Yesterday at my Awareness through Movement® class on Balance a participant mentioned that when she went to her Doctor, his solution for her was to say, “Just, stop falling!”
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“Visitor from hell came to stay”
“Wild cat” to ‘loving cat’!
Last summer my son and his cat came to stay for a time. At the end of two weeks I stood in the living room looking at this cat beast and told myself she had to go. I noticed that I was afraid and anxious around her. She acted tough and responded like a feral cat. Her tail was stiff and unyielding if you brushed into it and she immediately took up living space. She was not friendly or loving. She scratched people, furniture and rugs.
Another voice spoke up suggesting I put my training to good use and do what I would do for my clients and students followed by a question, “What if I accepted and empathized with her, and loved her just as she was?” So I told myself, “okay, what if I begin to meet her needs?” So I did. I began to give her my focus of attention. I spent time with her when she started to scratch at the couch. If she went to her food dish, I gave her food. If she wanted to go outside, I took her out. I began to take her for walks and play with her. I didn’t let her overnight alone as she would become crazy by herself in the dark. She became one of my priorities in my daily schedule and a lifestyle consideration.
As her basic needs were met and she started getting a lot more attention she began to thrive. After about two weeks she would come and lay on the back of the couch and stare directly into my eyes. I wondered if she was checking in to sense if she was safe enough with me to left her guard down. Soon she began to settle and start behaving more friendly and was calmer. Over time she stopped behaving wild. Some qualities of her wildness reappears if her needs and schedule aren’t kept.
Her personality has completely shifted and new wonderful characteristics are emerging daily. I am in awe of her and now understand how people can enjoy and love cats. I didn’t know I could enjoy them as well. This one has opened my heart wide open! With her in my life these past months I have noticed my ease to show my loving nature is growing and that my need to be protective is diminishing. She has brought these two qualities to my attention for which I am grateful!
What I have learned from this little one is that the environment and relationships that we have with other people can be translated to our pets. Our pets respond to the same value needs as we do even without spoken words! That communication is the quality of our responsive behavior more than our spoken words.
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015
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Understanding how to bridge the divide between interpersonal intelligence and right fighting (and find self esteem in the process)!
This heart was created spontaneously when I shifted my focus of attention towards my upcoming 2017 communication workshops. One of my first steps in starting classes in a new year for Think Speak Act and Removing Obstacles to Love (both based on Nonviolent Communication) is to stop and check in to sense inwardly my connection to where I am at and what focus is important to draw the learners attention to. Being equally dominate kinesthetically and visually, this check in involves sensations (feelings) and images that then go through a process to become a teaching language. Unlike traditional styles of teaching that have an inflexible structure that restricts the spontaneity a tactile or visual learner needs, the intention of these workshops is to create more balance and understanding between old school doctrine and new age agility training.
Not experiencing education that accommodated my style of learning, finding Dr. Marshal Rosenberg was a huge gift for me to overcome the obstacles of disconnection. I longed for a bridge to enable me to be who I was on the inside with others in the world I lived in who processed in a mindset of right and wrong. The difference for me between those with tactile and visual sensibilities and those of a right and wrong thinker is interpersonal intelligence. This is ones ability for effective verbal and nonverbal communication and to note distinctions among others, to have sensitivity to the moods and temperaments of others, and the ability to entertain multiple perspectives.
Thankfully, I discovered this way of communicating as I had children who have my learning styles!
Typically in the past this heart may have had shades of grey, however, as this practice deepens it is becoming more expressive and vibrant. I am discovering that to be an effective listener, and to express with confidence and self-esteem that leads to honesty, it is best if one has a deep love for oneself . Marshall has given me the practice tools to discover how all our differences are gifts to a relationship. I hope you will join one of my upcoming classes to discover this within yourself!
New babies are borne to be loved in a way that is reflected back by their parents. One expression of this is when they look into their parents eyes they see mirrored back to them the unconditional love they express in their own eyes when looking at their parents. However, as we are fitting our life puzzle pieces together, life jostles us around and unconditional love may not be the expressions we see reflected back. If one has not experienced it, they cannot mirror it. This form of communication can support you to explore and experience this within yourself. It will empower you to begin to mirror this back to others in a safe way that is appropriate for the circumstances. If you have a child you may be more open and vulnerable that with a shop keeper! If you have a lover you may be more intimate than with your boss or fellow employee. It is a wonderful skill to begin to have more clarity in all your relationships. It begins with checking in first to connect to your intention followed by skill development.
