Goals for Aging Well – Life After Retirement
A focus on cultivating awareness of behaviour through environmental stimulus meant an opportunity to have students of all age ranges. The following PDF titled 3 Steps to Combat Depression and Turn It Into Self-Esteem Using “Personal Growth Techniques” for Aging Well after Retirement would have been stimulated by students in that stage of life. By viewing the examples of my personal goals it suggests this was written 8 plus years ago. This handout is still relevant today, if not more so. When one’s focus of attention abruptly shifts from 9 to 5 there can be a shock from the level of organizational needs to manage work and home to the expansiveness of home, and no-work focus. It seems that this is particularly difficult for those in an academic or professionally focused career with little somatic focus integration. It is quite an adjustment or transition and if not focusing on transforming internal patterns for shifting into a new lifestyle it can create experiences of unwellness, mentally, emotionally and physically.
Here is a downloadable PDF for those seeking a guided exercise to consider aging well in retirement.
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Culture of Values – 5 Easy Steps for grounding
These guided grounding patterns compliment the Culture of Values Educational Program


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Compatible grounding integrative experience with values, feeling and needs, mindfulness and history through the walking pattern of the labyrinth
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Awareness through Mental & Emotional Health: Cultural Conditioning & Elitist Mentality of Addictions
Influences in Health, Knowledge, Fame, Relationships, Community, Future, Career, Wealth, and Past Life Areas


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One of the first introductions into energy work, with a focus on how to direct the energies as a healer, was understanding the chakra energy centers. Before the focused study of somatic empathy, there was no structure. Without knowledge, there is a huge opportunity to be taken advantage of which is a common experience in our society. Unfortunately, it includes those closest to us as well as being further out in the community circles. The Chakras are a nice introduction to the influences of manipulation.
When first delving into this skill development it was unfamiliar and shared in a way that I was led to believe it was energetic manipulation by some negative energy purposely out to harm. It was a different interpretation of right and wrong thinking like in the differentiation of god and the devil reflects right and wrong. Everyone’s dialogue had a focus on some outside influence that was evasive and not centered. I share this as this is an example of gaslighting to a somatic empath. A somatic empath’s perception is of the reality of the experience at the moment, not some elusive concept. They can feel the blocked chakras in themselves and others. They can energetically feel the addictions others have and their own. It is not some outside force. It is an inside response to an outside stimulus. An adult has free will and choice. No one forces them to enter into an experience that leads them into their addictions. Adults may not be equipped with all the information they need to make fully informed decisions but they do have intuition and a value system of some kind has been modelled for them at some point in their lives. The value system may not have been formal, however, someone knows the second they enter into an activity that seems edgy knowing it is unethical or immoral. Most of these activities are such that they become serious addictions. That’s the point. To get you addicted as under that influence you are easy to control. Especially if you have low self-esteem, low willpower and lack courage.
To understand these experiences I began my journey as a healer through hands-on healing. First through attunements and Reiki which shifted after connection with Trangu Rinpoche whose contact with me opened my hand chakras to such a degree that attunement and Reiki energies seemed weaker for me. Also, I had long dropped the authority components as influences over me in positions of perceived power that need to be held in high regard to operate within a system of entrapment. Being in a position of authority is something you have inside yourself in my opinion, or have the ability to develop. It’s not someone outside you follow as they believe they are an authority which I call elitism.
This perspective for me extends to false philosophies of the obscure. Luckily this perspective led to actionable lifestyle educational programs that dropped the outside energy attachments and developed patterns for physical, mental and emotional function in alignment that strengthens willpower through clean and more precise actions. By clean I am not comparing to addictions, but rather in the moment through the pattern of how information comes in through a person’s filter of senses and travels through the brain before thinking begins. The physical body responds long before the mental thinking can grasp and understand the stimulus. This is the gold at the core of origins that this somatic empath has found through the integration of her studies and practice. This is the focus of her perception and opportunities. It creates autonomy and independence in those situations that influence others somatically and lead them into a lifestyle they never anticipated finding themselves in, however, lusted after once introduced. The lust is somatic. Somatic is the first point of communication. If you’re not tapped into what it means you end up, where? Usually a complete loss of everything you have and stood for and in the most unethical and immoral patterns of behaviour. The mental concepts of it are projections and as bad an influence when not soundly connected at the core of a value system. This is my perspective based on over three decades of focus, study and practice. I created these images to visually observe the differences in these energy centers that reflect sensations. The purpose was for education and as a tool to notice patterns somatically with no stories. We do not hold stories in our body parts, however, stories will influence how we contract and hold our body parts. The stories replace the events that actually happened and come back to abuse you over and over each time you tell it to yourself. It becomes a postural pattern. A postural pattern is not from one story. It is not caused by one story. It is a reaction to events, many of them over a lifetime. They become the justification of what we do and why. It’s the blame and shame justification behaviour we have been taught in early childhood education.
