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma - and Our World. I haven’t received my copy yet, but I have been studying with Thomas for nearly a decade now and want to share some of my thoughts about the Art of Attunement. I do consider it an art and a practice and hope you will join me in purchasing a copy when it is released and applying some of the principles he talks about to your own life.
Seventeen years ago when I started my radio show, Conversations, which later became WE Earth Radio, the stated purpose was to “Heal the Wounds that Separate, Alienate, and Marginalize Us”. I have never really wavered from that purpose, though to some of you, it may seem that way. My journey has taken me from the world of Organizational Development to Transformational Teaching and Breathwork, 5Rhythms Dance, Shamanism, Soul Retrieval, and Spiritual Teaching. My current passion for the past decade has been helping people become trauma-informed, integrated, and moving into post-traumatic healing on a collective level. I have come to see trauma as a spiritual path! All of this was born from a deep desire to personally feel more connected and to live in an intra-connected world that includes everyone and everything, which of course is already the truth of the matter, albeit mostly unconscious! .
We are swimming in a sea of trauma that has become normalized. We have personal, familial, cultural, ancestral, geographic, and historical trauma that is shaping our actions, creating separation, and generating the destruction of our habitat. Trauma means the same thing as Karma, incomplete and unintegrated experiences from the past. So the first step is to become mindful of the fact that we are already connected with everyone and everything. For the most part, we are so focused on what we think happened in the past or our fear of what might happen in the future, that we are rarely fully present. All the unfinished business from not only our past, but that of our ancestors, is like carry-on luggage that we carry around and place in between us and the moment-to-moment unfolding of life. Attunement begins with presencing, an act of bringing our bodies, emotions, and minds into alignment with what’s happening in the moment.
We are swimming in a sea of trauma that has become normalized. We have personal, familial, cultural, ancestral, geographic, and historical trauma that is shaping our actions, creating separation, and generating the destruction of our habitat. Trauma means the same thing as Karma, incomplete and unintegrated experiences from the past. So the first step is to become mindful of the fact that we are already connected with everyone and everything. For the most part, we are so focused on what we think happened in the past or our fear of what might happen in the future, that we are rarely fully present. All the unfinished business from not only our past, but that of our ancestors, is like carry-on luggage that we carry around and place in between us and the moment-to-moment unfolding of life. Attunement begins with presencing, an act of bringing our bodies, emotions, and minds into alignment with what’s happening in the moment.
When we attune with others we allow our own internal state to shift, to come to resonate with the inner world of another. This resonance is at the heart of the important sense of “feeling felt” that emerges in close relationships.
Dr. Dan Siegel
Dr. Dan Siegel
Before we can connect and feel another human being we must attune to our own physical, emotional, and mental processes. When we do that we will find movement, tension, and numbness. Many of us have become so numb to our interiority that we have no access to these critical components that support our ability to connect. When we can’t feel ourselves, how can we expect to truly feel another? We all long for connection and at the same time we are scared to death of real intimate, authentic, and vulnerable interactions with others. Many of us have relationships that are little more than a side-by-side sharing of space, with no real intimacy or coherent connection.
Much of this comes from our own early attunement or lack of it in the attachment phase of our becoming where we need to be felt, seen, soothed, heard, held, protected, and guided. As mammals, we had to have these things to develop and grow into healthy, productive, and compassionate adults. To self-regulate and be response-able in the world, we must first have the experience of co-regulation with a parent or caring adult. If we don’t receive this nourishment, we compensate by taking on protective habits or roles to get the attention, affection, or love necessary for our development. This is the reason I started our live and online Circles where we practice attunement in a safe, supportive, and caring environment. Since most of us were wounded in relationships it makes sense that we can heal in relationships.
To be attuned is an act of love, of presence, and the willingness to be seen as well as see others in all our mutual beauty, shame, light, and darkness. We practice attunement by feeling ourselves, feeling others, and opening to them seeing and feeling us. It might be scary, but no less than the future of humanity is at stake. I hope you will join me in this practice of attunement. We will be having new Circles opening in September and October.
With infinite love and blessings,
Michael & the Well of Light Team
To be attuned is an act of love, of presence, and the willingness to be seen as well as see others in all our mutual beauty, shame, light, and darkness. We practice attunement by feeling ourselves, feeling others, and opening to them seeing and feeling us. It might be scary, but no less than the future of humanity is at stake. I hope you will join me in this practice of attunement. We will be having new Circles opening in September and October.
With infinite love and blessings,
Michael & the Well of Light Team
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest
possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological
offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. Buckminster Fuller
possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological
offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. Buckminster Fuller
