January can be the time where it’s hard to rock past choices that weren’t in alignment with what makes you truly happy. Sometimes decisions are made from a mindset of what ones thinks is safe or from others bad advice, yet what is unknown is the long term effects of false safety choices. (Safety isn’t stagnant, it’s in ones agility) Long term effects begins to express themselves through the range of depressed and anxious emotions in one’s emotional, mental, and physical functions. It seems January is when the reality of the truth hits. After the glitter distraction of December with social engagements and the ra ra of New Year’s celebrations and goal projections, January can be when there is no denial. It’s obvious. The biggest recommendation I am currently sharing is for individuals to get back to the simple basics of committing to themselves. Rather than focus on an ego driven topics of the day the suggestion is to begin to privately set yourself up for success. The first step is to celebrate the wins and regret the losses. This begins with writing out 3 to 5 things at night of what you would like to accomplish the next day. That’s the commitment.
At the end of that next day reflect on the goals you accomplished and celebrate yourself by noticing how it feels. (yes, feelings can be the celebration!) For the ones you didn’t do pause and consider what you did do. Afterall life is spontaneous and there is more than one choice in any moment. So what did you do? Hold both regret and celebration for not meeting a goal but recognizing the unintended one. Pulling back this veil is the only way one can tap into what is meaningful making recognition of choices in the moment easier. An attitude will emerge with increased clarity of what is more meaningful, the goal or the distraction. Staying on track will become easier. It’s all in the mindset and shifting it for an improved way of being with self.
The bonus is that this pattern shifts habits and soon getting up in the morning is easier and brighter. It’s all in the intention. Intention creates motivation. So include an inner commitment to connect to self for integrating change from the inside out. Balance out the extroverted broadcasting that becomes the pedestal that can cause mental, emotional and physical crashes.
What does the #7 mean personally and as a society in numerologies philosophy?
The number 7 in numerology reflects knowledge, spirituality and a deeper meaning in life. The year 2020 was all about a new operating code, laying a foundation and creating stability followed by 2021 which was all about being present in the moment, discovery and exploring. This year 2022 has been about unconditional love and healing.
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This author was unaware of COVID or it’s global impact when writing about the numerology for 2020. As the experience of COVID progressed through 2020 a new operating code emerged as unprecedented historical measures were taken to try and reduce the impact of its devastating influence. In 2020 the lifestyles of all the world’s peoples paused as the focus shifted to health, home and families. The foundation of stability. By 2021 there was a realization that life was not going back to pre-2020 living expectations and a new normal was emerging. The focus was on humanity with an increase in creativity to find new ways to sustain life in isolation.
Countries began to notice healing in their own environments in 2021 and woke up to how technology and travel impacted the environments around the world. The canals in Venice are one example. The waterways ran clear for the first time in 60 years and the dolphins, swans and birds reappeared. Some countries intensified dialogues on limiting access to sensitive areas to try and slow down the impact of travel and limit numbers of daily travellers. These global experiences demonstrate a resonance to the philosophy of numbers and their numerological meaning.
To bring attention to people’s habits that confine quality life outcomes this lifestyle mentor and author doesn’t use numerology to predict the future, she incorporates numerology as a tool for personal reflection, awareness and direction. Her intent is to bring awareness to the inner values that are the core of each reaction and action. A reaction has no choice. It is a random behaviour while an action has intention and choice. Even a choice not to act is an intentional action. Ultimately these learning tools make better world citizens, leaders, mothers, fathers, peer and stewards.
With 2023 quickly approaching it’s time to consider its numerological lifestyle significance. Aligning purpose with these universal energies can manifest. ones dreams with ease and less stress.
What is 2023’s #7 about?
The number 7 is associated with developing awareness and expanding the mind, finding hidden truths, wholeness and perfection. It reflects a dominant analytical thinker however balances this with an intuitiveness. A perfect harmony of conscious and unconscious mind.
