Heartspace Studio

24/10/2023

Is there a single whole-hearted being in the world who doesn't share this feeling?
Thankyou, Roger Waters, you're a voice of millions.

22/01/2023

Good morning world!
Is today the day you treat yourself like someone you love, and give heart-centred Breathwork the chance to clear your mind, relax your body and heal your soul?
Message inspiredheartspace@proton.me to find out how. ❤

17/11/2022

Papaver dubium. A 'w**d'. Light, colour, form, texture, movement, transience... poppies are so much like butterflies; also expressions of the soul in healing. Remembrance, remorse, loss, longing, momentary escape, joy in sorrow and sorrow within joy. The indefatigable succession of transformations required of, and granted by, life.
We, too, are succulent, translucent and perfect for a moment - a small series of moments - then fallen, ripening, desiccating, rattling, scattered, buried, dreaming. The light we contain is ours for a moment. Just a moment.

15/11/2022

Not so Jolly...

Christmas isn't always love and laughter. For many of us, it is the worst time of year. The time that highlights lack, loss, hypocrisy, abuse, dishonesty, cruelty, loneliness, pressure, anxiety, overwhelm, failure... between mountains of expectation, judgement, and oceans of grief, we can feel stretched, wracked, battered. We may have to face toxic family members and systems again, being retraumatised while everyone is pretending happy families. We may ache for lost, genuine loved ones - it could even mark the anniversary of their death. We may be the one who has to hold it all together for everyone else, but be unnurtured and under-resourced; unable to provide what societal pressures push as normal expectations. We may fear the parties and pressure to celebrate. We may be entirely alone, and not ok with that. We may not even have adequate food or shelter, whilst watching others throw money around on feasting, holidays and gifts. No, it doesn't feel jolly.

You might feel bitterness, envy, overwhelm, sorrow, anxiety, fear, anger, grief, despair, totally numb...

There could be any combination of a myriad feelings and reasons that this time of year looms dreadfully. Do you need extra support to face it? Do you have 10 hours over the next 5 weeks, that you could spend receiving breath coaching over the phone?

Core Clearing Breathwork is all about mindfully using your breath to process emotions, generating an increased experience of peace and wellbeing. It can be liberating! I simply need a volunteer to help me complete 10 session hours in my training as a Breathwork Coach. And I know what it's like to dread this time of year. I know what it's like to want to disappear until Christmas is over for another year. Maybe this year, you can give yourself a chance to breathe.

I can be reached at inspiredheartwork@pm.me

-AUx

13/11/2022

Botanicals. I love creating botanical images. Plants are people. :)

20/09/2022

A beautiful soul.

16/09/2022

Are you free?

It's a fact. The heart has a mind of its own. To connect with that heart-mind, we use the breath. A heart-centred breathwork coach can guide you in this process of self-discovery and allow you to feel deeply - and safely - into the mysteries, the memories, experiences, and emotions; the embodied pains, injuries, fears and blockages that may be holding you back and hurting you. Allowing you to accept and process the present, gently, whilst unravelling that which could not be resolved in the past. Restoring your moments, your focus and energy, to now.

In this way breathwork is like a massage for the soul, dissolving all manner of pain, strain, knots and injury. Allowing you to move forward in life more freely, knowing greater peace and compassion.

19/05/2022

This is what I am... this is what I do.

TO KNOW SOMEONE, YOU MUST LOVE THEM

In order to understand anyone or anything, you have to love it. I don’t mean feel romantic passion from it, or express any version of love that is tinged with expectation or sentimentality. This love I mean is characterized by compassion, empathy, and lovingkindness.

To open yourself up with love to an iris or redwood tree or hermit crab is to assert that you find it worthy enough to bestow blessings upon; and furthermore, that you find it worthy of communicating with.

Because when you open yourself with love to understand a living thing, you make it possible for that living thing to communicate with you in its own language and through the lens of its unique intelligence.

