Basics · 3.1

Personal space beyond the body

The idea at the heart of this classGold

Gold A seated figure, split light and dark, sits on a deep indigo vertical band over a low green mound of earth, inside a fine lilac circle, its own space. Above its head is a rayed gold sun. First the sun lights and gold fills the body from the feet upward like tea filling a cup, its surface swelling gently. Then a pink rose beside the figure is grounded by a green stem to the earth, and its heart fills with gold from the same sun while the rose stays pink. Then a tight dark knot appears in the figure's own space with a ring of rose gold beside it, and the knot stays as it is. Then a light goes from the figure's heart to the ring, the ring settles round the knot, and the knot loosens and turns, still dark inside the ring. Last, a soft pale gold sheet of light enters at the crown, sweeps down through the body and the panel and fades into the ground, its name beside the panel; the body keeps its own gold; it comes again and again and never stays. clearing gold your own sun forgiveness

This class’s practice

Personal space beyond the body

6 steps, playing in turn. Choose a number to hold one.

Ground, then notice the space around your body. About two feet all around, above and below, is a good amount.

02:14 to 03:08

Don't fill the whole room. An aura as big as the room can make you feel responsible for everything in it.

03:08 to 04:14

Add a second grounding cord as wide as your personal space, keeping the first, and let excess energy in the field drain into the earth.

04:14 to 05:21

Picture a gold sun filled with your own energy shining into the crown, then down through head, face, neck, arms, torso, hips, legs and feet.

05:28 to 06:36

Then pour it into the space: below your feet, behind, left, right, in front and above, until you sit in your own cocoon of energy.

06:36 to 07:52

Check your breathing and first cord, notice how your body responds, then blow up the sun and rest in the bubble of your own energy.

07:52 to 08:56

All 6 steps: Personal space beyond the body
  1. IGround, then notice the space around your body. About two feet all around, above and below, is a good amount.02:14 to 03:08
  2. IIDon't fill the whole room. An aura as big as the room can make you feel responsible for everything in it.03:08 to 04:14
  3. IIIAdd a second grounding cord as wide as your personal space, keeping the first, and let excess energy in the field drain into the earth.04:14 to 05:21
  4. IVPicture a gold sun filled with your own energy shining into the crown, then down through head, face, neck, arms, torso, hips, legs and feet.05:28 to 06:36
  5. VThen pour it into the space: below your feet, behind, left, right, in front and above, until you sit in your own cocoon of energy.06:36 to 07:52
  6. VICheck your breathing and first cord, notice how your body responds, then blow up the sun and rest in the bubble of your own energy.07:52 to 08:56

Basics 3.1, 02:14 to 08:56

Three golds, told apart by where they come from: your own sun, neutral clearing gold and gold as forgiveness.Your own sun: solid, rayed Forgiveness gold: rose gold, round the knot in your own space Clearing gold: pale, it passes and goes The three golds are told apart by where they come from and by tint. The tints only tell them apart; they are not the colors gold must be.
Your own sunFills youSolid, from above your head, filled with your own life force.
Clearing goldNeed not stayA pale sheet of light that passes through and leaves your space as it was.

Each gold is identified by source, target and purpose; no gold move is an automatic release from karma.

Personal space is taught as about two feet around the body, filled with your gold sun rather than expanded through the whole room.

Ground and observe

Ideas hereAura and layersChakrasGrounding

Begin by returning to the body. Notice the chair, feet, breath, heart rate and temperature of the skin. Bring awareness back from whatever is outside you.

Create a grounding cord from the first chakra to the center of the earth. Give it the color, quality, life force, amusement and imagery that fit this moment. Use it to release tension, anxiety and nervousness from the belly, back, head and shoulders.

Neutralizing means the emotional charge leaves the energy. Then the energy can be recycled. Your energy stays with you. What leaves is excess, foreign, or not serving you now.

Take another breath and notice the body again. Then shift attention from the body to the space around the body.

A bounded field instead of owning the room

Ideas hereAura and layersChakrasGroundingOwnership

Your life force does not all fit inside the physical body. It also belongs in the energy field around the body, about two feet in front, behind, to each side, above and below. This is personal space, or the aura.

Having space is different from taking the whole room. If your aura fills an entire room, you can start feeling responsible for everything in that room. You can be grounded, safe and present without spreading that far.

Work with a bounded field.

  1. Notice the space in front of you, behind you, on both sides, above and below.
  2. Let it be about two feet all around.
  3. Keep the first grounding cord from the first chakra to the earth.
  4. Add a second grounding cord as wide as the whole personal space.
  5. Let excess energy in the aura drain into the earth and be neutralized.

The second grounding does not replace the first. One grounds the body through the first chakra. The other grounds the whole field around the body.

Fill both body and surroundings

Ideas hereGoldGroundingOwnership

After the body and personal space have room, create a gold sun above the head. Fill it with your own energy, the life force that makes you you.

First fill the body so it is not depleted. Shine gold into the crown and let it move through head, face, neck, shoulders, arms, torso, hips, legs and feet. Let your own energy replenish the body.

Then fill the space around the body.

  1. Fill below the feet.
  2. Fill behind you, where the field can feel empty.
  3. Fill the left and right sides.
  4. Fill the space in front.
  5. Fill above the head.

Sit in a cocoon of your life force and energy. Notice emotion, sensation and whether the feeling is familiar. Check the first grounding cord, keep breathing, complete the gold sun, and blow it up. Rest for a moment in the bubble of your own energy before opening the eyes.

Recording notes

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Recordings

  • Class 3 Space Lesson #1 ~ Personal Space.mp3

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Practice

The guided practice runs from 00:00:07 to 00:09:14. Do it whole, from the preparation through the return. It uses tools from earlier lessons.

Full body/space preparation and return are available. Approximate two-foot guidance is an exercise convention, not a validated measurement.

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