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16 Reasons why to explore Body, Mind & Heart Connection @ Inside Awareness?

Posted on August 12, 2017 | Leave a comment

INTEGRATION, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Experience a deeper connection to self.

Improve your posture! Walk, sit, stand, sleep, breathe, think and feel better.

Understand the influences of your environment; external and internal!

Increase self-value and deepen inner trust and know you are doing what is right for you.

Connect to your boundaries and learn how to voice them in a safe way without conflict!

Stop compromising, learn how to have choice.

Increase your understanding of your self-image and how it is holding your back from success!

Stop feeling alone & lonely?

Turn abusive relationships into empowering experiences!

Stop doubting yourself when it comes to decision-making.

Learn how to transition from taking things personally by developing skills to translate difficult messages.

Move through fear to build relationships and find love.

Understand how to resolve differences.

Improve your odds of finding partnerships where you are valued.

End your relationships with more ease, respect and move forward with less attachment!

Become aware of the culture you are creating in your parenting style (or of your parents and their’s before them).

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What does your Relationship Corner say about you?

Posted on July 24, 2017 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Relationship Corner

I finally was able to get to my relationship corner this past weekend! Here is a before and after picture. This year it became the storage corner of all the things I intended to get back too! Stopping to take a look at it last week I noticed it was a visual of what was happening in my head with regards to my own relationships – cluttered chaos! Overgrown with ivy and tree branches from the neighbours and bamboo from along my back fence line, storage of pots, shutters and electrical items. It was time to do something about it! Believe it or not my environment affects my brain, emotions, physical and mental well-being! As open space emerged there was a shift from overwhelm and feelings of being choked, to relief and a peaceful calm and I knew what to do with the white stone that had been gifted to me the week earlier! I had been wondering where to put it and standing in this corner I was reminded of two things; white is one of the colors representing relationships and it brightens dark corners! I am more than pleased with the results! For me, I am now feeling spaciousness and calm!

Have you considered how you respond to your environment?

3 Tips for your Relationship Corner

Reduce the clutter and create spaciousness.
Look at the lighting in this corner. If it is too dark, lighten it up, or if too light, darken it to ground the space.
Check to see what you have in this corner that symbolized your relationships with a significant other or in the community. For me, this corner is outdoors, in my back garden where the door to my office is. It therefore not only represents relationships with my community, it reflects that with my students and clients too! I have chosen it to reflect a zen like quality which is the element of metal . There are two silver stars in the ivy and two hearts in the white stone, both which symbolize fire, and reflect engaged relationships!

Where is your relationships corner?

Imagine a nine square grid overlaying your property. Three rows of three, equal in size. Now stand on the street facing your property. The relationship corner is the last square to the right in the farthest row of three. Now walk back into your garden as though for the first time and observe this area and what story it may share.

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Empathy quote by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg

Posted on June 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Tragically one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy. They don’t know how to ask for it.” Dr. Marshall Rosenberg

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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

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Happy Feet: What folk remedies do you use for corns on your feet?

Posted on May 18, 2017 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

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I have become all to familiar with how corns can disturb a person’s walking pattern. If not treated properly one corn can destroy it! Have you ever felt a constant pain in one spot as you did something as simply as stand or walk? A corn can cause a person to try and not put pressure on that one spot thereby changing how they balance their own weight, stand and walk!

Besides helping those suffering from corns to re-learning how to improve their gait I have been researching on-line for home remedies to soften and reduce these culprits that can eventually lead to canes. I have come across this home remedy one more than once. Have you tried it?

Softening corns using Crushed Aspirins and Lemon Juice

You will need:

5 Aspirins crushed
1/2 – 1 teaspoon of Lemon Juice
Water
Plastic for a wrap
heated damp towel

Mix the crushed aspirin and lemon juice together first. Add only enough water if needed remembering to make the ingredients a paste that is thick enough to apply to your corn and have it stick.

Use your fingers or butter knife to apply the paste to the corn and wrap your foot with plastic wrap or bag. Take your warm damp towel and wrap your foot over the plastic. Let sit for 15 minutes.

Once you remove the foot wrappings remove the dried past and gentle scrub with a rough piece of lava or pumice stone.

Take time to notice how the corn feels to the touch now after your home treatment. Check in to observe how it has changed. For example: Is it any softer?

Each time you put pressure on this area it is rubbing against something so the corn will be building a layer of tissue to protect this spot. To get ahead of it you will want to repeat this treatment as many times as you can during the week. Beside the poultice and more obvious concerns like tight shoes, you may wish to investigate your walking gait and how you balance your body weight. The feedback I am getting from teaching Feldenkrais® to those suffering from poor balance and walking gait has been, “It has never been explained like this by anyone!” this may be a learning method worth your while to investigate!

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Spending the weekend with lilac’s!

