A short story with a question at the end:
About 25 years ago, I was conducting a workshop in a place called ‘The Jewish Institute for the Blind’ in Jerusalem. The workshop was designed for the staff of the institute and for a group of volunteers who worked in the place. At some point the participants were divided into small workgroups and engaged in some communication exercises and body-language detection. These were mixed groups composed of people who could see and people who were blind. I was walking from one group to the other – observing and offering advice – when a particular individual caught my attention.
Rachel was about 45 years old at the time, and she became totally blind when she was one-year old. What caught my attention was her remarkable ability to relate to a person’s state as reflected through their body-language even though she was blind. For example, when asked to detect who was showing a relaxed body-language and who appeared to be stressed, she pointed to the right direction with great accuracy and without a moment of hesitation.
“How can you tell who is stressed without seeing them or talking to them?” I asked. “Simple”, she replied; “a stressed person causes space to contract”.
This statement started the most fascinating exchange between two people (Rachel and I), who used the same terminology to describe what might carry different meanings because of the different facets of the human sensory system. Rachel went on to explain that when a stressed person enters the room, she experiences it as ‘shrinking of the space’; it feels to her as if the space becomes tighter. I then asked her if she ever registered the space expanding when a person entered the room she was in. ‘It doesn’t happen very often’, she said, ‘but on rare occasions, a person enters the room and space seems to expand’.
So:
A stressed person causes the sensation that space is contracting.
A person without stress does not change the perception of space;
What is it about the third kind of person that creates the feeling that space is expanding?
Rafi – June 2018
A stressed person causes the sensation that space is contracting.
A person without stress does not change the perception of space;
What is it about the third kind of person that creates the feeling that space is expanding?
They must have a really bright, clean aura. This person lives with the intention to love and serve the greatest good, without any preconceived judgements or expectations of themselves or others, or how things should be.
The deeper they embody this loving kindness, through practice and inspiration, the more light they become. Maybe it’s the fact that they embody more light that space has to expand to hold it all, and maybe the world is just filled with deflated, dark bubbles that are just waiting to be filled with light.
This is a great story that shows how much influence a bright, clean aura can have to wordlessly expand the consciousness of anybody around you.
Thank you
Neshi
What is it about the third kind of person? Great question!
I can relate to the description of the contracting and expanding of space and how different people feel.
We know that stress causes the muscles to contract and so it must be the same with the energy of a person.
Stressed thinking is something like “I can’t handle anything more” or “I am not able to do this” or “I do not want anyone to notice me or criticize me” which are all contracting thoughts that shrink a person down.
Over time the physical posture will reflect it as well as the energy field.
The expansive energy person is feeling sure, at ease, confident and happy with the good things they have all around them in their life. Expansive thinking are things like “I am so thankful for all of the opportunities in my life” or “I am in awe of the variety of expressions in nature and people” or “Imagine what could happen if….” or “How can I help that person to feel the most alive and connected ?”
This is also to do with being truly present…in present time, with access to the fullness of ones capabilities, gifts and natural charisma.
☀ Grace
What interests me more is how Rachel managed to detect that and many of us with great sight can not. I understand that when you lose one sense like eye sight, the other senses get sharpened, also when a person is stressed, she/he would pass on the stress to others, that creates a different frequency of energy. but this energy or any other energy is so subtle that sadly most of us lost the ability to feel it.
About the third person, to be able to create an expanding feeling, I can only think of how much love, unconditional love he/she has.
Great story
Janet