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Quiet Please

01:52 / 12.04.06

I will soon be opening a new studio of massage therapy, acupuncture, and skincare. I've got some really great things going: clients, therapists, name, logo, location, financial backing.... All of it is coming together very well. I have been working on it for years, and it is now manifesting.

OK, so my location is great for, like, 10 reasons but there is one thing that has me a little skeched out. That is my office is down-stairs from (under) an ice cream shop. The building owner is installing lots of sound proofing and I have a noise clause in the contract as well, but I love this spot.

My question is do you have any ideas for things that could be done on the energetic level to protect Bodylogic from UNWANTED noise?

I will have a busy office with lots of clients talking and enjoying themselves, and I love hearing, I just want a peaceable kingdom.

Good business juju gladly accepted too!

thank you!

02:26 / 12.04.06

From a non-magicky standpoint, you might add an aquarium or a fountain or running water of some sort to 'tone out' any low-decibel unwanted noise with the peaceful, steady lull of water flowing.

My naturopath has an unobtrusive fountain in the shared waiting lobby as well as a fishtank in his office. It does wonders for setting the tone of the building.

nyarlathotep's shoe horn

05:14 / 12.04.06

a somewhat tangetial comment:

Daniel Barenboim, who is currently the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and has decided to crusade against muzak - claiming that music should be something experienced with presence and intention, not something to fill the background.

back to topic:

I think the running water suggestion is brilliant.

--nj

13:20 / 12.04.06

Bravo Daniel Barenboim! If you are doing the Feng Shui thing, you can kill two birds with one stone by putting the water fountain/aquarium/etc. in the Wealth corner and then ye shall prosper as well as keeping the noise at bay.

13:51 / 13.04.06

I'll also use a white/pnik noise generator........

but I'm talking juice, majic, juju, energy!

22:16 / 21.04.06

Update:

This morning I arrived at the office to sign the lease. I got there before anyone else and the door was unlocked. I called the quarters and asked for guidence. A few minutes later the building manager showed up to say, "would you consider another space?' so I moved to unit 8 -still next to the yoga studio but this office has more space- and its the same price!

Thank You!

so as things progress, I see that it is all well.

05:05 / 23.04.06

Daniel Barenboim, who is currently the musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and has decided to crusade against muzak - claiming that music should be something experienced with presence and intention, not something to fill the background.

I read this on the BBC website a couple of weeks ago. I have a few issues with it. The notion of someone legislating what music should and shouldn't be as though there was some kind of moral imperative involved is problematic to anyone wanting to explore the freedom of the medium, as both a creator and listener. Why shouldn't music be both background filler and experienced with presence and intention?

Research ambient music and get yourself a few decent records. It may be background muzak but the decent ones act like aural MSG, tying all the ambient sounds in earshot together and making them sound like part of the composition. I mean, imagine an airport that actually played Music for Airports... I might end up going there just to hang out.

09:26 / 23.04.06

"If a dog is disturbing your meditation, shoot it."

14:22 / 26.04.06

Play the introduction to this radio show. Ideally play it on a digital tape so that each time it is played you know it is slightly degraded from last time, even if you can't here it.

Quiet Please

It will absorb the noise.

Only play the introduction, not the story.

07:58 / 27.04.06

Pink noise?

10:52 / 27.04.06

Wikipedia says noise can be white, pink, brown, black, grey or red.

Pink noise?

02:59 / 30.04.06

Holy Chao. Thats what I need a dose of weird.

that mp3 is cool

21:20 / 30.04.06

I think water features such as a fountain are an excellent way to cover up unwanted extraneous sound, as well as keep energy flowing. Acoustic treatments such as acoustic foam can be more effective at absorbing the sound (but often expensive). There are cheaper ways of making accoustic absorbing surfaces. Covering a board with cotton batting and nice fabric can be an effective acoustic as well as asthetic treatment to a space.

On a wholely different level, I think it is important to give your clients the skills and knowledge that after their energy work is completed it is a good idea to close (or at least know when to close) their recharged centers. So that when they return to their lives they will not be overwhelmed by the unwanted background noise that is ever present.

23:22 / 01.05.06

Any repetitive beat can be utilised, as it acts as a mantra. You know when you get some song stuck in your head? Find something that your waking conscious state can focus on easily, which will occupy it. The more occupied it is, the more the you-seat-of-power can slip away into deeper states.

It doesn't just have to be audible, either. It can be visual, or tactile. A combination of these, all producing an entraining vibration will aid in removing yourself from the waking world, as your waking senses should be adequately occupied.

This can obviously go further into the representative potencies of what the frequency of the vibration is, or the colour of the bulbs you might be using, or the aroma of the parfum you might be using, et cetera.

Personally, I find an LED in the darkness is nice to focus on, as it seems to turn me in on myself and I sink deeper into the depths of my own consciousness.

05:36 / 02.05.06

put in a noise complaint