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Body Beautiful Weight-loss 5: Phyicality

Posted on November 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Amazing Body Process

Gaining weight I could observe my body as it changed and see how amazing the body is storing fat.  I have to admit that at first my body concealed the weight gain extremely well.  When it got to the point of not being able to uniformly spread the weight gain around it began to create pockets to store fat.   When these pockets where expanding beyond their ability to hold fate bulges appeared.  By the point of bulging there was no concealing it! Physically it was uncomfortable.  When you have bulges the skins becomes irritated and clothes do not stay up well.  Especially underclothes.  The reversibility of weight loss are moments of celebration and relieve as clothes begin to stay in place and stop rolling down!

How to Loose Weight by creating a Foodie Lifestyle Naturally

Steps to Loosing Weight

  1.  Commit by connecting to intention (separate fitness intention for diet, they are not married and if necessary create a second intention for fitness)
  2.  Food Lifestyle assessment to guarantee it’s doable (remember diet extends into the kitchen, fridge, garden and grocer.  It doesn’t extend to the gym or track)
  3.  Choose a diet plan that’s right for you remembering to make it about you and not about the diet.  (Remember that if you choose a trending diet eventually you will go off it and then what? where is the learning integration?)
  4. Get support for keeping your intention and turning them into goals. (Remember a mentor, group or community can  motivate increase incentive to reach your potential)
  5. Acknowledge results with a coach or in a journal.  (Noticing change is the point of mindful awareness and expressing regret or celebrating versus beating yourself up is the new change agent)

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Renee’s Living In Natures Love Lifestyle Series on Food Empathy for Emotional eating
Copyright 2014 – 2018  Living in Nature’s Love by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
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Body Beautiful Weight-loss 4: Weight & Self Empathy

Posted on November 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

 

During this weight gain I am appreciative of having the empathy skills based upon years of practicing Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s model of Nonviolent Communication and empathetic listening of self and others.

  • Emotionally & Mentally

Gaining weight I could name my changing  emotional states as thresholds kept expanding all the while understanding what was happening in my environment to contribute to it.  I know that we are always meeting a need in dieting and weight gain.  It is never circumstances beyond our control as though some outside source made me gain weight.  We may have needs that are greater in the movement distracting us from focusing more attention to it. Discovering what this is brings attention to it and the value needs.

Next Article:  Body Beautiful – Physicality

How to Loose Weight by creating a Foodie Lifestyle Naturally

Two immediate ways Renee can help you with your weight loss are 

  1.  Coaching Options:
    • Turning intentions into goals
    • Goals Setting & Home Audit and Support
  2.  Food Consciousness Building & Education

Steps to Loosing Weight

  1.  Commit by connecting to intention (separate fitness intention for diet, they are not married and if necessary create a second intention for fitness)
  2.  Foodie Lifestyle assessment to guarantee it’s doable (remember diet extends into the kitchen, fridge, garden and grocer.  It doesn’t extend to the gym or track)
  3.  Choose a diet plan that’s right for you remembering to make it about you and not about the diet.  (Remember that if you choose a trending diet eventually you will go off it and then what? where is the learning integration?)
  4. Get support for keeping your intention and turning them into goals. (Remember a mentor, group or community can  motivate increase incentive to reach your potential)
  5. Acknowledge results with a coach or in a journal.  (Noticing change is the point of mindful awareness and expressing regret or celebrating versus beating yourself up is the new change agent)

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Renee’s Living In Natures Love Lifestyle Series on Food Empathy for Emotional eating
Copyright 2014 – 2018  Living in Nature’s Love by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
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Body Beautiful – Weight Loss 3: Beyond Right & Wrong Thinking

Posted on November 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

 

I value the aspects of my education development that focused heavily upon experiencing and learning through a quality of being curious and exploring versus the rigidity of rules and concepts.  In Feldenkrais®  this is called , “somatic learning,” in Nonviolent Communication it is called, “connection,” and in awareness of space it is called, “exploring changes to cause and effect.”

These three pragmatic modes of education allowed me to experience my process while gaining weight and then again when loosing it.  In Feldenkrais we are taught to pay attention to reversibility!  It’s as important as to how you get somewhere as it is to return back.  Acknowledge, Acknowledge…..

