This is the first post of the Resonance blog. We'll write about resonance at all frequencies, from the planetary to the super-atomic. We resonate all the time, at all frequencies, in many different types of energy, and yet, for a variety of reasons, we're only partially aware of those resonances.

Resonance is good for us. Listening to good music, understanding and living by the cycles of the planets, aligning with our circadian rhythms, honoring the collective unconscious, living with cyclicality and ambiguity -- all contribute to our well-being. Conversely, listening to bad music, ignoring the cycles of the planets, living outside of our circadian rhythms, and not honoring the collective unconscious, all cause us to be less well, or less whole.

We're an integral and active part of a vibrating, cycling, breathing, singing universe. We're both listener and performer, and so need to develop both our ears and our “chops.”

Here are some of the fields and phenomena that manifest resonance in one way or another:

• Music
• Music therapy
• Reiki healing
• Energy systems
• Harmony and harmonic structure
• Quantum mechanics
• Cymatics
• Sacred geometry
• Sound therapy
• Tides
• Astrology
• Climate change
• Lasers
• Morphic resonance
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Radio broadcasting
• Brainwaves
• Heartbeats and heart rate variability
• Hearing of pitch
• Entrainment
• Mechanics
• Chronobiology
• Mythology

And here are some examples:

• Acoustic resonances of musical instruments and human vocal cords

• The timekeeping mechanisms of all modern clocks and watches: the balance wheel in a mechanical watch and the quartz crystal in a quartz watch

• The tidal resonance of the Bay of Fundy

• Orbital resonance as exemplified by some moons of the solar system's gas giants

• the resonance of the basilar membrane in the cochlea of the ear, which enables people to distinguish different frequencies or tones in the sounds they hear.

• Electrical resonance of tuned circuits in radios and TVs that allow individual stations to be picked up

• Creation of coherent light by optical resonance in a laser cavity

• Material resonances in atomic scale are the basis of several spectroscopic condensed matter physics. Examples include Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Mössbauer effect, Electron Spin Resonance, and many others.

• The shattering of a crystal wineglass when exposed to a musical tone of the right pitch (its resonance frequency)

Resonance is everywhere, and so deserves some focused attention. So here we go!