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About Helen White
Helen White is a full-time professional artist (painting moments of everyday radiance in oil on canvas), a photographer, fabric designer and published writer with several blogs, on various topics, to her name. Light on Art is her art-related blog sharing recent artworks and inspiration.Living Your Whole Life is a health and lifestyle blog sharing all the many highlights of learning how to transform your health and wellbeing (spiralling out of ten years recovering from fibromyalgia). Spinning the Light is a very broad-based platform of self-discovery where she explores the everyday alchemy that is available to all beings just as soon as they open up to life's fullest potential.Helen White Photography is a portal for sharing her Fine Art photographs which are available as Limited Edition prints.Pearls of wisdom
Posted on October 13, 2017
When women get together doing what they love, especially crafts that bring them together into easy community with other women, and for no other reason than they relish doing it, the “accidental” results catalysed by this can be incredibly powerful. Not all of us want to become game changers in a really big or public way and its just so important to remember that we are trembling the earth with profound and much-needed currents of change even as we pursue interests that seem to have no overt effect beyond ourselves or our small circle. We are singing the song of the feminine, demonstrating what it is to have roots again, giving ourselves and others permission to do likewise and being that agent of change at the level where it really happens…at the grassroots of the extremely ordinary. And if we happen to inspire others along the way then good…but its not, directly, why we do it. That is the whole point; our focus is stepped away from that terribly masculine urge to roll everything our like it is some sort of strategy or means to an end. We hold space for doing what is already complete “as it is”; for it brings us such profound joy in connection with where we are in this moment. Nothing disperses anxiety or fear more quickly than spending time in such a place; and this ripples out to our families, our communities and so the world at large. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Craft & design, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged changing the world through ordinary activities, coming out of solitude, contributing to a better future for all, craft, doing things for their own sake, everyday transformation, follow your bliss, grassroots goddess, knitting, needlepoint, sacred feminine, spining, taking part in the world, tapestry, transformation through craft, why craft circles are game-changers, why we do things, women in community, women's circles, wool craft
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Wanting more
Posted on October 11, 2017
When did we make it so wrong to want more? My own discontentment seems to eat me, eat at my life; there’s no settling any more, frustration bites at my heels. Like a cat on a hot tin roof, I hop from foot to foot, barely knowing what I want but wanting something.
This thing was always there, I realise; only it was holed up in a prison cell of sorts, like a wild animal in a cage in my dungeon. So all the time I was telling myself that I’m being ever-so humble, grateful and contented I was really wanting more than I ever said. For many women, it comes up like a guilty secret to start with and then you realise that all the little things were only ever attached to the bigger things; wanting more for the planet, for its people, for it all…especially the earth, that love of your life. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged allowing ourselves to want, changing the world, crone, divine feminine, female frustration, fire of transformation, heat, kundalini rising, lioness, menopause fire, phoenix, pitta, rising heat, sacred feminine, unleashing the goddess, vata, wild woman, woman power, women awakening, women rising
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Putting our hands together…for all of us
Posted on October 6, 2017
I feel like I have spent an entire lifetime studying the phenomenon of healing the rift between left and right hemispheres and I study it still; in constant awe of the unrealised heights of cohesion and joy that seem to be available when we just keep pushing the union further. There is something orgasmic about reaching that single point of collaboration; which is exactly what orgasm is…a meeting place of body and spirit. You could say, an experience that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Such an experience should be all the enticement it takes so why are we, often, so far off from the mark; as though we have developed chronic amnesia or had the remembrance of wholeness trained out of us by something that had more chaotic intentions in mind. When we are motivated to seek this union-point across all of our skills and activities, our daily lives, careers, our societal, political and global affairs, we will all reach that delirium of a single focus together; reached by collaborative means that make all our diverse gifts, leanings and priorities equally useful to the mix. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Personal Development, Yoga
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Tagged ambidextrous, art, dance, heal the world, orgasm, using both hands together, using left and right hands together, value of learning an instrument, why we should all want to balance the world, yoga
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Extreme light…extreme dark
Posted on October 2, 2017
To survive these contrasty times, perhaps we’ve got to regard things more like we would cloud shadows passing over a sun-drenched mountain. We let those darker shapes pass by very quickly, not investing in their darkness. They are not the whole picture…they are just part of the whole, as are moments of extreme radiance that quickly follow. We can’t afford to tip over in despair…not if we are going to be the ones to tip the balance towards the light. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged dealing with bad news, evolution, faith in the future, keeping out of fear, light and dark, new world paradigm, ninth wave, optimism, self-love, sensitive people, world affairs, yin and yang
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Blazing a trail along an alternate path
Posted on October 2, 2017
…So why not open to your instincts and let your feminine impulses be your guide, then you too can walk a softer path through so-called chaos; wherever you happen to be. Blaze your trail through it. Dare to unfurl your full stature there. Read all the subtle clues like the pro that you are. Remember who you already are in those places; that these are already your pathways. That there is no need to hide. And don’t forget to slip your shoes off and feel into where you are from your very roots, allowing that feeling to swell and grow upwards to the ceaseless light shining from your crown. For you may be surprised at the sheer power of the affirmative you receive for this simple act of reconnection with the surface of the earth in places that at one time always seemed to turn you away. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged ancient sites, Arthurian legend London, carving a different path, circular churches, coming out of hiding, Deva Premal, earthstar grid London, Elen of the Ways, Excaliber, feeling safe, finding a way through chaos, giving the feminine voice, goddess Diana, goddess Helen, green spaces in cities, guardian of the wells, holy wells of London, how the feminine was silenced in our cities, keeping out of fear, Knights Templar, ley lines, London's ley lines, London's parks, long straight paths, Old Pol's Stone, return of sacred feminine, River Fleet, sacred rivers, Saint Helen's church, sarsen stone, sovereignty, standing stone London, stone circles, Temple Church, the sword and the stone, Union Chapel Islington, yin and yang
