“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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Walking a Labyrinth
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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.
The Buddha on ‘Oberservation’
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not
belie ve in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha
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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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Embodiment of Scarcity ~ Awareness in Thinking
Definition of Scarcity: a small and inadequate amount, insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage
Nouns: shortage, lack, deficiency, poverty, want, insufficiency, infrequency, under-supply, rareness
Embodiment of Scarcity Consciousness:
- Life is scarce with limited resources?
- There isn’t enough to go around.
- Can’t have what you want or others will be deprived.
- Greediness and self-aggrandizement
Behavior of Scarcity Consciousness:
- Moralistic judgements
- Blame & Shame
- Fear
- Deny responsibility
- Demands
- Right and Wrong Thinking
- Conflicts
- Bullying
How do you embody the qualities of Scarcity?
Motivation: Reflect for a moment about whether you are aware that you can have a choice to have the pattern of thoughts that you think. If you are unaware that you have a choice, consider the motivation for your current experiences. Have you consciously made a decision to behave the way you do or do you do it automatically?
Success: How do you measure success? Is it through having power over others to win so that there is always a winner and looser? Consider a moment if you are enjoying your relationships with your partner, peers, employer, children. Reflect on your self-value, confidence, respect, fear, stress and if your world is a safe place.
Integration: If you do not understand your process of what is creating your thoughts and your reactions you are behaving from an unconscious position. A position that is a result of what you have experienced through your culture from others.
Your thought training has come from all the things that you have been told by your first family (mom, dad, siblings), extended family, teachers, friends, peers, and partners and now influenced by what you have viewed in movies, on T.V. and now internet. This modeling has developed your brain’s self-image of who your are based on what you have been told about yourself from others!
Some tips for checking in follow:
- Thinking ~ Do you think in terms of right and wrong? Do you judge others for their appearance, station in life and how they behave? Do your thoughts compare you to what you see others have and you don’t?
- Behaviour ~ Do you speak in sentences of scarcity consciousness? Do you say to others that you are right and they are wrong? Do you get angry when you hear others share their opinion? Do you interrupt others to tell your story?
- Action Beyond Self Image ~ Do you understand the separation between how you feel about yourself , what you are thinking and what you actually say to others? If you feel worthless, like a fraud and defective how you perceive your world will be through this self-image. Can you separate your self-image from your actions?
Longing for a shift into another choice of experiencing that includes the brain development that you missed that is if your early training is a result of staying fixed in the pattern of right and wrong? For information on another experience of abundance consciousness go to Embodiment of Abundance.
If you are interested in how to become more articulate in creating a shift of consciousness, one that starts with how to speak it to create the brain shift, Renee offers personal coaching, private and organized group lessons. Imagine if your partner, peers, employers/ees spoke from a place of abundance mentality. Once of the greatest values that would be demonstrated would be respect for others and self!
Post by Renee Lindstrom, for Inside Awareness for Healthy Living October 30th, 2012
Embodiment of Abundance ~ Awareness in Thinking
Definition of Abundance: an extremely plentiful over-sufficient quantity or supply, overflowing fullness, affluence; wealth. Abundance is the noun of Abundant.
Embodiment of Abundance Consciousness:
- Life is abundant
- There is more than enough to go around.
- I can have what I need and so can others.
Behavior of Abundance Consciousness:
- Mutuality
- Equal balance of giving and receiving,
- Exclusivity of all regardless of age, rage, rank, male or female
How do you embody the qualities of Abundance?
Motivation: Begin by considering your longing to live in a state of abundance consciousness. Connect to your original motivator to choose a shift towards abundant thinking. What was the attraction?
Success: If you have thought that by setting an intention for abundance with expectations of receiving it, reflect on the success you have had of drawing abundance into your life and keeping it.
Integration: Now consider how you have integrated the qualities of abundance into your experiences and relationships. Has it been through ritual of writing out affirmations, gatherings for creating abundance visions or simply making statements to self and others.
We are hearing that we are what we think we are. Simply replacing the story isn’t as easy as we would like it to be. Thinking we are now going to be living a life of abundance doesn’t replace our earlier thoughts that we have learned since childhood, it simply adds more story. It is the stories we have learned since childhood that we are habitually acting from.
The self reflection then becomes, are you connecting and creating the same beauty in your relationships as what motivated you to set an intention to live as though life was abundant. How are you and others around you enjoying this world?
Some tips for checking in follow:
- Thinking ~ Do your mind thoughts and their sentence structure reflect abundance consciousness?
- Behavior ~ Do you speak in sentences of abundance consciousness?
- Action Beyond Self Image ~ Do you understand the relationship between thinking abundance and behaving abundance? (Behaving abundance in this sense it not empathy of prayer, mediation and gathering together for a cause, it is about those praying, gathering and mediating and their ability to spontaneously identify and shift their personal judgement, blaming and demands in the moment while in every day one on one interactions.)
If you are interested in how to become more articulate in creating a shift of consciousness into an abundant one that starts with how to speak it to create the brain shift Renee offers personal coaching, private and organized group lessons. Imagine if your partner, peers, employers/ees spoke from a place of abundance mentality. Once of the greatest values that would be demonstrated would be respect for others and self!
