How to create a heart connection with someone?

Christoffel Sneijders leads an exercise where pairs lock eyes, express gratitude, and send each other love and support. Participants rate their energy, focus, and happiness before and after. Eye contact acts as a mirror of the soul, he says, creating the respect and safety needed for real change.
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Zo, let's do a little exercise to change your energy en komen aware hoeveel je in charge bent. Zo, ik heb niet de antwoord nodig, maar hoe is je energie? Als op een schaal van 1 tot 10, ik love 1 tot 10. Hoe is je energie? 10 is dat je bijna net zoals mij bent, springen rond. En 1 is ik slaap, alleen ik heb mijn ogen open. En alles in de tussentijd. Naast je hebt je nummer, dus maak hoe is je focus? En wat ik bedoel met focus is. How much can you focus on what's happening here without thinking what is on Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram? Who should I mail? What did my wife say to me? Do I have a coffee? Where's the tea? I need to go to the bathroom. All the kind of other things we have in our mind. All of them. And a scale of one on ten. Ten is totally focused. I can really be with my mind here. And one is Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram. Oh yes, shit! I didn't look at them. Let's post right away a picture of myself. Selfie. And how's your happiness? We already asked that question. Are you, by the way, ready to do something strange? I love strange. Oh, that's good. You know you signed up for now. It is now, kid. Where did— what do we need more to solve things? And actually, there's only one thing we really need, all of us. That's a friend. That's compassion. That's where I start with. So we're going to do a little exercise just to become aware how it changes your energy and mood set. So please, if you don't have a neighbor, find a neighbor, because some people are on the end of— find somebody behind you, next to you, and you only have to do 3 things. So she volunteered, so I know she volunteered. Don't think, oh wow, you put somebody— Yes. So I will show you what we're going to do so you really know. So I have to talk in here, otherwise people don't— so you look somebody, you look her in the eyes. No, not her, but you look the other person in the eyes. Now you see my butt end. Now could we turn around please? It's not my best part. And when you look in the eyes, you say, I'm really grateful to meet you. I'm really grateful to meet you. Yeah, I send you love and support. I send you love and support. For the next 45 minutes. For the next 45 minutes. Yes. And after that, you can say thank you or whatever, and you go to the next person if you like to turn around and swap around. Thank you so much. So please do that to your neighbor, or the neighbor behind you, or somebody else. And if you don't have somebody, we can do each other. So, look, question me. Somewhere the same questions, so you know the questions. How's your energy? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it better or worse than 5 minutes ago? How's your focus? Better or worse than 5 minutes ago? And how's your happiness compared to 5 minutes ago? The same. It's okay. You have to— then you cannot make this, you cannot change. But for most people, they will find a difference. And most times a positive difference. That's a good thing, by the way. So just in 1 or 2 minutes, you can change your own energy, your own focus, your own happiness. The only thing you have to do is to connect with somebody. And just open yourself up for 1 moment to look in somebody's eyes and say, hey, you know, really grateful to meet you. Welcome to this workshop. I'll send you a lot of love and support for the next 45 minutes. Now, why is it so important to look in the eyes? Because the eyes are the mirrors of the soul, and we cannot change those. It's also a way of respect where you say, hey, I'm really grateful to meet you. Actually, you say to somebody, I'm not interested in you, is there somebody more interested? So this shows you have the capacity to change a lot of your internal state. Just to say to somebody you're grateful to meet them. We need compassion and safety to change. If you like to live an amazing life, They need compassion. They need safety. Without safety, there's no change.
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