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“Language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”
M.K. Gandhi
‘value based needs awareness campaign’
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Tag Archives: Inside Awareness for Healthy Living
InTouch “Needs” Awareness ~ for Sept 02 – 08, ’12
Transform Pain, Fear, Anxiety – 4 – 1 hour lessons
MAY 22 & 29, JUNE 5 & 12, 2012
- 10:00 – 11:00 A.M.
This is an opportunity for you to continue your learning experience for four 1 hour lessons after May 15ths free webinar introduction to this series. Registrer @ Free Intro. The design of each one hour lesson will:
- explore one way of moving physically to support and increase feelings of flexibility, becoming present and a natural stress release
- focus upon understanding what is happening
- develop clarity through basic skill development guiding you towards increasing your ability for making choices and recognizing the missing pieces , a natural form of living affirmations if you will
- include verbal guidance techniques for exploring inner connections and grounding
This on-line series of four lessons will cost you less than attending a drop in yoga class! You can’t bet it! To register go to Change your story registration
HEART TO LEAD, Women as Allies for the Greater Good – DOCUMENTARY AND DIALOGUE GROUP
MAY 18 – JUNE, 2012
- Fridays – 10:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Women are finding themselves answering a calling to show up, empower themselves, stay connected, and co-create with other women. Women in areas that focus on integrating body-brain and self to become authentic models for others. Some are creating collectives to develop trust in relationships, and nurture true exchange and power-with leadership. Others are on the edge of unknown territory, called to bridge boundaries, and unfold potential synergies that impact human evolution in exponential ways. Join Renee to continue exploring the gathering of women supported by the Heart to Lead Documentary film that demonstrates and explores the significant role women are meant to play in the evolution of Western culture. Tap into how this may relate to women’s leadership here in Victoria. $62.00/6
Registration @ Monterey Recreation Centre 250-370-7300 – Class 104362
May Newsletter
Articles on success of April’s Campaign, Upcoming events & Classes and New – Weekly relationship tips with our love partners in mind!
Did you know “Fear” can be stimulated by triggers learned over a lifetime of experiences?
- Did you also know that fear can be un-learned?
- Did you also know that physical triggers (habitual movements) can stimulate your fear without you being conscious of it? Things that you wouldn’t normally be afraid of become stimulus to frighten you.
- Have you considered that mental triggers (personal thinking process) can also stimulate your fear reactions without your being conscious of it?
- Fear can be a reaction from past experiences being projected into your expectations of the future!
Rather than seeking quick fix and ignoring the root source find out more about how you can learn to replace fear with self-support and learn skills to be present more of the time.
Contact Renee today if you would like to explore natural ways to improve the quality of your own personal way of reacting and experiencing behaviors for improving relationships, sleeping, pain levels, reducing stress and more.
Contact information – renee@insideawareness.com or 250-361-7508
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Tagged Behavior, Fear, Habits, Inside Awareness for Healthy Living, Reactions, Relationships
Getting Yourself Ready to Notice Breathing
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness, Living in Natures Love Blog & Renee Lindstrom Live
Explore Feldenkrais in 2 ways:- Group Glasses & Workshops called: Awareness through Movement or ATM (Classes below)
- Individual Sessions called: Functional Integration (for increasing available movement for conditions, injuries, athletes, musicians, dancers and development
Cultivating Awareness through ATM focused upon Breathing
“Preparing yourself to Notice your Breathing”
Take a moment in sitting and notice how you are sitting. A firm seated chair is the best for this exercise for support and to give you feedback to begin focusing your attention in a particular way.
Start with your focus of attention:
- Where does your focus go in noticing?
- Do you notice if you are sitting in a slouched position or the opposite – lower back arched forward?
- Do you notice if your weight is on your right buttock or left?
- Do you feel your feet on the floor?
Pause and simply breathe in and release a few times
Now take a moment and notice your upper body in sitting. Take your attention to these following areas and simply notice yourself. Pay attention to when you stop breathing to focus and simply take a breathe as soon as you notice holding it. Try and continue to breathe through your shifting focus of attention.
- Are your arms hanging down from your shoulders softly and loosely? If not, how can you simply let them go to hang down with your hands resting on your thighs.
- Are your fingers and palms softly resting on your thighs?
- Notice your shoulder blades and if they are soft or tense. If tense, can you soften them while sitting?
- Take your attention to your front side in the area opposite of your shoulder blades and notice the tension. Follow a few breathes in and notice if you breath into this area or not. If not, slowly soften this area and breathe in and release.
- Coming up to your neck notice if what part of your neck is in your focus of attention. Is it the front, the back or one side that stands out?
- Now notice your head. Do you sense the front of your head more than the back? Do you sense your head falling forward or backward? Is your head in a soft position with little movements or do you notice it locked into one position?
Pause and simply breathe in and release a few times.
Before moving on to ‘Breathing with Spine Support’ or ‘Could raising your shoulder lead to breathing easier? ‘, take a moment to notice how you perceive yourself in sitting now. Check in and see if it different than at the beginning. Notice if you have more of yourself now in your sensing awareness than you did at the beginning. Does your attention notice new places?
Choices for some simple fuller breathe movement lessons:
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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
Balancing “needs” to create loving kindness in ‘love’ relationships
”A hard to hear message.” How many of these do we receive in a day?
When you are listening to your love partner share something meaningful for them or to make a request and you become surprised that it begins by being about you, stop yourself before reacting in a habitual way. Either ask them for a time out moment to collect yourself or don’t be afraid to tune them out. Take time to pause and remind yourself that this is a hard to hear message. Any statement you hear your beloved begin with; ”how you affect them,” or making a judgement about you by saying, “you are” or “you do” is a stimulus for you to become triggered, therefore, stop and notice your reaction.
Follow this up by acknowledging to your partner, “Boy, this is a hard to hear message, would you mind rephrasing this in away that I can be reminded of my own beauty (or value)”, or “would you mind rephrasing this so that I can stay connected to who I a really am.”
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This week begin to make a conscious effort to notice your own inner response to hearing requests of you from your love partner. Notice if you are enjoying how the requests are made and if not, what is coming up in you. Rather than react habitually, stop become curious about what is alive in you and name the feelings or sensations. Do not hesitate to say to your partner, Would you be willing to rephrase this question so that it is not about me. I want to hear what truly matters to you, yet when you make it about me, I cannot hear you in the way I would like to. Give yourself support in becoming present in these moments.
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Renee Lindstrom, passionately shares ways for connecting to the beauty with in each of us for the purpose of finding ease in connecting to ourselves and others. She is a past director on the board of the B.C. Network for Compassionate Communication and is currently focused upon the creating local Awareness for the Gandhi, King, Chavez Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence. Renee can be reached by email – renee@insideawareness.com.
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