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Category Archives: Consciousness & evolution
Developing conscious awareness and encouraging self-evolution through meditation and other practices.
The magic of snow
A walk in the snow when snow is so rare, thus gilded by the brushstrokes of relative unfamiliarity, can take you out of yourself and remind you of currents of experience outside of the sequential… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development, Seasons, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, experience across time, magical walk, multiple timelines, mystical, non-linearity, not expecting anything particular, outside of time, reincarnation, removing experience filters, seeing beyond the ordinary, sensory experiences, sixth sense, snow, softening effect of snow, synesthesia, time portal, woodland
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How we encourage empathy…and not just in women
In a world full of people that are, we are told, less empathic than ever, how do we encourage more empathy? Do women naturally have more empathy than men, as one study suggests, or do they develop this by reading more fiction, something which men are far less inclined to do? If so, how do we plug this gap in our boy’s emotional intelligence? An article (linked) that I read this week set me off on this line of thought and these are some additional thoughts I have to contribute… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Entertainment, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged alternative lifestyles, caring about other people, emotional intelligence, Empathy, heforshe, lifetsyle vloggers, respecting different cultures, teaching kids empathy, who reads fiction anymore, women read more than men, yawning
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If you could pick just one word…
Choosing a word for the year ahead can be powerful process…or, perhaps, if you invite it in, it may choose you…as I discovered! Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged claiming freedom, coping with limitations, coping with longterm illness, empath, empowerment, freedom from traumatic information, freedom of choice, freedom to be who you are, freedom to say no, I am enough, journalling, joy as a guidance system, liberty, Mindfulness, new years resolution, new years word, positive attitude to chronic health, positivitiy, synesthesia, the freedom to be joyful, the freedom to choose freedom, what is freedom
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We each drink from our own cup
Scour the internet and you will find King Arthur being claimed by the English, the Welsh, the Scots, even by the Breton. My feeling is that legends such as Arthur and Camelot and, yes, Elen of the Ways, defy geographical placement; quite by design, and there seems to be a self-sabotaging tripwire involved when you try to get your brain involved in order to prove a location, which gets quite close to demanding “ownership”. When we do this, in my experience, its like the portculis clamps shut and you are left outside in the cold of your own deeper experience for having pushed so hard out of a desire to nail something in “fact”. The trick is to enjoy the experience…whatever the enlightening experience is…without having to own or label it.
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ancient sites, camelot, cup that never runs dry, did Camelot really exist, Elen of the Ways, grail knights, grail legend, holy grail, holy union, iona, King Arthur, Maid Marion & Robin Hood, Mary Magdelene and Yeshua, mother earth, paths of gold, purpose of legends, sacred union, the point of ancient legend in modern life, torus, was Arthur english, was Arthur scottish, was Arthur welsh, wholeness, why do we seek proof of everything, yellow brick road, yin and yang
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Three winged tales for the year end
I’m going to share a trio of stories from my last day of the year; things that happened quite organically, though there seems to be a distinct thread of bird-magic running through them. The first relates to a new artwork … Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged birds, chronic pain, digital art process metaphor for life, emotions, experience filters, feeling too much, highly sensitive, metaphor, nervous system, owls, self understanding, taking off, understanding life
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How about women taking back the reins of their own evolution
New Year is coming so, before you sign up for YET another new “spiritual” self-improvement (or any other kind of) program, consider these thoughts from a couple of valuable women writers and a few of my own…And take pause to consider why do you even need some sort of authority figure to guide you to where you want to go next; isn’t it time that became the very next belief system that you throw in the shredding machine ready to fully explore the inner guru that you already are? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged disempowerment, empowerment, female lifestyle, joy, new years's resolutions, patriarchal structures, self-improvement, self-love, sexy successful spiritual women, spiritual businesses, spiritual programs, when females undermine feminism
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When “Rudolf” was a woman…
Rudolf was probably a girl (the biggest, strongest reindeer are females who, unlike the males, don’t shed their antlers in winter)…Santa too (it was the female shamans who originally wore red and white costumes trimmed with fur, horned headdresses or … Continue reading →
Posted in Christmas, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged Christmas, Elen of the Ways, female culture, goddess, matriarchy, reindeer, rudolf, sacred feminine, santa, seasonal celebrations, shamanic flight, shamanism, sun goddess, winter solstice
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Christmas wierdness
“There are many things I love about christmas and yet, I never understood why I could ALSO feel so alone at times on Christmas Day. It didn’t make sense, but it would happen to me, year after year. I have … Continue reading →
Speaking out for each other
Whatever “story” is making you heart weep right now, be it the ecosystem, treatment of animals or of people (there’s a lot to choose from…), I say to you, don’t run away from it but take steps to be active in it; taking POSITIVE action, which is being your light in an earthly sense and in ways that don’t deplete but invest you in your humanness. That’s what I am doing here, with this story to share…asking for your help. When we all work together, fuelled by the heart, extraordinary things can happen… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Environment, Health & wellbeing, In the news, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged ancient memories, dealing with harsh reality, ecosystem disaster, Ellen of the ways, environment, green, grounding in nature, healing lancscape, healing the goddess, healing the masculine aspect, heart-centred, how to be spiritual in a painful world, Jonna Jinton, lifestyle vlog, living goddess, low-frequency pollution, off-grid living, oneness, planet under threat, power of vlogging, rural community, scandinavia, soul, sustainability, sweden, Swedish kulning, traditional way of life, vlogging culture, we are one, wind turbines health issues
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Dissolving barbed wire
‘The global atrocity of eating animals and wearing animal skins is responsible for the mass murder of more than 150 billion innocent animals annually. If you added up all the humans who have been enslaved, and murdered since the beginning … Continue reading →
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Tagged animal activism, animal rights, awakening, awareness, carnism, compassion, ending bloodshed, freedom, Gary Youofsky, holocaust, love, philip wollen, sentience, slaughter, speciesism, vegan art, veganism
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