“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Einstein
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Einstein
Body Balance: Inverted Foot
Observing and exploring an inverted foot posture I was told that due to a medical condition as a child the tendons in some of the toes had been cut. With no opinions and continuing to investigate what movement was available, without any one particular focus, the lesson ended with new joint movement in the ankle. There was also more contact between the foot and the floor with less inversion.
Upon return for the following lesson the foot presented itself without being inverted! The curling in was not present.
Renee’s notes: When viewing the inverted foot the image of a baby who has not put any weight on their feet yet or developed their limb, ankle and foot muscles is what came to mind. Exploring it from this perspective created a curiosity that led the lesson.
Recommendation: Explore the facts with a curiosity and forget the labels!
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©by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, May, 2014
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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Patience – Value Reflection
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©by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, May, 2014
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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Tagged Culture of Values, getting InTouch, Inside Awareness, Patience, Renee Lindstrom, Values
Body Balance – Re-introducing Food
When someone has stopped eating a balanced diet due to health, pain, depression and simply not having the energy, the hardest thing to consider is starting to eat again. The thought is too much effort. It is overwhelming and a challenge. One may feel resistance, doubt and frustration. If there is any residual effects of pain, sickness and struggle, food and diet may be the last thing on the priority list.
Our body naturally goes into survival without a balanced intake of food and it will increase anxiety, fear, depression, impatience, frustration and anger. It will distort critical judgement and slow understanding, clarity and perception. This will distort perception and encourage painful behaviors. Here are some steps to consider for making it easier:
Steps for reintroducing food for ease and support
- Step #1 – get InTouch with a familiar diet
Throw out rules and diet concepts. Remember back to the foods enjoyed in the past. Connect to the diet that is familiar (when growing up). Have conversation with a support team about the meals and foods enjoyed in the past.
*Remember this can be tweaked. Be patient.
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- Step #2 – get Support: plan for a complete structure
Find support to make a simple plan. Those in the supporting remember to focus on how to do it versus what to do. It is the how that is overwhelming! Post pictures of portion sizes of where to start. The first area to consider is protein intake. A healthy balance to begin is 20 grams of protein per meal with veggies, fruit and smaller portions of carbs. This is what 20 grams of protein would look like.
20 grams of protein
- Step #3 – get a Meal Plan together
Get support to write out a one week plan of meals and snacks. The chart would include: breakfast, lunch and dinner with some snack ideas. Post this in a convenient place.
Example ~ Created for a Senior who stopped eating due to two years of prepared unfamiliar food that was disliked.
- Step #4 – Shopping List
Create an adaptable shopping list made up that only requires check marks beside the items for the weeks shopping needs.
Shopping list
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©by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, May, 2014
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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Tagged balanced diet, Body Balance, Diet, diet concepts, Eating Support, Food, Meal Planning, Physical Balance, Shopping, Shopping List
Exploring without rules is learning!
A few hardcore Feldenkrais® students came to join in one evening of Conscious Movement through Dance. As the circle began sharing it was explained that the evening wasn’t a Feldenkrais® focused event for their benefit. They chose to stay and take part in a movement with the intention to connect conscious awareness and action in a dance pattern. This concept had been explored with the other participants for a several nights before. This evenings focus was putting patterns of isolated movements into a bigger flow of patterns to experience.
As the larger focused movement pattern was taken up off the floor into big movements a smile crossed their faces. They mentioned that they had never taken their Feldenkrais® lessons off the floor, therefore never experienced them in an upright action! Beautiful moment that encouraged the remaining group members to smile.
Exploring without rules is learning!
Many thanks to the Church of Truth in James Bay for their support in hosting this wonderful series and letting us play with Conscious Movement in Dance!
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©by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, May, 2014
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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“The spoken word”
Recently when describing how contemplation can be an outcome when using a precise formula of spoken words, a colleague mentioned a verse in the bible as follows:
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- King James Bible “Authorized Version”, Cambridge Edition
What a wonderful insight and comparison!
The quote I have connected to in the past as describing this experience comes from Rumi:
“Out beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I will meet you there.”
Here are a few more lines in this chapter that continue to describe an experience of connection that may happen between two people speaking with honesty and listening with empathy.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
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©by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, May, 2014
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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