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Awareness through Intention: Inward Motivated Action

Health & Wellness, Future, Wealth & Abundance, Education & Learning, Relationships, Fame & Recognition

Using patterns to cultivate and increase awareness of one’s inner origins that motivate them through the functions has led to discovering differences in the inspiration from an inside focus and that of externally driven ones. The inner inspired motivation for action deepens the sense of feeling fullness and strength that is balanced mentally, emotionally and physically with confidence, and the energy of the outwardly focused inspiration seems to leave hunger, dissatisfaction and a lack of quality in achievements. One is satisfying and fulfilling while the other is empty, and gloomy usually leaving a deep loneliness or a sense of being lost. As one aligns with their inner origins life is no longer boring, dull and conflicted. There is no need to feed the same addictions that seem to come hand in hand with the emptiness in those not tapped into their own core needs. This picture reflects a quality I have begun to promote with self-care. The techniques I have been focusing on are a feminine quality. For my masculine energies, the same self-care actions can be taken with less focus on the sensuality I suggest for feminine energies. Another successful focus of attention is mindfully integrating goals designed to create new habits. The integrative process or nature of these steps is for retraining the brain and creating new behaviours. It gently turns habits one takes for granted and shifts into new actions. In my personal experience, this is the pattern of transformation.

Some examples are turning a lack of courage into courageousness, boredom into being alive with life, failure into opportunities and steps for building success, etc. It shifts from the fails that go hand in hand with trying to compete or please others into self-actualizing through origins from the inside. After all, it’s an inside job. I was once told in a dark night of the soul experience that I was born alone and would die alone. Hum……..That’s when I realized that even with people I felt alone. It was a huge moment of acceptance and a moment of transformation. People do not speak a language of connection. The connection can only be attained from connection to inner origins. This is the shift away from being a hungry ghost or vampire. lol My perspective only and for learning purposes…….

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In August of 2023 I shared a post on the numerology for 2024 & reading it today found it interesting to the times in 2024…..

Future: Awareness through Intention

2024 is a number 8

Here are a few points that are relevant to this year’s experience. So much so that I thought I would bring attention to them. So let’s get started.

  • The number 8 in numerology reflectsย a cycle of balance as in the infinity symbol. It contains both spirituality and the materialistic states of being.
  • The number 8 is associated with the stability between the material and immaterial worlds.

I wrote:

For this writer, coach and mentor, the numerology of 2024 reflects the fame and recognition area of the Nine Life Areas grid. I expect that the ego will be a bigger influence in 2025 as the spiritual and material worlds balance. There may be an opportunity in this energy to balance out the dominant outside ego focus with a more correct inner use of ego. Incorrect use of ego creates conflict and disconnection that can be destructive to self and others. Correct use of ego creates self-confidence and power in one’s world that contributes to self and others productively and abundantly. This writer believes that oneโ€™s connection with values is the correct use of ego.

The life area of fame and recognition can be constructive or destructive.

When I read this I thought how relevant it was to the major events we have experienced this year that are still happening in the world ego-related.

At the beginning of September, I shared that 2025 is a number 9 in numerology in a post. I suggest 9 brings prosperity, happiness, and good luck in life. With this in mind, I wrote:

For this writer, coach, and mentor 2025 numerology reflects the wealth area of the Nine Life Areas grid. The wealth corner of the nine life areas reflects abundance for this writer. Abundance is a state of being reflecting qualities of character and life balance. It is the shift of transitioning into a lifestyle of living a life through gratitude and appreciation. Number nine reflects a completion and a new beginning, not an ending. Itโ€™s a transformative time from greed into one of living in abundance. An abundant life is one with equal giving and receiving.

In late September ’24 I posted this suggestion on my social media pages:

This suggestion is to reflect on this before the current calendar New Moon on October 2nd this Full Moon Phase is associated with clearing clutter in preparation for considering goals for 2025. Instead of cleaning the house or the office, clear the mind.

This perspective has been a focus of attention in the integrative studies in learning groups and sessions. It is a topic that will be featured more in-depth through the mentoring programs @ Inside Awareness and in conversations and articles. Subscribe to stay InTouch and connect to new material and opportunities, or follow Renee on social media. Hit like if you enjoy content.

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3rd Daily Tip to Achieving Your Goalsย through grounding in the environment somatically

Over the past few days I have posted the first two tips for manifesting by taking conscious actions in the environment.โ€‚One’s success can be viewed and experienced through their environmental influences.โ€‚The environment landscape, or viewscape, can be unsettling or grounding.โ€‚These tips can encourage one to cultivate awareness in their own home or work space.โ€‚The third tip is pictured below followed by a downloadable pdf for you to explore at your leisure.โ€‚


Cultivating Success with Awareness through Goals Programs

 1st Level โ€“ Getting Started (Introduction & Pattern)
 2nd Level โ€“ Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
 3rd Level โ€“ Integration (Embodiment)

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Manifesting dreams by changing inner dialogue

Trust in the future is when you are connected to, or learning, your intentions from the inside out …..

