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Understanding Mindfulness Coaching

What is Mindfulness

By Samantha HumphreyPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Times have changed. We are in a time when we are experiencing mindfulness as a need.

In a wide variety of social environments, including education, healthcare, the workplace, even politics and, more recently, coaching, mindfulness is commonly regarded as an effective and adaptable practice. But, the meaning of being mindful has somewhat lost in just being stress free.

Mindfulness is not only for regular issues with self, but for the deliberate improvement of foundational skills, focus and connection, contributing to capacities you didn’t even know you had. At Coaching The Brain, we understand, practice and coach to be mindful.

What is Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the essential human capacity to be completely aware or mindful of where we are and what we are doing. In simpler terms it is to not be excessively reactive or distracted by what is happening around us.

While mindfulness is something that we all possess inherently, when we practise on a regular basis, it is more readily accessible to us.

We are conscious whenever we bring a sense of awareness to what we are feeling directly via our senses, through one’s thoughts and emotions. And, there’s increasing research showing that you are actually remodelling the physical structure of your brain as you train your brain to be aware.

One such journey which introduces you to your inner self is Mindfulness. Although, we sometimes come across words such as meditation and mindfulness, many of us are not quite conscious of the way our lives are changing.

Mindfulness means focusing on the present moment, without evaluating something or anything at all. Then, who would you think is a mindful person? How can you become one?

A Mindful Person

Being mindful means being aware of your thoughts, emotions, and how you’re feeling both physically and mentally. Mindfulness is a form of meditation with an important aspect to it—acceptance. It means being aware of your thoughts and feelings without judgment. Remember there is no “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel at any moment.

By being more mindful and aware of your thoughts and feelings, you may be able to teach yourself to live in the moment and enjoy life as it happens. Let us see how a mindful person is different from others. Here are a few things that mindful people do differently-

THEY DO NOT IDENTIFY OR DEFINE THEMSELVES WITH THEIR EXPERIENCES

The general belief is that non-attachment involves being able to step back from experience. So that things such as sorrow, pain, or rage do not become consumed. So far so good. Stepping back, as opposed to simply allowing something to be there and happen, becomes all about distancing yourself from your experience. This can cause many encounters, both pleasant and negative, to become cold, indifferent, and distant.

Disidentifying your experience or becoming unattached to it is not something you can do. Therefore, to grasp what it means, we have to comprehend its opposite and what it is not.

We strive to cling onto the good and avoid the negative while we identify with our experience. We “attach” a sense of self to the transient, changing phenomena of the unattachable. And in doing so, we can’t help but feel like it is something we need, lack, desire, want, whatever the experience is. Or the other way around, it becomes a problem that we need to stop, get rid of, eliminate, etc.

You establish a fixed sense of self that remains outside of the shifting flow and flux of conditions by attaching yourself to such transient and changing phenomena.

You will come to see yourself as a “happy” or “unhappy” individual, a “depressed” or “anxious” or “insecure” person, identified with experience. The more you criticise yourself and get caught trying to get rid of, refute, eradicate, or somehow change as things are, your identity solidifies. On the contrary, being not identified or attached to an experience, without judging or responding to it, enables your identity to be as it is and appear in entirety.

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