The Heart iQ Blog
Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.
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How To Be Happy, Even When Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart
An introduction to joy in the Heart iQ approach, meeting disowned feelings, learning in a group and bringing the practice into everyday relationships.
Video · 9:59The Healing Power of Acknowledgement
Christian explains that acknowledging what doesn't work in a relationship, spoken from strength rather than shame, builds more intimacy than presenting only one's best qualities.
Video · 9:10How To Disarm Your Neuro-Emotional-Energetic Defence System
Christian explains S.T.U.A.R.T., the neuro-emotional-energetic defence system that filters safety, and describes the six qualities that soften its grip so we can meet ourselves more honestly.
Video · 7:39What is Heart iQ?
Christian explains Heart iQ as a practice of embodied, conscious communication built on consciousness and life force, described through a four-directional model of connection: up, down, out and in.
Video · 23:29How Healing in Circle Can Transform Your World
Christian reflects on gentler effort, supported expression and the balance between witnessing and moving in circle, drawing on his own history.
Video · 4:48Feeling More Is The Key! But Feeling More of What?
Christian outlines Heart iQ's Four Directions of Joy: connection to source, connection to emotion and body, authentic outward expression, and openness to receiving, explaining how imbalance in any one channel limits how fully we live.
Video · 6:38Are you bored in your relationship?
In a live coaching demonstration, Christian helps a woman move from vague boredom in her marriage to a felt, embodied vision of playfulness, sexiness and adventure, then shows how inspired action replaces waiting for a partner to change.
Video · 7:28How To Find Joy, In Any Moment, At Any Time
A five-step practice of feeling, accepting, wanting, asking and receiving, illustrated by one participant’s experience in a recorded workshop.
Video · 1:50The 4 Life Force Channels of Heart iQ
Christian explains Heart iQ's Four Life Force Channels, showing how joy is accessed by opening upward, downward, outward and inward rather than chased as an external reward.
Video · 5:09What is Unconditional Love?
Christian explores unconditional love as room for the full emotional spectrum, using the images of a prism and visual contrast to describe his approach.
Video · 10:25The Essential Masculine & Feminine
An exploration of the essential masculine and feminine as inner qualities present in everyone, using the life force pump, the glass and wine, and light and love analogies from a Heart iQ teaching session.
The Great Polarities of Life
Christian outlines the two core polarities practised in Heart iQ, the vertical union of masculine and feminine within, and the horizontal polarity between people as witness and expression.