How to Loose Weight by creating a Foodie Lifestyle Naturally

Two immediate ways Renee can help you with your weight loss are 

  1.  Coaching Options:
    • Turning intentions into goals
    • Goals Setting & Home Audit and Support
  2.  Food Consciousness Building & Education

Steps to Loosing Weight

  1.  Commit by connecting to intention (separate fitness intention for diet, they are not married and if necessary create a second intention for fitness)
  2.  Foodie Lifestyle assessment to guarantee it’s doable (remember diet extends into the kitchen, fridge, garden and grocer.  It doesn’t extend to the gym or track)
  3.  Choose a diet plan that’s right for you remembering to make it about you and not about the diet.  (Remember that if you choose a trending diet eventually you will go off it and then what? where is the learning integration?)
  4. Get support for keeping your intention and turning them into goals. (Remember a mentor, group or community can  motivate increase incentive to reach your potential)
  5. Acknowledge results with a coach or in a journal.  (Noticing change is the point of mindful awareness and expressing regret or celebrating versus beating yourself up is the new change agent)

Connect with Renee now to get on board with your weight loss program

 

 

 

 

 

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Renee’s Living In Natures Love Lifestyle Series on Food Empathy for Emotional eating
Copyright 2014 – 2018  Living in Nature’s Love by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
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Body Beautiful – Weight Loss 2: Heavy & and an empath

Posted on November 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Somewhere along this journey I lost over 60 pounds, dropped 10 inches from around my waist and watched the bulges and pockets disappear, and now the overall body weight is disappearing.

Perceiving the silent responses in others

I shared a snippet of my weight loss thru pragmatic experience versus idealism on lost weight and found food love  page.  Now to the interactions of others.  I have not shared that I am an em-path with many.  Imagine being heavy and facing someone who has no ability to have autonomy from another’s experience and being able to perceive it clearly yet, as a professional,  not specifically addressing it!

I am referring to perceiving others mental processing experience based upon comparisons, moral judgement, criticisms, right and wrong, and shame states and their corresponding feelings.  Perceiving these mental and emotions states of  others was a paradox as an Awareness through Movement, Awareness through Communication and Awareness through Environment Practitioner that focuses upon inner changes and stimulus of cause and effect of shifting environments.  Their reactions to my weight was limited to their idealism of self-image didn’t include their own states of being, mentally, emotionally and physically.    Whether this was lacking physical, mental or emotional flexibility, and resilience or the lack of ability to understand that others have differing perspective  or a lack of listening skills and being able to hear and include others in the conversation their self-image idealism is experienced by this empath as  a prison of fear, anxiety and contempt.  Views, beliefs and emotions that would extend inside themselves as they fail in their own expectations.

How to Loose Weight by creating a Foodie Lifestyle Naturally

Two immediate ways Renee can help you with your weight loss are 

  1.  Coaching Options:
    • Turning intentions into goals
    • Goals Setting & Home Audit and Support
  2.  Food Consciousness Building & Education

Steps to Loosing Weight

  1.  Commit by connecting to intention (separate fitness intention for diet, they are not married and if necessary create a second intention for fitness)
  2.  Foodie Lifestyle assessment to guarantee it’s doable (remember diet extends into the kitchen, fridge, garden and grocer.  It doesn’t extend to the gym or track)
  3.  Choose a diet plan that’s right for you remembering to make it about you and not about the diet.  (Remember that if you choose a trending diet eventually you will go off it and then what? where is the learning integration?)
  4. Get support for keeping your intention and turning them into goals. (Remember a mentor, group or community can  motivate increase incentive to reach your potential)
  5. Acknowledge results with a coach or in a journal.  (Noticing change is the point of mindful awareness and expressing regret or celebrating versus beating yourself up is the new change agent)

Connect with Renee now to get on board with your weight loss program

 

 

 

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Renee’s Living In Natures Love Lifestyle Series on Food Empathy for Emotional eating
Copyright 2014 – 2018  Living in Nature’s Love by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000

 

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Nov 14 ’18 Inside News: Empathy for the Parasympathetic & Sympathetic Nervous Systems with Feldenkrais®

Posted on November 14, 2018 | Leave a comment

In our last newsletter shared how foods could improve our emotional groupings by connecting them to body regions along the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous systems. This practitioner is going to call that ‘Food Empathy’ due to the amazing emotional shifts food can create!

