Need incentive to pause and reflect on your goals during the Moons travel through Pisces?
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Life Area governed by Pisces: Faith, Hope, Spirit, Connection, Dream, Vision, Plan, Goals
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In the land of right and wrong there is only the separating experience of right and wrong.
If one longs for connection, right and wrong isn’t important.
Your motivation for connection is what is important.
The skill: to move beyond reaction to pause and explore your intention.
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For me it is an experience of one merging their pain with an others.
Going into sympathy reflects merging old pain together with an others circumstances.
Let me explain.
In a circle with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in 2004, he began demonstrating a deepened empathy pattern and I found myself curious about how some of us in the circle were independently holding the space and others where crying in sorrow. I asked an advanced trainer who had worked with Dr. Rosenberg for many years about the differences in experience. 
I was told that those who were not sobbing didn’t have a similar pain as the person who was receiving empathy. Those who were had that same abuse in their lifetime that stimulated old pain. Fortunately this intensive was to transition from moral judgments and right and wrong thinking. This explanation was shared with clarity and as a matter of fact. What I learned was that those identifying with the pain had an opportunity to heal themselves in witnessing the resolution in the person who was receiving empathy from Dr. Rosenberg. The key was to feel their pain rise up and let their thoughts rest. The skill was to resist going into their own story that would hijack the circumstances away from the speaker. I call this the ultimate witnessing ability. (This is when you can stop yourself from hijacking someones story away from them and making it about you.)
Empathy practice, the NVC way, is to fully hear what someone is saying without interpreting it back through your past experiences and personal perspectives. The only way someone is going to feel seen and heard is if you are able to listen to their words while being attentive to what you are hearing. The following ways of habitually listening are not empathetic, instead they challenge the speaker.
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Currently the moon is in it’s waning cycle. A great time for finishing up projects and clearing clutter. Not a great time for new projects. It will be diminishing until the next new moon.
For goal setting this phase of the moon is it’s Disseminating phase. This is a time to share your goals with others and ask them to celebrate you and your intentions. In this case needs that your are meeting for yourself.
Read more on 8 Phases of Moon for turning intentions into goals
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As the moon journeys through Sagittarius it’s energy reflects taking risks on instinct. This is the sign of many visionary pioneers. Sag is a mutable fire sign that generates a comfortableness (mutability) with change (fire).
This full moon’s traditional name is strawberry moon and it takes place during a Lunar eclipse. Many are predicting a time of radical change as the moon experiences it’s shadow side while travelling through the Earth’s shadow.
Today is a power day for intentions. It has the strongest energy for aligning with the change you are seeking. Today’s full moon is a milestone for the goals you have been considering since the last new moon whether consciously or unconsciously. Did you know all your thoughts, hope and dreams are actions of intentions regardless of being self-empowering or self-depreciating?
What have you been thinking and hoping for these past days?
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Your focus stimulates your connection physically, ethereally, perceptually, emotionally, mentally and ultimately your connection and contribution to life, environment and planet.
One of the physical areas that is a hit right now in my Feldenkrais work is eye focus. It seems that those spending time using Zoom have been getting coaching on how to appear through facial expression and eye contact. It seems that the focus has gone from full body expression to facial with this current medium for staying in touch!
This leads to a question for consideration. Do you focus on the world and take aim with your eyes or do you let the world come to you? If you had to guess, which action would be intense and which action would be soft?
What I am hearing as a need from those on the receiving end of a Zoom connection is for empathy expressions. Those who haven’t accomplished slowing down and softening their eyes are unable to mask their lack of empathy over Zoom.
If you would be interested in discovering more about ways to cultivate this skill through simple micro-moves connect and arrange a Zoom session. This is not a trend for healing yourself or others, it is simply increasing your functional facial expressions that increases your accessibility.
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Tagged Eye Expression, Eye Focus, eyes, Facial Expression, Focus, Zoom empathy eyes, Zoom eye contact
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