| This study explored 8 participants' experiences of space through Spacial DynamicsRTM human-movement discipline. Within psychology, the experience of space itself has not been researched. Instead, psychologists have researched object relationships within space quantitatively. This study focused on spatial experience qualitatively. Data were analyzed applying Giorgi's existential phenomenological method, allowing the researcher to examine essence of experience. Descriptive phenomenology values individuals' subjective voices, views individuals' choices as nonpathological, normative expressions of experience, and aims at understanding a phenomenon's subtleties without seeking to validate hypotheses, enabling participants to understand space's benefits, including physical safety, emotional healing, and spiritual wholeness. Results indicated the primary spatial-movement theme was the imagination of meeting in the liminal space-between. Benefits included interactions where speaking-listening was involved (e.g., therapist-client, nurse-patient, entrepreneur-patron, public speaker and audience relationships). Clinical applications include interventions benefiting from specific psychological spatial-movement practices of the space between (e.g., boundary-awareness, preventing therapist burnout, effectively treating trauma, pain-management, stress-reduction, anger-management exercises, and public-speaking anxieties). Other applications include increasing sport performance through spatially enhanced motor imagery techniques, workplace ergonomics, and spatial attention exercises for rehabilitation. Exercises provided a middle-ground alternative between sitting body-focused meditation practices (e.g., Vipassana, Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction) and dance-therapy practices (e.g., Authentic Movement). Relationships were explored between nonduality and Spacial DynamicsRTM. Embodiment's definition was extended to include the space-between, and specific exercises to re-embody metaphor and language were offered. Indications were provided for a spatial intelligence diagnostic scale employing 12 human senses to diagnose and remediate personality disorder fixations via spatial interventions. Specific spatial processes regarding empathy were explored. The researcher proposed a theoretical multisensory model utilizing subjective, intersubjective, and objective research methods to study spatial phenomena simultaneously from physical, psychological, and spiritual points of view. A suggestion that Spacial Dynamics'RTM physiospatial movement practices and underlying principles could be effectively applied to psychotherapeutic modalities concludes the study. |
