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Healing quote of the day for Teens
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Giving
A value-based empathetic language of compassion is one this is focused upon giving and grounded in mutually receiving back. Giving is a spontaneous and natural response in communicating when a language structure is used that allows us to connect with ourselves and with others.
VIRTUAL – LONGING TO BE A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF IN RELATIONSHIPS
Sundays, January 13 – March 17, 2013 ~ 10:30 am to noon
Join Renee for a 10 Week Virtual Series designed as a personal challenge for exploring how to become a better version of yourself in relationships. Move beyond the pain and loneliness of disconnection. Enjoy extraordinary connections and learn skills to stop experiencing guilt, resentment, obligation or trying to prove yourself.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Part one ~ Getting Started:
- Welcome and Introductions
- Relationships – Types of Connecting
- Types of Perception (Past, Present, Future)
- Feelings and Emotional Literacy
- Taking responsibility for feelings
- Culture of Needs
Part two
- Enriching life and your relationships
- Expressing honestly
- Listening with Empathy
- Self – Empathy
- Empathy for Others
Part three
- Empathy, Relationships and Behaviour
- Staying connected in Conflict
- Putting it together
- Moving forward
- Appreciation & Celebration
Includes course outline and reminders emailed in advance of course dates, practice suggestions for in between classes and an on-line forum for discussion among participants and putting in questions for upcoming week.
10 Week Series – $200.00
REGISTRATION HERE
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Black & White, Right & Wrong
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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Understanding Ego mind through getting in touch with your own thinking and speaking
Our last workshop in a series of six and the individual workshops have evolved into a deeper focus of practice and understanding empathy. The areas that came up for exploring included self-empathy, empathy in relationships and group empathy. The purpose was to support group members to recognize their own stories inside their mind that did not allow them to be present with what was actually happening in their relationship. How we have done this it by developing skills for learning to recognize and identify their thoughts and behavior as a result of their thinking.
The last exercise involved having a volunteer demonstrate a process while sharing a personal life event and transforming what they had been telling themselves about it into a connection that included the rest of body functions, outside of the frontal lobe of their brain!
At the beginning of the practice this participant shared their resistance at connecting to another person in their life. In the process ego dropped away as the mind stories became silent and what was real began to emerge. As the stories of their mind became less interesting , what was real was their new self-connection to what was being experienced in the moment. When the participant connected to what was real in them they expressed how they had a growing awareness of what was going on for the other person that went beyond their original resistance.
You couldn’t ask for more! The beauty that was visible in the participant and those in the group supporting this persons process was tangible through relaxed faces and the feelings of a group connection. Through the practice other participants began to recognizing their own stories and habits in experiencing how they supported the process. Did they become present to what they were hearing or did it stimulate their own stories or need to fix it by coming up with solutions. If so, all these participants witnessed how this breaks the emphatic connection and experienced the effects of disconnection of it becoming about them and their ego mind and no longer the person going through the exercise.
Beautiful! The participants having a practice of learning a language of connection demonstrated the ability to go beyond the disruption and carry the process back to the original speaker while holding empathy for the interrupter’s!
This brings up the question – Is empathy the absence (quieting) of ego?
For more information on these workshops with Renee Lindstrom go to relationships link
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‘Positions within relationships and the field you create ‘
I introduced a concept at yesterdays *workshop to bring awareness to the positions each of us hold in our relationships. Have you taken time to consider the unique individual position you and yours have and how these positions are separate and overlap to those around you? After introducing this I led the participants through some awareness exercises to directly experience being in the center of their universe while in their conversations. These exercises follow a pattern for both the speaker and listener to experience and stay in the center of their universe.
In these dialogue exercises a field was created that was their direct experience and felt by those around them. Think about the following Rumi’s quote and consider, if you are still in judgement thinking of right and wrong what the field is that you are creating in your relationships. What is your direct experience and that of others as they connect with you or share in the field around you?
“Out beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field, I will meet you there. ”
*These workshops are designed with the intention to share how to turn disconnection into connection and to bring personal awareness to how ones personal communication habits impacts direct experiences. For more information on how to take part go to link.
The Influence of Posture
A great video on expressions of power and dominance
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 