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The Art of Accomplishment

What Is Attunement?

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8269 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Attunement invites us to listen deeply not only to others but also to ourselves. But what, really, does it mean to attune? How does it work? What happens when you’re attuned? In this episode of The Art of Accomplishment, Tara Howley sits down with Janine Parziale to deep dive into the practice of attunement and discuss: - How attunement differs from basic active listening - Recognizing when we are genuinely attuned versus disconnected from ourselves and others - Practical ways attunement can improve communication and relationships in both personal and professional contexts - How attunement can transform conflicts and challenging dynamics into deeper connections - The risks and rewards of deep attunement

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0:00.0

You might change your goals if you're attaining, but listening, it's like listening to the undercurrent.

0:07.2

Right, that can feel scary.

0:08.9

Terrifying.

0:10.0

That speaks back to, oh gosh, if I start to attune to what is really, really true underneath for me.

0:16.3

Yeah.

0:16.6

What does that mean?

0:17.6

I mean, the threat is your whole life might change.

0:22.4

And the promise.

0:27.4

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore living the life you want with enjoyment and ease.

0:34.0

I'm Tara Howley, and today I'm here with Janine Parzioli, one of our lead facilitators, and I'm so excited to have her on the episode and introduce you all to her.

0:43.1

Hi, Janine. Welcome. Hi, Tara. Very excited.

0:47.5

So I want to start out with just the most basic question, which is what the heck is attunement?

0:54.7

What is attunement? That's a great question. I see attunement as a mixture of deep, active listening

1:03.2

connection to self. So if I'm attuning to someone else, I'm not leaving myself. I'm

1:09.4

actually deeply connected to myself,

1:11.7

listening to myself, and tuned in like a radio station to me and tuned in like a radio station

1:20.3

to the person. So it's this very deep back and forth movement where I'm not abandoning myself.

1:29.2

I'm right here with someone else in a deep listening on multiple levels. So like just active listening, I might just hear the words,

1:36.9

but if I'm attuned listening, I'm hearing what's under the words. I'm hearing that there might

1:42.8

be grief under what a person is saying or sadness or

1:46.9

anger, tuning into the emotional qualities of a person, the physical qualities, how someone's

1:54.6

using their hand, the intellectual quality, sharp mind or open mind, and tuning into the wholeness of a person from my

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