How to Close or Break the Connection

In the last module I brought up that it is similar to a handshake for me but let’s use that to teach you how to connect and break away from the connection. Understanding how that connection truly works through your team and is simply broken by your attention moving off into a different direction. It’s your curiosity that tends to fuel that connection long after you’ve left.

Assigning yourself a new macro of the handshake can be a wonderful symbol in your head to remind yourself to connect when you’re meeting with a person and disconnect when the interaction is finished. The handshake itself for the moment that both hands are touching and moving up and down is the experience that you’re sharing with somebody. In your mind I would like you to try this when you’re finishing an interaction with somebody whether it be on phone, video call, or in person when the experience is finished, I want you to visualize separating hands like finishing a handshake. You can even use that when you’re ready to stop shielding.

 This will take time and a bit of practice in order to solidify this habit and really test drive it to see how it works for you and you may find another visualization that symbolically works better for you, if you use it. Don’t be shy about switching up any of the visualizations to one that suits your needs or rings a bit closer to home for you. Then watch for the reconnection later if you are curious or if your thoughts are leading back to that person, make sure that you’re interacting without shaking hands again. It’s okay to think about people and it’s certainly okay to send them love but continually tapping into their emotions because you can’t get a handle on your curiosity can be heavy and really hard on you. Make sure that you’re entering into those connections on purpose, and choose not to when your idle mind wanders.