Yin and Yang of Sound

Sound is Yin and Yang, without silence, sound would not exist.

You need a baseline amount of sound to be considered ‘silence’.

Thus from the silence, you can speak into existence sound.

Speaking is a masculine penetrative force, disrupting and spreading in waves. The Yang.

Silence is the feminine receiving force, accepting and holding space to listen. The Yin.

If you master the yin and yang of sound, you will learn to better speak when it is time for speaking, and listen when it is time for listening.

A dialogue then becomes constructive when people balance in harmony to the yin and yang of sound.

An argument becomes disharmonious when people outshine eachother with Yang energies clashing. Overcommunication leads to noise losing it’s definitive meaning.

A quiet stand off or cold war becomes disharmonious with emotions and tensions rising with both sides embracing Yin energies. No communication leads to miscommunication.

When the balance strikes harmony, the notes play their part like a symphony or orchestra, all speaking in turn the music or dance that is played between the sound and the silence, the yin and the yang.

Epilogue,

I mention that you need a baseline amount of sound to be considered silence, for there is not the absence of any sound, for sound is mechanical vibration. We can be very very quiet, and that would serve as sound. Or we can be very very loud, and the white noise becomes a sort of silence itself.

As the Yin is in the Yang, so too is the Yang in the Yin. Silence is embedded in sound. Sound is embedded in silence. You can’t have one without the other, and the imbalance of one leads eventually to the other.

From pure silent cold wars to chaotic war. From a battle to the dust settling as the survivors lament.

Peace talks are just that, talks.

Afterall,

Words Mean Things