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Within the space we are infinite. An offering of contemplations to help cultivate inner peace & joy.

My Story can be read here: https://www.withinthespace.com.au/about-fiona-phillips

14/02/2026

As many of you know, I often speak about the kindness of strangers…those small, unexpected gestures from people we’ve never met that reinforce our faith in humanity!

Lately, I’ve been on the receiving end of so many of them! Smiles. Unexpected compliments while I’m out and about…and now today, this:

A friendly warning from my local parking inspector, who I assume recognised my little Mini as usually having a permit, reminding me to put my new one on the car.

$0 fine.

What a kind human to choose generosity over penalty!! It absolutely made my day!! Officer 211 - Love that there is an 11 in there too! 🙌🏽✨

This is such a reminder that we can uplift each other in the smallest of ways - even with people we don’t know!

I’ll have to keep a look out for the inspector next time and have treat ready for him! Pay back in kind!!

It’s really warmed my heart! Big love to you all!🙏🏽🥰

12/02/2026

More than being worthy of love - we are loving awareness. This is such a beautiful contemplation by James Van Der Beek. 🙏🏽🤍

10/02/2026

Everything we do and experience in life offers us something to be grateful for, no matter how hard it may feel at the time!

For me, this is true of law.

Pursuing it as a career disconnected me from my soul purpose and led to years of acute depression. It disconnected me from me! And I paid a heavy price for choosing a path for the wrong reasons. The fallout was immense!

But it also taught me three essential lessons:

✨ Never do something out of fear
✨ Never choose the “sensible” option at the expense of your heart or true calling
✨ Never do something for validation from anyone else.

In the aftermath, I had to build myself from scratch. This wasn’t easy or linear and it was messy! First I had to learn to love & value myself. Then I learned to make decisions from a place of honouring who I was, and from inner strength & clarity, despite external pressure & judgments.

That changed the course of my life!

I walked away from law with unexpected gifts: resilience, discernment, self value and love & lifelong friendships with extraordinary women I worked with as a lawyer, who have walked beside me for over 20 years (pictured here) through every iteration of my evolution!

We just caught up this weekend and that inspired me to write this post!

We may not see each other often (though our Wordle group keeps us in contact daily!), but when we do, we go straight into heart-to-heart connection! The love and support between us is something very special and something I cherish deeply. What an incredible life-long gift that came from something that caused me so much hardship!

I don’t regret my years as a lawyer despite the pain. They shaped me, strengthened me, helped me come back home to myself and gave me tools and skills I still use in life and business (as well as knowing how to get out of parking fines 😜)!

So to anyone who may be in the thick of the weeds right now:

It is OK to not be OK. Please find someone who can hold space for you. Support really matters.

And if you can, I hope you can hold a small space for the possibility that one day, you may look back and find meaning in this season beyond the pain you’re feeling right now.

Sometimes we need to experience being out in the wilderness before returning home.

Sending you so much love. 🤍

07/02/2026

This is one of my favourite photos of my friend and I taken about 20 years ago! It totally captures the moment shared between us of pure, hysterical laughter! 😂👌🏽

Laughter - tears running down your face, your stomach aching, leaning into someone because you can’t hold yourself up…struggling to breathe because you’re laughing so hard…and sometimes that desperate leg-crossing when the situation calls for it! 😂

Finally the laughter subsides, you take a big breath and a long audible sigh. Your whole body feels spacious and soothed.

There’s a reason for that…

Did you know there is actually a field devoted to studying laughter called gelotology? Even the name is funny!

Here’s what we know;

• Laughter is scientifically proven to be contagious
• We’re up to 30x more likely to laugh with others
• It releases bonding chemicals
• It boosts heart function
• It lowers cortisol
• It calms the nervous system
• It shifts the body out of fight-or-flight

So it’s not “just fun”…
It’s regulation.
It’s connection.

In my Reiki room, it not uncommon for people to start laughing during a session. This happens when stagnant or deep-held emotional energy shifts. Sometimes with tears. Sometimes out of nowhere. It’s the body’s way of letting go and with the help of Reiki, promoting movement of the emotion and it’s release. In Chinese medicine, it’s known as stuck emotion beginning to move, especially grief held in the chest.

Laughter is actually one of the major signs of healing!

Laughter is also spiritual - take a look at the Laughing Buddha for example. In Buddhist and Taoist traditions, that laughter represents inner freedom, emotional ease, trust in life, and not gripping so tightly to how things “should” be. Being okay with imperfection. Letting life be a bit messy. And still finding joy in it!

So let’s find space for laughter! Find what and who makes us laugh and lean into it! It is such an important part of who we are, how we connect, how we heal, how we regulate and stay in good health, mentally, physically, and spiritually! 🤍

Laughter - it’s time to take it seriously!! 😜🤍

06/02/2026

I’m so excited to be returning to New Zealand this year to study again with Frank Arjava Petter, internationally renowned Teacher and Researcher, who is responsible for rediscovering the traditional Japanese system of Reiki through Chiyoko Yamaguchi, and who has for decades been bridging the gap between Western and Eastern practice!!

Through his research and passion for Reiki, Arjava has been in contact with members and former Presidents of the Usui Reiki Gakkai, as well as members of Usui’s family, and has remained deeply committed to teaching the practices in their traditional form, unchanged by Western adaptation.

