Masters of Health Magazine October 2024 | Page 95

The Colors of the Wind

Jill Mattson

The wind whistles, roars, and purrs. It teases, soothes, or rips us with cold stabs to match its winter song. Poetic? Yes, but literally and subtly true. 

As the wind speed increases, its pitch rises. A diminishing breeze sings a corresponding lower tone. When the wind dances, its movement speeds up, creating musical glissandos, with its pitch gradually changing like the howling of a wolf. How much fun it is to listen to the melodious voice of the wind.

You hear the wind and feel it caressing your skin. It “plays” with you, as if keeping you company. When it is fierce, it attacks your skin like loud, staccato musical notes. Notice how the air makes you “feel”. We all experience music that stirs our feelings. Likewise, listening to “wind choirs” strums your emotions, producing tiny nuances and subtle feelings. 

Your body has sensors in the skin, through which you literally and subtly intake sound, including, yes, even the gentle purr of the wind. The wind is invasive. 

Energy from sound can transfer to many things, each with correlating frequencies. This happens all the time. Think of the emotive qualities of a movie track. The movie is lifeless without the sounds and music animating it, but its music orchestrates our feelings. This is due to resonance, in which a vibrating force (such as sound) drives something else (such as emotions) to increase its vibrations. Air-stream sounds affect your emotions via resonance. 

Sounds and colors are related. The cycles per second of colored lights, taken down musical octaves, correlate to musical notes. Through resonance, the energy from a colored light causes its corresponding musical note to increase its vibrations. Native American Indians believe that the wind colors the sky. It does.