The qualities of a #7 are:
Analytical
Assertive
Calm
Creative
Curious
Inquisitive
Intellectual
Introspective
Intuitive
Listener
Mysterious
Peaceful
Perceptive
Perfection
Philosophical
Practical
Relaxation
Research
Reserved
Sensing
Skeptical
Solitary
Spiritual
Transformative
Vulnerability
The areas of influence of a #7 are:
Healing
Relationships
Solving life’s puzzles
Understanding the unknown
Motivating others into deeper reflections
The focus of 2023 is beginning to demonstrate an evolutionary pattern that began with the first article written in 2020 on the meaning of numerology for the coming year. The quality influencers of the number seven year give this writer hope. Since the pandemic there has been a shift in the global lifestyles and through this whole process there has been an increasing shift back to the basics of universal values and what really matters. This has been demonstrated by ordinary peoples of world who shifted into quiet leadership through creativity and heart felt connecting via the internet. The peoples leadership rose faster through this crisis than the elected leaders and was farther reaching in this author’s opinion. The qualities that reflect the number 7 are those that give hope that the theme that will dominate will be ‘solving life’s puzzles.’ This could mean new concepts for solving some of the world problematic events impacting it and changing the direction of many peoples.
Support #7 needs
Considering the attributes of the #7 a basic principle that emerged from the different works of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais and Dr. Marshall Rosenberg that align with these qualities is that one’s direction follows one’s attention. Both these learning systems focus attention on conscious awareness of what’s alive inside through outside stimulus. Dr. Feldenkrais was a scientist and interested in how the physical body functions while Dr. Rosenberg was a psychologist and interested in how to resolve inner and outer conflict. Both these Doctors introduced a new system of understanding from there own acquired knowledge that is grounded in exploration and being open versus locked into cultural beliefs and opinions. Moshe would state, “flexible body, flexible mind ,” and both men traveled throughout the globe teaching wherever invited. Marshall worked towards resolving conflict between leaders and families alike. Each one left behind a body of education that is still relevant today. The year 2023 may be a year where similar outstanding concepts like these emerge. It gives this writer hope.
Trust in the future is when you are connected to, or learning, your intentions from the inside out …..
In a previous post I mentioned how the experience of the first eight months of this year has increased my focus on a couple of life areas that I hadn’t given much attention to in past years. One was my relationship of a significant other and the second was having space that felt like my home.
What I had been experiencing in those two life areas came from neighbours. One was an older married man who became a stalker and a large family next door who turned out to be a part of a bigger family circle of whom owned the house I was in. It was an unwelcome experience that lacked boundaries and became what I can only call as having watchers. I also had to insist they stay off the property as my office was located off the garden which resulted in a level of hostility in the masculine householder that was at a level not appropriate for the circumstances. They felt an ownership over the property. I simply wanted my clients to feel comfortable in movement sessions.
Even without clarity in these two life areas, home and relationship, I did include them in my own goals for the last few years in a sketchy way. The universe must have been listening as last fall a bomb blew up my lifestyle. That bomb was the stimulus to forcefully manifest some long term goals that I had been considering for two previous years yet couldn’t see a way forward and was stuck. I hadn’t anticipated fulfilling them would be out of my control or dramatic as it was. I am thankful that this blow up was my residence and business location and not my health. The universe has its own wake up calls.
I am also grateful I made a decision not to lock into something in fear and make immediate commitments. I still didn’t have a dream. When the bomb blew up it stimulated inner questioning of a third life area, my own career and it’s direction. I took a leap of faith and an attitude of seeing what came to me. I was open to anything being possible. This became a discovery of who I am, and what I can do.
I had three life areas that represented stability all without a hard focus; home, career and relationship. All three are the cornerstones of groundedness and stability. These three areas reflect basic needs for survival; shelter, food and water, and any one of them would influence the other six life areas; wealth, health, future, spirit/knowledge, community and fame.
Now preparing materials for others to put their next year intentions to paper I began reviewing my own. I get how transitional this year has been so far. Yet I have discovered a new dimension of integration of my own dreams into a core experience, while simultaneously believing in them as though they have actually happened. It’s a new way of manifesting them. Like attracts like. All these years of emphasising this to others to try and challenge their resistance for taking actions and now here is my own experience of it. This time with a deeper personal connection to this statement. I have finally found the piece that has been missing for me in that popular nineties philosophy – the law of attraction.
