The Noticing Life™ (Page 2)

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How Humans Navigate

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How Humans Navigate

One afternoon, walking around my backyard, I wondered how humans navigate a life. The answer didn’t arrive as a theory. It arrived as a function: humans navigate by story.

When Clarifying Becomes Proving

When Clarifying Becomes Proving

Growth does not always arrive as effort or insight. Sometimes it arrives as a quiet recalibration—the moment one notices that something once required no longer does, and allows that to be enough.

The Surprise That Taught Me Something

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The Surprise That Taught Me Something

Sometimes growth doesn’t feel like effort or insight. Sometimes it feels like surprise—followed by relief—when I realize I no longer have to do the thing I once thought was necessary.

The Peace That Doesn’t Wait

The Peace That Doesn’t Wait

Peace is not treated as a reward for resolution. It is understood as a condition that can arise when participation in a distorting field pattern ends.

The Peace That Didn’t Wait

Lived Experience

The Peace That Didn’t Wait

I found peace—not because things resolved, but because I stopped participating in a story that required me to disappear in order to survive.

When Fixing Becomes Regulation

When Fixing Becomes Regulation

Fixing often speaks in the language of care, but functions as regulation. When discomfort cannot be held where it arises, the field seeks relief by moving it—into advice, improvement, or correction.

When Discomfort Looks for a Home

When Discomfort Looks for a Home

When discomfort arises and cannot be held where it appears, it tends to relocate. Within the Resonant Spectrum Principle, this movement is not a failure of care, but a reorganization of the field—an attempt to find coherence when capacity is limited.

Where the Discomfort Goes

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Where the Discomfort Goes

When discomfort rises and doesn’t know where to land, it looks for somewhere else to go. A mess in one place becomes a problem in another. Unease inside one body becomes something to fix in someone else. I’m learning that not every feeling needs to be moved, and not every unease is an instruction.

Blessing Is Not Fixing: Coherence Without Hierarchy

Blessing Is Not Fixing: Coherence Without Hierarchy

What looks like help can quietly introduce hierarchy. This essay examines the difference between fixing and blessing—and why being met comes before being changed.

Blessing Is Not Fixing

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Blessing Is Not Fixing

A reflection on the difference between fixing and blessing—and what becomes visible when presence is offered without hierarchy.

The Missing Middle

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The Missing Middle

I noticed a tension arise while listening to a teaching on balance and non-reactivity. Not because it felt wrong — but because something essential was missing. This field note explores the space between suppression and integration, and why feeling belongs inside awakening.

The Missing Middle: Completion Before Balance

The Missing Middle: Completion Before Balance

Balance is often named as a destination without attending to the process that makes it possible. When the middle is skipped, stillness arrives too early—and the body knows.

Agency Without Control

Agency Without Control

We often judge decisions as good or bad only after outcomes appear. But agency does not always begin with certainty. This essay reflects on agency as responsiveness rather than control, and on how coherence can be felt even when direction is still forming.

Angela "Surya" holding a pillow that says, "Bad Decisions Make Great Stories."

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Rearranging

I don’t know if decisions are good or bad in advance. I can only notice whether I’m moving toward coherence — or away from it.

Turns Out I Was Writing

Turns Out I Was Writing

I thought I was organizing my site. Turns out I was writing a post.

Something Is Being Noticed

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Something Is Being Noticed

Something is being noticed—not discovered or proven, but felt. The Resonant Spectrum Principle begins as a field note on meaning, resonance, and the way experience organizes itself before we put it into words.

A Question Arrived

A Question Arrived

I’ve been noticing a tenderness lately. Not because something is wrong— but because something matters.

The Names That Stayed

The Names That Stayed

Some people keep the same name their whole lives. It fits on diplomas. It moves from desk to desk. It appears on invitations to weddings that don’t last and resumes for jobs that do. From the outside, it looks like a straight line. Inside, things change anyway. They leave

The Days That Gather Anyway

The Days That Gather Anyway

Family gatherings have a way of keeping time without ever quite filling the space between.

The Names That Passed

The Names That Passed

She mentioned a planner. That was all. A name appeared in the room and didn’t land where it was placed. Someone said they didn’t like it. She stood up and left. Not dramatically. Just… elsewhere.