**⏺️ With:** [[Holding Environment]], [[Attachment]], [[Developmental Trauma]] **\#️⃣ Tags:** #Psychology #Relational #Developmental > **🌱 Planted:** Fri 31 Jan 2025 --- Attunement is the fundamental way we orient toward, connect with, and experience the world. It encompasses the deeper, foundational way in which we as human beings align ourselves with our environments, other people, and inner experience. [[Martin Heidegger]] observed that humans are always attuned to the world in one way or another. That is, we're not ever without some mood or state of mind—what he called "Stimmung" and "Befindlichkeit"—that acts like a filter to our entire experience. Attunement is not a fleeting feeling or emotional state, rather it embodies our entire way of being as we approach and interact with the complexities of our environment. In this way, our mode of attunement fundamentally structures our experience of existence and defines our essential way of being. # Modes of Attunement A lot of the time, we're unaware of how these attunement styles structure and colour our experience, kind of like how fish don't notice the water they swim in. When most people think of attunement, they usually think of it in the context of parenting or connecting with others. While this is a distinct mode of attunement in itself, there are others too. 1. [[Technological Attunement|Technological / Survival Attunement]], which is the mode of attunement we commonly spend most of our lives within. 2. [[Poetic Attunement|Fundamental / Poetic Attunement]], which involves being attuned to the way in which we attune itself, allowing for a deeper receptivity to [[Truth, Beauty, and Goodness are properties of being which reveal the true nature of reality|Truth, Beauty, and Goodness]] for its own sake. 3. [[Empathic Attunement|Empathetic / Relational Attunement]], which is fundamental in having our [[Developmental Needs|normal developmental needs met as well as validating our personal subjectivity]].