Behind all the words, and beneath all the doing, the space that you are is the being.
In simple language: the unspoken intention you bring shapes every interaction, relationship, and experience, and ultimately generates the world that you get. Like ripples in a rock pool.
These ripples don’t stop at the surface of our own lives. They touch the wider field: family constellations, social groups, the collective unconscious. Intention is not a private act — it’s a generative force shaping the world we share. Intention can be both conscious and unconscious, and most of the time we don’t even realise we’re carrying an unresolved intention from childhood and letting it drive our lives: See Me, Don’t See Me, Love Me, Don’t Leave Me, Protect Me, Save Me.
BodyMind Maturation is a form of revealing and dissolving the grip of that unconscious intention — which we refer to as ‘context’ — right at the somatic origin, and doing so shifts the ripples forever. Not just for our own healing, but far beyond the edges of our own awareness.
When intention becomes a conscious and chosen way of being, which is a mature act, it becomes Vision — for a fair society, a peaceful home, a powerful legacy. Conscious intention shifts us from inward-facing analysis to a particular kind of outsight:
“Whereas insight is the inwardly oriented expansion of consciousness, outsight refers to the outward expansion of social consciousness and thoughtfulness”.
—de Maré in Lenn and Stefano, Karnac, 2012, p.129
Outsight holds the power (and brings with it the responsibility) to create lasting change, in both small and big ways. It’s the transformation of childlike dependence into mature interdependence, where we know we have a part to play, and where our way of being matters very much.
This is not self-help. It is not about improving the personality or getting rid of the persona — which helps us to take part in life — it is about taking radical responsibility for the fact that who we are being is giving rise to the world we are experiencing.
There aren’t many places that create the opportunity for this kind of growth. Traditional psychotherapy tends to focus on the individual and reinforce social atomisation/the pursuit of healing in isolation, and even group therapy (my chosen specialism in the field) stops short of working with the illusion of a world that is happening to us, rather than through us.
What is needed is a live encounter. A practice space where the unconscious becomes visible, where body, psyche, and society are woven back together. A container where we learn to orient not around survival, but around creation (which can only happen in the present moment), alongside others.
BodyMind Maturation works on the principle that the appearing of our reality, and the experience of that reality, are one and the same. It is our way of being (given to us by the context we are coming from) that generates the world that appears to us. Wake up to that, and we welcome in the possibility of living from a different, and consciously chosen context — in other words a Vision, where we have enough awareness to shift our intention to the life we are called to create — rather than surviving, which is trying not to die: See Me, Don’t See Me, Love Me, Don’t Leave Me, Protect Me, Save Me.
My Vision is centred upon formlessness and supporting human beings to remember the wisdom we were born with. It is the place that I come from in all that I do. The expansive hush of the universe I guide people to in my Chi Kung classes, the relational healing of my therapy work, the dream intelligence I teach, the experience of non-duality I offer my Maturation clients. It is the ‘being’ that informs my ‘doing’ and it continues to expand the possibility that I am, stretching me past the limits of the box of ‘Emma’, into new and unknown territory. Less survival, more aliveness.
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