What I am most proud of is how the guidance is a pattern for creating a new inner language. By following the program over the years since developing it myself, it has created a new inner way of speaking that I can describe as one of achievement. One that makes things possible. There is no trying or effort. It is simply a pattern of learning that appears can change the inner dialogue process. I am ecstatic to experience this new dimension of being able to manifest from a core level of connection to myself that is not influenced by mainstream ideologies.
I am reminded that this is what I mentor to others. Now connecting to this dimension for manifesting dreams myself I look forward to being able to support their deeper connections to actively becoming their own intentions.
Being in a circle with one of my mentors in 2004, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Phd & Author of Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life, I reflected on his question on where we as individuals could see ourselves taking these teachings. I knew in my heart that I wanted to integrate this language into the somatic journey of the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education. In Feldenkrais there are two ways of offering movement education we call Awareness through Movement and Functional Integration. Each one is focused on patterns for the participant to become self-aware versus being told what to do. One is hands on called FI for short and the other are group lessons called ATM for short. This goal program that I call Awareness through Goals is an added functional dimension of human behaviour and the missing piece in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education for me. It is the development of inner dialogue that becomes thinking and ways we communicate. By following the goal pattern one integrates universal values into their very conscious way of being from which all action springs from. Marshall it’s taken close to two decades to achieve this. I hope you and Robert Gonzales are watching over and smiling your approval.
The only way to change is action
Explore Manifesting your ’23 Dreams with IAMs 6 Step Integratable Action Plan
If anything, we have learned life and lifestyles do not remain the same. Since 2020 the lesson has been changeability in all avenues of living. The changes have been so great that there is no going back to “normal.” The new normal is innovation.
Any meaningful change begins when you notice what you would like to do differently in a non-judging way
How to begin explore change verses forcing change through concepts
Becoming your own Master Creator of your experience
The steps of turning Intentions into Goals begins with exploring a vision of 2023. It is then followed by noticing the illusive four walls of experience created by the nature seasons; fall, winter, spring and summer. This connection to intention can then easily be turned into a doable guided pattern incorporating universal values, characteristics and qualities in a novel and uncluttered way by creating new habits through the months and seasons. The ease of learning is integrated through the experience from a simple guided pattern. Awareness through creation that uses intention before focused action.
Take the re off reactive
Turning intentions into doable goals in 5 easy, integrative steps
There are 5 fun and easy steps to activating the integration of intention and action in a meaningful way using a novel pattern to stimulate right and left brain functions with activities that can create life-enriching experiences and relationships. As each step can be life-changing and integrative commit to spend time on each step before moving to the next one. Direction suggestions will be given for each step.
STEP #1 – THE FOUNDATION
Book time with yourself to focus your attention through your creative nature. This step can be a private experience in your own space or shared with a friend group or spent privately with a mentor or coach. It will take up to two hours to lay out the image with additional time to gather materials beforehand. This initial step will be stimulating. Let it digest for a minimum of three days before moving to step two.
What is stopping you from moving to a life of more joy?
The thinker
If you hesitate as you believe you are not creative, go beyond this thought and gather together some magazines, glue, scissors and some paper. Create a collage mixing pictures and words that speak to you.
If you tell yourself you are dominantly a thinker, go beyond this thought and gather up some of your favorite magazines, glue, scissors and some paper. Create a collage using words and include pictures that speak to you.
If you cannot devote this time to be adventuresome and connect to yourself and growth, pause and make a commitment and do it anyhow. This is as important as eating, sleeping, and socializing, etc. Perhaps even more important as it is the point of clarity and balance in our natures. It is invaluable learning and guidance that comes from within.
Gather pen & paper and locate a place in nature that you can walk ALONE under and surrounded by trees.
Let this forest bath of smells, sounds & movement calm and slow down your 5 bodies to connect to your inner desires for the coming year
Listening inside is a place one can go in nature easily when slowing down to create the space for it. Listening from inside can give you your best guidance. Use this time to become quiet and let your inner desires be heard. Remember to make notes afterwards so this experience isn’t fleeting.
2020 began the new decade in a number 4 energy that reflected a new operating code. 2021 followed in the energy of number 5 that introduced an opportunity to be present to the experience in the moment and, discovery and adventure. Now, 2022s number six energy brings in hope, partnership, empathy, unconditional love and healing.
