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Category Archives: Life choices
Who we are in the backwash
Sometimes its as though the flow of universe pulls back abruptly, like when a river or beach is suddenly left bereft of water and we get to see all the unsightly debris of life strewn on the bottom. These moment of so-called flatness, the aftermath of something else more lively, times when there is no wind left to propel our boat, periods when we might doubt our very purpose or our point (though really we are the point) present as a golden opportunity for self-realisation and growth. Like a life-review…a pit stop…time to reappraise. When we work with these times (rather than covering our eyes, going into fear, trying to fill the void with even more cycles of busyness), we get closer to experiencing a place recognisable more by its inherent stillness than by its sense of movement…and in that place, we find ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather
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Tagged anticlimax, authenticity, being true to yourself, ecology, feeling good, feeling good about your life, Life choices, life review, living in ease, metaphor for life, peace of mind, shedding the meaningless trappings of life, solar wind, Stillness, taking care of our oceans, taking responsibility for choices, taking stock of life, when life goes quiet, who am I?, wind out of our sails, zen
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A sweeter way to be
Discovering this incredible, natural food source ethically and sustainably harvested in the jungles of Africa by people whose practices are gentle and whose lives have been tranformed (a food which felt like it was transforming my health) prompted me to consider many layers of broader relevance. I considered how we look forward to the future and what practices we use, for instance how we marry the best of traditional and modern methods (not always bowing to the latter…), how we take the quality of life of those producing the product into account and how their personal attributes (especially where this involves handling living things) feeds into the quality and the vibration of that product. Above all, there is something to be learned about how the sweetest and most nutritious things tend to come out of practices that involve the least interference, and bully tactics, of man. This approach to “harvesting” anything feeds into its energetic imprint when it reaches our cells as we eat it; you can literally taste the difference. When we snatch and grab at what we think is ours, the food tells a very different story… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Shopping, Vegetarianism
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Tagged bees, collaboration, ecology, good sugars, healthy food, honey, how the way we produce food affects its health benefits, organic food, sustainable farming methods, the future of food production, the way we produce food, traditional bee keeping, tropical forest honey, vata dosha, vata-pacifying diet, vegan, vibration of food
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Walls of honey
In my last blog, I shared a story about the two thousand-year old fortress walls that I noticed were alive with loudly humming bees flitting in and out of a small hole in the mortar; how I took this as a sign of hope. It became, for me, a metaphor made manifest of how something built to be hard, rigid and intractable had been broken open by something small, soft, honeyed…and it was like imagining egg yoke running over from the edges of the most surprising kind of shell, broken open before my very eyes. It encompassed the feeling of the kind of surprise we are set to experience as our world…the world we think we know so very well, that many of us have become so jaded and derogatory about…breaks open to reveal an inner softness; its own honeyed centre waiting to pour out like the sustenance we are all waiting for… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged a more expansive approach to diagnosis, beehive, bees, choosing our reality, choosing outcome, concept of the future, east and west hemispheres, futurist vision, healing the world, healthy relationships, how to navigate a diagnosis of illness, left and right brain hemispheres, Nine Waves of Creation, power of intention, quantum healing, quantum reality, spontaneous remission, the ninth wave, what will the ninth wave "look like", yin-yang
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Like a bee from a jar
Having just finished reading “Set Free: A Life Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan”, I realise suddenly that finding others people’s stories like this is terribly important to me and I am actively looking for more like this. Perhaps it is a sign that I am ready to join up with other people, even if only so far as noticing similar patterns in our experiences and smiling quietly to see those patterns in motion. Crossing paths with others operating from a dramatically reformatted and yet remarkably similar place to your own can be such encouragement. There is a powerful point of creative evolution, a sort of concentrated forward momentum, to be found in the meeting place between your two sets of experiences and the many ways that they are found to correspond; like the essence of oneness in action.
This book corresponded with my own experiences of a “tear it up and start again” life very powerfully and the real gift is that its author was prepared to overcome her initial misgivings to share what she did. I experience the same wobble and doubts about sharing my own story every time I write a blog…yet it feels to me that sharing the journey of awakening could be the most important thing that I am doing with my life (apart from taking the journey itself…). As above, I really hope that increasing numbers of people are prepared to hold their spiritual journeys somewhat less close to the chest in order to put these experiences out there since I suspect the time has come when we really need the encouragement of each other. We long to sense that we are not alone on these very intense personal journeys and to notice the patterns; for in those patterns, and the making conscious of them, we give even more wind to our collective sails…(extract from “Like a bee from the jar”). #SetFree #SpiritualAwakening
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Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Yoga
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Tagged Bhutan, Buddhism, complete chnage of lifestyle, east and west, eighth wave, Emma Slade, harmony, left and right hemispheres, living to a new paradigm, Nine Waves of Creation, ninth wave, Om Mani Padme Hum, PTSD, rebirth, recovery, sacred feminine, Set Free, spiritual awakening, spiritual breakthrough, the end of banking?, unity consciousness, when life breaks down...
