SPIRITUAL RHYTHM

Dictionaries define rhythm as a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or, in music, as the placement of sounds, generally considered as an ordered alternation of contrasting elements. It seems unavoidable, then, that to have a sense of rhythm, we must also have a sense of time, for we must be able to notice that the patterns are repeated, placed, or ordered in alternation within some kind of framework based on this construct.

In human life, we cannot avoid the presence of rhythm. The universe gently imposes it, through the revolutions of the earth around the sun and the phases of the moon. The natural world expresses it through the steady cycles of the seasons. And our physical bodies must align with it if they are to live in equilibrium. We frame rhythmic movements within the construct of time so that we can measure them and relate to them. And, thus, in alignment with how the universe, the natural world and human nature work, we create different rhythmic expressions for every single aspect of our lives, thus creating rituals. It would be impossible for us to extricate ourselves from the multiple levels of rhythm and from their manifestation as rituals.

And what about spiritual rhythm? At one level, and still within the construct of time, we could understand this as the rhythm of our spiritual practice, manifested as a ritual. In our work with Triangles, we have a daily ritual in which we function as a unified group with a common intention, and each day our work creates a strong field of consciousness which becomes a means for light, love and power to enter the planetary network accessible for humanity worldwide. This ritual is our discipline and our service.

We can also think of spiritual rhythm as beyond these ritual activities and as something else that we are not able to name yet, but through which the universe is seeking to manifest a divine inner plan. Spiritual teachings reveal to us that life itself breathes rhythmically, and that everything in the universe is impelled by this rhythm. It is also said that love pulses through the universe in a divine rhythm. As we ponder on these statements, we are attempting to touch something quite ineffable… the divine pulse… the pulse of life as it beats through the etheric body of the universe.

We have the opportunity to use our daily ritual to energise even further the field of consciousness that we create together, by focussing our intention to be agents for the healing energies of  light, love and power to pulse through the network of Triangles in a divine rhythm. This is about attempting to penetrate the very essence of life.

Then we are both using the rhythm of our spiritual practice and working together as one with the spiritual rhythm of life.