#6
The number six is associated with relationships, responsibility, domestic affairs, partnership, love, family and home life. In 2022 energy will move into the relationship area and include finding new love, reinventing love and focus on family and home. Its energy can enhance empathy and compassion.
Nature expresses balance and beauty through the vibration of 6
In sacred geometry the number six governs the universes material forms and mathematically it is the first number that is both the sum and product of its factors:
1 +2 + 3 = 6 1 x 2 x 3 = 6
Perfect numbers are known for being both harmonious and stable, which are the main characteristics of the number 6.
The qualities of a # 6 are:
peace
balance
harmony
love
empathy
compassion
giving
justice
honesty
integrity
responsibility
The areas of influence of a #6 are:
love
plants
children
pets
safety
home
partnership
relationships
family
reality
balance
beauty
The focus of 2020 was brick and mortar and the four walls while 2021 was on creation. This year the focus is on meaningful heart connections in relationships, partnerships and family. This could reflect personal intimacy or creating a family type community at work or play.
The support #6 needs:
To be successful in the energy of number 6 there needs to be a focus on self care and organization. The year is one to retrain where you focus your attention first. Instead of actively looking at the horizon first it may be more productive to begin the journey with mindful intention. The number 6 energy can easily be over extended to others expectations and demands. It is important to continue contributing, however in the number 6 energy it’s best to carve out time for doing so. This will free up time for balancing your own health and wellbeing before overextending yourself. This is a year of self–contemplation and understanding of your goals. This focus will balance work, home and play through attention to self-organization.
Integrate intentions with ease & enjoy the process for creating a new & successful living pattern through the development of new neural pathways
Increase brain function to generate healthy body, mind, emotional & spiritual health going forward into 2021
Tap into your inner creativity
Any meaningful change begins when you notice what you would like to do differently in a non-judging way
Harnessing right & left brain function equally for the journey into 2021 for better outcomes
Creativity through right-brain activities, such as art, crafts, writing, music and walking in nature, can turn ones illusive longing into obvious statements before left-brain goal planning even begins. Leadership through a right-brain activity can tap into all bodies of function creating a healthier balanced approach.
Activating goals this way (by integration of all bodies of human function) can create a living force and increase one’s will to achieve them. Integration of all bodies of human function includes a focus of attention equally on the physical, cultural, perceptual, emotional and mental bodies.
Harnessing the mental thinking mind to give it guidance can support a fuller wholesome experience. The difference is that the creative process in included versus simply engaging logic for figuring out strategies or solutions. More on how the a dominant focus on the mental mind can influence self-judgement below.
Resolution statements taps only into your mental body. This mental body has been culturally educated to respond to the world through the following reactions:
What this means for you for becoming the change you want to be
Resolution statements activated from the left-brain may focus on short-term goals and not lead to a lasting change that integrates into long-term lifestyle changes. Adding right-brain activities can lead to a fuller integration leading to long-term lifestyle changes. A focus only on the left-brain mental body can be its own driving force of single-mindedness that lacks balance and support for all functioning systems. This approach has effort and can be controlling. It lacks embodiment and eventually may become the source of depression.
Why? Change declarations from thought function may only be influenced by outside stimulus like statements beginning with I should, or you should, that are based upon outside self-image and trends. Long lasting and life-enriching change comes from the inside and goes beyond self-image and stimulus. Logic of the left-brain is focused upon outside solutions and it is not an inside experience. Meaningful change grows through the what if’s in a system of open exploration and not through a closed system of I/you should and should nots.
How to begin explore change verses forcing change through concepts
Becoming the Master Creator in your 2021 experience
The steps of turning Intentions into Goals begins with exploring a vision of 2021. It is then followed by noticing the illusive four walls of experience created by our seasons; fall, winter, spring and summer. This connection to intention can then easily be turned into a doable guided pattern incorporating universal values, characteristics and qualities in a novel and uncluttered way creating new habits through the months and seasons. The ease of learning is integrated through the experience from a simple guided pattern. Awareness through creation using intention before action.
Turning intentions into doable goals in 5 easy, integrative steps
There are 5 fun and easy steps to activating the integration of intention and action in a meaningful way using a novel pattern to stimulate right and left brain functions with activities that can create life-enriching experiences and relationships. As each step can be life-changing and integrative commit to spend time on each step before moving to the next one. Direction suggestions will be given for each step.
