Listening
to the Rhythm
by Elaine Grohman
H
ave you ever found yourself
softly humming as you held a
child in your arms? The soothing, gentle
vibrations resonate through you and
radiate out to the child you love so dearly,
blending sounds with the vibrations of
love, as they become one soft melody that
radiates back to its source. As you hum to
a child, you hum to yourself, and it is the
music of our own humanity that touches
us unlike any other, having the power to
synchronize our separate breaths until
they become one breath. The harmony
of two lives brought together in a gentle
embrace of an adult caring for a precious
child entrains the hearts of each separate
body, adding to the rhythm of the lullaby
as the beating hearts echo the call for love
to every cell. Fears are soothed, tensions
melt away, and you both relax.
As we instinctively move to protect a child,
the human species needs to work together
to restore our rhythm, matching more
harmoniously with the powerful rhythms
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of life. It is time for us to care for our elder,
Mother Earth, who has birthed all that we
have ever needed in life.
Considering the eons of time that were
required for our own planet’s evolutionary
process, millenniums passed before
Mother Earth could sustain life. By the
time of the arrival of humanity, many
conditions had to be in place in order
for life to flourish here. Mother
Earth has cared for us even as we
behaved as spoiled children,
willfully using resources with