The resulting friction between nonfunctional and functional, spiritual and practical, handmade and machine-made, and professional and self-taught is music to the eyes and will attune them to the important ideas and attitudes that continue to come out of Africa.
The more you persist with this line of inquiry and a focus on simply listening to the trees, the more you will attune your hearing to the communications from the trees.
Unless we make a conscious decision to learn to become aware and present in our own lives, to work through our own emotional challenges, we will not be able to fully attune to our children's innate direction and voice.
This will help attune your body to the "rhythm" of the day.
We subconsciously imitate the speech of conversation partners in an endeavor to "empathize" with those we talk to.[1] Indeed, we're so attuned to imitating each other, that we will imitate other people's speech patterns, inflections, talking speed, speaking time, mannerisms, postures and facial expressions.
If we listen carefully we can attune to this self-revealing wisdom-nature through mindfulness meditation.
Someone whose self-esteem is based on an enjoyment taken in deliberation will be attuned to wider complications and will have the wider imaginative powers needed for correct deliberation from a steady and general point of view.
Mitchell, who wrote and directed it, is highly attuned to what we'll call "cinematic kid" logic: the way parents seem to be absent whenever shit goes down and intrepid teens take it upon themselves to band together and turn problems like a supernatural entity into just another adventure.
The globally homogenised landscape aesthetic – which sees parks from Boston to Brisbane looking worryingly similar – will diminish in importance as future urban green space will be attuned to local values and cultural perceptions of beauty.
When people feel part of a group, they will be attuned to the norms of that group.
