Harnessing the Power of the Moon for turning illusive intentions into obvious goals

When it comes to the moon almanac two phases of action are reflected by the growing and diminishing moon. These are cycles that bookend the New and Full Moons called waning and waxing cycles.

New Moon event meaning:
The new moon is the beginning of the lunar cycle when the moon is in line with the sun and the earth. The moon is not visible during this alignment leaving us with a black sky.  This moon event represents a new beginning and rejuvenation.

Traditionally this time is known as the best time for making changes for personal growth including beauty, health, skills and for adding new relationships or finding new employment.

Read more on setting goals on the new moon

Waxing Moon Cycle meaning:

The waxing moon is the time between the new moon and the full moon. Every night after the new moon it gets a little larger.  This is a time for action to meet ones needs for creativity and aspirations.  Taking actions can increase ones courage and motivation.

Full Moon event meaning:  

The Moon is at its most powerful at this time.  Even though the full moon only truly occurs for one night out of the entire lunar cycle you can harness the energy of the full moon for about 2 days before or after the night the moon is truly full.

Traditionally the full moon has been a time for making concrete decisions and taking action.  It reflects completion and makes a statement, “it is done.”  It is also a time of passion, romance, love and fertility.

Read more on setting goals with the full moon

Waning Moon cycle meaning:

This is when the moon begins to get smaller in the sky.  This reflects a time to reduce clutter and remove old habits like smoking, overeating, other addictions and bad relationships. 

Read more on setting goals with the 8 phases of the moon


Inside Awareness’s Inspired Moon phase goal setting program
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!  

Get the Inspired 8 Phase Goal Setting 30 Day  workbook & calendar

May/June New Moon to New Moon Goal Phase Calendar Workbook

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The Next Steps to making and keeping your goals are:

  1. Commit to Daily Personal Actions
  2. Mentored Coaching

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Foods that encourage ‘less is more,’ naturally

Have you experienced how foods appear to influence moods and temperament?

or heard about the gut/brain connection?

The digestion of foods creates an environment in ones guts that creates healthy  or unhealthy bacteria and this bacteria, healthy or unhealthy,  influences physical and mental symptoms.  A gut with healthy bacteria creates body, mental and emotional balance while one with unhealthy bacteria weakens immune responses and metabolic rate.

A healthy eating plan is important to create a healthy gut of thriving  bacteria.  Some of the best ways to do this it through fresh, cultured and fermented foods.

Calling it an eating plan acts more like a guide to explore food to increase  curiosity versus adding to the rules of right and wrong that have been cultivated through our cultural programming.

Many have lost the natural inner connection to intuitively knowing what foods to prepare with what is available in our kitchens on any given day.  Food box programs are thriving as they provide the convenience of daily food following a menu they provide you.  All one has to do is cook as per instructions.  Services that drive meals to homes from restaurants are thriving as focus moves away from food and meal prep.    In an earlier post Hitting the food re-set button this author shares the benefits of getting back into connection with food and preparation naturally.  It doesn’t have to be a competition with self or others but rather an investigation of the senses.  This can increase experiences of inner joy, appreciation of self and food, groundedness and self-confidence.  A natural occurring emotional experience is a reduction of fear, anxiety and anger.  As mentioned above the guts bacteria creates the direction of responses whether peaceful or conflicted.

Three ways this author has experienced a reconnect with food are listed below.

  1.  Exploring fresh sources of food, including wild edibles and plants.  Follow this ongoing and rewarding back yard journey on her blog – Living in Natures Love
  2. Following a guided plan that explores food from a core relationship with nature with a focus on somatic food education:
  3. Introduction of fermented and cultured foods with a focus on somatic food education.

Get started on one of these two guided eating plans that aligns with body and nature connections.

Book coaching with someone who has finally found a successful way of integrating an eating plan that becomes a healthy and full filling food life-style.  Food can become the source of weight loss and increased happiness.

  • Don’t stay on the mental gym of rules, right and wrong which creates inner-conflict.
  • Don’t stay on a diet that tells you what to eat so that when you stop following it your lost and regain all the weight.

