I enjoy the tranquility that comes from repetitive chores. Researchers have discovered that if we repeat a simple phrase again and again it will become a melody. We cannot prevent this from happening, so strong is the mind’s need for rhythm and harmony. 

What we call music is not relegated only to our sense of hearing but embraces our sense of being as well. Perhaps what we identify as ‘life’ is the experience of harmonic chords of energy within ourselves – humming in deep accord with rhythmic cosmic flows.  This makes sense when you think about it. Our hearing captures only a small segment of the electro-magnetic spectrum that we identify as sound. Our bodies capture a much broader span of the spectrum. It is this ‘music of our sphere’ that enables us to experience wonder, and bliss, and even awe. I have felt it. Haven’t you?    

Why am I happy with quiet as background when others prefer a background of auditory flow? Perhaps that background sound for another is the auditory equivalent of a landscape view or the ambiance of soft light for a more visual person. I experience harmonic flows from simple routines like watering my houseplants or swaying on the back porch swing. Such mundanity helps my body tune into faint channels of soul.   

There is much sage advice about the power of stillness. I find myself distinguishing ‘stillness’, however, from ‘centeredness’. Is soul-stillness not intended to soul-center? Indeed, it was while I was participating in a meditation on stillness that the concept of ‘domestic enlightenment’ arose. Traditional meditation is centering. It is soothing. It is to be done without distraction. I enjoy it. But, for me, is it stillness?  I think rather it is a time to encounter the harmonic flows of spirit within, which have movement and flow.  It is not still.