Step #1 – The Foundation
Book time with yourself to focus your attention through your creative nature. This step can be a private experience in your own space or shared with a friend group or spent privately with a mentor or coach. It will take up to two hours to lay out the image with additional time to gather materials beforehand. This initial step will be stimulating. Let it digest for a minimum of three days before moving to step two.
What is stopping you from moving to a life of more joy?
The thinker
If you hesitate as you believe you are not creative, go beyond this thought and gather together some magazines, glue, scissors and some paper. Create a collage mixing pictures and words that speak to you.
If you tell yourself you are dominantly a thinker, go beyond this thought and gather up some of your favorite magazines, glue, scissors and some paper. Create a collage using words and include pictures that speak to you.
If you cannot devote this time to be adventuresome and connect to yourself and growth, pause and make a commitment and do it anyhow. This is as important as eating, sleeping, and socializing, etc. Perhaps even more important as it is the point of clarity and balance in our natures. It is invaluable learning and guidance that comes from within.
Gather pen & paper and locate a place in nature that you can walk ALONE under and surrounded by trees.
Let this forest bath of smells, sounds & movement calm and slow down your 5 bodies to connect to your inner desires for the coming year
Listening inside is a place one can go in nature easily when slowing down to create the space for it. Listening from inside can give you your best guidance. Use this time to become quiet and let your inner desires be heard. Remember to make notes afterwards so this experience isn’t fleeting.
What does this mean personally and as a society in this philosophy?
2021
Twenty, twenty was the start of a new decade and when calculated in numerology 2020 becomes the number four. Now a year later as we enter 2021 it becomes a number 5 with numerological calculations.
Number five is is exactly what we need to follow 2020. It represents a pivotal change that has already begun emerging in our experiences this fall A five is about being in the present moment, exploring and being adventurous. This number 5 experience is a perfect one to follow 2020. The number four of 2020 was all about a new operating code, 20/20 vision and 4 walls. Four walls in numerology is the metaphoric home we experience personally and collectively. Wow, how dead on has this been for 2020?
Twenty, twenty-one is a Feldenkrais® Practitioners favorite type of metaphor as the influence in this somatic learning practice is the same essence as in a number five experience. In Feldenkrais ones focus is upon cultivating inner awareness by tapping into one’s five senses to hone one’s qualities of spontaneity and adaptability. The purpose is to thrive in different environments and social situations. A number five’s qualities also are spontaneous and adaptable for thriving in different environments and social situations, and it reflects the five senses.
#5
This is a Master number and represents change and accomplishment. I personally love number 5 addresses as they reflect creativity, fun and adventure versus the hard work that #4 reflects. This is a welcome sign for this coming year as the global societal shift continues. Number 5 manifests dreams and turns them into reality Thankfully the focus of attention of #5 is on humanity!
2021 has huge potential for building new ways of exploring this new era signaled in during 2020 & experienced globally
#5
The qualities of a number 5 are:
360 degree vision
adventuresome
explorer
exciting
fun
creative
flexible
adaptable
possibilities and sees the glass as half full
optimism
The areas of influence are:
change
resourcefulness
choice
motivation
adaptability
transformations
independence
dynamic
random energy
ability to think independently
good communication
logic
understanding
environmental awareness
The focus on humanities four walls of 2020 is now shifting onto humanity itself and the focus of society’s welfare is now expanding into creation. The universally felt life changing shift in lifestyle and direction that began in 2020 is the new journey forward and brick and mortar walls will be changed forever.
The number four experience of 2020 has been true to its essence of hard work. Now this emerging #5 essence is creating upon this new foundation with less effort.
Support the #5 influence needs is structure
Number 5’s need the support of structure in order to accomplish their vision and new projects. The energies of a #5 are fun and adventure and the potential is to start to many overlapping projects reducing the likelihood of completing them. This would be a good time to consider creating a plan for the coming year to create a focal point for being successful. There can be ease through goals and value planning that is laid out in a guided pattern for easier integration and do-ability in a pattern of consciousness building that taps into what one longs to create.
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