How to get started

Step #1:  Choose Guided Daily Eating Plan

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Part #1:  Intro to Guide

  1. Intro to intentional food focusing & mindfulness
    • Explore food & function

Part #2:  Food & Lifestyle Coaching

  • Empathy Coaching
    • Weekly check in for integration & support
      • Explore mental stories creating  emotional blocks

Part #3:  Accountability Coaching

  • Accountability check in for stimulating self-confidence & inner connection
    • Choice of daily or weekly

Sign up  & commit to a healthy eating lifestyle  integration programs that triggers your inner switch to ‘less in more.’

Programs are practical and doable techniques of integration and experience of somatic education and functional integration as presented through the practice of the  Feldenkrais Method, Nonviolent Communication, Subtle Energy & Urban Feng Shui, and Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation.

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Re-evaluating lifestyles: Wild ‘green juice’

Purple Dead Nettle

I use wild greens as an alternative to wheat grass juice to begin the day’s food journey.  As the sun begins to have some heat to it this chickweed pictured above will decline.  There will be other greens to replace it  such as dandelion greens,  and Purple Dead Nettle  pictured here.  What I am observing is that the wild greens create a dark green juice than store bought grass,  celery and parsley.  It’s also yard to glass meaning it has fuller life essence.

Read more on beneficial and edible weeds  on my Nature Blog.

 


by Renee Lindstrom

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Re-evaluating lifestyles

Horseradish

Thankful now to have begun creating fire cider brew for immune boosting properties and in the process  (due to over riced horseradish & shipped in from overseas & arriving soft), began growing it. Was able to break into 5 pots last fall and hope to get them in the ground soon – here is a great recipe for fire cider I posted on my nature blog – https://livingnatureslove.blog/2018/09/30/fire-cider-immune-booster-recipe


by Renee Lindstrom

How to get started

Awareness Through Living Mentoring Programs Available:

 1st Level – Getting Started (Introduction & Pattern)
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 3rd Level – Integration (Embodiment)

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness,  Living in Natures Love Blog
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Strong natural disinfectant with citrus and vinegar

In 2018 I began fermenting apple cider vinegar from scratch.  When it was ready I decided to infuse it with the orange, grapefruit and lemon peels that I was collecting.  You will recognize these citrus fruits as additives in your store purchased cleaners as  their oils they are  a powerful antiseptic.  They smell good too.

You can use white vinegar to infuse with  your fresh citrus peels rather than making apple cider vinegar from scratch.  It only takes a few days to draw the oils out of the peels.

Once infused it doesn’t take much to make a natural antiseptic spray cleaner.  I use just under a one part of infused vinegar to 4 parts water (if using apple cider vinegar and washing walls, I use less vinegar).

Use baking soda as a scrub for tough marks, grease and spills.  You will be surprised at how clean surfaces become.  Pause to check in as you may notice that the surroundings have a different feel to them.  Both baking soda and salt are softening agents and can be used to soften water.  This translates into the surroundings too.  Your body is  in more aligned with natural elements and opens or softens with them while harsh chemicals can attach your senses,  cause allergies and mood swings.  I have personally noticed that I enjoy being in my environment more and that creating my own cleaners from household products is grounding and satisfying.

Once you begin to use these products you may find them easier and cheaper to use eliminating the need for costly cleaners.

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Vinegar-Currently I recommend that you buy from local grocery stores as the prices have been inflated on-line.

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by Renee Lindstrom

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 3rd Level – Integration (Embodiment)

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Simple natural care suggestions for self & your surroundings

In earlier posts I shared some ways for physical  self-care through boosting your immune system , cleansing with sea – salt and the importance of eating  living food. Now here is a focus on self care for your environment.

Energy follows focus of attention which can be influenced by scent, sound, flavour, vision & feeling 

 

With Feldenkrais I find the focus of attention to be upon the motivation point of action in functional movement while, Nonviolent Communication has been upon the motivation point of interpretation and interaction.

An important stimulant to one’s action that is often overlooked is the environment.

In Feldenkrais I teach my students that their soft tissue, muscles, etc., creates the environment for their bones.

 

In coaching I teach my students that their language & listening skills creates the environment for their relationships.  

 

Reading the surroundings of ones lifestyle I teach my students its illusive effects on mental, emotional, spiritual and physical responses.  

I have learned that ones focus of attention  creates the intention for an action and that this includes unconscious and conscious stimulus.  Recently I sent a  gift set of essential oils to someone special to support their senses and to use for cleansing.  Typically they are used in massage oils, aromatherapy blends and perfumes, however they can be used in body and environmental sprays.

