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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. A lifetime of "feeling outside" of mainstream...slowly emerging as Asperger's Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome plus a complex of co-morbid health challenges, being a confirmed Highly Sensitive Person and an INFJ personality type, not to mention born under an out of bounds moon (need I go on) fed into the creation of Living Whole; a self-exploratory blog fed by a wide angle lens tilted at "health and wellness" topics. Meanwhile, Spinning the Light is a free-for-all covering a multitude of playful and positive subjects about life in the broadest sense...written with a no-holds-barred approach. Needless to say, their subjects cross over quite often.Who or what are you holding yourself together for?
Who are you at your very core, are you well acquainted and comfortable together, does that part get heard and allowed regular expression and how often do you operate from that aspect of self, as priority…foundational to all else, as the source of your true identity and resilience? A post written for Living Whole which feels like it has so much relevance here that I am reposting. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged autism, Consciousness, core strength, dealing with the unconscious, health, inner resilience, motivation, needing to be needed, overwhelm, Personal Development, priorities, processing emotions, recovery, self-awareness, sense of self, who am I?
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Nature’s power hour
Daily opportunities to experience the rarified come our way but how often do we grab at the repeated chances we are offered? Exploring an everyday-gilded experience from my day during Nature’s power hour. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Meditation, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged back to nature, birdsong, blackbird, breaking out of conditioned behaviours, ciracdian cycles, dawn, dawn chorus, everyday magic, natural life rhythms, nature, new beginning, power hour, rarified experiences, recognising the signs of reboot, spring, straddling dimensions, time to wake up!, what would we do with our time if we knew it was short
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Choosing where to dwell
We have so many more choices than we tend to think; almost as though we like to consider ourselves stuck, tied up in rigid bands of constriction, “just like everyone else”, but simply allowing ourselves to realise we have many more…perhaps tiny-seeming…options available to us can be the start of manifesting something much bigger. Because those first baby steps of enthusiasm or belief in our ability to change something about our situation can be the first niche of light coming into the dark cave of circumstance and they resculpt our highly neuroplastic minds, which then start to go off on a light-seeking mission, gathering more daylight from anywhere they can find a little bit of give in life’s seeming rigidity or a higher frequency of possibility than the one you have probably been putting up with for some time. A bit like giving a sniffer dog its new instructions by holding out a miniscule sample of whatever we are looking for, it is enough to set the process in motion, as in, if we reprogram our minds to know shift is possible, it will bring more and more of the same potential back to us, over and over until we are experiencing something quite new. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Floral art, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Painting, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged change of perspective, change your life, changing habits, changing routines, early start, expanding time and space, health recovery, let it be, making positive changes, manifesting change, motivation, neuroplasticity, new beginning, Painting, resculpt your reality, The Gupta Program
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Peaks of joy
“The sense I get is, once this has progressed a little further, there will be so many pockets of space inside of me that, being no longer stuffed full of so much stored information, I will be at liberty to sit back and allow energy to flow freely in and out of them, the way the sea fills gullies and rock pools on the beach, leaving its subtle imprint yet so easy to flow out again, experienced by me as moments of inspiration and peaks of joy.” Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged autism, beyond competition, breaking out of the cultural entrainment, celebrating diversity, dance, daring to be yourself, expansiveness, expressiveness, joy, letting it all out, liberty, neurodiversity, neuroplasticity, new paradigm, shifting ages
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Cultivating joie de vivre
Joy of life is about the most valuable commodity we have so we need to take charge of our own joy quota and do whatever we can to embody it, not to idealise it as a state beyond all care, outside of physicality as though joy is what we refer to as heaven, but in a physical sense hung around with all our most human traits. Thus the phrase joie de vive has it covered for me, as in, referring specifically to “the joy of life”; a kind of joy that is because of life, not separate from it. People say how can I have this when “things” are so dire and I would say go after it, make it happen, yes from your soul, but then once you have found ways to bring it into your body, those outside circumstances will start to change! Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged 2021, age of aquarius, Aspergers, autism, benefits of dancing, bypassing the body, coping with overwhelm, covid, cultivating joy, disco, embodied joy, emotions in the body, enthusiasm, excitement, expression, exuberance, finding your frequency, grounding, highly sensitive person, inner child, intuition, joie de vive, law of attraction, listening to the body, Nine Waves of Creation, processing pain, survival, vagus nerve, valuing the body
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My word of the year is regeneration
The practice of choosing a word of the year has power because you spotlight and commit to it. When you veer off its path, you ask yourself why and you pull yourself back towards its steadying influence. You stay more aware of daily variances in belief system and come to recognise what is old patterning dragging you backwards, compared to what is new, opening doors of perception. More and more, you crave the latter and dismiss the former, under the auspices of this one guiding word. Continue reading →
Reframing success (and the universe always has a plan)
Redefining success as a woman, a parent, an individual: Am I finally prepared to own that I have had it all along, that every step of this journey speaks of (yes, unconventional) success in so many areas ready to be reappraised by our rapidly altering world paradigm, where many of us refuse to be defined or measured by what we “do” for a living. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged asperger's parent, Aspergers, autism, beyond a need for self-justification, beyond definition, breaking free of societal judgement, broken belief systems, bullying, diversity, gratitude journal, hands-on parenting, I am not what I do, motherhood re-examined, mothers and daughters, neurodiverse, new paradigm, not defined by a job, power of gratitude, power of journalling, reviewing parental priorities, schooling system questioned, social challenges, stay at home parenting, the feminism of choice, the universe has a plan, we are all unique, when health issues define us
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We still have a lot to learn
For too long, and pushing harder each year, the schooling machine has been whipping our kids through an examination-driven system more like the Grand National than an academy of life, geared at expelling productive economic units more so than rounded or wise individuals poised to conduct lives that contribute to the health of humanity and the planet. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Culture, ecology, Environment, Health & wellbeing, In the news, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged 2021, beyondexams, covid, covid and schooling, diversity, education, exams, left and right hemispheres, lessons in life, school system, schooling, teaching, vocation, whatcanwelearn
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All connected: navigating the tricky, sticky first experiences of realising our collective oneness
It’s never been more apparent that we are one giant organism…as connected as we have been made to feel disparate and separate. Ironically, though we seem even more separate than ever before, we are only proving this truism to ourselves and each other MORE right now, by feeling these awarenesses stirring in our own cells, often quite uncomfortably at first…and especially so during a dam-buster event such as New Year’s eve when all our boundaries come crashing down under the barrage of collective emotions. So, what now and how do we use this understanding to fuel a whole new collective momentum, towards a more positive state of affairs, in 2021 and beyond? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged 2021, all in this together, all related, awareness, bethechange, change of attitude, clairsentience, dealing with being an empath at new year, determination, empath, feeling the collective pain, higher consciousness, highly sensitive, hope, letsdothis, new beginning, oneness, optimism, rebirth, second chance, turning the page
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On a golden flightpath
Was it a coincidence…this thing I had focussed on so concertedly for weeks in early 2020 manifested as a theme of the year? A flash of golden end of year insight for New Year. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art transformation tool, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged 2020, arrival of higher frequencies, art, birds, fifth dimension, golden reality, goldfinches, intention setting, manifesting, New Year, new year 2021, optimism, positivity, power of positive thought
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