Popping the Personal Bubble

Pop Your Personal Bubble

February 21st, 2008

When I was writing about “doing out of character things just to see what would happen” yesterday, it brought to mind an interesting experience I had when I was in school. You may be familiar with the concept of the “personal bubble”; the amount of space we like to have between us and other people to feel comfortable, which varies between individuals and cultures. I discovered that it has an energetic basis, and can be switched on and off at will.

I walked into class one night preoccupied with my thoughts and flopped into a desk without thinking too much of it, until the woman next to me started getting visibly uncomfortable. At that point I realized the rows had been a bit mangled by the previous class, and my seat was shoved halfway into the middle of an aisle, next to and slightly behind hers, a lot closer than most people would be comfortable with. I was about to get up and move, when I had a sudden impulse to try something different. I deliberately relaxed myself and mentally relinquished my concept of personal space, and noticed her settle down too almost immediately.

I went through the rest of the class, having completely forgotten about all this shortly after… until I went outside, and quickly noticed that something didn’t feel right. People were walking way too close to me, and I was nearly run into several times. It was as if they weren’t even registering that I was there! Realizing what had happened at that point, I decided to test whether I was just imagining all this, and sat down in the middle of a crowded bench of random strangers. There wasn’t any of the awkward shifting and sideways glances you’d expect — nobody reacted in the slightest, or even seemed to notice me sitting there. At that point I knew I had found a new tool and figured I’d had enough fun for one night, so I mentally turned my personal bubble back on before I crossed the street so my space wouldn’t be invaded by any speeding vehicles. wink

This was my first experience of the way we can alter our energy to influence the way others respond to us, and opened up a whole new avenue of thought and development for me. If something like the personal bubble is just an artificial construct that can easily be turned on and off at will, what other aspects of our reality that we take for granted can we say the same for?

Why not do some experiments of your own and find out? wink

–Palehorse

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