The essential oil that is the most versatile for my use is lavender. The Romans named the plant after washing (lava is to wash).  They used it as an antiseptic.   I combine it with water to spray the environment for cleansing and I spray my head for clarity if I have too much mental heat from stress.

Other oils in the set that are effective are sweet orange, tea tree, eucalyptus, peppermint and lemon grass.  They can also be added to  a rinse for face or hair, to bath water  and to a spray bottle with water to use as a spray or added to your existing products.  Another way I enjoy using them is to put a few drops on a cotton ball to inhale or on a piece of lava or stone.

  • Sweet orange is an ideal overall mood enhancer and relaxant. It has a  balancing effect on the mind and body.
  • Lemongrass kills germs and  is used for cough, achy joints, fever, the common cold, and exhaustion. It can be also used as a mild astringent
  • Peppermint has anti-microbial properties and is us used as a cleaning solvent to sanitize and deodorize the environment.  As a disinfectant  it can eliminate bugs in the home and acts as an effective insect repellent.
  • Tea Tree has antiseptic qualities and  can be used for sanitizing hands.
  • Eucalyptus supports the respiratory system and soothes physical discomforts. It is anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and a  decongestant.

Once you add essential oil to your environment pause and notice any changes.  Specifically in how you feel.

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by Renee Lindstrom

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Hitting the food re-set button

Hitting a food re-set button began a number of years ago for me while in the midst of a transition and being in the complete unknown.  I was standing on a blank canvas while coming down with a seasonal cold.

Unbeknownst to me a simple self-question began a new/old journey.  A journey that was motivated in early childhood, separated from in a later childhood lifestyle change only to return with being a new empty-nester.

I am thankful that my focus of attention unconsciously shifted to meaningful connections in the environment in new-ish ways and that I wasn’t distracted by seeking meaning in other ways.

These past years has dissolved the dysfunction of eating rules, diet labels and the dominant destructive self-abuse has stopped.  Curiosity and exploration took its place.  It happened without a plan and was a natural progression resulting from my focus of attention being distracted by this study of eating edibles weeds and making personal remedies/products from what was growing in the surrounding  community.

How has my life changed from this organic re-set button?

  1. Natural weight loss
    • thru eating what was available seasonally and slowly shifting to living foods
  2. Seasonal & food directed intermittent fasting routine increases physical, mental and emotional functions
    • the way of eating has shifted how and when eating that follows a natural body rhythm increasing body part functions
    • no longer hunger driven as body parts are  independently  receiving their individual nutritional needs
  3. Increased sensing
    • inner felt-senses increased  to the point of when ingesting food and drinks being able to notice different body parts responding
    • inner felt-sense of posture and postural transitions increased
  4. Enhanced flexibility
    • increase of flexibility to do daily functions
    • enhanced emotional states and increased resilience
  5. Simplified eating plan
    • reduction in amounts
    • increase in healthy food choices
    • loss of cravings
    • less compulsiveness in food choices when shopping to the point of no desires for common foods of the past
    • no fast food
    • increase in preparing own recipes
  6. Growing love of food
    • eating is no longer a chore, feared or something to satisfy body cravings
    • food has become an appreciative relationship of giving and receiving
  7. Education
    • foods for increased function
    • foods for healing
    • foods for natural remedies, products and growing
    • recipes
    • starting cultures and maintaining them
  8. Interplay of food and myself  has become a beautiful part of day to day living and a joyful part of life
    • fear, emptiness and hopelessness has turned into a interactive joyful connection
    • becoming grounded
    • becoming appreciative for the environment

Eating for the body replaces mental dominance over body & food

Over these past few years the interaction of experiencing living foods has reduced fear and increased self-confidence in trusting myself by increasing the connection between body and food and lessening the dominance of mental body over food  and body.

Living food engages interplay where natural is relevant

Now while outside in the yard or surrounding community nature is relevant and interacts with me.  My focus has shifted that now includes nature in my own perception of myself. A feeling of oneness,   In the past this would be an experience only after a mindful meditation retreat, however now this integration has resulted in it being the common experience.  So much so that it is evident immediately when it is absent.  It is a missing link in my physical, mental and emotional sensation.

It’s time to hit the reset button to ways of being.  Nature is living and interacts with us.  We just need to listen.

What can you do to start your own somatic food experience?

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by Renee Lindstrom

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