The Art of Kokology
Journeys that reveal the shape of your mind.
From the Japanese art of kokology: imagination quizzes and guided daydreams with a few simple choices. Picture a scene, and meet the part of you that painted it.
All journeys
Choose a mirror to step into
Guided journeys
imagine a scene · we reveal the mirror
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Guided journeys
The Cube
Picture a cube, a ladder, a horse, a storm, gentle metaphors for your self, your loves, and your worries.
Guided journeys
A Walk in the Woods
Wander a forest path and meet a companion, an animal, a house, a stream, a mirror of your closest bonds and how you love.
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The Rosebush
Become a rosebush in a garden, your thorns, your roots, who tends you, a quiet look at how you protect and ground yourself.
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The Forest
A darker walk: a path, a key, a bear, a wall, desire, fear, and the unknown. Atmospheric and deep, with a gentler edit if you'd rather.
Guided journeys
The White Room
A short one: a colour, an animal, a stretch of water, an empty white room, quick, playful, and a little uncanny.
Guided journeys
The Kokology Library
A rotating set of tiny vignettes, a blue bird, a clear sky, a house in a clearing, each isolating one corner of who you are.
How you love
the relationship journeys
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The Far Shore
How you cross toward the people you love, and what you do with the distance between. A dusk-lit walk to the far bank.
How you love
The Five Gifts
An evening's homecoming for someone you love, and which of the five ways of loving is most your own.
How you love
The Three Flames
Bring one bond to mind, and watch three flames on the hearth, which kind of love burns brightest in you for this person.
How you love
The Weather Between Two Houses
A disagreement gathers like weather over two houses, and how you move through the wind names how you handle conflict.
How you love
The Cracked Bowl
A bowl you once held together has cracked, and how you'd most want it mended says how you repair after a rift.
How you love
The Narrow Bridge
A path too slim for two, and someone already coming the other way, what you do at the meeting names how you give and hold ground.
How you love
A Walk in the Woods · Couples
Take it together, then see how each of you imagined the same woods.
Who you are
the take-it-seriously set
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The Lantern Road
The famous four-letter type, walked instead of quizzed, one lantern, one road from dusk to dawn, and the traveller you turn out to be.
Who you are
The Lantern Path
Built on the Big Five, the model psychologists actually trust, walked as five flames kindled along a path, not a quiz.
Who you are
The House of Nine Rooms
An old house at dusk with nine rooms; the way you move through it reveals your core drive, nine fears, nine desires.
Who you are
The Hour of Four Fires
Four fires at dusk; how you tend them names your temperament, and the second flame you carry with it.
Who you are
The Twelve Masks
A wall of masks in the lantern-smoke, twelve old ways of meeting the world, and the archetype your hand reaches for.
What you do
the work that fits youValues & meaning
what you prize, and what drives you
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Values & meaning
The Ten Banners
Ten coloured banners against a darkening sky, and you may carry only a few, which values you lift names what you most prize.
Values & meaning
The Four Doors of the Morning
Four doors onto the same working hours, each a different reason to begin, and the one you open names what drives you.
Inner world & coping
how you meet your own weather
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Inner world & coping
The Storm Off the Water
A weather front rolls in toward the house that is you, and what you do as the sky darkens names how you meet a hard feeling.
Inner world & coping
The Council Within
A round table inside you where the chairs are full, the scolding voice, the soothing one, and which you let speak first.
Inner world & coping
The Childhood Chair
A kitchen at dusk and the old family settling into its old shapes, the seat you take names the role you quietly learned.
Loss & tenderness
sitting with what’s goneTold stories
old parables, gently retold · no moral attached
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Stories
The Empty Boat
A boat bumps yours on the river, and the anger drains away the moment you see no one is aboard.
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The Farmer's Luck
The farmer's horse runs off, then returns with others, good luck, bad luck, and no way yet to know which.
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The Second Arrow
The first arrow is the pain life sends. The second, the one that truly wounds, we fire ourselves.
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Two Monks and the River
One monk carries a stranger across the water and sets her down. The other carries her all day in his mind.
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The Cookie Thief
A traveller fumes at the stranger eating her biscuits, until she opens her bag and finds her own, untouched.
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The Kind Stranger
You meet someone on the road carrying your exact burden, and find you're far kinder to them than to yourself.
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The Cracked Pot
A cracked pot grieves all it leaks, never noticing the flowers it has watered the whole way home.
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The Starfish
Thousands lie stranded on the shore; one child throws them back, one by one. “It mattered to that one.”
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The Two Wolves
Two wolves war inside you, the elder says, and the one that wins is the one you choose to feed.
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The Fisherman
A fisherman naps in the sun. A stranger explains how he might build an empire, to end up, one day, napping in the sun.
Daily
a two-minute visit each eveningSteadying practices
gentle, therapy-informed daydreams for the everyday · coming soon
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Steadying practice
One Small Light
Picture one small, kind thing you could do tomorrow, and watch yourself doing it. A gentle step back toward what lifts you.
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Leaves on the Stream
Sit by slow water and set each busy thought on a leaf to drift away, practising the quiet art of unhooking from your own mind.
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The Watchtower
Watch your thoughts pass like weather from a quiet tower, close enough to see, far enough not to be swept up.
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A Kinder Voice
Meet yourself the way you'd meet a dear friend, offering the warmth you give so easily to everyone but you.
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Your Best Possible Day
Imagine an ordinary day, a while from now, going quietly well. A warm, well-studied lift for heavy moods.
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The Compass
Stand at a still crossroads and feel which way is truly yours, naming what matters most beneath the noise.
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Setting Down the Day
An evening ritual: park tomorrow's worries in a box by the door and let the body soften toward sleep.
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The Second Look
Catch one heavy thought and turn it slowly in the light, finding the gentler angles it was hiding.
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The Unsent Letter
Compose, in your mind, the warm and honest thing you've meant to say to someone, and rehearse the kindness.
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Two Roads
Sit with a change you only half-want. Walk a little way down each road and notice which one pulls.
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The Still Room
Build a calm room in your mind you can step into any time the day grows loud.
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Room to Breathe
A slow, steady breath to settle a racing chest: a soft draw in, a small hold, a long release.
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Cope Ahead
Picture a moment you're dreading, then rehearse yourself moving through it calmly, step by step, so it feels known when it comes.
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The Five Senses
Soothe a frayed moment slowly through each sense: a warmth, a sound, a scent, a taste, a soft thing to hold.
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Wise Mind
Sink beneath the tug-of-war of feeling and logic to the still, knowing centre where the two of them meet.
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Turning the Tide
When an urge pulls you the wrong way, imagine gently doing its opposite, and watch the feeling loosen its grip.
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Radical Acceptance
Set down the fight with something you cannot change, and feel how much lighter your hands become.
A mirror, not a fortune teller. Everything here is for a quiet moment of reflection, never a diagnosis.