Bodhisattva Conversations.
Bodhisattva Conversations is an exploration of the practise of being. How we live, relate, and move through life with greater presence, awareness, and freedom.
Through reflection, Julia Chi explores what it means to create a deeper connection with ourselves and with everyday experience, revealing how inner clarity and presence lead to greater ease, joy, and aliveness.
This podcast is about experiencing who we truly are, moment by moment, and discovering how life unfolds more freely when we live from awareness rather than habit.
Bodhisattva Conversations.
What We Place In The Space Between Us In Our Relationships
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In this episode of Bodhisattva Conversations, I explore the nature of relationship, and what occurs in “the space between” us and the other.
There is always a space between two people.
An invisible field made up of tone, attention, intention, nervous system energy, and unspoken emotion, and whether we are relating to a partner, a friend, a colleague, a child, or a stranger, we are always contributing something to that space.
We are the common denominator in all of our relationships.
This episode seeks to shift the focus from asking whether others are “the one,” “a good friend,” or “meeting our needs,” toward a more empowering question:
What am I placing into the space between us?
Am I bringing reactivity or reflection?
Defensiveness or curiosity?
Ease or tension?
Blame or ownership?
Relationship is a mirror.
Intimacy is a magnifying glass.
The closer someone is to us, the more clearly we see ourselves! We can observe our patterns, our wounds, our capacity to love.
Recorded on the eve of my 12th wedding anniversary, this episode is also a reflection on shared intention to relate consciously in long-term partnership, and the appreciation that arises when two people both care about what they are contributing to the relational field.
This is not about perfection. It is about awareness and about taking responsibility for our side of what we put into the space.
An exploration of how we create harmony or conflict, safety or unease, healing or hurt - moment by moment - in the space between.