by Aren Henry | February, 2019 | Karen Henry, Noetic Nomad, Uncategorized
This noetic nomad is dreaming of dragonflies. Living in a balanced exploration of ordinary life in a miraculous way. Not everyone understands or sees that. This blog for example is fifty two new opportunities to discover something wonderful about life. Thrilling, isn’t it? I love the smell of a blank page in the morning. I also draw a blank when trying to come up with new things to talk about every week. But only when I try too hard. Invariably, self doubt sets in. It’s not writer’s block. It’s not even procrastination. When we put our dreams aside, we also put our creative side on the back shelf, cutting off that part of us that makes life gloriously wonderful. Dreaming is a gift The crisp new planners and the fresh pack of pens bring me joy. They are tiny dragonflies. Benchmarks of something wonderful. These are a few of my favorite things. We celebrate the beginning of a new year, something universally shared. A majority of global citizens welcomed in 2019 with hope and promise. By the end of February, we begin to forget that this is still, a brand new year. I’ve been shifting some of what I’m working on as a way to feel this new skin. A skin of purpose. An utter shell of a transitional awareness in life. The celebration of a landmark birthday usually tied to something of a death, or ending. My mind has struggled with that concept. Turning fifty five is not something to be ashamed of. It’s an entering into the glorious phase of finally feeling all grown up! Feeling the...
by Aren Henry | February, 2019 | Karen Henry, Noetic Nomad
Want to be happy? Align your algorithms. Our lives are predicted by the company we keep online. At least, that’s how the online community sees us. They know what we like and sadly, what and whom we don’t like. Some people love to throw those Pan Am smiles and fake happy lives around. Others mean it. Is the illusion of a perfect life is good enough? Temporarily, yes. It gets you where you want to go. It leaves a lot of room for the broken parts to stay broken too. How do we turn our selfies into sincere alignment with our fully healthy, balanced authentic selves? We own our reality Align ourselves with our world Stay open to love of all aspects of ourselves. Fake happy is not happy. ‘Likes’ don’t mean we’re liked. Perception is powerful. Authentic alignment with our true self gives us a better life. Internal alignment means we’re okay if others don’t ‘Like” us. Except, that’s primarily online. In truth? I still believe that when we work on ourselves, the organic popularity will come along. Alignment One enlightenment expert tells us that our thoughts are just thoughts, unattached from emotions. Another says that our thoughts create our world as a whole, not just our emotional attachment to that world. And yet another one says that our emotions can be balanced toward the positives with conscious decision making. Aligning is a human quality that we’re all capable of, so why not embrace it as a universal truth? Most of us want to be happy. Most of us want to live a vibrant, love filled life. Not...
by Aren Henry | February, 2019 | Karen Henry, Noetic Nomad
Is there really such a thing as a life’s purpose? Are we prioritizing our lives purposefully, or does life simply happen? Do we HAVE to be consciously aware of all things in order to be happy? Look at happy babies. Most babies before the age of becoming cognitively aware of life’s hardships, are pretty happy. Babies live in the ‘now’. They are easily entertained. They don’t overthink anything. They find joy in the simplest of tasks. As they age … as we humans age, we develop awareness and conditions. Those conditions create a need for prioritizing and a need for purpose. Babies and small children get lost in play time. They have endless summers and a school year of waiting excitedly for a big holiday to show up with its rewards. We lost ourselves in the flow of being alive. Then, somewhere along the way we mucked it all up with doing what we thought we had to do, in order to fit in. Prioritizing In order to do what I love to do, I have to return to prioritizing myself first. Periodically, I have to pretend again. Go back to a time when there were pockets of joy. I prioritize my grown up responsibilities with the professional endeavor of being in that flow state where I can lose myself. When I’m listening to music; creating the fiction worlds; write in my side gig job, I’m the happiest. Without creating purpose for each of the characters, with a clear understanding of their need for their own identity. Writing fiction is easy. I’m the master of the journey. Becoming lost is...
by Aren Henry | February, 2019 | Karen Henry, Noetic Nomad
Initiating intimacy can be terrifying. I’m not talking about procreation. Though certainly, it’s a topic that resulted in seven billion + people in our world. I’m talking about true intimacy. The sort that creates long lasting relationships. The sort that enabling institutions bond with. When we find authentic intimacy with people, we find our soul relationships. “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’ – that’s intimacy.” ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid. To me, Reid’s quote is the most honest reflection of what real intimacy is. It is trust. It is mutual respect. Without it, no amount of love or affection can be sustained. The positive psychology movement delves into all facets of the human condition. They help us to enhance our overall lives for the greater good. Many times, our perception is clouded with ego, or the voices of others, whether that’s familial patterns, or cultural expectations. Sometimes, in its sweetest revitalization, the pp industry tends not to talk about the most vulnerable topics that may just mean the most for us all. The people, places and experiences that shape our emotional attachments are our world. An enabling institution To enable from a mental illness viewpoint, one would say that we are allowing a destructive behavior to continue. But, to enable from a healthy mindset, we would say that we are creating a space of allowing the other or others to feel trusted...
by Aren Henry | January, 2019 | Karen Henry, Noetic Nomad
Elevating our energy to align with our highest purpose is such a compelling dance between the scientific world and the spiritual world. I try to imagine the global world and our quest for understanding who we are, where we came from and why we all want to know how to live our best lives. What if, no science or religion or any trained techniques such as meditation or mindfulness were needed at all? What if, we simply shifted our focus toward only accepting in the great white light of universal energy, while our thoughts just decide to be happy. Seems simple enough. “Best laid schemes o’ mice and men often go awry” Adapted from Robert Burns poem apology to the mice. It means, things never go exactly how easily they can go, do they? People around the world find ways to create a healing environment, while others still pull that energy down toward opportunistic money making ventures. Elevating our thoughts The one thing we, here in this industry of healing and helping know, is that everyone is on a different path. Everyone is going to interpret our gift of healing in a different way. Each of us will see, hear, feel the collective message in a very unique-to-us interpretation. Perception is a very real reminder that none of us is cut from the exact same cloth, and none of us are going to share exactly the same enthusiasm for living our best lives. We create the energy we’re existing in. It’s a recipe made up of our life experiences, our genetics and our strengths (or limitations). When we surround...
