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Body Movements and State of Being

Posted on July 29, 2013 | Leave a comment

Are you aware your body posture tells your inner story? How you hold yourself is a statement to the world. It is an open book to those who can read it.

Take a moment to consider your own posture world story:Notice your chest between your breasts.

Is this area exposed and out facing the world (yang) or is this area sunken and protected from the world (yin)?
Are your shoulders set back and wide (yang) or are they hunched forward and down (yin)?

Now notice your breathing while considering these two postures. As you breath in and out does your posture shift in these above mentioned areas or do you hold this posture locked into place?
Regardless of how you are holding your chest, shoulders and arms, begin to soften this area from it’s automatic holding pattern. Try the following for a short series of 4 or 5 breathing cycles:

If you are yang – broad chested go into a yin position slowly with your next exhalation of breathe. With an inhalation go into your normal posture.
If you are yin – sunken and protected chest, rise up and go into a yang position with your next inhalation. Return to your familiar posture on an exhalation.

Notice any changes your feel either physically, mentally or emotionally after a cycle of 4 or 5 breathes and continue for another 2 to 3 cycles of 4 to 5 breathes. Remember to alternate between the two postures. Stop to notice between cycles any differences you feel.This pattern of breathing releases your spine which settles your nervous system! Notice how this reduces your stress throughout the week if you continue to integrate these simple breathing exercises daily!

The possible yin/yang chest stories:

Yin – represents the moon, water and emotions – Too much without balance of Yang – introverted (Western culture labels it – being a victim)
Yang – represents the sun, dessert and action – Too much without yin – extroverted (Western culture labels it – aggressive)

For more on posture balancing & how it can improve your whole life experiencing – email: renee(at)insideawareness(dot)com

Behavior is a result of how you react to your environment

Posted on May 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

Three doorways into exploring behavior awareness and change with Renee at Inside for increasing your confidence and improving your relationships are:

your own body posture and movement patterns
your relationships
influences of your surroundings

If you are ready for change in your relationships Renee recommends a program of seven steps to increase your rate of success.

For more information or inquires email renee(at)insideawareness(dot)com.

Black & White, Right & Wrong

Posted on November 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

Are you someone who is experiencing your world experiences in black or white, right or wrong?

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Is so, are you curious and willing to explore and self – inquire based on the following pattern of self-questioning?

Are you aware that there is another experience available to you that isn’t as clearly defined as you perceive it?

Take a moment and imagine how you would describe your body posture and the strength you are using to stand or sit up right.

Ask yourself what type of tree would you use to describe this experience?

If you could choose one of these trees which one would it be:

Pine
Cedar
Oak

Now imagine being a Willow Tree.

Can you transition into this experience with ease? How does it feel in your body posture? Does anything change, become softer or more flexible?

If you can easily imagine being a Willow Tree, now consider being Bamboo.

How does this concept come into you and through your experience? Does it stop and become blocked at the thought of considering this vision or does it carry through to a deeper relaxation into your posture?

For those of you who enjoy experiencing through our physical senses try this exploration out. Remember to have a curious mind.

Now with a friend, peer or family member stand tall and strong with your feet firmly planted on the floor. Hold with resistance. Have your helper push on you shoulder and feel the resistance and your strength push back.
Let this go and become loose, soft and flexible with your feet still planted firmly on the floor and now in this expression have your helper push on your shoulder. Feel the lack of resistance, resilience and how you still are able to hold your posture.
Take a moment and reflect on how these two separate experiences through your physical strength, both are strong stances, and give yourself a moment to give feedback on how these two experiences where for you. Which one is the one that you sense a higher quality of where you would like to be now? Which one is your habitual reactive self? Which one would you be able to take an easy breath in or do you remember if you held your breathe or not?

Remember we only do what we know until a new experience and more information is available. In each experience we are meeting our own needs. It’s how we meet our needs that we could develop deeper awareness about to better fit who we long to be. Are we meeting our needs through physical, dominate strength or are we meeting our needs through physical flexible strength?

Remember, whatever our bodies are doing, our thoughts will reflect this in our thinking and acting? Information is perceived through our bodies and our mind translates it, therefore we act. If our bodies are rigid, our thoughts will be black and white, right and wrong.

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP, November 8, 2012 Follow Renee on Facebook & on Twitter

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