This newsletter will suggest that movement can also affect these systems giving the reader more choices in increasing their skills to shift or transform uncomfortable behavioral patterns using  Awareness through Movement® Somatic Patterns.

The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) controls homeostasis and the body at rest and is responsible for the body’s “rest and digest” function. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) controls the body’s responses to a perceived threat and is responsible for the “fight or flight” response.

The difference for this Feldenkrais Practitioner has been that Feldenkrais articulates the inner movement through sensing along the nervous system to mobilize other moving parts to increase ease in movement while other styles of movement are stylized exercise patterns.  The most difficult process this practitioner has observed in others in lessons is the difficulty many have in transitioning from needing to know how to do it before trying it to simply experiencing it through patterns.

Below  are some physical examples along the nervous system that compliment the emotional sensing of the Nonviolent Communication 4 part model, Observation, Feelings, Needs & Request as well as subtle energy center foods mentioned in the last newsletter.  This practitioner is suggestion that these movements can increases one’s window of tolerance and ability to cope as she suggest foods could by increasing the gut brain connection.  It is the body’s natural empathy resource.

To read more from this writer on this topic:

Awareness through Movement for Crown & Brow

The Brow Chakra encompasses the pituitary gland, eyes, head, and lower part of the brain and is associated with the center of ones intuition.

All guided Awareness through Movement® Lessons, called ATM’s, would support the 6th & 7th Chakras as the intention of the patterns are designed to focus ones attention to specifically bring a state of experiencing each moment using the movement itself. In meditation one is taken into a practice of following the breath or imagery while Feldenkrais® takes one into the focused experience of their personal action from the inside out.

Try this example experience of 7 steps to get in touch with your somatic awareness capabilities:

Awareness through Movement for the Throat

Located in the throat at the voice box and Adams apple areas, the Throat Chakra governs the voice, endocrine gland, thyroid and communication.

The guided patterns Awareness through Movement® lessons can increase ones ability to sing higher or lower, speak with more groundedness, swallow easier and unblock air passageways going down into the torso.  Mobilizing unused muscles and spinal movements can free up any restrictions limiting information and fluid going upwards into the head and brain also.

In Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg discussed how the base of the throat area is the line that separates reaction with thinking and speaking  from connection to universal values increasing empathy.  His focus of empathy was an action with an intention of the heart (or values).  If one was speaking only from the mind only the result would be disconnection and conflict.

This Feldenkrais Practitioner, who mentors and coaches using Nonviolent Communication,  can see clues in others who appear to living in their heads, so to speak.  It is evident in their facial features, colouring and body posture.  Sharing  lessons in either Awareness through Movement or Awareness through Communication  this Practitioner can see the changing environment in ones colouring, features and postural changes.

Try this example experience of 8 steps to get in touch with your somatic awareness capabilities:

Click the links to read more on the remaining centers:

Two ways you can enjoy the Feldenkrais Method is through group classes or personal integration sessions called:
Function Integration  & Awareness through Movement 

To demonstrate the difference between Feldenkrais and other Movements in this weeks Awareness through Movement Lessons I showed the group a yoga mat and a mat I use in my movement classes.  The differences you can actually see are that the yoga mat is sticky on purpose to support held patterns while the Feldenkrais mat is for mobility for the purpose of having no environmental
restrictions.  In yoga one holds a pose and moves into another contrived pose while in Feldenkrais one has a focus on all the steps of the inside structure on their way towards striking any one posture.  

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  • Turn Intentions into goals following pattern that increases self-esteem and confidence replacing self judgements in areas of movement, relationships & lifestyle
  • Begin Planning now for 2019 using a model of integration where your vision can become reality.
  • Celebrate your commitment to yourself with monthly organized labyrinth walks to reflect and check in.

