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Author Archives: Helen White
About Helen White
Helen White is a professional artist and published writer with two primary blogs to her name. Her themes pivot around health and wellbeing, expanded consciousness and ways of noticing how life is a constant dance between the deeply subjective and the collective-universal, all of which she explores with a daily hunger to get to know herself better. Her blog Living Whole shines a light on living with high sensitivity, dealing with trauma and healing from chronic health issues. Spinning the Light is an extremely broad-based platform where she elucidates the everyday alchemy of relentless self-exploration. A lifetime of "feeling like an outsider" slowly emerged as neurodivergence (being a Highly Sensitive Person with ADHD, synaesthesia, sensory processing challenges and other defecits overlapping with giftedness). All of these topics are covered in her blogs, written from two distinct vantage points so, if you have enjoyed one of them, you may wish to explore the other for a different, yet entirely complimentary, perspective.The peril and the gift of feeling cut-loose
In these confusing times, I think a lot of us feel profoundly cut loose, without a moral or even logical framework by which to moduate our behaviours. Our culture is driven by compulsions of all kinds, mostly those that lead back to fear in all its disguises. If we were to dig to the roots of most of our behavours, we would discover some anxiety there, that if we didn’t do “this” then “that” would happens. Without the structures once provided from cradle to grave by religious belief and a far simpler construct of what life is all about, many feel lost and all at sea. So, what are our choices? How do we choose what next from our highest aspect? Continue reading →
Stopping to take a good look at ourselves (and noticing the anatomy of fear)
The fact that so many of us, perhaps all of us, get some sort of kick out of worrying, whether we notice this or not, is one of the most fascinating things of all. It explains a great deal about humanity, how we are driven, what motivates us, why we mess up (repeatedly) and seem to get stuck. What is it we get out of worrying? Taking a deep existential plunge into this topic… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged beyond fear, challenging status quo, fear anxiety worry, fear as motivator, meaning of life, Mindfulness, motivation, neurodiversity, new paradigm, positive disintegration, purpose, questioning beliefs
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Degrees of quietude
I’m less than a week back home from the longest holiday I had had for three years; a trip that headed me off in the direction of the setting sun, away from the noisy, overstimulating Thames Valley and about as … Continue reading →
Posted in Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged back to nature, electrohypersensitivity, electrosmog, highly sensitive person, life balance, nervous system recovery, noise and light pollution health, off-grid, overstimulation, sensory defensiveness, sensory overwhelm, sick building syndrome
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A place for introverts
If all they want is for us to keep on shifting the same old furniture of life around into different yet, ultimately, finite arrangements in an ever-repeating cycle then keeping us so busy, time-poor and obsessively preoccupied by each other is the way to go about it. But, if we want anything truly new to occur to us, the kind of breakthrough that shifts a paradigm, we need those who do far better left alone to be allowed to spend more time doing what they do, the way they do it, untampered with… Continue reading →
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Tagged abstraction, autism, creativity, equality for introverts, eye-contact, inclusiveness, introversion, introvert equality, introvert parenting, introvert relationships, introverted writer, masking neurodiverse traits, mirror neurones, need to be alone, needing time alone, neurodivergent, neurodiverse, new ideas, new paradigmn, non-conformity, outlier, paradigm shifters, quantum potential, recharging through solitude, self-advocacy, sensory sensitivity, thinking outside the box, universe within
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The way of the birds
Impossible to dwell anywhere but here and now when the birds are around. They call us back to this moment more efficiently than any reminder on some “app” designed to drag us away from our obsessions, our fixations and our ruminations (which I first mistyped “ruinations”…not far wrong!) Their antics and rhythms, their chatter and song keep us grounded in what really matters…so ironic, given they are born for the wing. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Gardens & gardening, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature
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Tagged appreciation, awareness, birds, chosing where to focus, Gilber White, gratitude, here and now, love of birds, paying attention, Selbourne, staying in the present moment, staying present, what is important
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Today is not the same as yesterday
Just as when a new era begins, some start to know it, others lag behind, fixated with “hard” evidence that all all remains exactly as it was before… Continue reading →
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Tagged change, changing seasons, creators, cycles of growth, earth emapth, energetic awareness, expansion, fresh start, highly sensitive person, hope, intiuition, Magic Faraway Tree, new paradigm, paradigm shift, possibility, rebirth, second-sense, sensitive child, spring, subtle energies, the shift, trusting intuition
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Who I really am (exploring “the dreamer”)
Sometimes, getting very close to where we are meant to be and yet still feeling as though we do not quite fit (telling ourselves its “good enough”) can be the richest learning territory of our lives. The very “rub” of things that that don’t feel quite right, so very close to home (which you can almost see through that white picket fence…but you can’t get quite get to it or move in) can vasty accelerate the self-development process… Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged being a writer, being an artist, being the dreamer, being yourself, clearing childhood entrainment out of personality perception, highly sensitive person, how to tell if you are INFP or INFJ, impact the world, INFP not INFJ, motivations, Myers-Briggs, new paradigm, no more making sacrifices, offering your uniqueness to the world, personal development quest, self-development tool, thriving as an INFP, using Myers-Briggs to empower your life, who I really am
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Power of now
When we “go unconscious”, we have momentarily stepped out of our natural inborn power because we have forgotten that now is all there is and got carried away by a story about how bad things have been or are going to be. So what happens when we cease doing that, what starts to shift? How about our whole paradigm. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Meditation, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged biology of belief, changing behaviours, going unconscious, healing, healing chronic conditions, healing with mindfulness, making positive shifts, paradigm shift, power of now, quantum potential, resetting others expectations, staying in the present moment, staying in the zone
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Gold where you are
Sometimes we don’t see gold for looking, or because we see what we expect to see, not what is actually there… Continue reading →
SLOWly easing into the New Year
“Rocket launch our lives” seems to be the definining energy of New year yet we all work so much better, more productively, when we do it to our own and Nature’s natural rhythms, which includes the circadian and circannual cycles. When we force ourselves out of Nature’s groves, we have to push ourselves so much harder…and our health always takes the toll, sooner or later. Burnout becomes near-inevitable but, more importantly, we often cut ourselves from our best gifts and most creative superpowers when we do this. Continue reading →
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Tagged avoiding burnout, back to work, better ways of working, beyond cultural entrainment, big picture thinking, cicannual cycle, circadian cycle, creativity, dialing into intuition, ease into the new year, flexiworking, in the flow, introversion, january, keeping creativity alive, life without pressure, make room for intuition, new paradigm, planting seeds, slow and steady, soverign way of being, stop rushing, stress reduction, work from home, work to our strengths
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