How do you create space in your life

21 February 2026 | Mindset

How do you create space in your life

How do you create space in your life? How do you step out of a narrow way of thinking? Out of a mindset that, often without you noticing, keeps you small?

🔦 Real transformation does not begin only by changing thoughts. A deeper shift asks for more than awareness alone.

It asks for courage. It asks for nerve.

The courage to step outside what feels familiar.

To loosen what is known and allow in what is new.

And yes, that can feel strange. Sometimes even unsettling.

But it is often there, in that discomfort, that space begins.

🔦 Transformation happens step by step. By making small, conscious movements towards a wider view. Slowly, what was once outside your sight begins to appear.

Sometimes it helps not to think more, but to become still.

👉🏼 A beautiful exercise here is the Open Focus technique by clinical psychologist and researcher Les Fehmi. --Begin by consciously taking in the natural world around you. Pause. Breathe in and out slowly, and let your attention soften. Then close your eyes. With your arms stretched out, move them gently through the space around you. Not to touch anything, but to sense the space itself. As you slowly bring your arms closer together, notice the space between them. Then open your eyes and choose two points in your surroundings. Instead of looking only at those points, bring your attention to the space between them. When you have done this, ask yourself: what do I notice in the way I perceive space? What changes in me when my gaze becomes wider?--

🔦 By widening your attention, you step out of narrow, fixed thinking. A more open way of seeing can emerge. And in that openness, a new movement becomes possible.

✨ Where might you take one small step today, from a narrowed view into a more spacious one?

🤜🏼 Would you like to explore how your own open gaze can grow? I would be glad to help you move towards that transformation. From a small, narrowed view, towards a more open and spacious way of living.

Would you like to grow more space and a more open gaze? Feel free to get in touch.

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