“Health is measured, not by the capacity to stay standing, but by the ability to be knocked down and then return to standing.” Moshe Feldenkrais
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“Living your confidence balanced with empathy” in relationships and redefining ego
It takes courage to be heart-centered, confident and self-assured. It also takes courage to live from this point of independence.
Experiencing any beauty in your relationships begins with your behavioral patterns and how much inner-confidence and independence you feel balanced together with your ability for being self-assuring.
You may seek change by changing the way you look through diet, clothes, fitness and re-designing your surroundings. Do these last when you are affected by your relationships! What is the first thing you reach for when you have a disagreement or are bored?
What would your personal goal success rate be by starting with inner change support, so what you show on the outside is coming from the inside?
Inside Awareness Methods focus upon seven steps for personal success. They are integrated into Renee’s coaching and teaching experiences. Whether you are looking for transformation in your relationships or increasing your movement abilities, following these simple steps change how you experience yourself.
SEVEN STEPS TO SUCCESS
- Commitment
- Intention
- Grounding
- Practice
- Integration
- Learning
- Conscious Habitual Patterns
If your “search” for change has deepened into a “longing” for change it is time to take grounded and supportive action to make it happen. Find out more about each one of the these steps by joining Renee at one of her events or by making a direct inquiry. Email her at renee(at)insideawareness(dot)com or call her at (two, five, zero) three-six-one-seven-five-zero-eight.
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Tagged Balande, Behavior, behavioral patterns, Coaching, Confidence & Independence in Relationships, Empathy, Goals, habitual patterns, Health, inner confidence, Intention, Movement, movement abilities, Personal Success, Posture, Practice, practice integration, Relationships, Social Emotional Intelligence, Well Being
Healing quote of the day for Teens
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Tagged Communication, Empathy, Healing, Health, mental-health, Middle School, Quotes, Social Emotional Behaviour, Teens, Values
2013 ~ Vancouver Island’s year of the Labyrinth
In September, 2013 Northern Vancouver Island will be hosting the First World Labyrinth Conference in Canada.
“Labyrinths for Global Healing, Landscapes for the Soul”
The greater Victoria area will have participant from around the world arriving a few days before, September 17, 2013, who will pilgrimage up-island to experiences 50 assorted Labyrinths on the Island.
I look forward to supporting Greater Victoria in being a living presence in this meaningful event. If you are wishing to be apart of creating something to our community bringing awareness to the qualities of wellness physically, emotionally and mentally I would welcome your connection.
This picture is a sand labyrinth drawn at Gonzales Beach in the summer of 2012. 
For more information on how to draw a sand labyrinth.
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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Inner Connecting
Researching information on Quiet Gardens for an upcoming post on Walk-Victoria.com I have come a video on the perspective of Walking as a form of prayer.
I wish to share this video and express how Moshe Feldenkrais developed Awareness through Movement® lessons. Moshe came from the perspective of a person being attentive to their inner sensual qualities, in the experience of an isolated movement, while expanding and increasing their awareness to include how isolated movements can expand to other parts of the body functions. It is my experience that in this perspective of attentiveness a person may automatically go into the same inner connections as expressed through this video.
For me then, setting up a Mindful Walking Practice in my neighborhood’s gardens or on a local Labyrinth would be a multiple skill that would support the growth of required attentiveness in my Awareness through Movement® and Awareness in Thinking practices. It was with this focus in mind that Walk-Victoria.com was created! If in Victoria it is my wish that you use the free resources of Walk-Victoria.com to find interesting space in our community. If in other communities of the world, I hope you will explore and find beauty in your walks!
Posted by Renee Lindstrom, November 4, 2012, Follow Renee on Facebook & on Twitter
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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Tagged Communication, Culture, Ego, Empathy, getting InTouch, Group Empathy, Health, Language of Empathy and Compassion, Mind, Mindfulness, Peace, Relationships, Self-Empathy, Unity, Values
