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Back in the body
Its been made all too easy for us, not just the most sensitive, to vacate our bodies, even preferable (culturally speaking) that we lose ourselves in escapism rather than staying fully awake and present, having an opinion or taking action regarding whatever timeline we are collectively on. Perhaps its time we sensitivies commited to becoming more grounded, practicing how to be more fully present with our bodies, learning to ride or even transform all the triggers, in order to anchor our higher vision to the physical world we all share together as our only embodied “home”. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality
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Tagged central sensitization, chronic pain, contributing, COP26, coping with pain, earthly home, embodiment, envisioning a future, experts in frequency, feeling we belong, fibromyalgia, grounding, healing, highly sensitive, investing in the future, lighting the torch, metaphor, responsibility for the future, the gift of high sensitivity, you are needed
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Stop using the path and you will surely lose it
It takes Nature no more than the blink of an eye to take away what she giveth; unless we indicate, quite clearly, just how much we are interested in keeping it, how much we appreciate what we have “in care” from her bounty…only then does she relent. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged choosing where to put your attention, choosing your path, forming new habits, healing, healing a loop in the brain, honeysuckle, introvert, limbic retraining, neuroplasticity, positivity, routines, walk in the woods, woodland walks
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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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Choosing life: Jig of Life and the Ninth Wave
“For Now does ride in on the curl of the wave,
And you will dance with me in the sunlit pools.
We are of the going water and the gone.
We are of water in the holy land of water
And all that’s to come runs in
With the thrust on the strand.” Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Music & theatre, Personal Development, Remembering, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged age of aquarius, awake the witch, Before the Dawn, Carl Johan Calleman, choice point, choosing life, determination, eighth wave, evolution, Hounds of Love, James Joyce, Jig of Life, Kate Bush, King Arthur, near death experience, new paradigm, ninth wave, ninth wave of creation, Ophelia, quantum holographic wave, sacred feminine, Ulysses, working with the ninth wave
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New synapses, old synapses
I’ve had a growing feeling all year long that the exercise in social distancing has been some sort of externalised manoeuvre of growing new synapses. The more the old haunts of my daily walks closed off, became inaccessible or had too many people suddenly launched into them, the more I discovered new places, often right beneath the very eyes of where I used to pass by but never noticed the subtle entrance to pathways into enchanted woods that have turned out to be new-favourite walks. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged Consciousness, consciousness growth, growing new synapses, inner sanctum, inner stillness, learn from trees, lockdown, motivation, Personal Development, return to the self, self-awareness, self-enquiry, spirituality, understanding your motivations, when plans fall apart
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Spinning straw into gold
We are in a transition period*, one foot in the old, one in the new and never before made so tangible to so many people, though it’s been “happening” for at least a decade. Even the sun is enacting it; … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Space weather, Spirituality
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Tagged 2020, alchemy, creator beings, end of victimhood, fractal time, hope, lockdown, manifestation, out of fear, remembering, rumpelstintskin, self-empowerment, solar cycle, sovereignty, spinning gold, two paths for humanity
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The unmistakable lightening of days
Let me take you on a walk through a city; am impromptu Imbolc ceremony with a difference. No green pasture this, no village tree surrounded by fields…but, rather, pavements cracked with gold that speak of new beginnings. As ever, my … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Soft landing
Amsterdam through Asperger’s eyes; a multi-dimensional map, a palette of many textures and a journey of deep self-exploration. Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged Amsterdam, Ann Frank, Asperger's and nationality traits, Asperger's and taking fiction and non-fiction characters to heart, Asperger's seeming aloof, Asperger's social preferences, Aspergers, austistic spectrum, autism, canal district, communication without words, Dutch, Ehlers-Danlos, executive function, fibromyalgia, food intolerances, good habits, healthy eating, holocaust, hooked into rhythms and patterns, individuality, Jordaan, left and right hemispheres, letting go of what doesn't support you, love Amsterdam, love of maps, maps, needing to pull back into yourself, neuroplasticity, positive thinking, self-acceptance, street plans, structure and softness, synesthesia, taking in sensory impressions as information, Temple Grandin, thinking in pictures, vegan gluten free food, watching life through windows, Westerkerk carrilon
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Pigment of life
When a new paradigm starts to emerge, it can seem lacking in depth, an unfamiliar “convenience food” where a complex banquet of life used to be, throwing us into a turmoil of nostalgia for the old ways…though we don’t want those either. What calls us through the bewildering territory is an unspeakable force, an original spark without name… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Painting, Personal Development
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Tagged 2020, accepting diversity, age of aquarius, art, art and self awareness, artist, Aspergers, autistic approach to life, best of both worlds, changing process, evolution, exploring what life is about, gouache, incoporating all we have been and will be, instant karma, layers of experience, learning about life through art, life lessons, living methaphor, meaning of life, metaphor for life, new era, new painting medium, new paradigm, Painting, painting purpose, pure potential, reincarnation, self-mastery, synesthesia, win-win
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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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spinning the light 
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