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Living Awareness Personal Program

Living Awareness in the now

Explore being in the now with a personal somatic integration program. This personal educational program is designed for deepened personal learning by enhancing self-awareness.  This holistic movement to mindfulness program guides you to listen to yourself and teaches you how you focus your attention.  Learning how you function increases physical, mental and emotional experiences.  It supports breaking habits that hold you back from fully experiencing a fuller life, increases mobility, flexibility, calms your busy mind and supports you to become mindful of your somatic messaging!

This program increases personal safety and reduces anxiety creating space to stimulate new movement pattern awareness.  Some natural benefits are an increase in tolerance, empathy and patience in oneself and with others. Awareness of movement is the main contributor to improving movement.

Every time the brain is used four competent are stimulated:  movement, thought, sensation and feeling – the four aspects of self.  Typically one aspect is not experienced without the other three.  Inside Awareness programs focus on the four aspects of self.  We offer acute programs that can focus on anyone of these four aspects; movement, thought, sensation or feeling, and programs that are designed for contemplative integration of these four aspects.

What is unique about this program is the patterns of movement may bring you up against your own obstacles of fear and/or protections that you may have  ignored.  Expanding awareness through movement is subtle and easy and  can open you to emotional and mental blind spots.  In this program the movement is the focus and not your stories.  This can give one a fuller understanding of their old habits in present time and bypass lingering in old stories.  It is a practice of being in the now (present) to process.  It is not to say through the movement that old memories won’t arise, they will.  Memories will rise and fall away with ease and are less likely to be lingering parasitic obstacles to a happier and healthier life!

This 90 minute program has three parts.  The first 30 minutes is practitioner lead patterns of movement, the second 30 minutes is guided movement for growing awareness.  This is followed by time with practitioner to build personal literacy of experience.

Each part of this Living Awareness Program can be experienced separately as individual sessions.

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

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?

Love Day 13Today’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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Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication Relationship & Life 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

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

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.

Love Day 12Tip 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

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.

Love Day 11Tip 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

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!

Love Day 10Today’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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The Month of Romance and Love: #9 of 14 Tips for finding better love

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness

#9  Listen to your intuition

Meet new prospects in public in an easy, fun and lighthearted location. (Don’t stay online – take it public) Listen to your ‘first impression.’ What is your gut telling you? Can you be authentic and stay integral to what matters to you? Are you comfortable? Are they comfortable? Can you be yourself? Your goal is to find out if they are looking for a successful relationship or the novelty of attraction. A successful relationship is life-enriching and the novelty of attraction becomes life-draining and can become a fatal attraction.

Love Day 9Tip of the Day:  

Be objective.  Notice the warning signs and if you stay centred or if you’re trying too hard and giving too much.  Go beyond the physical attraction.   If conversation is a struggle now it will always be a struggle.  Notice the rewards in connecting.  Yes, conversation is rewarding.

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
                                                 Vincent Van Gogh

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5 ‘Love’ Quotes from those past & forgotten famous love enthusiasts

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, 

Turning our focus towards ‘love’ in February!

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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

Erich Fromm


Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers


There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau


We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch


The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

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