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Nov 4 ’18 News: Learn to make no-cost cream cheese & whey for the holidays

Posted on November 14, 2018 | Leave a comment
Learn how to make cream cheese, whey & fermented foods, and about 5 Ways to enhance your focus of attention, improve somatic movement & communication skills

movement, communication, diet, environment, intentions into goals 

1  Take a class  @ Monterey Center:

Somatic Movement Series

  • ​Balance and A Fear of Falling – starts Mon, Nov 5 @ 1:00 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300

  • Awareness through Movement – starts Mon, Nov 5 @ 2:30 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300
Nonviolent Communication

  • Removing Obstacles to Love – starts Fri, Nov 9th @ 1 pm

Read more or still time to register @ 250-370-7300

2.  Personal Function Integration

Book a personalized Feldenkrais Somatic Movement session
250-0361-7508

3.  Take individual or plan group Coaching/Mentoring

  • Turn Intentions into goals following pattern that increases self-esteem and confidence replacing self judgements.
  • Begin Planning now for 2019 using a model of integration where your vision can become reality.
  • Celebrate your commitment to yourself with monthly organized labyrinth walks to reflect and check in.
Book a personalized Coaching session for self, work, group or create a retreat
250-361-7508

4.  Improve outcomes with Home & Work Audits

Explore how your environment is contributing to any blocks you are experiencing in your ability to transform your personal goals.  Create a supportive environment to help you integrate your dreams.
Book a personalized Coaching session
250-361-7508

5.  Educational:  Healthy emotional eating!

Did you know that food can create a shift in your emotions?

Check out these 7 clip-art pictures of certain emotions & feelings that can be shifted with food!  Yes with food.  Food can increase our levels of tolerance by creating a healthier gut and communicating with the body via biological systems, such as the endocrine glands and nervous system – read more  or pick out group that represents you dominate emotions and go to link of healthy emotional foods for that group.

Healthy gut, flexible brain

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Making no-cost cream cheese & whey (whole protein)

 Making yogurt with two ingredients led to making home-made cream cheese.  What is so wonderful about this is that I am left with 2 cups of   whey.

Whey is a whole protein that has 9 essential amino acids and is low in lactose content.  Starting with home-made yogurt means no additives.  Simple ingredients with no preservatives or sugars.  Clean food!

   Make your own yogurt, cream cheese and whey for the holidays!
Start with simple yogurt recipe
or with simple cream cheese recipe
use whey in:
Bone Broth
Fermented Food Recipes
Soups, Stews, Shakes

fermented Foods are fun & healthy living foods for the holidays:

Here is a link to pdf download or to view some great recipes to increase gut health with the bonus of increasing brain health:
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Feldenkrais in the Pool?

Posted on July 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

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Recently a client asked if I would come into the pool for our Feldenkrais session.  I couldn’t see any reason not to and was curious about the upcoming experience.

The day arrives and this clients physio and I are at the outdoor pool with them.  I begin with listening and observing what their routine is in the pool before sharing any possible movement patterns.  What I recognize is simple and doable movements are missing.  Movements such as rotating leg in a circle to loosen hip-joint and create a brains connection to using this rotation in future patterns of movement.  A movement the client can successful do in the pool without strain or pain.  I suggested this pattern and then added ankle joint circles.  In the water this movement was more available and the client had more ease in turning one foot in a circle once again increasing the connection between the brain and the action.  Finally going to their knees and to explore bending them to bring them up one at a time to mimic walking which is doable in the water.

After a few minutes of creating these easy patterns that are difficult on dry land I suggest that the client stretch out in the water face down and begin to bring knees towards chest to mimic crawling.  Beautiful precursor to walking!

Feldenkrais in the water?  YES!

One take-a-way was what happened when a stretching exercise created a leg cramp.  In explaining it the physio said to the client, …. “this is the same cramp that you have had since last year.”  I waited a for a time and said that cramps come with movements that are happening in the moment.  I asked the client what movement they  did that resulted in the cramp.  Both the physio and the client identified immediately that it was the stretching exercise.  The function of being able to associate with the real action is imperative if there is to be effective change.  Generalization, association and storytelling has no therapeutic value in my opinion.  Why?  There is no connection or awareness of the action to be able to replace it with a new action.

Another take-a-way is that rotating the limb was called, “range of motion” by the physio versus a movement the client can make to increase their functional ability to increase the way they move.   Generalizing this movement by labeling it “range of motion” creates a degree of separation in the clients conscious awareness of it’s intended function.  It’s time to get back to the basics and focus on real function.  Lets stop talking a language of separation and start speaking  a language of connection to functions.

Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication,  Empathy,  Values 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
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