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Category Archives: Health & wellbeing
He/she/they
There is a collared dove living in our garden, we call her/him “Bob” and we love him/her with a vengeance. Really, there is a pair of doves because they were, and are again, a couple, though only one is ever … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged beyond gender, collared doves, dispensing with labels, dispensing with pronouns, essence, garden birds, gender, labels, love, love for birds, love for others, nesting, pronouns, relationship with birds, unconditional love, unity consciousness, what pronouns do you use?
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Coming home
Where are my edges, where does my sense of self stop and other begin? What feel like the non-negotiable boundaries required in order for me to feel safe and how does modern life or the demands of my work encroach on that? How did the quieter life of the past year make me feel (better or worse; some introverts have thrived)? What does that say about my desire to keep working/living the way I used to before lockdown? What are my true priorities in life and what do those say about where I feel most relaxed and comfortable to be myself, can I make my life fit those priorities better? Is there more inner work to be done so that I can feel safe regardless and not be at the beck and call of outside circumstances the way I am? Do I have all the resources I need to feel safe unconditionally like that, even as I stand here in my socks, or do I lean too much into external factors, both for comfort but therefore also as a source of trigger when things “go wrong”? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged anxiety, boundaries, coming home, cultivating a higher vibe, emotional health, environmental sensitivities, fear of the outside world, feeling of place, feeling safe, frequency of home, healing, high sensitivity, highly sensitive person, how we are raised affecting sense of self, hypervigilance, inner resources, introversion, introvert, lockdown, longing for home, protection, protector part, psychology behind material fixations, rarified feeling, sacred space, sanctuary, sense of self, sensory sensitivity, setting boundaries, the feeling of home, there's no place like home, trigger factors, unconditional safety, wizard of oz
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Being in balance
Do we subliminally fear balance, as though it is a kind of “death”? Perhaps we need to remind ourselves that balance isn’t an end-game but a beginning point. Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged 5D, a different kind of strength, achieving balance, balance, balance and love, barefoot shoes, birds, breaking habits, core strength, crack in realities, depression, emotions, equilibrium, healing, hormone balance, hormone imbalance and health, how to walk correctly, interuption of habtual behaviours, neurodiversity, neuroplasticity, new thinking, oestrogen, one-sidedness, ostera, paradigm shift, progesterone, realising potential, taking responsibility for your own health, vastness
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The power of life review
Healing your relationship with the past can be one of the most powerful, least avoidable, steps on the road to achieving wholeness and deep healing, not to mention such powerfully regenerative feelings of love for, well, everything “just as it is”, as I am currently finding out…By the way, JUST REALISED today is my 10 year anniversary of writing this blog! There could have been no more apt post than this one. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged appreciation, asperger's parenthood style, emotional healing, facing the past, finding peace, forgiveness, gratitude, healing, healing old trauma, healing the past, joy of parenthood, life review, love, making peace with life, making peace with the past, making yourself whole again, parenthood, reclaiming your essence, repairing sense of self, resolution, resolving past hurts, self-acceptance, self-healing, self-love, single parenthood, transformation, valuing yourself
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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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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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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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Counting these 2020 blessings
As we cross the threshold into a new phase, I’m doing my gratitude appraisal of the year, as ever…but with, perhaps, even more appreciation than ever. I think we all agree, its been an “interesting” year and yet there’s part of me…and not just me but (I think its fair to observe) many of those close to me…that is more robust, self-knowing and somehow worldly-wise, in the broader sense, than ever before, and there have been some other unexpected upsides to an otherwise bizarre year… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged 2020, 2020 year review, 21/12, age of aquarius, FOMO relief in lockdown, lockdown for autistic people, lockdown for HSPs, lockdown for introverts, lockdown for nature, new era, optimism, positives of 2020, what we learned from 2020, what we learned in 2020, why some people are thriving in lockdown
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Thank you music, you keep me flowing
I really don’t have a clue how I would have go through 2020 without music so, to keep the flow of gratitude moving, I really want to share some of the most uplifting, transformational, nourishing musical highlights of my year. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Music & theatre, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged 528 Hz, Amber Lily, Awaken album, Bhakti Yoga, Chris Assaad, creative process, Davor Bozic, divine feminine, divine masculine, Fia, gratitude, Jahnavi Harrison, Kate Bush, Lee Harris, Lion album, music as medicine, music as nourishment, Patty Griffin, river flow, supporting artists, the miracle note, transformational music
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