His wealth of knowledge around the practices, the history, and the spiritual and cultural underpinnings of Reiki, as well as the mystery teachings, provides a depth that continually enriches and deepens our practice!!

He is incredibly humble, warm, deeply loving, compassionate, wise and also very funny and it is a real treat to sit in his presence and learn this extraordinary spiritual and healing practice!!

It is a wonderful warm space of learning and being in community with others who are on a shared path of healing and growth and I’ve made long-life friendships that I cherish deeply! I can’t wait to return!

I’ll be encouraging all my students to attend if they feel called, and I highly recommend this opportunity to practitioners of any Reiki system. This is such a beautiful chance to expand and deepen your current practice!!

Come join me in New Zealand to learn with Arjava!! Feel free to DM me if you want to chat more about this!

More info here: https://reikihealth.rocketspark.co.nz/2026-frank-arjava-petter-japanese-reiki-class/

🙏🏽🤍✨

04/02/2026

First Reiki Practice Gathering for the year!

Such a beautiful, intimate catch-up after the New Year, with a few more of the usual suspects rejoining us in March.

These gatherings are such a special way to stay connected and be in community. I love watching the Gatherings grow and seeing friendships form among students and participants. It’s such a warm group, with plenty of sharing, caring, a touch of silliness at times and always lots of fun!!

As a teacher, these meet-ups allow me to continue teaching beyond the weekend courses to help students deepen their practice and give participants space to share their stories, struggles, insights and questions that arise between meet-ups.

Participants receive the blessing of Reiju, we do self-healing, spiritual and energy-accumulating practices together and then offer Reiki to each other! Total bliss!

We all walk out feeling so grateful, uplifted and totally bathed in the beautiful Reiki we’ve offered each other.

Gatherings are held on the first Tuesday evening of every month, at Second Story Studios in Collingwood! Online practice groups offered every 3rd week of the month! 🙌🏽👏🏽✨🤍🥰

01/02/2026

What a beautiful weekend of Reiki! ✨🥰✨

As these students had already spent time with their foundational practices from learning Level 1 Shoden, it was really clear how much had already opened for them by the time they arrived for Level 2 Okuden (Part 1).

Throughout the weekend, as we moved deeper into contemplating the practice, their curiosity was alive and it was so beautiful to witness their deepening understanding of their own spiritual and healing paths over the course of the weekend.

This was evident in the depth of the questions asked which made for such rich and moving conversation and reflection amongst the group. There were many tender moments amongst as students all reflected on their own paths and journeys.

At this level there are also a lot of specific traditional techniques taught and practicing them on each other is so much fun! What really stayed with me, reflecting on the weekend, was how much joy and laughter we shared together!!

Reiki is love! That’s really what was felt so deeply by us all this weekend! 🙏🏽🤍✨

31/01/2026

Crystal stones all lovingly and individually attuned via Reiju (a traditional method used to attune the stones to Reiki), these beautiful pieces of jewellery and palm stones are ready for students when they arrive in the morning! 🙏🏽🤍

30/01/2026

Taking a quiet moment this morning to sit in practice before welcoming students for Part 1 of Okuden (Level II) this weekend!

I’ve been reflecting on the decision I made six months ago to divide Okuden into two parts. It wasn’t an easy choice. In fact I agonised over it for a long time. It meant asking eager students to slow down, to have to wait and to complete Part 1 and 2 months apart rather than stepping straight into professional practice. It’s never easy to disrupt someone’s plans or expectations.

This weekend’s class is the final class of transitioning students. I’ve already run two Part 1 classes now, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Having experienced the first part, students have felt for themselves just how much is held within this level. The depth of the teachings, the techniques, the conversations, and the need for space to practise, reflect, and connect with one another. So much was packed in the first Part that students couldn’t believe I ever taught the rest in one class!

This morning in this contemplation, I feel like I’m reminded of how important it is to trust our instincts, and to stay in our integrity even when doing so has the potential to create discomfort, disruption or even misunderstanding. Our responsibility is to make decisions from the Highest place of integrity and purest place in our hearts and when we do that, it is enough. And it’s okay if not everyone understands. It’s okay if some feel inconvenienced. That too is part of the path.

I have been lucky, when I first announced this change, thankful all my students expressed full trust in the integrity of my decision and I am so grateful to them for that! It says so much about them. 🥰

I’m so looking forward to welcoming these students today! 🙏🏽✨🤍

29/01/2026

As some of you know, I trained as an End of Life Doula as a result of my work with people at the end of life in my Reiki practice. It remains an area of my work that I hold with deep reverence.

Walking alongside someone in the final chapter of their life is a profound privilege. It is a space where love, fear, attachment and release all sit very close together…and where Reiki can offer support on emotional, physical and of course, spiritual levels as someone prepares for the transition back ‘home’.

The aspect of dying spoken about here by Mark Edwards resonates deeply with my own experience, both psychically and through what I have witnessed over the years, and is something many palliative care doctors and nurses will also recognise.

This matters because so many people live with long-held guilt about not being present at the moment a loved one died. That absence is often misunderstood, when in reality it can be part of a much deeper and more loving process.

🙏🏽🤍

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