In a previous post I mentioned how the experience of the first eight months of this year has increased my focus on a couple of life areas that I hadn’t given much attention to in past years. One was my relationship of a significant other and the second was having space that felt like my home.

What I had been experiencing in those two life areas came from neighbours. One was an older married man who became a stalker and a large family next door who turned out to be a part of a bigger family circle of whom owned the house I was in. It was an unwelcome experience that lacked boundaries and became what I can only call as having watchers. I also had to insist they stay off the property as my office was located off the garden which resulted in a level of hostility in the masculine householder that was at a level not appropriate for the circumstances. They felt an ownership over the property. I simply wanted my clients to feel comfortable in movement sessions.

Even without clarity in these two life areas, home and relationship, I did include them in my own goals for the last few years in a sketchy way. The universe must have been listening as last fall a bomb blew up my lifestyle. That bomb was the stimulus to forcefully manifest some long term goals that I had been considering for two previous years yet couldn’t see a way forward and was stuck. I hadn’t anticipated fulfilling them would be out of my control or dramatic as it was. I am thankful that this blow up was my residence and business location and not my health. The universe has its own wake up calls.

I am also grateful I made a decision not to lock into something in fear and make immediate commitments. I still didn’t have a dream. When the bomb blew up it stimulated inner questioning of a third life area, my own career and it’s direction. I took a leap of faith and an attitude of seeing what came to me. I was open to anything being possible. This became a discovery of who I am, and what I can do.

I had three life areas that represented stability all without a hard focus; home, career and relationship. All three are the cornerstones of groundedness and stability. These three areas reflect basic needs for survival; shelter, food and water, and any one of them would influence the other six life areas; wealth, health, future, spirit/knowledge, community and fame.

Now preparing materials for others to put their next year intentions to paper I began reviewing my own. I get how transitional this year has been so far. Yet I have discovered a new dimension of integration of my own dreams into a core experience, while simultaneously believing in them as though they have actually happened. It’s a new way of manifesting them. Like attracts like. All these years of emphasising this to others to try and challenge their resistance for taking actions and now here is my own experience of it. This time with a deeper personal connection to this statement. I have finally found the piece that has been missing for me in that popular nineties philosophy – the law of attraction.

What I am most proud of is how the guidance is a pattern for creating a new inner language. By following the program over the years since developing it myself, it has created a new inner way of speaking that I can describe as one of achievement. One that makes things possible. There is no trying or effort. It is simply a pattern of learning that appears can change the inner dialogue process. I am ecstatic to experience this new dimension of being able to manifest from a core level of connection to myself that is not influenced by mainstream ideologies.

I write about a concrete example of this direct core action in Finding my breath and motivation after COVID (?) has been like creating lemonade from a lemon.

I am reminded that this is what I mentor to others. Now connecting to this dimension for manifesting dreams myself I look forward to being able to support their deeper connections to actively becoming their own intentions.
Being in a circle with one of my mentors in 2004, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, Phd & Author of Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life, I reflected on his question on where we as individuals could see ourselves taking these teachings. I knew in my heart that I wanted to integrate this language into the somatic journey of the Feldenkraisยฎ Method of Somatic Education. In Feldenkrais there are two ways of offering movement education we call Awareness through Movement and Functional Integration. Each one is focused on patterns for the participant to become self-aware versus being told what to do. One is hands on called FI for short and the other are group lessons called ATM for short. This goal program that I call Awareness through Goals is an added functional dimension of human behaviour and the missing piece in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education for me. It is the development of inner dialogue that becomes thinking and ways we communicate. By following the goal pattern one integrates universal values into their very conscious way of being from which all action springs from. Marshall it’s taken close to two decades to achieve this. I hope you and Robert Gonzales are watching over and smiling your approval.

The only way to change is action

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Pause to reflect on Pisces

Need incentive to pause and reflect on your goals during the Moons travel through Pisces?

  • Click Pisces Moon Picture to copy and colour via paint or print and colour the old fashioned way – by hand!ย ย 
โ‡’Read more on Life Area Influence of Pisces

 

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ย 2nd Level โ€“ Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
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Be the Master Builder of your 2020 experience

Integrate your intentions with ease & enjoy the process of creating a new & successfulย living patternย 

Tap into your inner creativity to Imprintย your inner longings for 2020

Any meaningful change begins when you notice what you would like to do differently in a non-judging way.ย  ย Creativity through the right brain activities of art, crafts, writing, music and walking in nature can turn ones illusive longing into obvious statements before goal planning even begins.ย  Leading through a right brain activity can tap into all bodies of function creating a balanced approach.ย ย Activating goals through integration of all bodies of human function can create a living force and increase the will to achieve them.ย  The functioning human bodies includes the physical, cultural, perceptual, emotional and mental bodies.

It’s time to harness the mental thinking mind and give it guidance to support a fuller wholesome experience.ย  More on how the a dominant focus on the mental mind can influence self-judgement below.


