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

Posted on June 16, 2016 | Leave a comment

INTEGRATION, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

Experience a deeper connection to self .

Increase self-value and trust in yourself, knowing you are doing what’s 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.

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

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.

Ending your relationships with more ease, respect and moving forward with less attachment!

Becoming aware of the culture created by your parenting style (or your parents and their’s before them).

Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,

Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015

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Did you know that it is easier to smile than it is to frown?

Posted on June 12, 2016 | Leave a comment

Try it!

Happy, sad

Check out the muscles in your face as you smile and as you frown.
Notice the different experience of the two. One is uplifting and one is draining.
Which posture is familiar to you?
Look in a mirror to see if you are smiling because if your little self only frowned growing up, you will think you are smiling but others will see a frown!

Now from a somatic perspective smile and frown again, however, notice your inner sensations.

Which one creates and expands breathe and which one makes it difficult to breathe?
Which one lifts your spirits up and brings you into a more upright posture and which one drops your spirit with your body sinking or collapsing?
Now imagine facing this smile and this frown in conversation and how you would interpret it and react to it.

Now practice smiling and frowning at others and notice their reactions.

Emotions in self:

Exercise and develop face muscles and behavior!

Emotions in communication:

Develop connection or disconnection!

Emotions in environment:

Create a cultural experience!

At Inside our focus is on self-awareness and empowerment through somatic learning to nurture deeper intelligence of when one is in a state of connected (being presence) or disconnected (fight, flight or fight) by understanding cause of ones own reactions. Pivotal point of re-balancing. This includes perception, movement posture, sensations (sometimes called emotions) and environmental causes.

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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,

Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015

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Evaluative Experience Words, not Feelings

Posted on November 26, 2015 | Leave a comment

Betrayed

Word map of feeling words mixed together with evaluative experience words & value words sometimes mixed up in sentences as words that one feels

At Speaking Peace workshops we introduce words that are sometimes mistaken as feelings. These words are actually evaluative experiences that are added in our statements after the words, “I feel…..,” or “I felt….” Our workshop exercise is to identify the true emotion and consider the unmet need creating these feelings.

An example is the word betrayed. I feel betrayed is an incorrect use as betrayed is not a feeling. It describes an experience. The feelings one might feel may be hurt, downhearted, wretched, devastated, discourages, lonely and more (see photo above for more).

Once true feelings are named our speaking peace process is to look at the unmet value needs that make be causing these feelings. These could be the need for: respect, honesty, consideration, to matter, trust, support and more (see photo for more).

Consider our Speaking Peace courses and workshop! Learn more about how to connect with more clarity, understanding and empathy!

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The Month of Romance and Love: #13 of 14 Tips for finding better love

Posted on February 13, 2015 | 1 comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

Day 13: Positive personalities are most attractive

There are concrete studies that show people with positive personalities are seen as more attractive and more physically appealing than those who are rude, negative and unfair. Is your glass half-full or half-empty?

Today’s Tip: Explore your own inner messaging patterns. Do you beat yourself and others up? Imagine how attractive this is to others and commit to change through creative self-development! Begin your practice now!

“Supply is infinite, but there must be receptivity. We can have all the supplies we will give. But that is where the barrier is–the unwillingness to give. That is where the lack or limitation is.”
Joel Goldsmith

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The Month of Romance and Love: #12 of 14 Tips for finding better love

Posted on February 12, 2015 | Leave a comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

#12 ‘Easy Fun & Adventure’

Trying too hard by interviewing your date for your next serious relationship? Are you being interviewed for the next great lay? STOP! This can be the time to share experiences and find out what you have in common. Ease the pressure by keeping it fun and turning meetings into great adventures.

Tip of the Day: Hang out first. No pressure. Just enjoy each other’s company. Everyone could use new friendships. This can be a time that is the honeymoon of friendships.

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”

Erich Segal

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The Month of Romance and Love: #11 of 14 Tips for finding better love

Posted on February 11, 2015 | 1 comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

#11 – The Connection

Your intuition will tell you immediately if you are in company with someone compatible if you are listening to it! It’s all in the open gestures, comfortable friendliness levels, pitch of voice and eye contact. One way of noticing compatibility is the language connection. It’s not about what you say, it’s how you say it that might give you answers to the longevity of this relationship.

Tip of the day: Within 10 minutes you will know if it will be rewarding to put time and energy into pursuing a relationship. Notice it their eyes remain in contact with yours. This indicates they are into you. Notice if the words they use are the same or similar to yours. For example: Do you both use, Great as an expression or a statement such as I am interested in….. Pay attention to words they use that disturb you. This will never change it will only become more annoying!

“We are most alive when we’re in love.” John Updike

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The Month of Romance and Love: #10 of 14 Tips for finding better love

Posted on February 10, 2015 | 1 comment

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

#10 Real-Time Face-time

Filling your date nights and getting out yet? In real-time you can experience how your date influences you and if they are interesting. Online, not so much! Online you may be distracted from your loneliness yet it doesn’t do much for the flirty side of romance. Online profiles are misleading and untrustworthy and lead straight to the end game. If you lack time to get out to meet and greet until something clicks and are seriously looking get a matchmaker or go to specific singles events!

Today’s tip: Use the 80/20 Rule

Spend 80 to 100 percent engaging in real-time face-time and 20 to 0 percent online. If you are looking for love, romance and nuances that make relationships sparkle online simply isn’t reflective of this experience. However, if you are lonely, lazy, love anxiety and sometimes deceit, it may meet your needs!

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

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