{"id":8529,"date":"2026-01-12T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:38:43","slug":"buenas-vibraciones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/01\/12\/buenas-vibraciones\/","title":{"rendered":"Good vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u00b4ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that I write every article in Spanish first, and then I translate it into English, all of this from scratch, without any help from the almost omnipresent artificial intelligence (you can call me old fashioned if you want; this is one of the ways in which I keep my mind active and I exercise my creativity, two things that I consider extremely important)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is, as you will have seen, that sometimes I find it hard to come up with equally precise or elegant ways to express the same idea in both languages. But today I don\u00b4t have that problem; this time, the post\u00b4s title is really easy to translate, as it\u00b4s an expression commonly used in English as well as in Spanish: good vibrations<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We say that something gives us good vibrations when we get a good impression from it; it makes us feel good, and we resonate with it in a positive way. So, why do we say it like that? Because that\u00b4s how it happens, and even if we can\u00b4t fully understand how or why from an intellectual point of view, we do experience it in our daily life, and therefore, our language reflects it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, let me apologise for my inability to provide a detailed scientific explanation on the topic of vibrations, which I would love to be able to do. I can only speak about what I have experienced myself, mostly regarding the form of vibration that\u00b4s more easily perceived by humans: sound<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late December, I was lucky enough to participate in a yoga retreat in Madrid\u00b4s city centre, at a yoga studio called Yoga Retiro. And one of the main activities for us during those three days, together with yoga and meditation<\/a>, turned out to be mantra chanting<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo of the AUM symbol I got at a present in Yoga Retiro. Thanks, Swami Krishnananda\u00a0and Durga Devi!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to say that I loved the mantra chanting, and also that I found it a bit hard at the beginning, not being familiar with either the melodies or the lyrics (mostly in Sanskrit). But I gradually became familiar with them and started to feel more comfortable. My mind got flooded with memories from my younger years, when I used to practice another kind of meditative chants: the Franciscan prayers, El Palancar<\/a>, Taiz\u00e9. It was the same feeling of peace, contemplation and communion as back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few days later, during the New Year's concert in Vienna, the orchestra conductor reiterated the message that music has the power to unite people<\/strong>. Because good music doesn\u00b4t stay only in our ears; instead, it touches us much more profoundly, it goes to the root of what all of us human beings have in common. There are even some who dare to declare that without music, there\u00b4s no life<\/a>...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because everything comes back to the same. The experts say that everything is vibration, including us. And science is now beginning to discover what the sages have been teaching us for millennia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many paths to spiritual growth (not necessarily religious, though religion is there too), and each person has to find their own, but there are some fundamental elements that tend to appear repeatedly, and music and chants are present in every or almost every tradition. I have to admit that it\u00b4s one of the things I find most fulfilling, it\u00b4s always been, and that\u00b4s why I continue to investigate and learn. Sound baths<\/a>, classical music and even Gregorian chants. Sound, rhythm and vibration to connect with something larger than each of us, to join the frequency of the Universe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Si llev\u00e1is un tiempo leyendo este blog, ya sabr\u00e9is que los art\u00edculos los escribo siempre en espa\u00f1ol y luego los traduzco al ingl\u00e9s, todo ello desde cero y sin ayuda de la casi omnipresente inteligencia artificial (llamadme antigua si quer\u00e9is, pero es una de las formas en las que mantengo mi mente activa y doy … Continue reading Good vibrations<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":8528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Buenas vibraciones \/ Good vibrations","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Vibrando hoy en positivo, \u00a1feliz lunes! \/ Vibrating in positive today, happy Monday! \n\n(To read in English, click to get to the article and then change the language using the flag symbol)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4986,5001,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musica-music","category-palabras-words","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-2dz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5876,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/02\/03\/bano-de-sonido\/","url_meta":{"origin":8529,"position":0},"title":"Sound bath","author":"binarybea","date":"03\/02\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"No me lo puedo creer, \u00a1hoy ha sido el d\u00eda de la marmota, y yo ni me he acordado! 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