The document describes a woman's experience during an exercise at a seminar where she had to stand on stage facing different partners. With her first partner, she was overwhelmed and confused and did not learn anything. With her second partner, an older kindly woman, the woman started crying uncontrollably when looking in her partner's eyes. However, she was then able to stop crying by filling her head with positive thoughts like "Thank you" and "I love you" directed at her partner. Surprisingly, this caused her partner to start crying as well.
The document describes a woman's experience during an exercise at a seminar where she had to stand on stage facing different partners. With her first partner, she was overwhelmed and confused and did not learn anything. With her second partner, an older kindly woman, the woman started crying uncontrollably when looking in her partner's eyes. However, she was then able to stop crying by filling her head with positive thoughts like "Thank you" and "I love you" directed at her partner. Surprisingly, this caused her partner to start crying as well.
The document describes a woman's experience during an exercise at a seminar where she had to stand on stage facing different partners. With her first partner, she was overwhelmed and confused and did not learn anything. With her second partner, an older kindly woman, the woman started crying uncontrollably when looking in her partner's eyes. However, she was then able to stop crying by filling her head with positive thoughts like "Thank you" and "I love you" directed at her partner. Surprisingly, this caused her partner to start crying as well.
What the hell happened to me?! I was supposed to listen to what
my inner voice told me, but I never heard a thing! I was just overwhelmed—no words. I didn’t learn anything! What kind of exercise is this?! I was confused, embarrassed, and left to ponder my experience as the exercise continued on the stage in front of me.“Row Three, please stand, turn to your right, and go to the stage.”Aaaaaargh! Not again! my mind screamed. Now my row was facing the people seated offstage. I survived the three minutes this time because I just didn’t look at people who were looking at me. Now Row Four was ordered onto the stage and a new partner was standing in front of me, one foot away from my face.This time I was face to face with a kinder older woman who smiled at me shyly.“Okay, I think I can handle it this time,” I told myself. But then the tears started gushing as soon as the exercise began. Each time I looked into my partner’s eyes the tears just gushed and I turned away. She quietly tried to comfort me by telling me everything was going to be okay. I was embarrassed and confused by my unexplained tear gushes. The seminar leader was directing all of us to listen to what was inside our heads—what we said to ourselves. But my voice wasn’t talking. Then I suddenly remembered that I could fill my head with thoughts instead of trying to listen to my thoughts. My inner voice wasn’t talking to me, anyway. Once I put thoughts in my head that were better than what was there, I immediately looked again at my partner and thought,Thank you. I love you.Thank you. I’m sorry. I love you.Thank you. I immediately got comforted and was filled with appreciation and love for the woman across from me. I felt better and the gushing stopped. I was looking at her and I was not gushing tears. To my surprise, my partner started crying.Tears started streaming down her face and her head started shaking slightly back and forth as she whispered,“Now you’re making me cry.” I just kept sending her my private thoughts:“Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me.Thank you.”And so on.Then my partner was directed off the stage and I was left standing again in front of 50 people who were directed to