by Renee Lindstrom, Founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Learning field of expanding awareness for clarity and understanding through lived experiences with practical guided patterns for living.
Inside Awareness patterns through which you can notice your own experience, process it, and discover what becomes available.Shifting focus inward to balance interactive connectedness.
This is a Visual Image of a literacy system for recognizing the relationship between sensation, awareness, interpretation and everyday functional behaviour. The central figure isn’t successfully defending herself against everything coming toward her. She no longer has to organize herself around opposition to it.
The center describes Receptive Observation patterns and the outer describes Interpretative Evaluative Expressions. Guided patterns for lived integration for practical lifestyle integration.
With respect and gratitude, this work acknowledges the ground provided by the teachings and practices of Moshe Feldenkrais, Marshall Rosenberg, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and Dyan Grant Francis. Their contributions are honoured as part of the learning from which Inside Awareness continues to grow.
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, founder of Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning
Consider the next person you engage with from this pictures viewpoint instead of unconsciously responding to their words or actions.
Consider how their viewpoint has been formed.
These are examples of how their internal processing, (reactions and responses) to the world have been created. It’s like computer coding! This internal programming is different from yours, so the question is, why are you going along with what you are hearing instead of recognizing it for what it is?
Most people speak about their past in present circumstances as they have not mastered the art of being in the present moment logically. People who respond through past filtering unconsciously cannot be logical in the present and are not good leaders. This is what is being played out before us in world events. What we are witnessing in these events could be the incentive to begin educating on how to dissect inner filters of behaviour and reactions without labels and diagnosis. Instead, observing and engaging with the actual process through pattern recognition and skills for making choices in the moment instead of being hoodwinked. Especially important for people, and groups of people who respond with anger, hate and malice towards others. The corrupt cartoon characters that will do anything for money that we are witnessing. They are more evident now through the grossness of what we are experiencing and we are also learning there is someone. or someone’s pulling the strings behind them. They are never the puppeteer, rather the puppet doing someone else’s bidding and only the fall guy. A fall guy who was tricked into making vows through promises that inspired their greed.
The next few generations could be inspiring if a large percentage of us become incentivized to engage and dive deeper into translating behaviour conditioning, versus analyzing it and labelling it. Those strategies are old and are what got us here. This is my growing awareness through experience that has held a consistent daily focus on this topic for over 30 years without wavering. It has included mentoring others using guided patterns and through this experience I have observed potential I had no idea was possible.
This picture was created by Ai, which has identified the focus of my work and creates from what it has learned about me. It is a model of the example I wrote of above. It’s all in the integration of information, always. AI is modeling our own behaviour traits, only it is doing it consciously. The majority of us are acting out of unconsciousness. That is the difference and the eventual power over us, unless we do something about it personally.
Consciousness is not in the disconnection of outside focus, it is inside through growing clarity of our own selves from the inside out. Not outside in. Outside to inside is where we are corruptible.
Over the past few days I have posted the first two tips for manifesting by taking conscious actions in the environment. One’s success can be viewed and experienced through their environmental influences. The environment landscape, or viewscape, can be unsettling or grounding. These tips can encourage one to cultivate awareness in their own home or work space. The third tip is pictured below followed by a downloadable pdf for you to explore at your leisure.
Getting set up for Functional Integration sessions (Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education)
Like everyone in our recent reality seeing people in person had stopped or shifted to phone calls and zoom. In the past few weeks as talk of lifting the restrictions began I had doubt and uncertainty about how to move forward myself. There was a lingering question of whether anyone would come. I wondered if there was a future. All it took was a student to connect and inquire if I was seeing anyone yet or not. They shared they would be willing to connect on-line yet expressed a preference to come in person. Okay they will come, so now what?
Time to source out disposable face masks, gloves, a face shield, hand sanitizer, cleaners for disinfecting and new cleaning cloths. Then set to work on the new appearance of the space. Removing all extraneous objects, getting the steamer in to steam everything including the carpet. Setting it up to walk through to experience how it could work. This included changing shoes and having a specific pair just for that space and having disinfectant ready for spraying the soles of their shoes. Walking through it it became apparent that I will know have to giving directions on how to enter into the office with me opening and closing doors to limit touching. It’s a lot of extra work. Going through it I found I was hot and sweating.
My appreciation grew for those in the care industry who have been working on the front lines.
After walking through this and recognizing it was doable I recognized this could be be totally integrated. Then this same student inquired how much extra I would like to charge for the additional costs, etc. I was thankful for this inquiry of thoughtfulness My focus of attention was on the equipment and how to get ready, not the financial costs. My thoughts go to how living and working through this appears to be affecting pretty much all of the primary nine life areas. Getting serious about conscious safety at work increases the knowledge on how to be safer in my home life areas. What ever I experience in either area, work or home, influences all of these:
Wealth
Fame
Relationships
Past
Health
Future
Education
Career
Community
3 things I have learned from this experience
It is doable.
Extra precautions for cleanliness can be taken for the benefit of all.
We can ask for and also be more considerate meeting the needs for valuing others and one-self.
