THTR 1029 Second Post

1)Patsy Rodenburg defines presence as allowing experience, and all the messages and tools required to survive physically, intellectually, and emotionally are taught when you are present. It is the energy of survival. 2)Presence can be lost out of need of control when someone may not want your presence, life may be too easy so you don't bother being present, or life is too hard and you unplug from your presence just to stop the pain. I feel a loss or weakening of presence when I become to comfortable with something. Say for instance in a lecture. Although I am physically there sitting in the lecture does not mean that I am present. I am not aware of what is being taught to me sometimes. 3) First circle is the circle of self and withdrawal. Your whole focus is inward and the energy you generate falls back into you. First circles also absorbs other peoples energy and draws all outward stimulus inward. Everything around you only interest you as a means to clarify yourself. I've experienced my self in first circle when I was talking with one of my friends and I was hearing her talk to me but I was not listening to what she was saying. I was too busy listening to what was going on inside my head. 4)Third circle is the circle of bluff and force. All of your energy is moving outward in any direction. Your attention is outside yourself but you are unfocused. A time when I was in third circle was when I needed to give a deployments briefing to my Major and some cadets and I had to present information about the deployment in a certain amount of time and answer questions. 5)Second circle is the energy of connecting. Your energy is focused and move outward towards whatever you have your attention on. I believe I was in second circle when my brother was bit in the face by a pit bull. From the time a heard the pit growl and the chatter of his teeth to the time I looked up to see my brothers face full of blood I instantly became alert and went into first aid mode in order to stop the bleeding and patch him up in order to get him to the emergency room.