MIND MATTER ALT
Design your space around the life you want to live.
Personal space advisory, neuroaesthetics and intentional living.
We build our spaces. Our spaces build us.
What is Mind Matter Alt?
Mind. Matter. Alt.
Our environments aren’t simply backgrounds to our lives.
They’re where we think, work, rest, connect, create and grow.
Mind Matter Alt explores how the spaces around us influence everyday experience—and how thoughtful alternatives can help us create environments that better support who we are and how we want to live.
You don’t always need to change everything.
Sometimes, you just need an ALT.
Notice. Clarify. Align.
The journey
Meaningful change begins with awareness. From understanding your present environment to envisioning your future and creating spaces that support it, Mind Matter Alt offers a thoughtful path from intention to action.
- 01 —
Notice.
The ALT Audit
Begin by observing your relationship with your environment. Discover what supports your everyday life, where friction exists, and how small, intentional changes can create meaningful shifts.
Explore the ALT Audit → - 02 —
Clarify.
ENVISION — Design Your Mind
Before you design the room, design the direction. Explore your values, aspirations, identity, and personal vision. Clarify the life you want to create before considering how your environment can support it.
Explore ENVISION → - 03 —
Align.
The SOUL Method™
Bring awareness and intention into alignment with your environment. Through the SOUL Method and personalized SOUL Space Sessions, explore how your surroundings can better support your needs, routines, and desired way of living.
Explore the SOUL Method →
Work with me
The SOUL Space Session
A personalized Mind + Space advisory experience.
Your space should support the life you’re living—and the life you’re creating.
A one-on-one experience designed to help you look at your environment through a different lens.
Together, we’ll explore how your space currently functions, how it feels to you, what may be creating friction and what thoughtful changes could make a meaningful difference.
- 01Personal intake and environmental goals
- 02Guided one-on-one advisory session
- 03SOUL-informed assessment
- 04Personalized ALT recommendations
- 05Concise action plan and follow-up guidance
Free resource
Find your ALT.
The ALT Audit — Mind + Space Reset
A free, self-guided experience designed to help you identify what you need, notice how your environment feels, recognize potential friction and experiment with one small alternative.
Get the free ALT Audit →
The framework
The SOUL Method
A framework for designing spaces that support the way you want to live.
- 01S
Space & Stability
Comfort, boundaries, flow and support.
- 02O
Order & Optimization
Clarity, functionality and reduced friction.
- 03U
Uplift & Unity
Identity, beauty, meaning and connection.
- 04L
Light & Lifestyle
Light, rhythms, rituals and restoration.
The SOUL Method invites us to look beyond how a space appears and consider how it supports everyday life.
It isn’t about achieving a perfect room. It’s about noticing, understanding and designing more intentionally.
Explore the SOUL Method →
M+A AI Space Audit · In development
What if your space could help you see what’s possible?
The planned experience will combine a room photograph, individual goals and SOUL-informed guidance to suggest personalized environmental alternatives.
SEE MY ALT — a future visualization of proposed changes using your actual space.
AI assessments are not currently available to the public.
Get updates →Future resources
Explore more
In development
ENVISION
Design Your Mind. Clarify your vision, values and future direction.
Explore ENVISION →Coming soon
SOUL Reset Guides
Room-specific tools for intentional living.
In development
The SOUL Method Book
A future exploration of the philosophy and practical framework.
Future editorial series
Mind × Matter Conversations
Conversations at the intersection of mind, space, design + human experience.
A future interview series with voices from neuroaesthetics, neurospatial design, architecture, environmental psychology and the built environment. Amanda Kingsbury explores the evolving intersection of neuroaesthetics, neurospatial design, and human experience through curiosity, collaboration with experts, and a commitment to continuous learning.
MIND. SPACE. SELF.
Three points. One evolving conversation.
Be part of the conversation →Amanda Kingsbury
Meet the founder.
Amanda Kingsbury is an interior designer, design professional and founder of Mind Matter Alt.
With a background in sustainable interior design and extensive experience in architectural materials and the built environment, Amanda has spent her career immersed in the spaces, materials and design decisions that shape how people live, work and experience their surroundings.
Mind Matter Alt brings this experience together with her ongoing exploration of neuroaesthetics, neurospatial design and environmental psychology.
Her approach begins with a question:
How can we design our environments to better support who we are, how we want to feel and where we’re going?
Stay connected.
Ideas, tools, conversations and thoughtful alternatives for the spaces we inhabit.
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