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On track for non-duality: healing the rift by walking its path
Posted on September 29, 2017
This post is a long and winding path but I invite you to join me on it. Along the way, I stitch together so many observational threads about the feminine as guardian of “the long straight path” and where we are all headed in a world that is venturing beyond duality. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Leylines, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged ancient routes, are cities all the same now?, ayurveda, Belinu, Belinus Line, borders, Carl Johan Calleman, Carmino de Santiago, divine feminine, dragon lines, east and west, electro-sensitivity, Elen of the Ways, evolution, female, feminine solutions for the world, following clues, following intuition, gaining the overview, getting out of fear mindset, goddess wisdom, healing ourselves, healing rifts, healing the rift between male and female, healing the world, left and right hemispheres, listening to instinct, long straight path, Mabinogion, metaphor, Naturno, Naturns, ninth wave, oneness, openness and connection, sacred feminine, Saint Proculus Church Naturns, Sarn Helen, sovereignty, stop trying to conquor nature, synchronicity, the journey more than the destination, the journey of life, The Nine Waves of Creation, transformational effect of mountains, transformational journeys, twelth degree longitude, Tyrol, unity consciousness, vata spacial-awareness, walking meditation, Way of Saint James, where are we headed?
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The feminine has landed…so how do we induce her to stay?
Posted on September 24, 2017
…As the feminine learns to dare to take down her blockade and end her long denial of her own natural receptivity (having fully reactivated the divine integrity that keeps her perpetually intact from within), the male learns how much more fulfilling it is to give (not force) and how to enjoy holding something like a tender embrace (not an imprisonment or statement of ownership) once again. And as the feminine deigns to come into this arrangement, wanting to stay, to receive, to be offered the structures in which she can be her most playful and unlimited self, we all get to experience wholeness…together. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ayurveda, divine guidance, doshas, eighth wave, Eve, feminism, heal the world, healing the masculine, healing women, kundalini, living goddess, male and female realtionship, mid-life thriving, ninth wave, pitta, pudendal nerve, receptivity, return of the goddess, root chakra, sacred feminine, shakti, trust, unity consciousness, vata, vulnerability, wholeness, woman wisdom, women and shame, yin-yang
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Who we are in the backwash
Posted on September 18, 2017
Sometimes its as though the flow of universe pulls back abruptly, like when a river or beach is suddenly left bereft of water and we get to see all the unsightly debris of life strewn on the bottom. These moment of so-called flatness, the aftermath of something else more lively, times when there is no wind left to propel our boat, periods when we might doubt our very purpose or our point (though really we are the point) present as a golden opportunity for self-realisation and growth. Like a life-review…a pit stop…time to reappraise. When we work with these times (rather than covering our eyes, going into fear, trying to fill the void with even more cycles of busyness), we get closer to experiencing a place recognisable more by its inherent stillness than by its sense of movement…and in that place, we find ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather
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Tagged anticlimax, authenticity, being true to yourself, ecology, feeling good, feeling good about your life, Life choices, life review, living in ease, metaphor for life, peace of mind, shedding the meaningless trappings of life, solar wind, Stillness, taking care of our oceans, taking responsibility for choices, taking stock of life, when life goes quiet, who am I?, wind out of our sails, zen
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A sweeter way to be
Posted on September 15, 2017
Discovering this incredible, natural food source ethically and sustainably harvested in the jungles of Africa by people whose practices are gentle and whose lives have been tranformed (a food which felt like it was transforming my health) prompted me to consider many layers of broader relevance. I considered how we look forward to the future and what practices we use, for instance how we marry the best of traditional and modern methods (not always bowing to the latter…), how we take the quality of life of those producing the product into account and how their personal attributes (especially where this involves handling living things) feeds into the quality and the vibration of that product. Above all, there is something to be learned about how the sweetest and most nutritious things tend to come out of practices that involve the least interference, and bully tactics, of man. This approach to “harvesting” anything feeds into its energetic imprint when it reaches our cells as we eat it; you can literally taste the difference. When we snatch and grab at what we think is ours, the food tells a very different story… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Shopping, Vegetarianism
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Tagged bees, collaboration, ecology, good sugars, healthy food, honey, how the way we produce food affects its health benefits, organic food, sustainable farming methods, the future of food production, the way we produce food, traditional bee keeping, tropical forest honey, vata dosha, vata-pacifying diet, vegan, vibration of food
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Growing up
Posted on September 14, 2017
The astonishing aroma from these giant trees, straight after the storms, acted like an acute sensory hit or an activation of sorts and it turned out they had a great deal to tell me… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, History, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged Ayureveda, chakras, coming of age, doshas, earth's resources, giant redwood, giant sequoias, grounding, maturity, oneness, thriving as spiritual humans, tree wisdom, trees, unity consciousness, weathering the storm, Wellingtonia Avenue, what trees teach us, working together
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