Circle Upon Circle

I’ve always seen
First Position of a
ballerina’s arms circling
the space in front of her as
pure beauty and tenderness.

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It looks as if she is claiming
that space of fifteen inches
in front of her as her own.

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Turns out, science tells us,
that space is indeed hers.

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Our hearts, they say, send out
electromagnetic waves for at
least three feet in front of us
which then circles back to us.

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They call this our 
*Torus*
our heart’s electromagnetic waves
circling out into the world
and then back again to us.

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Half a century before science made 
these discoveries, philosopher George Gurdjieff 
wrote and taught that the body 
radiated its own energy field.

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He estimated that this energetic field 
extended a little over one meter 
(roughly three feet)
and encircles us.

He poetically called this field our 
*Atmosphere*

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He admonished his followers to take responsibility 
for maintaining the integrity of that energetic field,
their Atmosphere

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He urged them to keep 
their Atmosphere steady
and to avoid getting swirled into
chaotic Atmospheres of others.

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Martha Graham, Mother of Modern Dance, 
called that energetic essence
*Vitality*

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She told her dancers that each of them had a Vitality 
that was uniquely theirs to bring into the world.

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She urged them to keep their 
one-of-a-kind energy 
clear, clean, and theirs 
and to express it in the world.

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I love this.

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We each have
our Atmosphere
our Vitality
our Torus
energetically expressing us 
as we dance in the world.

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It seems that the ballerina,
with her arms gracefully
encircling her space,
is showing us how
sacred and vulnerable and beautiful 
our own energetic essence is.

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May you encircle and protect your own 
*Vitality & Atmosphere*
May you dance it in the world.

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Love, Sophia

For Reference:

The HeartMath Solution by Doc Children and Howard Martin

Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Anges De Mille

Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation & Exercises by Joseph Azize