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015
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Our worlds, our reality!
In every moment our worlds are colliding. The world we long for (our dreams), our world that is (our real experience) and the world that is shaping up around us (global experience).
The world we long for is our potential based upon all our lives.
Our world that is a culmination of our education, culture and choices we have made in this life.
The world that is shaping up around us is the outcome of our contributions (our actions) to it.
To make any personal changes it requires letting your hopes and dreams become meaningful enough to to break through your conditioning that of society, which you helped to create. Understanding this enables you to create more focus and it becomes about how you do it!
- How do you want to contribute to your future?
- How do you want to contribute to the future of society in each action you take to full fill your objectives?
For example, if you want to contribute to enriched life then you will engage in increased actions that are life-giving. This includes standing up for your values and lifestyles. If you want freedom, choice and peace, your actions will be peaceful and you will give others free choice through your behavior and relationships. If you want to live a healthier lifestyle you will support yourself in personal change that will be supportive versus self-destructive.
- Healthier Lifestyle – transformation
If you are wanting to make a physical body change, relationships change or environmental change, it begins with having a dream. Once you have the dream then it needs to become reality through actions. No one will admit that this is easy. I consider it to be a form of warrior-ship! The personal question is what type of warrior do you want to be.
Do you want to effect change from fear and judgement or from peace and confidence?
- Are you one of those types that is ridged with fear, goes 100 miles an hour delving into your new system and justifies your new lifestyle choices with everyone you meet? On this new plan do you judge others on their choices or body type and try to teach them based upon your own fear based beliefs?
- Are you one of those types that explores personal change and observes the outcomes without being too rigid and giving yourself empathy with any self-judgments that come up?
Of the two characters types listed above, which one do you think would have a greater success rate for long-lasting and a broader range of change?
One cannot say creating personal change is easy. You are changing a culture and creating new patterns. You can long for it and even make a statement of commitment, however, if you are not supported effectively, the change you want or need may not be the outcome!
Some of the ways to support change is to follow a system for setting personal goals that are fun and encompass a life style, not just an attitude! Other ways are to learn a new system of behavior in how we process information and hold our posture. Read more on this below in relationships and healthier life.
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- Relationships – transforming habitual responses (thoughts as a result of emotions) to focused clarity on what is important in the moment, not the past or future
Some of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s messages in his book Nonviolent Communication are the benefits of being empathetic while holding ones own believes and needs as important as those been heard in others. It is a fine practice to enjoy autonomy while still being able to listen to others. This is experience that becomes co-creative and enriching to all involved that creates effective change!
As my practice ages I am discovering that there is not one opinion that matters and that there are no two people who have the same views. To contribute in our global world experience to effect the outcomes we hope for, the best path to achieve this is go beyond what we think we know into being curious about it. When we are stuck in the experience of thinking we know what is right, and if we think we have all the right solutions, we are acting out from a closed attitude that is life draining. It’s essence reflects scarcity, survival and loss versus an open attitude reflecting open-mindedness. An open and curious mind has an essence of space and time that evokes growth, connection and co-operation to investigate possible outcomes together.
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- Healthier Life (transforming habitual responses in a fuller understanding of how ones body is ones environment of experience; mentally, emotionally and physically)
To effect change in your living experience, movement and functional awareness can support how you experience yourself, your surroundings and others. Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais developed a system of somatic Education that increased personal connection to ones functioning. In this practice one has the opportunity to become more self-aware with a heightened sensibility.
Once again, as my practice ages, I am becoming familiar with how ones body condition creates their emotional, mental and physical well-being which corresponds in how they think, feel and respond. I have witnessed how when ones movement patterns become more flexible and less conditioned it increases ones level of tolerance to life events.