This early childhood education is cultural conditioning that predisposes us to act unethically. By adulthood with no training in personal behaviour, leads to what is being modelled in the United States today with the current Court Case against Sean Diddy Combs. In his example, there is evidence coming into the mainstream media of how he obtained power over others through coercion, drugs and promises of wealth. It’s a powerful lesson for all societies currently not preoccupied with war and devasting natural events and have a mask of peace and unity. The patterns emerging from Diddy’s reign of power also happen in smaller communities like ours. It is not an isolated incident. It’s just a different community group with addictions.
The great news is that the stronghold of elitism can be shifted with skill development and retraining of the responses to stimulus. Some call it retaining the brain yet that’s an elusive statement, yet it is precisely what can happen as long as analysis and moral judgements stay out of it. Those are best left for the press conference but not great for the learning environment. That’s the unlearning that needs to take place from my experience. It’s the component that leads to the sex addictions, the drug addictions, the eating addictions, gambling addictions and more…..
Note* This is for learning purposes only and through study and practical experience.
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Awareness through Eating Life Hack: Kitchen Grain Mill
Health & Wellbeing
Small kitchen mill for flour and spices. When getting stones to grind grains into flour at our family organic wholesale operation I learned the differences between freshly ground grains and prepackaged flours. This has been on my bucket list since learning of these differences. This little kitchen mill came with no instructions and was easy to explore. This is the first attempt and it was successful. I typed into Google, “What can I make with two cups of soft wheat flour? The recipe that came up was chocolate chip cookies. It’s been years since having them and they were great! Here is the link to this mill on Amazon – https://amzn.to/4eCtpdJ. @insideawreness.com
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Awareness through Aging: Castor Oil Life Hack
Health & Wellness
Caster Oil 30 Day Challenge – I started using Castor Oil and found this belt on Amazon, It was inexpensive, well made and efficient. No more mess. Castor Oil is making a comeback for home remedies – The link on Amazon is https://amzn.to/3Y11yhs
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Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, and Functional Integration®, are registered service marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America. Feldenkrais Method®
Awareness through Intention: Inward Motivated Action
Health & Wellness, Future, Wealth & Abundance, Education & Learning, Relationships, Fame & Recognition
Using patterns to cultivate and increase awareness of one’s inner origins that motivate them through the functions has led to discovering differences in the inspiration from an inside focus and that of externally driven ones. The inner inspired motivation for action deepens the sense of feeling fullness and strength that is balanced mentally, emotionally and physically with confidence, and the energy of the outwardly focused inspiration seems to leave hunger, dissatisfaction and a lack of quality in achievements. One is satisfying and fulfilling while the other is empty, and gloomy usually leaving a deep loneliness or a sense of being lost. As one aligns with their inner origins life is no longer boring, dull and conflicted. There is no need to feed the same addictions that seem to come hand in hand with the emptiness in those not tapped into their own core needs. This picture reflects a quality I have begun to promote with self-care. The techniques I have been focusing on are a feminine quality. For my masculine energies, the same self-care actions can be taken with less focus on the sensuality I suggest for feminine energies. Another successful focus of attention is mindfully integrating goals designed to create new habits. The integrative process or nature of these steps is for retraining the brain and creating new behaviours. It gently turns habits one takes for granted and shifts into new actions. In my personal experience, this is the pattern of transformation.
Some examples are turning a lack of courage into courageousness, boredom into being alive with life, failure into opportunities and steps for building success, etc. It shifts from the fails that go hand in hand with trying to compete or please others into self-actualizing through origins from the inside. After all, it’s an inside job. I was once told in a dark night of the soul experience that I was born alone and would die alone. Hum……..That’s when I realized that even with people I felt alone. It was a huge moment of acceptance and a moment of transformation. People do not speak a language of connection. The connection can only be attained from connection to inner origins. This is the shift away from being a hungry ghost or vampire. lol My perspective only and for learning purposes…….
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