How to Coach Yourself: Applied Mindfulness

<p>As a life coach, part of my job is helping people develop the tools and skills to be able to do something really crucial to their own long term growth: coach <i>themselves</i>.</p><p>Yes, I am here as a sounding board, a listener, a co-conspirator and a co-mastermind in helping my clients create the lives they want and deserve, (as a kick in the you-know-what if that’s what they need!) – but I cannot do the work for them.</p><p>We all have to do our own groundwork to free our minds, so that we can free our lives.</p><p>Self-coaching is a tool that I use on myself <strong>daily</strong>, and it’s also a model that I teach to my students in Freedom School and use regularly with my clients.</p><p>In practical terms, it is a way to apply many spiritual teachings while off the cushion, or off the yoga mat.</p><p>Really, self-coaching’s power is that it shows YOU how to understand your own mind.</p><p>And best of all, you can use it on the fly.</p><p>Today, I dig into why unlayering your mind, deliberately easing into new thought patterns and building a reflex of self-compassion in the process is <strong>essential </strong>to creating the life you want to live.</p><p>I also offer up a tool us life coaches use – called The Mindfulness Model – to help you begin to break down and understand your problems (through an approach that parses out your circumstances, thoughts, feelings, actions and results) so that you can create real, tangible change in your life.</p><p>It may sound kind of abstract right now, but you can start to think of The Mindfulness Model as a form of active meditation, or applied meditation – a practical way to engage mindfulness.</p><p>One of the biggest mistakes people make with mindfulness of thoughts is that they think thoughts, in and of themselves, are true. They are <strong>real </strong>– but not <strong>true</strong>. Coming to understand this distinction may just be one of the most important elements of thoughtwork you ever do.</p><p>So, I invite you to take this in today.</p><p>:: I invite