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Jaw Release Program since 2007, Authored Achieving your Goals 31 Day Program, Sleep Sweet Sleep, Kid’s Peace Bus Calendar of Values Educational Program & InTouch with Your Values Self-Actualization Program. Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015
Inspired Goal Setting: #8 – Balsamic Moon Phase Goals
Aligning your goals with the Balsamic Moon:
Balsamic Moon – Photo Courtesy of Nasa
Action:
- Surrender, Rest, Recuperate
In this phase it is time to surrender, rest and recuperate. It is also a time for forgiveness. This phase of the moon represents the dark side of the moon, therefore a time for us to rest our busy minds and actions!
Inspired Goal Setting follows the Moon’s path as a reference to create harmony and ease with references on how to apply to one’s calendar of monthly and daily goals. It supports making one’s goals more doable and more achievable!
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This program considers importance of waning and waxing moon cycles!
What is being said about Inspired Goal Setting Workbooks:
Thank you for this gift, Renee
I can imagine ways to use it to help me stay focused on my healing. There are so many parts to it (exercise, foods and supplements, braces, and other supports, mental attitude, etc) that I find it hard to remember it all every day. I think your method will really help. JudyI’ve REALLY enjoyed working with this tool so far! I am using it to set “goals” for my own self. B
I have enjoyed the small piece of sharp focus. B
The Next Steps to making and keeping your goals are:
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508
How to get started
Awareness Through Living Mentoring Programs Available:
1st Level – Getting Started (Introduction & Pattern)
2nd Level – Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
3rd Level – Integration (Embodiment)
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness
Copyright 2014 – 2024 Renee Lindstrom, GCFP
Inspired Goal Setting: #5 – Full Moon Phase Goals
Aligning your goals with the Full Moon:
Full Moon – Photo Courtesy of Nasa
Action:
- Be Confident, It is Done
The moon is full and this suggests the intention has gone out into the world and is now gathering all the circumstances needed to fulfill your wishes along with aligning with other people’s intentions. The time frame in which intention are fulfilled will happen in the best way for all concerned.
There is still a two week time period before the next new moon allowing more time to pay attention to your goals before the cycle begins a new!
Inspired Goal Setting follows the Moon’s path as a reference to create harmony and ease with references on how to apply to one’s calendar of monthly and daily goals. It supports making one’s goals more doable and more achievable!
…
This program considers importance of waning and waxing moon cycles!
What is being said about Inspired Goal Setting Workbooks:
Thank you for this gift, Renee
I can imagine ways to use it to help me stay focused on my healing. There are so many parts to it (exercise, foods and supplements, braces, and other supports, mental attitude, etc) that I find it hard to remember it all every day. I think your method will really help. JudyI’ve REALLY enjoyed working with this tool so far! I am using it to set “goals” for my own self. B
I have enjoyed the small piece of sharp focus. B
The Next Steps to making and keeping your goals are:
Follow the Journey on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508
Awareness Through Living Mentoring Programs Available:
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508
Copyright 2014 – 2024 Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Inspired Goal Setting: #2 – Crescent Moon Phase Goals
Aligning your goals with the Crescent Moon:
Waxing Crescent Moon – Photo Courtesy of Nasa
Action:
- Intentions, Hopes & Wishes
A crescent moon is the best time to commit to one’s intentions, hopes, and wishes for the Lunar Month. This is the time to write your goals on paper or to begin a journal!
Inspired Goal Setting follows the Moon’s path as a reference to create harmony and ease with references on how to apply to one’s calendar of monthly and daily goals. It supports making one’s goals more doable and more achievable!
…
This program considers importance of waning and waxing moon cycles!
What is being said about Inspired Goal Setting Workbooks:
Thank you for this gift, Renee
I can imagine ways to use it to help me stay focused on my healing. There are so many parts to it (exercise, foods and supplements, braces, and other supports, mental attitude, etc) that I find it hard to remember it all every day. I think your method will really help. JudyI’ve REALLY enjoyed working with this tool so far! I am using it to set “goals” for my own self. B
I have enjoyed the small piece of sharp focus. B
The Next Steps to making and keeping your goals are:
Follow the Journey on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508
How to get started
Awareness Through Living Mentoring Programs Available:
1st Level – Getting Started (Introduction & Pattern)
2nd Level – Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
3rd Level – Integration (Embodiment)
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 