Attention is given to intention in the functional integration models I follow, practice, mentor, coach and teach. Through meditation with a focus on connection in the moment an inspiring consideration arose a few years ago. It was basically on body sculpting that began from the inside first versus outside focused strategies. This pattern fit seamlessly with current practices I already was integrating. As energy was already being spent on meditation and inner connection I began without expectation of outcome.

I targeted two areas on my body that I would like re-sculpted and began focusing on the inner self image we all have. With interest not only did these two areas re-sculpt, there was an inner shift in eating plans. This was the seed for the page Awareness through Eating where eating mindfulness has been introduced. I have held off on the body sculpting connection using meditation and intention until now.

Something unsuspected manifested that was not a conscious consideration when beginning. It was something I could never have predicted. It is appreciation for my body in a way that I didn’t know was possible. The depth of it spawned an incredible self love that I also did not know that was possible. It is a stunning starting point for being human. It has introduced a confidence from source that isn’t based on any outside influences.

For the past year or so, I have been getting familiar with it as I perceive the world somatically first. Felt sensations and feeling that I didn’t necessarily allow, let alone get to know in the past. It’s been a felt sense learning curve.

This week when I decided which two areas I now wanted to target, I tapped into the same pattern to meditate with and engage the felt sense of those body areas for the intent to re-sculpt them. After a couple of days I noticed my spontaneous eating plan had shifted. I hadn’t organized it. The pattern was reorganizing me while the targeted areas began to become somatically triggered off and on. It’s been a few days and I have had an intention to document this process, yet haven’t started. I will now after this post. I am curious.

What I can write with certainty is that when the first two targeted areas shifted, my posture shifted in how I held my skeleton. I am pleased with it as it increased flexibility. Some people will understand this concept and others won’t. I will begin sharing information on what has been discovered ongoing through this personal website page, www.reneelindstrom.com. I am incredibly moved by this experience and extremely happy I wasn’t distracted by people influences during the initial process of recognition. It’s been a heck of a few years of experiential learning. I couldn’t be more moved by on so many levels. I am so grateful.

The author, Renee Lindstrom is a Feldenkrais Practitioner, since ’07. She began studying Meditation through Shambhala and Buddhist style teachings in 1995 and trained in Black Hat Sect Feng Shui in ”97/98. In 2001 she began studying and practicing Nonviolent Communication with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg through her filter of mediation and feng shui. Her focus wasn’t on being an authority and clone of Marshall’s written theory, rather finding meaning in life through understanding relationships. This was followed by formally training as a Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education. This practical lifestyle interactive relationship trainings followed a long career in the hotel and hospitality industry with corporate chains, Delta Hotels and Coast Hotels and ultimately leading to a contract to convert the Dorchester Hotel in Nanaimo into a working hotel from a seniors hotel style living arrangement.

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