Do you vibrate or do you just make noise?
There is always an ohm chant at the beginning and end of my yoga class. Sometimes one, sometimes three, most of the time amazingly harmonized. But for a long time it was just a sound to me. A noise that was made because it is a traditional opening and closing to the practice. Then one day I had a teacher who said ‘ohm is about vibration, not about sound, vibration in your body and soul, in the person next to you or across the room’. From that moment it changed how I felt the ohm. As soon as I looked for the vibration there it was, and the noise that came out wasn’t the important bit any more.
It is the same in life. When you speak up in a meeting or walk into a party or have a heart-to-heart do you vibrate or do you just make noise? Do you make yourself louder to be heard or are you dynamic and considered so that others want to stop and listen?
I read a quote the other day that said ‘Make sure you’ve finished speaking before your audience has finished listening’ – Dorothy Sarnoff. No matter where you vibrate, keep them wanting more.