Posted on May 11, 2017 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Lilacs

Lilac Wine Vinegar

Lilac Jelly

Observing the finished lilac jelly this weekend I knew I had to share this picture after mentioning lilacs in our last newsletter! The colour and taste is surprising and beautiful. This is a product I will continue to fill my pantry with in years to come! Due to the benefits of lilacs which assist our bodies to cleanse itself of intestinal parasites, this is a plant product I would continue to encourage others to begin integrating into their diets. (I also created lilac wine vinegar and lilac infused honey!)

Researching edible plants and integrating them into my diet brings recognition of how the cycle of plants in nature grow is designed for our greatest benefit. A fine example are plants that first emerge in spring that are used for cleansing with natural laxative qualities, bursts of minerals and vitamins, and that have anti-inflammatory qualities to shed our winter diets! One such plant now considered a super food is one we have grown to dislike – the tenacious dandelion! There is a reason these came with our ancestors to North America.

What’s laughable is the amount of money spent on costly man-made products that have negative side effects. Natures array of healthy edibles encompasses a broader spectrum of whole wellness with only an investment of time and learning. In comparison pharma care products are a large investment for individuals while corporations are realizing huge financial gains. Corporations are founded on trying to copyright and duplicate the effects of nature while viewing us (man, woman and child) as a commodity.

How do I know the benefits? I have been a consumer and major spender myself seeking diet, makeup, health and food supplement products to feel better and look great for years. So imagine my surprise to experience changes I had been unsuccessfully seeking when spending a year exploring the plants outside my door without focusing on any changes in me specifically. My attention had/is on integrating the edible plants in my area as a food source, creating medicinal remedies and body and hair products.

I can tell you the outcome of this past year has had many benefits:

naturally loosing up to 10 inches around my waist
stop cooking and eating meat at home including chicken however still enjoy when going out
loss of cravings
eating less (smaller portions and longer breaks between eating)
baby fog as I have called it since having babies cleared up and higher functioning brain
more energy
sleep more soundly
savings on my grocery bill
slowing down spread of & diminishing existing age spots
stronger immune system & no illness this past year
calmer, happier and growing sense of well-being that continues to expand
more engaged & connected with the environment
daily compliments on my skin
hair is regaining body, luster and thickness while some of the plants slow down graying and turn some grey back into my natural hair colour

I urge everyone to pick one plant close by to focus their attention on and invest some time getting to know it more intimately. Learn if it is edible and if it is, start trying to eat it raw or in recipes being curious about changes in flavour and in self. I am thankful I have been trained to never stop learning and to remain open and curious by exploring. These are the characteristics that will change habits and provide a better life.

Look for new images on Instagram or visit pages currently being developed to share plant edibles and recipe ideas from the Greater Victoria and area Communities. With the recent rains I have just discovered some sources of Horsetail! Will be getting some pictures soon!

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

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Are you like me? Do you observe body postures in other’s? Check out these walking postures….

Posted on April 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

Upper & Lower Rotation – locked Head

Are you like me? Do you observe body postures in other’s? Even prior to being a movement specialist I focused my attention on people’s body language. I remember a cuz asking me why I was looking at a friend of hers as she was walking towards us. Only I was a teen and didn’t know the answer at that time, which as it turns out is how I take in information!! For me, what people say out loud sometimes and what their body story do not match up. Even at an early age I began listening to body postures, not words!

In this picture above this gal has a nice upper and lower rotation however her head is locked! You can see that her right leg is forward while her left should is rotated forward, however her head is locked in a forward facing position. What does this mean? Her movement is not efficient so she is using too much effort in her activity. What can she do differently? Unlock her head and let is swing slightly as she moves forward. Why? Well let me show you some outcomes of a locked head (securely placed in one position always).

Head falling forward – depression, pain & anger

Head falling forward – neck, shoulders, ribs, & shoulders frozen

Beautiful walking rotation posture enabling balance and ease in holding babies weight!

This posture is nice example of upper and lower rotation in walking. His head rotation is looking over his right leg to look at something on that side of him. However, for a more perfect alignment to support his babies weight, his head could be looking over his left leg.

Can you turn your shoulders left and right while turning your head in the opposite direction?

Learn more about your movement @ an upcoming workshop or class @ Monterey Centre – upcoming calendar. Movement focus events are on; Jaw, Balance, Walking, Breathing, Sitting and Self Awareness in Movement.

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

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End food poverty by re-educating a community to harvest free & healthy food resources one garden at a time!

Posted on April 24, 2017 | Leave a comment

A food diversity re-education program close to home!,

Awareness through Nature

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP

_20170424_101328 Edible & Not Edible (Can you see the plastic forks)

Edible & Not Edible (Can you see the plastic forks)

For educational purposes I have began putting out plastic forks, to represent the plants in my garden that are edible. and little not edible signs beside those that are not edible. My hope is that those walking by may begin to notice and become curious about the weeds, flowers, plants and trees around them that they can consume free of charge, increasing their health and decreasing their grocery bill. Another hope I have is to encourage my students and clients to become more aware of their environment. It is imperative to good health for one to become present in their surroundings.

In the Greater Victoria Communities mental illness and homelessness is increasing and there is an ever growing demand for food. Greater Victoria businesses, grocery…

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