13/12/2024
What’s your relationship to space? On a decor level, my approach is to fill it all, I’m quite the colourful maximalist, but in life I’m learning to expand into it.
Especially at this time of year, where there is naturally a quiet, dark emptiness that commercialism desperately tries to fill with events, stuff, over consumption. It can be hard to resist but there’s space right here. The liminal space as we approach winter solstice, when the veil is thin. The space between dark and light.
The breath gives us opportunity to feel into space. At the end of a full exhale, can you find the natural pause? It’s not something to force, rather to allow. It might take time to find it but it’s there. The empty place when the breath has fully gone before the inhale. The dark before the dawn. Nothingness.
Like the moment in meditation where you notice, ‘my mind is empty’ but then it’s full of thoughts again, but nonetheless it’s there. Practising emptiness even in these micro moments has the potential to expand space. Where we might perceive we have none, when we bring attention to this space around the breath, we have the potential to tap into infinite space (17-24,000 breaths a day!)
Maybe we can practise expand space to noticing other moments waiting, in between… there it is.
I hope this restive season brings you space, but if you’d like to plan a deep expansion, my next workshop, co-hosting with the wonderful , The Liminal Space, is booking up now. Feb 16, 10-4 at Barcombe Village Hall, including a beautiful vegetarian lunch. We’re combining our gentle, nourishing practises to share with you the art of expanding space and time. It’s going to be magic.
It’s also a beautiful gift, so if you’d like to bring a friend, or pay it forward a place, there are booking forms in my bio with all the details.
Tag someone who needs to discover some space for themselves as a loving reminder.
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