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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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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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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 →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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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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The festive underbelly
Part of me finds christmas quite abhorrent because meat gluttony peaks at this time of year and there’s really no escaping it. Everywhere I look – in my newsfeed, in commercials and many of the websites I use to do … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Vegetarianism
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Tagged animalrights, Christmas, christmastrauma, ecology, gluttony, highlysensitive, meaning of christmas, othersideofchristmas, philipwollen, savetheplanet, unconsciousbehaviour, vegan, vegandepression, vystopia
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When will we stop making new sides to be on?
In whatever I do, I can’t help but be the bridge builder; its how I’m “made”, which is to see both sides or, more accurately, the fuller picture. It’s this same over the currently topical matter of feminine v masculine, … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Vegetarianism
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Tagged beliefs, carnsim, cult behaviour, danger of entrenched beliefs, ending separation, feminine and masculine, feminism, goddess, going to meet the masculine aspect, healing the divide, healing the gender rift, husband, husbandry, reciprocal relationships, religion or science, vegan religion test case, veganism, why people long to belong
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Splitting…or coming together anew
Maybe it’s not even a case that we are about to separate “more” but that, in accepting some sort of separating of the ways as a given, we become more whole…exploring some spiritually controversial topics that feel very on theme right now. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Space weather
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Tagged acceptance, awareness, Consciousness, divided, evolution, Gamma waves, head tones, heart coherence, HeartMath, high vibe, left and right hemispheres, new understanding, schumann resonance peak, split in humanity
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A woman’s voice across time
I like to think I’ve swept some grace through these places over the years; doing what grace does best, mixing up the light and the dark so that the line between them becomes softened…perhaps even more radiant. I like to think that in getting closer to finding my wholeness here, against all odds, I’ve increased the odds for all things that I’ve brushed past on my wending way… Exploring the underlying perfection of the places we happen to be in, however those happen to seem. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Landscape art, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged art, beauty, close to nature, connection to place, ecology, grace, inner work, loss of countryside, Mary Russell Mitford, mindfullness, our changing villages, our changing world, overpopulation, Painting, Spencers Wood, stuck points, Swallowfield, transformation, village life, wholeness
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Fate worse than death
Its not death but LIFE that we dread, because life can be the very devil due to our sentience…which is our universal ability to FEEL and to KNOW things through all of the senses, a collective ability that can be referred to as our emotional mind or even heart mind…which is far superior to the mind we equate with our rational thoughts. It’s why we live in so much fear of the death process, whether we own up to these fears or not…since we feel our way all the way to its door…and yet our entire culture is built upon practices that inflict our very worse fears on others. We all seem to know this about ourselves and yet we don’t act upon most of the time. This simple inconsistency between what we know and how we behave underlies so much that is going wrong that if we could but own up to our universal sentience, shared by all creatures that draw breath, and then fix it…well, who know. Continue reading →
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Tagged animal atrocity, animalrights, awakeningconsciousness, bethechange, compassion, Empathy, fortheanimals, heart and head, humanity, notfood, remembrance, sentience, slaughter comparison with war, vegan, vegetarian
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