attunements

Acts of calibrating

Attunements is the plural of attunement, which describes a state of being in harmony or receptive alignment with something.

In everyday use, it suggests sensitivity to nuances—emotional attunements between people, or attunements to cultural shifts.

In spiritual and alternative healing contexts, particularly Reiki, attunements are specific rituals or initiations that purportedly open a person to channel healing energy.

The therapist's attunements to her clients' unspoken feelings made her exceptionally effective.

spiritual

meditation

Focused attention practice

harmony · alignment · consciousness · mindfulness · resonance · awakening · frequency · healing · aura · balance

technical

calibration

Adjusting for measurement accuracy

adjustment · settings · parameters · alignment · sensitivity · signal · reception · bandwidth · interference · modulation

relational

empathy

Sharing another's emotions

understanding · synchrony · responsiveness · emotional intelligence · bonding · intimacy · mirroring · listening · presence · compassion

musical

pitch

Frequency of sound

harmonics · calibration · tones · scales · resonance · timbre · frequency · overtones · ear training · perfect pitch

psychological

therapy

Curative mental treatment

adjustment · self-awareness · emotional processing · integration · adaptation · resilience · affect · somatic · nervous system · coregulation

Opposites
harmony/alignment

attunementsdiscord

Lack of agreement

misalignment · dissonance · disharmony · discordance · incompatibility

sensitivity/awareness

attunementsobliviousness

Lack of awareness

insensitivity · unawareness · obtuseness · blindness · tone-deafness

calibration/adjustment

attunementsmiscalibration

Incorrect precision setting

maladjustment · misalignment · desynchronization · imbalance · disequilibrium

Family

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