How to see past the Illusion of Separation through the eyes of another

Have you ever looked or been asked to look deeply into the eyes of someone you did not know or at a minimum did not know well? Not simply for a brief moment or glance but for 4 minutes AND without saying a word to each other?

I have and the experience profoundly changed me

My experience of this happened many years ago while participating in a team building session with 30-40 co-workers at the company I was working for at the time.

The exercise came without instruction other than to look directly into the eyes of the person we were partnered up with and to continue to look into their eyes without saying anything to the other person.

It can feel a little uncomfortable at first

As you can imagine, looking into the eyes of someone you don’t know or do not know well can feel a little uncomfortable, to say the least as it is not something we typically experience with that kind of relationship.

At first, the tendency is to look away or make light of it.

The secret is to maintain the eye-to-eye connection and to get past the uncomfortable, goofy, crack-a-joke, look away, blink a lot, range of emotions and potentially even a feeling of attraction stages, along with any other behavioral programming we have related to this activity that may come up.

If you can get past that stage and continue to look into their eyes, you can move from those experiences into a completely different experience.

That’s when the true connection can begin

You may begin to see past the physical eyes of the other.

You may begin to lose the sense of your body, their body, and even your physical surroundings.

You may begin to see past you and the other person as being physically separate.

You may begin to see that you and the other person are one; that separation is an illusion.

You may make a soul to soul connection.

You may begin to see and experience a sense of love that is beyond the human perception of love…Not ego love, sexual love, or conditional love, but pure Universal love.

You can go to a deeper connection

If you and the other person are comfortable to continue past the allotted time, the trick at this point is to hold that connection of Universal love and not pull away.

In staying with it, you can immerse yourself in that level of love further with each other because it is love in its purest form.

You can begin to see the other person is pure love.

You can begin to see yourself as pure love.

You can begin to understand that separation is an illusion and reality is not as it appears.

You can begin to know that what we are is pure love.

It’s an amazing experience

If you can hold onto that experience and incorporate it into your daily life, your life will never be the same.

You will begin to look at reality and who we are in a different light.

You will begin to understand that we are one; that we are love expressed.

Reflection and Hope

As I reflected back on this experience and watched a video I will share below, my eyes welled up and I had full-on body goosebumps.

I felt love and joy as I remembered the experience of the connection made with that co-worker so many years ago and the shift I experienced that day in my understanding of separation and of who and what we are.

I felt hopeful and empowered as I reflected on what is possible for our world, for our species, and for all life if we each had the opportunity to experience that level of connection in our lifetime.

Imagining the possibilities…

Imagine the shift it could make in our world if this exercise was something every person did as part of a regular practice.

Imagine if World leaders came together to do this exercise with each other.

Imagine if owners of polluting companies did this exercise with a person who has been negatively impacted by the pollution their company produces.

Imagine if couples going through a tough time in their relationship came together to do this exercise.

Imagine if everyone who did this exercise saw past the illusion of separation; that we are one; that we are love expressed.

Imagine how this could change our relationships and our world.

Imagine

A link for you:

I found a video on YouTube ( https://youtu.be/1EumnijQBhw ) entitled “Eye Contact With Strangers Experiment” which provides a short demonstration of the exercise and the connection. In this video the exercise is to maintain eye-contact for one minute rather than 4 (or more), but as you will see the connection or beginnings of deep connection are evident.

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