... in that they can affect time. I have a client who is a "time slower" or more accurately, a time dilator. Moments expand into years when I'm with her, and not in the good way. I can be working on her and to my subjective time sense it's been 30 minutes or more yet when I look at the clock I'm lucky if four minutes have passed. *sigh* An hour session with her lasts about 800 years, I would swear to it.
I've experienced this phenomenon before, most usually when I'm with someone who is avoiding the true nature of his or her core self with a vengeance. Happens at parties sometimes, especially with people who are really, really nervous.
Having done massage now for a decade, I usually have an excellent sense of the passing of time as I'm working. And yet, I've also observed the reverse of the above phenomenon: that is, there are clients who can speed up subjective time, too. Time is suspended when I'm having fun, in the flow, and working on something I love and am immersed in. It's always suspended when I'm singing or on stage. Being truly in the moment can completely erase the feeling that time passes.
Like tuning forks and strings tuned to very slightly different pitches which even so can sympathetically cause each other to vibrate, I believe that people can do the same thing and entrain each other to different emotional and mental states. I know that my calming presence can calm others if I'm dead sure of myself. And I know that others can make me jittery if I'm not aware of guarding my own present moments when I'm around them.
I think this is what happens with my clients who are the "time slowers"; they are entraining me out of my own now and into their no man's land of neverwhen. Usually the ones who have to talk to fill silence are the strongest at entraining others: they're so intent on not experiencing the present moment that they have to fill it with and endless stream of meaningless chatter so that the moment is seemingly under their own control. It's interesting to observe. I can usually change this pattern (and get time started back up again) by gently returning their awareness to their bodies, by asking them to pay attention to what it is that they're actually experiencing.
And I now have ample experience in all those states, so am better aware of it myself when I'm not here/now.
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2 comments:
you hit that one spot-on.
i meet people all day long who are like ghouls how the suck the energy and life out of the room; and if i am not wary, out of me.
their time/energy plane seem to be another dimension.
sometimes they are willing to be charged but mostly they want you to become like them.
it is chilling - literally - to encounter.
Urs,
urspo
She is a vampire. I have a visualization for people like her. I imagine my arms out beside me (like I'm stretching) and think "shields up". Then I picture a bubble around me.
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