Habits are these automatisms allowing us to accomplish something easily and without engaging a lot of attention. These actions have been learned through living experiences, learning, exercise or by repetitions.
We tend to distinguish them between positive, good habits and negatives, bad habits.
For example, we consider practicing physical exercises as a good habit. Smoking as a bad habit. Sleeping enough hours and eating healthy as positive habits. Going to bed late and eat junk food as negative habits. Â [Read more]
Dedicate Time
To what purpose would you like to dedicate more time ? Which aspects of your life do you wish to nourish by taking time every day?
Dedicate Time is the practice I wish to reinforce during this year. I associate it with taking time to reconnect within me in order to then connect with what is around me: people I love, nature, work projects… My intention for the new year is to continue to dedicate time to connections 🙂
Today, our way to consider our history, our way to move around the world, even our way to think is very much determinate by separations. We perceive easily ourselves as separated – and of course different – from the others. Not only from other people but also from other natural beings.  [Read more]
Less is More
For these autumnal days, I would like to share with you some inputs I got from an article by Kate Yoder about subtraction (1).
We all know this pearl of wisdom saying “less is more”. However, I guess we can all experience how difficult can be to apply this in our life. Think about how we easily tend to do more, to buy more, to have more, to need more. In our attention the automatic mechanism works by adding and the subtract option is much less obvious.
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More assured, more confident
“I would like to thank Michele for our sessions and her tremendous support! I felt the results of our work and my progression all the way through our sessions. Michele helped me to address and talk though my biggest fears at the time, topics that were eating me from inside. She supported me in facing these topics at the same time taking away the edge, reducing emotional tension inside of me and helping to relax and see these issues from another angle. The combination of massage, posting the right questions and humorous and kind approach did their wonders on me.  Michele helped me to understand my reactions and reactions of others in interaction with me. Through our work I felt more assured of my character, more confident. Because of this and Michele’s support I was able to do some changes in my life that were direly needed.” Alena
Calmer and more present
“Michelle is a fantastic coach. The Bodylearning sessions with her helped manage my innate neuroticism and hyperactivity. I became calmer and more present as I learned to slow down and listen to what the body is trying to tell me even if I didn’t want to hear it. I became more aware of my feelings and started understanding myself and my needs better. Overall, the experience was reenergizing as it thought me how to be more in tune with my body. As a result, I made some positive changes in my day-to-day physical and mental routines to allow myself to live a more fulfilling life. Coincidentally (or not) some surprising positive changes in my external environment followed. I would recommend the experience to anyone who wants to be a better person and enjoy life more. Thank you, Michelle!” Diliana
Our contribution to the Drawdown Process
Two years ago, we presented the Drawdown project. The aim of this project is to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby stopping catastrophic climate change — as quickly, safely and equitably as possible. I am very happy to inform you that this project is still dynamic and active. New material has been put together in 6 units, developing 6 different topics about climate change.
But how this topic is connected with bodyawareness and being aware of our automatic pattern?
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