In this episode I am joined with Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir who is an Icelandic author, speaker, sustainability leader and film maker of InnSæiI came across Hrund and her work 6 years ago after watching the documentary InnSaei. It changed the course I was on, it was the first time I had heard the words for something I had been feeling and seen the science behind something that sounded so intangible- intuition. I watched it at a time where I was beggining to understand more about consciousness, nature and what goes beyond the physical.Hrund spoke about how she came across the word InnSæi and what it means which turns out to be an Icelantic word that stands for the sea with, to see with and to see from the inside out. 'The sea within' refers to the borderless nature of our inner world and that if we put the sea within in boxes it would cease to flow. ‘To see within’ means to know yourself, and well enough to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes. And lastly ‘to see from the inside out’ which is to use your inner compass as a way to nagivate and direct you. On the podcast we spoke about what happens when we are on autopilot and when we switch that off and go back into the body we can allow the world to come to us. We delve in to attention and how valuable it is as a resource it is something that artists and creatives harness well as well as what it means to be attuned to yourself and the workd around you.A practice she mentions is to ‘pay attention to what you’re paying attention to’A recent TED talk will be available soon to watch, her book is available here and InnSæi Documentary trailer here as well as website with more information on some of the incredible work she is doing. A piece I drew that reflected ‘to see from the inside out’

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