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On edge
Do you pay attention to your extra senses? Perhaps its time to listen; to give them air time, push them to the front of the queue when you are being bombarded by other information sources (many of them unreliable…). Maybe they even have some good news for you… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged 2020, Aspergers, autism, clairvoyance, cliff hanger, connection to the earth, courage, dowsing, entering void state, ESP, extrasensory abilities, feeling on edge, gut feeling, hypersensitivity, into the unknown, intuition, new beginning, new decade, new paradigm, not having to know, not necessarily bad news, paying attention to sensations, precognition, resolution, self-empowerment, stepping up, things are not always as they seem, trusting your senses, trusting yourself
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It all seems so simple to me…
Throw back or way-shower, broken or inspirational, inconvenient or key influencer and right on time. Diversity is always interesting but, right now, it could be crucial and here’s a few thoughts about why (as originally posted to Living Whole). Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged Aspergers, autism, beyond beliefs, beyond typical, ceasing over-complication, ecology, evolution, giftedness, healing the world, individuality, left and right hemispheres, neurodiversity, neuroplasticity, thinking outside the box, uniqueness, working together
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Shared roots and scattered seeds
Collaborative music is one of my biggest passions; the feeling of it goes way beyond the lyrics or the tune and becomes a harmonic of happy coincidences, dismantled wall and powerful juxtapositions. The heart gets recruited, first…not as a cerebral afterthought…when such rhythms are unleashed. It’s a whole-sensory experience, beyond the boundary lines of culture or genre. How I long for the experience to be shared by so many more people; for them to be stirred up from their slumber and to feel what we all find so hard to give form to, as yet, in this world… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal art, Art, Art transformation tool, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged art as transformation tool, Aspergers, autism, bird art, birdsong, cross-pollination, crossing boundaries, dandelion, diversity of music, ecology, enthusiasm about music, extinction rebellion, folk, francesco turrisi, goldfinch, growth, highly sensitive, jackie morris, karine polwart, Kate Tempest, kris drever, multi-instrumentalists, music as political messenger, music as transformation, new growth, passion for music, power of music, relevance and meaning in music, rhiannon giddens, robert macfarlane, roots, roots music, sam lee, sensory sensitivity, serendipity, sewing seeds, singing with nightingales, special powers, spell songs, spells, the lost words, thinking outside the box, tingle factor, transformation, what guides musical taste, why do some people feel music more than others, wren
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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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Jane Eyre – nineteenth century Aspie woman
Yesterday, I was at the Blackeyed Theatre stage production of Jane Eyre and, from the front balcony seat looking down onto the stage, I saw something so new yet just so obvious about this well-known character that I had missed … Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Fiction, Life choices, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged asperger's friendships, asperger's traits in literature, Aspergers, autism, being different, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, late-diagnosed Asperger's, masking behaviours, nineteenth centiry asperger's women, owning your differences, pretending to be normal, role models, self-understanding through literature, was Jane Eyre autistic?, why people dislike people with Asperger's
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Being the unpruned tree
We should make room for some wildness in our gardens; it keeps us mindfully connected to the earth and it leads to interesting, surprising and oh-so important new experiences. Some pruning, here and there, asking the garden what it needs, can be helpful; yes, but there is no place for dubiously motivated shears in the next phase of our human adventure. Some would have us all as neatly trimmed and uniform as a garden made up of identical topiary but there’s a whole other tree that we’ve forgotten about (you could call it a Tree of Life); one that is so vast and other-dimensional (though ever-present) that many have fogotten how to look up and see it there… Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Gardens & gardening, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged Aspergers, autism, Carl Jung, Connection to nature, connectivity, eco crisis, highly sensitive, human evolution, Mary Reynolds, ninth wave, rewilding, Sharon Blackie, synaptic pruning, tree of life, what the world needs now
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Coming out to play
Some people are born ‘naturals’ with children and some really aren’t. Some mistake immaturity for stupidity and impose their adult ‘know-how’ in a patronising way, delivering information on a need to know basis, making it prescriptive, leaving no room for … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art purpose, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Films, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Personal Development, Spirituality, Universe
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Tagged activation, art and music grading, artists not taken seriously, ASD, Aspergers, autism, autistic and gifted, evaluating art performance, explaining the inexplicable, Extremely loud and incredibly close, fear, fibromyalgia, fibromyalgia and autism connection, inner child, judgement, left and right brain hemispheres, left brain dominance, Matt Kahn, obsessive compulsive disorder, parenting styles, pointillism and pixels, subjective made objective, trigger, undervaluing art, whole brain function
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