Unconditional Belonging & Collective Perspectives
You are held by an infinite number of Embraces.
• Transforming Our Perspectives – From me to the planet, to the universe
We work with everything from our closer Embraces, such as ourselves, our families, organisations and countries, to our widest Embraces, like humanity, the biosphere, planet, galaxy and universe.
This transforms our understanding of the world and our place in it.
• Unconditional Belonging to Everything I'm part of
All our wider Embraces hold us unconditionally. To experience this quality is immensely healing and relaxing. This is the quality of the everpresent Now.
We mainly meet online because we are scattered around the planet. During our sessions, one person guides, and everyone is invited to share their experiences. It might feel a bit strange at first, but it's very natural once you do it. Hundreds of people have participated, feeling unconditional belonging and gaining new insights. All your wider Embraces are already here. The invitation is to become aware of them. And as them.
The Wider Embraces method is a journey through seven perspectives. Each one gives us new insights and experiences of belonging.
The Wider Embraces emerged in 2012. It all started with the question: Who is Embracing?
From there on, Stina has explored and developed the method together with groups of old and new friends.
The Wider Embraces is founded by Stina Deurell.
Read about her background and sources of inspiration on her website, You are Planet Earth.
This video will give you a hint about what the Wider Embraces is about—And not. Maybe you understand more, maybe less.
This is about our wider Embraces, what they are–and not.
A clarification.
And a complication.
This is about everything you are part of.
It’s not about you.
Though you are everything you are part of.
This is about taking wider perspectives.
It’s not about expanding yourself.
Though who you are widens.
This is about the unconditional aspect of reality.
It’s not about your personal relations.
Though they are also embraced.
This is about the subjective side of our material world.
It’s not about your inner world.
Though you may experience it that way.
This is about the beauty of the findings of modern science.
It’s not about ancient wisdom or traditional religions.
Though those are the roots.
This is about aligning everything from particles to universe.
It’s not a tool for personal healing.
Though that is what happens.
This is about becoming aware of what is.
It’s not about creating something new.
Though the insights are new.
What Longtime Practioners of the Wider Embraces Says
I love the practice so much, and it has been and continues to be transformational for me personally, bringing much more presence, awareness and ease into my being.
Wider Embraces merges the scientific realities of the cosmos with my spiritual grounding in the Christian faith. Participating gives me a sense of multi-dimensional connections with people, the planet, the cosmos, and ultimate reality.
In the Wider Embraces, I have found what I’ve been looking for. Taking the collective’s perspective is amazing and has given me a profound experience that I wish more people would get.
Taking perspectives of collectives and bigger wholes might be one of the things the World needs right now. With the Embraces, I am not stuck with the perspective of the small personal self.
As the Embrace of me, I am delighted to remember that my body is actually inside the embrace of me, and that I am much larger than my body. This contradicts my usual experience of being contained within my physical body, and it astonishes me every time.