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Category Archives: Life choices
No time to waste
Its more than possible to halt our our metamophosis with where we direct our minds (our habits and our comfort places). For instance, where is the contempory fiction that looks forwards, not to the topics of war, or cancer, or horror, or divorce, or past-trauma, or dsystopia, or kitchen-sink drama, or fluffy romance? Where is all the optimism, combined with new thinking and the sheer force of imagingation that is fiction?? Never forget that reading is how we sow seeds in the fertile ground of our minds; so, as any gardener knows well, be mindful of the quality of the soil but also of the kind of seeds that you sow. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, History, Life choices, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Writing
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Tagged choosing what to read, chosing what to read, expansion and acceleration, fiction for Asperger's, forward-looking literature, futuristic writers, geting to the point, human evolution, I don't have time to rush, is there any value left in retrospectives, joy of reading, Literature, living in the present moment, metamophosis, new paradigm, no time to waste, optimism, planting seeds in our minds, quantum leap, Ted Chiang, the point of fiction in a transitional era, timelines, transitional generation, writing style compared
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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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Writing as compared to nest-building
The title says it all…but there’s more to the analogy than I thought, when it occured to me. Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Literature, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged being a writer, birds, compelled to write, constructing a written piece, creative process, how writing influences people, inspiration, nest, nest-building, ostera, poetry, prose, sending our thoughts out into the world, the drive to write, the point of writing, weaving ideas, weaving our thoughts, why do I write?, writing motivation, writing process
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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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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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