My business wasn’t always just me; my site wasn’t always just myname.com. I spent most of my years offering Akashic Services under a brand name. While for the majority of the last decade it has been ‘SuperKonscious’, for the first 2 years of its life it was named ‘Quantum Kintsukuroi’.

I knew I was possibly treading into difficult territory naming my business this way, but I was (and still am) in love with the word Kintsukuroi and everything it stands for and was truly hoping it would catch on. Since the focus of most of my work is the energetic/quantum terrain ‘Quantum Kintsukuroi’ rang like perfection in my ears.

However, evidently, not everyone loves a funky word quite as much as I do, and it soon became apparent that it was time for a name change. But, while the QK name has long been a thing of the past, at the heart of the work the philosophy has always remained the same.

My approach to your soul work still mirrors an art form of pottery reparation.

For those of you who have asked about my philosophy behind this work, and the many (many) of you who have asked what on earth Kintsukuroi means… this one’s for you:

So… What does Kintsukuroi mean?

Imagine a broken bowl lying in pieces on the floor, a shadow of what it once was.

…Grab your imagination for a moment…. What do you do with it?

If you haven’t already hypothetically immediately swept up the pieces and thrown it away, you may be thinking of how to salvage it for future use. You could fix it with glue, scrambling those pieces back together in an attempt to recreate your beloved structure back to its former glory but you know it’ll never be the same. Sure, you can still use it (of course you wouldn’t give it to a guest), but its place has become bottom of the pecking order as far as your bowl collection is concerned.

Unless you’re in Japan…

Your approach to your bowl dilemma may be handled very differently.

Kintsukuroi (keen-tsoo-koo-roy) is a Japanese art form employed in repairing broken pottery. In this practice the pieces are assembled in the usual fashion but there’s no attempt to hide the cracks and pretend the ‘incident’ never happened. With Kintsukuroi the pieces are put back together with gold lacquer and the beautiful golden lines/seams become part of the new unique identity of the once scar-free item.

The Kintsukuroi Philosophy

The belief with Kintsukuroi is that the piece now holds more value, more beauty, and more original unique identity than it ever had before. The ‘imperfections’ seen by most are seen as experiences to be celebrated through the eyes of the Kintsukuroi master.

And it’s likely one of the first things those guests get to see too.

As a philosophy, fragility, and resilience are traits to be recognized as beautiful, and breakage and repair are simply part of a ‘story to glory’, not something to be ignored nor disguised, and definitely not something to be viewed solely as destruction without the accompanying celebrated reconstruction.

Human Kintsukuroi

I believe the same to be true with both human character and the nature of our Soul and that this exact philosophy employed when restoring broken pottery should be applied to the way we approach psychological and spiritual development in our human lives.

All too often we try to hide our scars, our ‘flaws’, our differences. We try to pick ourselves up after every unfortunate incident we create throughout our life, gather up our chipped pieces, throw on some glue and try to move forward as though it never happened. 

Worse, we feel somewhat diminished because of it. We put ourselves at the bottom of the selection and carry that exact sentiment of being a shadow of our former selves.

We don’t always value the experiences we have accrued along the way.

We don’t celebrate what we have become as a result of all those times we have been dropped on our metaphorical kitchen floor. We don’t look at ourselves as unique and beautiful people, made only more awe-inspiring as a result of what we’ve been through.

Too often we simply try to be the same bowl as everyone else, despite the fact that who we are, our story, our history, and what got us to this point is so entirely unique to us.

Loving your breakage

In everything you’ve ever been through, your soul has had the opportunity to experience itself; to learn, to grow, to be human, to become more aware of itself. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ exist only in your human interpretation of the events. Celebrate every aspect of your journey so far; it has shaped your understanding of yourself and shaped who you have become.

Kintsukuroi Healing

When on the path of getting to know your true self and healing past traumas, you’re really seeking to know which shape you can take to feel most like yourself, and most ‘complete’. How did the bowl look before the incidents? Which pieces of your nature ‘broke’ and in which way and why? Why did you even fall to the floor to begin with? Which pieces are still not reassembled? Which pieces were put back incorrectly? Where have you simply thrown on some glue and hoped for the best?

Through healing and spiritual/self-development work, you are working to realign those pieces and heal those ‘cracks’ to assist you in becoming the best version of yourself.

But, just like the broken bowl, you won’t be restored to a new ‘clean slate’, you’ll become something more unique, more powerful, more you.

Important: Let me just state for the record; you are not ‘broken’ before doing this kind of work and will not be ‘incomplete’ should you choose not to walk this path; you are always perfect and let that be known. Sometimes choices are made that take you away from your own true nature but that does not make it ‘wrong’; experiencing life as a vase for a bowl is still an experience!

However, should you choose to embark on the journey of true self-discovery then some of those misaligned energetic pieces will need to be shuffled around a bit.

My philosophy with this work is that in the process of realigning yourself and your energy, you come to value and appreciate the experiences and choices you have made along the way. You have learned so much about who you are as a result of your choices and consequences. Sure, they may have taken you away from yourself a little, but they’ve also given you so much insight about your own nature that you should never wish for these incidents to have not occurred. Nor should you feel the need to disguise or cover-up these choices and experiences so as not to portray a ‘less-than-perfect’ image.

We are what we are now because of our choices.

We should never wish to go back to our former state of no experience.

As we begin the process of re-aligning and rebuilding ourselves, we become stronger, we become more aware, be become an ultra-empowered version of our true selves.

We Kintsukuroi ourselves.

(Try telling me you don’t love the word now. I choose not to believe you.)