Insights & reflections

The Heart iQ Blog

Reflections from Christian on relationships, circle work and the practice of living from the heart.

113 articles to explore · Page 9 of 10

“You build a vision for yourself. You take inspired action around that, and it will draw to you.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 6:38
Relationships

Are 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.

Christian Pankhurst9 Feb 20183 min read
“You feel into where you are” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 7:28
Teaching

How 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.

Christian Pankhurst5 Feb 20182 min read
“Can you feel your power in the presence of another?” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 1:50
Relationships

The 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.

Christian Pankhurst23 Jan 20185 min read
“Loving you means loving all the parts of you” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 5:09
Relationships

What 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.

Christian Pankhurst23 Jan 20183 min read
“The feminine is everything that moves, and the masculine is that which observes and witnesses it.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 10:25
Relationships

The 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.

Christian Pankhurst23 Jan 20183 min read
“This witnessing energy, infused with stillness is in direct polarity to that which is being witnessed” Heart iQ article illustration.
Teaching

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.

Christian Pankhurst23 Jan 20183 min read
“We have separated ourselves from our divinity, our sexual-creative life force energy” Heart iQ article illustration.
Relationships

The Heart iQ Activation Journey

An exploration of Heart iQ's belief that unworthiness is a shared cultural pattern rather than personal failing, and that reconnecting to life-force energy matters more than fighting the wound.

Christian Pankhurst14 Jan 20183 min read
“Can you think of a better way to live?” Heart iQ article illustration.
Teaching

The Big Vision of Heart iQ

Christian sets out the founding vision of Heart iQ: a community practice for remembering interconnectedness, healing separation between people, and working together rather than alone to shift collective consciousness.

Christian Pankhurst14 Jan 20182 min read
“Grow your goodness, and your goodness will be how you operate your life.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 18:21
Relationships

The Work

Christian explains why Heart iQ works by strengthening a person's sense of goodness rather than analysing wounds, using a chiropractic story and a balloon metaphor to show how focus grows whatever it's aimed at.

Christian Pankhurst7 Nov 20172 min read
“Proactive boundaries are around practicing speaking your truth, sharing your needs, sharing your preferences” Heart iQ article illustration. Video · 2:59
Teaching

Reactive vs. Proactive Boundaries - A Healthy Way To Use Your Anger

Christian explains the difference between reactive and proactive boundaries, using a live exchange about anger to show how waiting for a line to be crossed makes boundaries impossible to learn.

Christian Pankhurst7 Jul 20173 min read
“Anger is the natural assertion of in-the-moment, spontaneous boundary that is done with kindness.” Heart iQ article illustration. Video
Relationships

Why Anger is Essential for Happiness

Christian explains why anger, when connected to genuine self-worth and a felt sense of value, becomes healthy fuel for boundaries and aliveness rather than destructive rage or repression.

Christian Pankhurst9 Mar 20173 min read
“The real art is in remembering to apply it and reapply it” Heart iQ article illustration. Video
Relationships

Why Anger is Essential for Happiness - Part 2

Christian coaches a woman disconnected from her rage, showing how disowned anger can be reclaimed as fuel for self-worth, boundaries and presence rather than suppressed or acted out unconsciously.

Christian Pankhurst9 Mar 20173 min read

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