Photographer. Researcher. Advocate for A Bill of Human Rights and Responsibilities
About
It can be very easy to view life through a narrow lens, sensing then not sensing, confused and semi alive until we are forced to feel all the stirrings of our Heart, waiting no longer, but needing to be awakened so as to feel the truth of our own reflection. For me, to be fully living is to have this strong Spirited, clear Minded and intimate relationship with life as it continuously moves through me. I love living with my feet firmly rooted in our inner and outer worlds. It is a discovery waiting for us all. It changes us and gives us the most precious gift of connectivity, sewing our empathic Heart into the more delicate fabrics of Society.
The truth of my being is that no-one but me was ever going to love me as I could. And to be there for my Self in a way that gave me all that I needed to feel deeply nourished and to enjoy the freedom and peace to be who I am in my Heart beneath the exterior world which shaped me. Deep down this realisation has been my quiet life long yearning and is intimately entwined into the meaning to my existence.
For as long as I can remember, I had sensed this deeper part of my being very occasionally whispering, reminding me I had something quite specific to do. This feeling hummed away in the background, always faint but always alive.
What that feeling was I could never articulate until it needed to find the space to express through me. I intuitively knew I had experienced what I needed to grow beyond the confines of my limited learning, and the mighty task ahead of me was to remove all the conditioning of my very fatigued Mind that said life was somehow my fault and had me cloaked in feeling deeply sad, shamed, voiceless, powerless and unloved.
The work ahead of me was to rebuild the foundations of my Mind and to restructure my entire outer world. Put simply, I desperately wanted my Heart to reflect every part of my outer world, exactly and with all the sincerity of a very expanded mind at one with all consciousness. I wanted to feel at home with my Self.
At first I had but one choice and that was to sit, and move very quietly. There was not a drop of space left inside my spongey and aching head. I sat with my exhausted and fragile shell, comforted by this great expansive all knowing pouring into my being, guiding my every step. I knew instinctively I had to bring my drained physical being into full alignment with my Spirit. To unite so that I moved freely as one.
It was a very painful experience, and the lessons felt terribly hard. It also felt excruciatingly lonely. I kept wishing my future would be here now, to save me.
My eyes streamed for four years, and longer, but slowly and surely all I needed came my way as I took responsibility for sitting with all my feelings, healing and restoring who I felt and was determined to return to.
I would not be able to do the work in Human Rights and Responsibilities today if it weren’t for all the valuable life experiences that taught me the full expansiveness of my worth, and that this worth, once hidden beneath my shaky nervous system and voicelessness is today my quiet super power for lasting change and hope in a world that is struggling to see its common humanity.
Growing my power, my ability to walk this earth with clarity, strength of Spirit and softness of Heart took much longer than I could have imagined. It is what I would call a strangely beautiful experience. A one off I am very glad never to repeat, but very necessary if I am to walk hand in hand with terrible suffering and the touch of love and forgiveness.
It is all too easy to unconsciously put our Selves down. To accept less, to work harder to please more, and remain disappointed and secretly confused about why we still feel wobbly, hopeless and bad inside. Undeserving has woven its shame into our collective psyche, without understanding how it got there, let alone being able to recognise this is what keeps us feeling diminished and small in our outlook.
The mind training page on this website touches on the lessons I had to learn. I had to fall hard so that I could crack open and meet my Self in the way I had always yearned. I’ve always felt my Spirit, my Soul. Words cannot really describe the waves of emotion that pour over me on a daily basis. To be able to feel so deeply is my gift, and to be able to see, hear and read light beyond the visible is an extension of that gift.
We use our gifts to meet the full worth of our Self. It is our joy and responsibility, because when we touch our own Heart with great care and compassion, we naturally touch the Hearts of others. It is how we create the world we want to live in and share.
Without forgiveness we are not whole. When we face our Self we face the wholeness of life, strung together by our capacity to forgive and be forgiven.
My Heart and Spirit is deeply passionate about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and what it represents. It touches me because of how I was shaped to feel and to view life. If I can help grow our love and humanity for one another so that fear drops away, together we would find our voice and we would see our Indigenous Peoples as they truly are.
We are supposed to live in two worlds. This is our natural way to staying attuned, conscious and free.
This was my journey, my path to unravel and make sense of. I would not feel my sense of belonging without the loving guide of my strong Spirit, my Soul.
Our Indigenous Peoples know who they are. They have no confusion about their sense of belonging or identity. They hold valuable knowledge, openly sharing generously and willingly, if only we would listen, and embrace with the same open Heart.
It will come. In time, when we learn the value of patience, generosity, gentleness, fearlessness and forgiveness. It will come and we will be a leading example to the rest of the world, guided by the oldest living culture and holders of knowledge and law, firmly embedding it into our governing and way of life.
What I do and know
I talk about matters of the Heart.
The humbugs that skirt beneath the dusty cellar of our Mind.
I talk about Love. Its origin, its light infusing our veins all the time.
I talk about meeting our Mind.
Laying solid foundations rich in human frailty, beauty, courage and tenacity.
I talk about joining the dots of our own making with those whose permission we have constitutionally granted, at will, to ensure our proper care and protection.
I talk about being relational...
...values, valuable, valued.
And Listening.
Daring to courageously walk into the fog, to redirect our gaze.
To invite in a new stream of consciousness.
It can be said we become a teacher of our hardest lessons, ensuring we learn them well. My Spirit, my Soul was always there, communicating with me and it is what kept me so grounded throughout my most trying years. And yet, I still fell hard to teach me to truly trust my Spirit in every moment so as to feel my full human worth. And so this is what I now do. I help people understand how to connect so that they live happily in two worlds and feel at one with their Self. I want to share this foundational knowledge and embed it Constitutionally into our way of thinking, so our society is safeguarded by a government who understands The Right Way of Listening, and cherishes the human Spirit and the full worth of our children so we know instinctively where our values lie.
For many years I would often wonder why I didn’t belong. Why I didn’t I fit in and why I was feeling lost and without purpose, asking my Self what it was I was good at even though I knew deep down I was good at lots of things. When I stopped listening to the doubting world, and learned fully how to listen to my Self, I realised I was naturally living in a way that felt right. I was continuously in the motions of living my purpose. It was at this crossroad that I had to reconcile and forgive not only my Self, but a society that teaches us to feel far less than our full worth. This was my path to walk so that I had an expanse of the right experiences to grow my inner and outer knowledge and to be sure I was grasping the whole of society’s dilemmas.
I am a social scientist at Heart. My insatiable curiosity for understanding the human condition and to express our humanity in a way that gives birth to new ideas and new ways of being, knowing and doing was always my path.
It is with responsibility and privilege for any of us to serve. My life is dedicated to the practice of feeling so I walk with a clear Path, ensuring my Mind always sees it the right way up.
A still Mind will always invite in the very best of who we are, sewing the seeds of love wherever we go.