An Invitation to Strike the Tuning Fork of you: Find Order in a Chaotic World

We often feel that modern life is a battle against a rising tide of chaos. We feel fragmented, overwhelmed by noise, and constantly running just to stand still. The prevailing narrative tells us that this slide into disorder is inevitable and that depressingly, things just naturally fall apart.

But what if that narrative is incomplete?

At the heart of my work lies a philosophy called Philokosmia—the love of universal harmony. It is a worldview that asserts we are not separate, isolated islands fighting against our environment. We have forgotten we are living, breathing parts interwoven with it.

And just like a musical instrument, our ability to play a beautiful note depends entirely on how we are tuned to the orchestra around us.

The Lie of the Closed Box (Understanding Entropy)

To understand why we feel overwhelmed, we must borrow a concept from physics: Entropy. In simple terms, entropy is the measure of disorder. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in a closed system, entropy always increases. Things decay. Coffee goes cold. Rooms get messy. Energy dissipates into chaos.

This sounds depressing. It seems to confirm our worst fears: that life is a losing battle against disorder.

But there is a crucial caveat that is often missed: entropy only inevitably reigns supreme in a closed system, a sealed box cut off from the outside world, the laboratory and fake, problematic conditions that often restrict materialism.

We were born out of this world in beautiful coherence. Proof we are not descending into chaos. We are ever more coherent and ever more conscious. We are incredible and can choose to be more optimistic.

You are not a closed system.

You breathe air created by plants. You eat food grown from the soil. You exchange ideas, emotions, and connections with other human beings. Your world is fundamentally open.

The moment you close yourself off through isolation, rigid thinking, or defensive cynicism, you become more of a closed system, and tip the balance towards entropy. The noise wins.

But the moment you open yourself up in a coherent way, you gain access to a different power entirely.

Creating Negentropy: The Philokosmian Stance

If entropy is the slide into chaos, its opposite is Negentropy (negative entropy).

Negentropy is the phenomenon of things becoming more ordered, more complex, and more alive over time. A seed growing into an oak tree is negentropy in action. A scattered team coalescing around a shared purpose is negentropy.

Philokosmia and coherence coaching provides the ‘why’ and ‘how’ to actively practise generating negentropy.

It is the realisation that by tuning your relationship with your environment, you don't just survive the chaos; you transform it into order. And not just for you, for your environment too! You take in raw energy and give back coherence. You become an agent of order.

Your world is only as small and chaotic as you allow it to be. When you open your system and tune it correctly, your capacity for harmony is limitless.

The Art of Tuning Your Environment

So, how do we practise this? We don't try to control the whole world. 

Instead, we incrementally tune our immediate environment. The physical, relational, and mental to reduce friction and invite flow.

Tuning is not passive acceptance. It is active curation. It is about ensuring that the inputs into your open system nourish you, so the outputs you give back are harmonious. Get this right and you give back to the world in a very powerful way.  

Here is what tuning might look like in reality:

1. Tuning the Physical Space

If your desk is buried under paperwork, your visual field is broadcasting "chaos" to your brain every time you sit down. That is high entropy.

Tuning it: Clearing that space isn’t just a chore; it’s an act of Philokosmia. You are creating a pocket of order that allows your mind to focus. You are reducing the cognitive load of your environment so your energy can flow into your passion, not into filtering out visual noise.

2. Tuning Relationships

Consider a relationship that always leaves you feeling drained and defensive. That interaction is a closed loop of increasing disorder.

Tuning it: This might mean setting a boundary (closing a leak) or changing the dynamic by entering the conversation with genuine curiosity rather than defensiveness (opening the system to new information). You move the encounter from transactional friction to generative connection. This may require bold and honest sharing of how you feel, what causes it and how you would like it to be different in the future. 

3. Tuning the Digital Input

Doom-scrolling news feeds is perhaps the ultimate example of voluntarily inviting entropy into your mind. It is pure, unfiltered chaos.

Tuning it: Curating your inputs rigorously. Choosing to read something deep rather than something fast. Engaging with ideas that expand your horizon rather than shrink it with fear. Recognising the false dopamine hit that grabs you and holds you, energising you in that moment but draining you and your coherence. 

How Coherence Coaching Helps You Tune

The challenge is that when we are deep inside our own noise, it is incredibly difficult to hear which strings are out of tune. We become habituated to the dissonance. We think the chaos is just ‘how things are.’

Through Coherence Coaching you realise you have more choice than you think. That you find yourself out of tune through a lack of awareness of the societal pressure, peer pressure, work culture or perceived trappings that can be unlocked, opened, set free.  Incrementally you can go from feeling like a B Flat to a B Natural. 

Coaching acts as an external tuning fork. It is a systemic audit of your life that helps you realise where you are leaking energy into disorder, and where you have closed yourself off from sources of nourishment. You can rethink your boundaries and your outlook to be the best version of you and in doing so bring coherence and harmony to others too!

Don't just look at yourself in isolation. Your being is a product of your world. We see people demonstrate how disorder in mind can bring disorder in body. We hear the saying, ‘mind over body.’ Philokosmia invites you to go one better…

‘Mind in tune with body’ 

Which leads to

‘Awareness of harmony with the world’

And then

‘not just wellbeing but coherent being and elevated consciousness’

Which leads to

‘awareness and love of harmony with the universe… …which is the definition of Philokosmia’

We see coolness in the confidence and harmony when you are taken back by someone who brings their full self and knows who they are.  They are in flow, they are coherent. 

Identify the specific environmental tweaks you can start to consider. These may be in your routines, your leadership style, that piece of work that will prop up your promotion chances and maybe your ego. Perhaps your personal boundaries. What do you actually have to do to meet that important but not fulfilling part of your world? Can you do less there? How can you reuse that time and energy to move towards coherence? 

You can and should stop the slide into entropy and kickstart the flow of negentropy.

Conclusion: Your World is Wide Open

Philokosmia teaches us that we are not victims of a disorderly universe. We are participants in a grand, interconnected harmony.

If your world feels small, closed, and chaotic, know that this is a temporary state of untuned instruments. By having the courage to open your system and the discipline to tune your environment, you can begin to generate order in your own life, and crucially, give that order back to the world around you.

Are you ready to stop the noise and start tuning your life for coherence? If you feel the need for an external perspective to help you find your harmony, I invite you to book a free 15-minute Discovery Call. Let’s explore how you can begin to love your life, and in turn the universe, more.  

They will love you back.