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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Audrey, I hold space open
continuously and constantly in my life and in my practice. Consciously, I
have experienced opening space with a person when I can feel their tightening
down into a control state over a situation or the inability to readily
communicate about a given subject at hand. I open the space within me and
let them see me in a visibly relaxed state. Yet more than that, I know
that they can feel me being open and opening evermore to them and it assists in
their acceptance of the moment as an opportunity to come to increased awareness
themselves.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>I do it within my heartspace and
in my mind. I make sure that my visual clues are openness with a soft
face, relaxed eyes, parted lips (rather than closed mouth) and loose body.
I find it very useful in my counseling practice and definitely during my more
conventional workshops. I AM being ME - all that I AM as ME with no
agenda, no reservations and no expectations. It IS the breath that we have
been talking about lately. It is the inbreath and the outbreath and most
of all, it is the space in between the inbreath and the outbreath. Within
that space exists all that is - for each one of us - and in that space can we
meet each other openly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Blessings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Toni Sar'h
Petrinovich</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=audreycoward@BELLNET.CA href="mailto:audreycoward@BELLNET.CA">audrey
coward @bellnet.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 12, 2002 12:26
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Opening space with one person in
four minutes</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am interested in knowing about the occasions
when you have opened and held space four or five minutes. How was it opened?
How was it held? What was the impact on the other person? What did you do?
What Did you be? What was the impact on you?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Audrey
Coward</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>