Resolution statements taps only into your mental body.ย  This mental body has been culturally educated to respond to the world through the following reactions:

What this means for you for becoming the change you want to be

Resolution statements activated from the left-brain may focus on short term goals and not lead to last change that integrates lifestyle.ย  Including aspects of right brain activities can lead to the integration of lifestyle change leading to long term change.ย  ย With a focus only on the mental body it generally becomes its own driving force of single mindedness that lacks balance and support of all functioning systems.ย  It can be controlling and eventually may become a source of depression.

Why?ย  Change declarations from thought function may only be influenced by outside stimulus, I/you should and self-image.ย  Long lasting and life-enriching change comes from the inside and goes beyond self-image and stimulus.ย  Meaningful change grows through a system of open learning, not through a closed system of I/you should and should nots.

How to begin integrating change verses forcing change through concepts

ย Becoming the Master Builder of 2020

The steps of turning Intentions into Goals begins with a vision of 2020.ย  It is then followed by noticing the four walls of experience created by our seasons; fall, winter, spring and summer.ย  The intention of the dream created in the year’s imagery is then easily turned into a doable guided pattern that incorporates universal values, characteristics and qualities in a novel and uncluttered way,ย  integrating new habits through the months and seasons.ย  The ease of learning is integrated through the experience following a guided pattern.ย  Awareness through intention and action.

Turning intentions into doable goals in 5 easy, integrative steps

There are 5 fun and easy steps to activating the integration of intention and action in a meaningful way using a novel pattern to stimulate right and left brain functions with activities that can create life-enriching experiences and relationships.ย  ย As each step can be life-changing and integrative commit to spend time on each step before moving to the next one.ย  Direction suggestions will be given for each step.

Step –ย The Foundation

Book time with yourself to focus your attention through your creative nature.ย  This step can be a private experience in your own space or shared with a friend group or spent privately with a mentor or coach.ย  It will take up to two hours to lay out the image with additional time to gather materials beforehand.ย  This initial step will be stimulating.ย  Let it digest for a minimum of three days before moving to step two.

What is stopping you from moving to a life of more joy?

The thinker

  • If you hesitate as you believe you are not creative, go beyond this thought and gather together some magazines,glue, scissors and some paper.ย  ย Create a collage mixing pictures and words that speak to you.
  • If you tell yourself you are dominantly a thinker, go beyond this thought and gather up some of your favorite magazines, glue, scissors and some paper.ย  Create a collage using words and include pictures that speak to you.
  • If you cannot devote this time toย  be adventuresome and connect toย  yourself and growth, pause and make a commitment and do it anyhow.ย  This is as important as eating, sleeping, and socializing, etc.ย  Perhaps even more important as it is the point of clarity and balance inย  our natures.ย  It is invaluable learning and guidance that comes fromย  within.
  • Your choices:
Create with abandon
Create with a focus of attention on 9 important life areas of experience โ†learn more
Create with the support of a coach & mentor privately or groupโ†learn more

 

The artist

  • Gather the medium you wish to create with such as water colours, oil, charcoal, etc.
  • Create a vision of your dreams
  • Your choices:
Create with abandon
Create with a focus of attention on 9 important life areas of experience โ†learn more
Create with the support of a coach & mentor privately or groupโ†learn more

 

The musician

  • Gather music sheets and pencil/pen or instrument.
  • Create music for your dreams
  • Your choices:
Create with abandon
Create with a focus of attention on 9 important life areas of experience โ†learn more
Create with the support of a coach & mentor privately or groupโ†learn more

 

The physical

  • Gather pen & paper and locate a place in nature that you can walk ALONE under and surrounded by trees.
    • Let this forest bath of smells, sounds & movement calm and slow down your 5 bodies to connect to your inner desires for the coming year
    • Listening inside is a place one can go in nature easily when slowing down to create the space for it. Listening from inside can give you your best guidance.ย  Use this time to become quiet and let your inner desires be heard.ย  Remember to make notes afterwards so this experience isn’t fleeting.
    • Your choices:
Create with abandon
Create with a focus of attention on 9 important life areas of experience โ†learn more
Create with the support of a coach & mentor privately or groupโ†learn more

 

2020 in Numerology is a #4โ†ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย Step โ†


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ย 2nd Level โ€“ Getting Intouch (Experiencing & Connection)
ย 3rd Level โ€“ Integration (Embodiment)

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Now is a good time to reflect on your goals for the coming year

Labyrinth goal journey

If you haven’t yet, this long weekend is a great time to consider your coming year.ย  It’s the last few days before Nov’s full moon.ย 

  • Waiting until Dec’s you are competing with the chaos of Dec’s holiday events.
  • Waiting until the end of the year means you miss the best integration cycle (in sync with nature) for planting your intentions.
Seeds in fall, rest/germination in winter, germination/growth in spring, manifestation in summer

Read more @ Intention into goals

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