We are oscillatory beings

Are you flat lining life?

I want to spend one more day on the importance of energy oscillation, before moving on to the second characteristic of champion sales people–enthusiasm. I love this quote from Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, on page 30, of The Power of Full Engagement.

"We are oscillatory beings in an oscillatory universe. Rhythmicity is our inheritance."

More from page 30-31, called The Pulse of Life:

Nature itself has a pulse, a rhythmic, wavelike movement between activity and rest. Think about the ebb and flow of the tides, the movement between seasons, and the daily rising and setting of the sun. Likewise, all organisms follow life-sustaining rhythms–birds migrating, bears hibernating, squirrels gathering nuts, and fish spawning, all of them at predictable intervals.

So, too, human beings are guided by rhythms–both those dictated by nature and those encoded in our genes. . . . Our breathing, brain waves, body temperature, heart rates, hormone levels and blood pressure all have healthy (and unhealthy) rhythmic patterns.

Oscillation occurs even at the most basic levels of our being. Healthy patterns of activity and rest lie at the heart of our capacity for full engagement, maximum performance and sustained health. Linearity, by contrast, ultimately leads to dysfunction and death. Just picture for a moment the undulating wave form of a healthy EEG or EKG–and then think about the implications of their opposite: a flat line.