When you open yourself in love to understand a living thing, you are showing it that that you want to perceive its essence and that you are also willing and even interested in being influenced by its essence.

You’re proving you’re receptive to its specific intelligence speaking through its special language—not your own intelligence and language.

This gives the living thing—iris, redwood, or crab—a great gift.

I'm not being metaphorical or poetic here. I'm not using fairy tale logic. My meaning is literal.

Every living thing is a cell in the Divine Consciousness. Is a special case of the One Intelligence expressing itself.

Everything LONGS to express itself so that you can take it in. And everything LONGS to thereby give you the gift of itself.

This is not a selfish longing to be seen for itself so much as a longing to give you the special wisdom and beauty that it alone possesses and channels: a longing to give the unique glimpse at the Divine Consciousness that comes through it alone.

In giving your loving attention to the iris or redwood or crab, you are showing it that you want to understand it. This allows it, in turn, to give you the tremendous and mysterious gift of its special intelligence, expressed through its unique language.

The gift you receive is double: You’re able to get out of yourself, able to transcend your narrow interests and intelligence sufficiently, to learn how to understand the iris or redwood or crab in its native tongue.

The second gift is that you’re able to harvest the actual benefits of the “information” that the iris’s intelligence and language convey (and redwood’s and crab’s), whether than information comes in the form of an intuition about the nature of reality, or an opening in yourself of the part of the universal God hologram that corresponds to the iris or redwood or crab.

Yes, you are a tiny hologram of the Universal Projector, the One and Only Hologram, but sometimes, in order to “turn on” parts of the Universal Hologram within you, you have to open to those parts in the physical world.

This is an important part of my strategy to enter into a variety of altered states in my quest to viscerally commune with the Divine Consciousness, a.k.a. the mind of Goddess.

If I can learn to speak the language of the iris and redwood and crab, and somehow awaken in myself the part of my intelligence that is like an iris’s and redwood’s and crab’s (and it’s all there, since I contain or rather am a hologram of the All-in-One), then I have in effect achieved an altered state.

I have jolted myself out of my normal human humdrum awareness and added to my repertoire a fresh perspective, an additional mode of perceiving and understanding the world: as the iris or redwood or crab does.

Let’s say I can do this every day, in little or big ways.

At least once every day, and sometimes more on my freer days, I can open my heart-brain with love in the attempt to understand the essence of a iris or redwood or crab, and can, thereby, allow the iris or redwood or crab to do what comes naturally for it, to do what it was made to do, which is to unveil itself to me in glorious extravagant fullness, with its own love nature bursting
. . and so the iris or redwood or crab can initiate me into the mysteries of its intelligence, teach me how to experience the world as it does, and bestow on me the power to alter my state of awareness—giving me yet one more tool for knowing Goddess’s mind not just conceptually but with gnosis – with visceral understanding.

Photo by Rob MacInnis. Words by Anatole France.

09/02/2022

I'm not strong, I'm not confident, but I've survived more narcissistic abuse than I can even begin to comprehend. It's so easy for perps to target and abuse autistics. We're like magnets for that crap. In the moment, we don't even cognitively understand what is happening to us. An abuser only has to deny that they're doing something and we believe their words, despite experiencing body- and soul-deep pain, despair, confusion and turmoil; emotional sickness so complete we physically vomit, because... people mean what they say, right? No one means to cause pain - and the perp is hurting, you can feel it! - so you try to understand and accept them even deeper, even more unconditionally. You make it clear through actions that you're a safe person, maybe even also voicing your need to feel safe and all that entails for you, (maybe no raised voices, no recrimination, honesty... ) but they don't believe you, because words are just weapons and camouflage to them. They obfuscate, deny, cast blame, belittle - then claim it's your fault you're hurt, for believing what they say.

Hearts and voices need congruence to thrive. So here's to honest self-expression, with no other purpose than to move toward being whole.