What is attunement?
Attunement is the quality of being in tune with something, particularly a person.
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Attunement as a conscious spiritual practice was developed by Lloyd Arthur Meeker in 1929 and is still practiced today.
It involves sharing energy between two people, totally in sync, to promote well-being.
Essentially, it’s all about becoming harmonious with other people’s energies.
That said, theresearch on mirror neurons2is still ongoing and the concept debated.
Emotional attunement.
When we’reemotionally in tune, we’re able to deeply understand and even feel our partner’s emotions.
An emotionally attuned couple is able to be in a space of total harmony together.
When it comes to attunement, nothing’s sexier than mindfulness and being in the present moment."
Attunement in relationships.
Attunement is also a large part of infancy, often occurring between children and their caregivers very early on.
Say a child is crying, for example, and the parent realizes their baby needs their diaper changed.
Or from the other way around, a baby may cry if they see their parent crying.
These early connections are the foundational bond between parent and child and can have a large influence onattachment styles.
For reiki practices.
This is to allow universal energy, or chi, to flow more freely and deeply through them.
5 exercises to help you attune:
Do a body scan.
Self-attunement is just as important as attuning to others.
Hug or touch your partner.
Physical touchcan be a great way to calibrate to your partner, says Fleming.
Practice mindfulness.
Here are a fewmindful practicesto get you started.
Prioritize communication.
As Blaylock-Johnson points out, attunement won’t be possible without open and honest conversation.
It’s important for those conversations to be intimate and without distraction, Fleming adds.
Look into your partner’s eyes.
Eye gazingis another favorite of Fleming’s that can do wonders to help two people attune.
The bottom line.
Attunement will come into play in so many different relationshipswhether it’s there or not.
But with a bit ofopen communicationand mindful presence, anyone can become attuned to the people in their lives.