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Don’t feel you have to ditch your story (unless you really want to)
Don’t throw your story away unless you want to…its about to become useful (those theories that you must put your story down are such old hat)! Like a kaleidoscope creates a new pattern every time we shake it, when we operate from the void of all creation, new patterns emerge in every moment and, from them, we derive meaning and insight. The story we have chosen to preserve about ourselves includes bits and pieces of all those preferences we have expressed across the years…books and films we dived into, nuggets of things that attracted our attention, places we travelled, small details, conversations, hardships that helped make us who we now realise we are, personal traits that bobbed up time and time again until we knew they were important…all held waiting for us to thread onto a new strand of understanding at some unforeseen moment in the future, only to fall off the thread and be recycled for another day just as quickly (nothing need be turned to concrete anymore and our story is retained as a much more fluid thing than we remember it ever being before). Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged achieving Oneness, awareness, Consciousness, Do you need to loose your story?, evolution, making use of your story, ninth wave, quantum living, the point of creation, void of creation, vortex, wholeness, yin-yang
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Love letter to myself
The last decade has been a self-righting, a sort of rescue operation and a slow-steady reunion of two aspects of myself that had become exaggeratedly fragmented (I know now) expressly so I could learn how to put myself back together … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged communication with your Higher Self, healing, healing the rift, left and right hemispheres, love letter to myself, reconciling the past, seeing things from higher perspective, self-love, yin&yang
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Creating from the place in the middle
Originally posted on LIGHT ON ART:
It feels like there is a leading edge thing going on where art and technology meet. They both pull me together and repel me, in equal proportions; the repellant part where I’m having to…
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged creating our future, dropping labels and stereotypes, healing rifts, healing the world, left and right hemispheres, living without fear, modelling a new way of being, ninth wave, partnership of art and technology, realising potential, working together, yin-yang
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A walk on the grass
Around that once avoided turn in the road could be the very next person we were meant to meet or the opportunity that alters our whole trajectory and which (by vertue of the fact we are prepared to meet the very thing that we previously avoided so studiously) we have shown we are now ready to receive. Thinking we know everything already or that we even know ourselves so very well can be a very limiting thing and the practice we gain in questioning all things is immense when we consider even those things that seem “obviously” out-of-bounds. After all, it is all just information wrapped up in different packages and working with information like this (receiving the occasional “yes’ where “no” was written on the label) can be another way of affirming how everything is working in our favour, all is on our side; in fact nothing could be said to be going against us when we are prepared to take our best assistance from all kinds of messengers, even those which once turned us away. Noting our aversions and those area of life where we still religiously follow rules that really don’t fit us any more can be another way of receiving such powerful data as well as growing ourselves past a whole other layer of limitations to expand our experience even more. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged ancient sites, clues and information, dissolving old fears, following our path, going beyond the label, learned behaviour, learned behaviours, navigating our lives, overcoming limiting beliefs, questioning rules, questioning what we believe, questioning what we know, synchonicity, tuning into deeper layers of experience, unprogramming ourselves
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The long slow yawn
…Just looking at the everyday evidence, quite apart from all the enhancement in life’s minutest details, all the beauty noticed and so much clarity, its as though time has speeded up to a whole other pace compared to those earlier times of sludge. It moves along quite differently to those years when life was lived like a goldfish; neither bored nor surprised at seeing the same old fishtank sides and certainly never questioning why they were there. But then we are into the ninth wave now and everything is happening soooo much more quickly again, the evolutions coming thick and fast (oh, about every 36 days…) appearing as upgrades that make me feel like 6 months was another lifetime ago, so much does everything reinvent, again and again and again. Is this a trick; are we just designed to always think we see more, feel more, know more today than we did yesterday? Can I really tell all these changes happened, do trees really look any different to my eyes (perhaps it took the slow steady growth of the tree that hasn’t changed so very much…only my perception of it…to show this) and are my evolutionary spurts so much more than a “nice” academic theory? In my life, oh yes, yes they are but yesterday seemed to want to show me some particular things, just to make sure I grasped the leap that has been made; seeing even what those earlier contrasts were here to show me in their own perfect way. In short, I was given another opportunity to appraise just how beautfully designed my whole life has been and how much I have woken up, already. Though the two decades this transition has taken could feel like a very long, slow yawn, the most recent months have been like the part when you vigorously rub the sleep out of your eyes, your head clears and the room seems suddenly a-dazzle with colour and interest; and all the promise of a brand new day. Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged awareness, Consciousness, generation Z and the eighth wave, getting out of a rut, getting out of hopelessness, humanity waking up, leaving disfunctional relationships, personal evolution, reinventing yourself, The Nine Waves of Creation, the ninth wave, the waking-up process, transformation, transformation through childbirth, wake-up world, waking up, waking-up call, what does evolution feel like in life
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Ahead of time
“They say they built the train tracks over the Alps before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come. Any arbitrary turning along the way, and I would be elsewhere.” Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Yoga
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Tagged "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself", "Under the Tuscan Sun" Frances Mayes, choosing experience from the quantum field, coherence, consciously creating your life, daring to create the future you want, Dr Joe Dispneza, love and appreciation, non-linear experience, quantum experience, resonance, setting intentions, yin and yang
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