The last exercise in this section is about sharing our space intentionally and you will need a partner. Stand facing your partner at arm’s length, in turns as A and B. First, take some time to ground yourself as in the previous exercises, with eyes closed. Feel your core and gently expand until your space is around your physical body. When you feel comfortable, open your eyes and hold your partner in soft-focus eye-contact. The first partner then extends their space over and around the other person. Each of you note how it feels. Then the second partner has a turn. Open your eyes and exchange impressions. Pause the recording here, to do so.
In the same position as before, in gentle eye-contact, by intention, and without moving physically, speaking or signalling in any way, practise excluding the other from your space by creating space between you. Notice how you do this. After a few minutes, exchange impressions. Pause the recording here.
Then, both A and B do it at the same time. Each of you create space between you while maintaining eye-contact. Note how it feels to comment on later. Now, slowly move apart, increasing physical as well as astral distance between you, and note how it feels. When you are as far away as the room you are in will allow, switch to putting your space around the other. Stay where you are for a moment, see if you can feel each other at this distance. Maintaining eye-contact, begin to draw the other closer, by intention only. When you are an arm’s length from each other, exchange impressions. Pause the recording here.
Then slowly move apart again, still with your space around the other, maintaining eye-contact. See how far away you can go before you lose the sense of the other in your space, or you in the other’s space. From this distance, now practise pulling the other closer once more.
When we can do this at will and by intention we are less likely to do it unconsciously, and we are less likely to require cords to feel connected.