Envisioning Heartspace

For many people, it can be useful to learn through seeing things. Heartspace is a global learning concept that calls us to make large jumps, bringing together ideas, feelings, and intuitions from many places that may seem almost random and without connections, until suddenly they coalesce and we suddenly get it. Visualizing Heartspace is another way we can get it.

If you want to picture what Heartspace looks like, start by envisioning a geodesic dome. Notice in this closeup of the Montreal Biosphere that a geodesic dome is made of thousands of interlacing triangles. In Heartspace, each point of contact among the triangles is a sustained connection in your life. All of these connections lace together in order to form your Heartspace. However, instead of holding a hollow space on the interior like a dome, your connections also lace inwards in a profuse and lavish network of connections and intraconnections. This represents the sustained nature of Heartspace, and the reality that each of your connections affects every other to varying degrees. In this way, your personal engagement is like a spider's web, too, where the vibrations shake the inexplicably strong connections you have within and around you.

Heartspace is more though, because rather than having finite endings that are clear and identifiable, the sustained connections you maintain within and outside yourself are launched ad infinitum throughout your life. Heartspace literally has no boundaries.

Heartspace has eternal latitude, and whenever we sustain our connections within or around ourselves, the impact launches out from ourselves, vis-à-vis ripples in water. Just like ripples that radiate out from the place where a drop of water lands on the surface of a body of water, our sustained connections coarse through our Heartspace and into the lives of others, generally unconsciously, but sometimes consciously, too.

When we interact with another person's Heartspace, it can be useful to envision overlapping connections happening like in a Venn Diagram. This happens when we fall in love, or meld deep friendships, or nurture warm connections with our children. It can happen when we reciprocally give our art, cooking, or chopped wood. It happens when we share- that earnest and honest act we learned as children. Sharing Heartspace is devoid expectation or consternation, because it simply insists that we be who we are, how we are. It calls us towards our innocence and compassion and allows us to be fully human, if only for a moment.

These images are meant to enliven our ability to see Heartspace, what it is, and how it works throughout our lives. If they do not work for you, simply release them from your imagination. If you want to, look within yourself and imagine what your Heartspace looks like for you. You might even draw that, or write a poem about it. Reply to this post and let me know what you think and feel about the ways sustained personal engagements look throughout your world.

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