An attitude of green is the commitment to practice listening to what is meaningful inside and the willingness to hear others before drawing conclusions. Green isn’t one side trumps the other.. Green is inclusive, it isn’t exclusive. It holds everyone and everything equally. Our values are not in conflict, our solutions are in conflict.
Green meets humanities needs. It is a space within that connects us to the value of life and the willingness for balance in giving back so everyone and everything thrive’s. It is a natural cycle of giving and receiving that turns as the turning of night and day. Imagine the moon and sun falling out of balance with one becoming dominate and one lesser than.
It requires tolerance and balanced lifestyles to increase mindfulness and patience to make better choices and find ways to resolve differences. Some ways to consider achieving effective day to day balance and enrich life for those times that seem helpless follow:
Setting intentions for next year!
Three points for success with setting your goals and keeping them:
- include a balanced view of all your life areas while setting your goals: heath, wealth, fame, love, creative, future, community, career, personal development, ecology
- connect to the roots of your desire for a meaningful incentive to stick to them
- create an environment for success
Balance between
mind (solving puzzles) &
mindfulness (spaciousness)
A maze is a puzzle and can be confusing. It reflects challenge and requires mind solving focus versus mindfulness! Have you considered how mindfulness supports and balances mind solving skills? Too much challenge can create limited focus and panic. A pathway that leads to mindfulness creates open space for increased brain power for meeting and navigating challenges!
Communication & Movement for Mindful Awareness for Adults
4 Personal Commitments for effective ‘Green Communication’
1. Self Reflection:
- identifying felt sensory awareness (sensing, feeling, emotions) while noticing thoughts, opinions, believes and interpretations and letting them go
2. Speaking honestly:
- about how you are affected and not what you think
3. Willingness to set aside differences:
- hearing how others are affected (conflict is at the level of belief, thoughts, opinions and personal interpretations)
4. Identifying and connecting to values before solutions:
- After first three steps, then and only then, develop solutions based on every-ones input and ideas.
The Practice of Empathy Nature
will develop a state of mindfulness and increases conscious awareness
increase communication efficiency
reduce life draining experiences and increase productivity
- Read more on value-based enrichment program ~ InTouch Talk
- Inside Connect to inquire/book a personalized workshop, and integration coaching
What are your values
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The 4 Commitments of Green Movement
The goal in this style of movement is spontaneity. This is achieved through these four commitments.
1. Commitment to Stop and Check in
Commitment to slow down and stop
2. Transition from thinking to sensing
Mindful focus on your inner sensations from the inside out
3. Exploring with curiosity
Curiously explore your movement actions and reactions
4. Practice to integrate
This movement is a system that increases inner wisdom of all aspects of self. It is not a first aid nor a philosophical path. It is reuniting of whole movement interrupted through the generalized and institutionalized educational system.
Movement Options:
SOMATIC MOVEMENT
- Mindful Focused Movement – four aspects of self through body
- Personal Movement Consulting
- Movement Awareness Classes
CONTEMPLATIVE MINDFUL MOVEMENT
- Labyrinth’s – pathway in to heart center connection and back out
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication, Empathy, Values Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015
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A few hardcore Feldenkrais®
Recently when describing how contemplation can be an outcome when using a precise formula of spoken words, a colleague mentioned a verse in the bible as follows:
Recently I enjoyed viewing a “Coles Notes” explanation of the a Medicine Wheel from a fellow Canadian in Alberta. This Elder was connecting with a troubled youth through the act of walking. There was not a direct focus on any issues. I observed through their discussion that the Elder was very aware of this youth and their needs through their behavior and unspoken expression. Rather than being direct and telling the youth anything, it was through guidance and modelling. The Elder began sharing the concept of the Medicine Wheel and encouraged the youth to walk, enter and stop in the center. The explanation of the Medicine Wheel was subtle and included the four directions, north, south, east and west. There was also mention of the balance of the four aspects of self for connecting to ones center. 
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