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Helpful People Area: Expand your connections with the support of Crystal Influences

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The Crystals that would benefit networking and community would be those that support communication, connection, motivation and protection. The community life area sits between the elements of metal and water. The stones I chose to demonstrate for this area reflect those elements in shapes and colour. The first consideration is the value attributes in these examples. Once the attributes are chosen the second consideration is how the element’s reflection will enhance the intention of the group experience. If the group is out of balance aggressively, it would be recommended to add more stones with qualities to support calm, grounding and protection along with an increase in water elements, not metal. If a group needed more life and engagement the shape of fire would be recommended. To read more on the use of elements through crystal shapes scroll to the bottom of the blog post for the link.

Here are some Crystal choices to consider for building your community

Here are some crystal suggestions for mental, emotional and physical health:

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Amazonite

Angelite

Chalcedony

Jade

Jasper

Malachite

Sodalite

Smokey Quartz

Rhodochrosite

Shungite

Topaz

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Spirit & Knowledge Area: Focusing attention using Crystal Influences to enrich learning

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Here are some crystals and stone influences that would support study and higher education. The motivation is setting an intention to manifest. The crystal placement is the expression of intention. The unique qualities of each stone has been tapped into for generations and by introducing them into your space aligns with these cultural patterns. This holistic approach is similar to the organic use of herbs, homeopathic remedies and Feldenkrais Somatic Function applications where each person is treated as an individual. This means the focus is on the individual’s needs balanced with the unique qualities of plant, homeopathic, and movement influences. With crystal influence the focus is on the qualities of the stones, one’s intention and somatic experience. It is an outside influence to stimulate mental, emotional and physical health and well-being. Plant remedies and homeopathic remedies would also be an outside influence stimulating one’s inner well-being. The crystal would be an outside stimulus while Feldenkrais for example has a focus upon an inner somatic felt sense and nurturing awareness.

Here are some crystal and stone suggestions for supporting someone on a learning journey. These provide support for the pursuits of education, wisdom and faith. If one is seeking the unique energy of these stones supports finding clarity. They help to ground the inner seeking energies to tap into what one is truly longing for. Commitment comes with tapping into what’s meaningful. Click individual crystal pictures shown for affiliate links to instantly purchase the crystals and stones that speak to your desired needs for enhancing personal power, abilities of manifestation, healing and learning in all life areas for past and present experiences and future intentions.

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Amethyst

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4. Yellow Calcite

5. Hematite

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7. Obsidian

8. Clear Quartz

9. Pyrite

10. Ruby

11. Sodalite

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What shape of Crystal would be your best choice for your intention from a Feng Shui perspective

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When choosing your crystals for healing, protections, support, meditation or encouragement the shape is significant. Shapes have been used since the birth of the human conditioning. They are reflected in every aspect of human development from the sacred to structure. In Eastern philosophies the shapes are associated with the elements of fire, earth, metal, water and wood. In the cycle of creation; fire creates earth, earth creates metal, metal creates water, water nurtures wood and wood creates fire. If one is experiencing a lack of balance mentally, emotionally, physically or spiritually these elements are used to bring balance.

When integrating crystals and stone influences the shapes can support the intention of your purpose for manifesting with them.

Some ways to use the shapes of crystals to enhance your intended experience with them

Fire Element

The fire element is reflected in a pyramid, sharp edged or flame like shapes. The shape is considered to be a yang or masculine energy. This energy adds a spark and inspires one to be motivated. In crystals it would be used to bring life to an idea, goals or area of life. If one needs energy in an endeavour this would be the shape to consider.

Earth Element

An earth element is a low, square shape. The shape is grounding and nurturing. This shape is beneficial for calming, nurturing and balancing. The intention can be for calming the environmental influences and mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experiences. This shape could be used to calm life down to create mindfulness.

Metal Element

A metal element is reflected in sphere shapes. This element reflects mindfulness or meditative state. This is the perfect shape to use in a space placements to create a calming and mindful experience.

Water Element

If the pyramid is yang,energies, water is yin or feminine energies. Water puts out fire therefore a placement for this element would be to calm a fiery space or experience down. Moving water reflects an accumulator of wealth and abundance while calm water reflects a calming state of mindfulness.

Wood Element

The wood element is a tall rectangular shape. It is connected with plants, flowers and animals and brings life to a space or experience. Wood creates fire therefore supports the inspiration and motivation of fire. If a space or experience is in need of life and activity this shape would be perfect. It is also used in healing practices.

Elements in the Crystal and Stone Qualities

Each crystal would carry the energies of these elements. It is not only the shape of the stones or crystals, it is the qualities it is the influences of their qualities. When reflecting on the qualities of the stones that have been used for centuries, consider the long term uses. They will hint at the elements. For example:

Meditation – Metal
Grounding – Earth
Aliveness – Wood
Spark/Inspiration – Fire
Intuition – Water

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Integrative Living with Crystals & Stones

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Introducing well-known intentions of crystals and stones for building a vocabulary of manifestation for mental, emotional and physical well-being & for supporting the environment

Health and wellness benefits of crystals and stones:

Inviting abundance into your life
Deconstructing your energy blockages
Improving your focus
Shielding your aura
Cleansing
Protection & Clearing
Wealth & Success
Love & Happiness
Spirituality & Faith
Passion & Creativity
New Beginnings

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Feng Shui Placements for :
- Accumulating good fortune and happiness
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- Balance the yin and yang in the environment, relationships and mental, emotional and physical
- Create healthy family and community groups
- Decor
- Enhance productivity
- Increasing clarity, connection and understanding
- Intentions for manifestation
- Protection
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4. Past (Ancestors)

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6. Future, Goals, Intention

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7. Wealth & Abundance

Inspiring abundance and sparking motivation with crystal influences

8. Fame & Recognition

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Thinking patterns that create constraints to physical function, and false emotional responses

Posted on July 9, 2020 | Leave a comment

One of the possibilities for those longing to cultivate their own awarenesses is in the integration of a specific way to pause and listen.

This skill can turn illusive reactive behaviour into obvious thoughtful behaviour thereby increasing the quality of one’s life style, relationships, physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

This style of listening cultivates awareness and connects one to their surrounding environment, inner emotional and mental environment and the very environment of functional movement. Whether one functions with a dominant right brain or left brain this style of listening creates balance. Afterall we can access both sides of our brains equally. I liken it to walking a maze or a labyrinth. One is a right brain experience of introspection to connect and the other a left brain activity to solve puzzles. The goal is to have a choice of pathways in any one moment. Both right and left brain activities are equally valuable to reaching a specific target.

I experience right and left brain behavioural reactions in others whether the focus is on movement, thinking functions, communication, life purpose, surroundings or lifestyle influences. I have experienced what most have in common are the missing skills of how to make the change. They can all identify it in others, and are quick to, however the model to dig deep within themselves to be self-witnessing is lacking. It’s not a pattern in our general educational experiences. It is an untapped resource. There is a wealth of theory related material available yet the practical steps for integrating change are missing. The theories out there contribute to the concept of something being “wrong” so there needs to be a fix. This is old school. New school is that there is nothing wrong, it’s just a gap in the learning process.

Many of us process new information through old learning patterns from earlier cultural experiences. This includes our:

thinking process
movement postures
emotional reactions.

Habitual behaviours can only only be transformed through exploring and practicing new ways of doing things with an attitude of open curiosity.

Over the years I have begun to witness that it’s how one thinks that is creating the dis-ease

As this post is focused upon types of thinking that pose a constraint to fully functioning with flexibility and clarity, in movement, thinking and responding, here are some types of learned responses. Responses that are mental blocks to cultivating awareness that actually stop transformation of habitual living and behaviours, mentally, emotionally and physically.

evaluative experiences in patterns of making moral judgments
- labeling
- assessing
- diagnosing
- criticism
- incorrect use of one’s ability to compare
- scarcity
positions of authority
- right and wrong thinking
- punishment and reward
- making demands
- hierarchical positions of power over
denial of responsibility
- lack of honesty
- blame and shame
competing
status quo

Developing the skills for transforming into who you long to be

Ways of integrating ones bodies of function is through new learning experiences for checking in and exploring:

how one thinks now and noticing if there is a better quality of experience with new patterns
how one moves now and noticing if there is a better quality of experience with new patterns
how one is stimulated by their lifestyle and surroundings now and noticing if there is a better quality of experience with new patterns

Finding your intention and creating a target for meeting the goals of who you long to be with Inside Awareness

The learning modules here at Inside Awareness can be specific to life areas whether you are:

looking for your life purpose
seeking to improve your relationships to all life
wanting to enhance your physical abilities
introduce a sense of sacredness in your environment

Each module are concrete actions steps that bring one into the shift they long for.

Each module has a foundation in practical steps and have applications that are logical yet bring focus to the illusive.

Inside Awareness focuses upon switching back on one’s inherent ability to learn where the experience becomes the teacher and the student becomes the sage.

The intention is to increases creativity and expressiveness in living. by Renee Lindstrom

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Posture collapse! Find out more about how fear, pain and movement go hand in hand in ultimate experiencing! Your life can change in a moment….

Posted on June 10, 2016 | Leave a comment

walker-1082410_960_720 I saw a new student to our balance class walking in behind her walker. She was bent completely over with arms outstretched in front of her, hands on the walker handles, head and eyes looking directly down towards the floor. I was surprised and curious at how to teach the class and include her.

Sitting down on a chair was an effort for her with turning, twisting and letting go of the walker to sit down all the while talking and totally unaware that we had started the workshop. She began her story before coming through the doorway and didn’t stop for most of the class.

Her story, the one that gave away the secret of her current condition was possibly the first one she shared. One we could all face in some way. She had taken her elderly husband into an overcrowd hospital where they left him in a bed in the hallway. She tended to him herself and when trying to lift him she hurt her back and bent over in pain. bend-1296747_960_720 From the looks of her posture she never stood back up! Did I forget to mention she is 4 foot 11 inches and a senior!

After many doctors visits with x-rays she heard there was nothing medically wrong. No spine or brain damage and no strokes, etc. In addition to her fear, she now experiences her husbands feelings of frustration at her condition.. She has fallen a few times and lost three teeth.

Some challenges we experienced together with her loss of connection to her own body:

The first challenge – stop talking long enough to experience the movement patterns and let everyone benefit from the workshop
The second challenge – to support her sitting posture. Not only was she falling over in standing, she was falling over in sitting.
The third challenge – remind her to stand up.
The fourth challenge – re-introduce her to her pelvis.
The fifth and sixth – to re-introduce her to her legs and feet.

Surprisingly she grew up a dancer and taught it up until that hospital visit you read about above. When she began to listen and follow our guided movement patterns she recognized them as movements she made and taught in her own classes. Now in her frozen state she wasn’t making these movement patterns that were hers for seventy years. Pain and fear had erased them from her posture and memory!.

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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

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Exploring without rules is learning!

Posted on May 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

A few hardcore Feldenkrais® students came to join in one evening of Conscious Movement through Dance. As the circle began sharing it was explained that the evening wasn’t a Feldenkrais® focused event for their benefit. They chose to stay and take part in a movement with the intention to connect conscious awareness and action in a dance pattern. This concept had been explored with the other participants for a several nights before. This evenings focus was putting patterns of isolated movements into a bigger flow of patterns to experience.

As the larger focused movement pattern was taken up off the floor into big movements a smile crossed their faces. They mentioned that they had never taken their Feldenkrais® lessons off the floor, therefore never experienced them in an upright action! Beautiful moment that encouraged the remaining group members to smile.

Exploring without rules is learning!

Many thanks to the Church of Truth in James Bay for their support in hosting this wonderful series and letting us play with Conscious Movement in Dance!