Listening to the Space Between Things

Emptiness runs through everything I do: Reiki, Buddho, mindfulness, coaching, and The Abundant Self.

Emptiness is a reconnection to who you truly are before all the distractions, demands, and distortions of life that dog us all on a day-to-day basis. Your basic nature is one of profound stillness and of being empty of all constructed identity, all mental noise, all striving.

But don’t confuse emptiness with stillness. They are intimately related, but not the same.

Stillness is the quality of presence that arises when the mind settles and the body rests in awareness. It’s a state of being: a felt experience of inner quiet.

Emptiness, on the other hand, is the nature of being. It is the spaciousness at the heart of existence itself. It’s not void or absence. It’s openness. It is the ground from which all things emerge and into which all things return.

Stillness happens within emptiness.

When you experience emptiness directly, you begin to see that you are not your thoughts, your emotions, your habits, or even your roles. You are the space they arise in.

And that’s where freedom lives. Not in adding more, but in remembering what has always been there, underneath it all.

In the system of Reiki, this stillness is cultivated deliberately. It’s the quiet from which energy flows, the space where healing happens.

You may have heard the phrase from the Heart Sutra:
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”

This is a reminder that when we embrace empty space, we meet something profoundly real.

In The Abundant Self, we go deeper into this. Because your abundance doesn’t begin when you have more, it begins when you create space for more to come through.

Stillness clears the static.
Emptiness holds the potential.
Together, they become the most powerful ground for transformation.

News!

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Upcoming Events

Step into deeper presence with upcoming workshops:

Reiki Level 1 – 25th & 26th July

Buddho Level 2 – 1^st & 2^nd August

Reiki 3A – 8^th & 9^th August

To book or enquire, leave a comment or message me directly at [email protected] Booking via my website will return soon!

All the best,

Steve