The Hado of the Flower
I have been reading so much lately about vibration. My concept of vibration in the past has mostly been limited to things that I could witness with the naked eye or with my sense of touch: my washing machine out of kilter, coming to life and creeping across the floor, my phone when it is set on ‘vibrate’ and skitters across the countertop when it rings, the feel of the enormously loud bass line from a stereo in the car next to me at a light; however lately, my experience has been inundated with the subject of vibration in a way that I have never thought of it before.
Not so long ago, I was introduced to the idea that everything is vibration–you, me, a rock, a soundwave, everything seen or unseen. At first, it sounded a bit out there, but I soon discovered that it is a fact completely shored up in scientific fact. Even our thoughts are vibrations, which I touched on in my last post. The reason we can change our lives simply by thinking differently is that, in our attraction-based universe, thoughts and things of similar or matching vibration are attracted to one another.
Which I imagine is why, once I was introduced to the idea and began pondering it, it seemed that every book I picked up or conversation I had seemed to deal with that very subject. Like attracts like, and I have been experiencing it firsthand with almost spooky regularity. So I have been trying to perceive the world around me differently, or more accurately. I am so conditioned to perceive the world with my senses only, and I tend to be somewhat of a stubborn ‘realist’ at times, but I have been reminded that we override our senses regularly, we just don’t notice it because once our brain knows that what we are perceiving is not as it actually is, we perceive what we know, not what we actually see.
For instance, mankind used to believe that the sun died everynight on one side of the horizon and was reborn every morning on the other side because that is what we all actually see, but we know that the earth spins, causing the sun to appear as if it moves across the sky, disappears and reappears daily. We override our senses and are informed by what we know instead.
And so I begin: I want to begin to see my world as it actually is, not just what I see. I want to see everything as a vibration; the very thought that everything is vibration is a vibration! It really does change the psychology and opens up enormous new horizons of thought and expression to explore. Hence, the new vein of artwork I have been inspired to experiment with–I find that it helps me to begin to think of everything as a vibration if I try to represent the vibration of that thing with something else. As in the painting above, you have the flower and then my musings of the vibration of the flower in an alternate design. I think the idea was inspired by the research of Masaru Emoto who, through highspeed photography has captured the effect of different thoughts and feelings upon water molecules at the point of freezing.
The ‘Hado’ I refer to in the title is a Japanese word for the subtle energy that exists in all things. Here are a couple quotes from his book “The Secret Life of Water”:
All that exists in the universe vibrates at a unique frequency. So if you emit a hado of happiness, then you can be sure that the universe will respond with happiness.
When we return to living as one with the universe, we will rediscover the simplicity and spontaneity we were intended for and that was intended for us.
I, for one, feel that vibration is one worth staying with for awhile.
If you are interested in seeing Mr. Emoto’s amazing and ground-breaking work, here is a link:
