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Key Practise 1: 1-2-3 or Coming Home To Who I Am 0/3
This practise is the foundation of what Zen Coaching is all about. Saying yes to my experience is coming home to who I am.
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Key Practice 2: the A-B-C of Relating 0/5
This practice supports us in resting with both ourselves and others when relating, and connect heart to heart in any situation that may occur. We live in a world where many of us focus more on getting heard and on offering our well-intended comments and advice, and spend less time, energy and focus on truly listening to ourselves and others. When we focus most of our energy on being understood and heard by others, we tend to totally forget or be superficial in our listening. We then tend to listen more to our thoughts and interpretations of what the other is saying rather than to be really there for what is alive in the other in this moment. This practice is an invitation to become a listener.
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Heart-to-heart communication: This practice is an invitation to become a listener.Lecture2.1
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A – First, to connect with myselfLecture2.2
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B – Second, to see, hear and understand the otherLecture2.3
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C – And only then, thirdly, seek to be understood, seen and heard by the other.Lecture2.4
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A-B-C keeps us anchored in restful awareness while relating.Lecture2.5
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Key Practice 3: See – Be – Go 0/3
We see where we are and where we would like to go, we allow ourselves to fall or relax into ourselves, into being or awareness, and we allow action to occur spontaneously from being.
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BONUS: The practise of Reframing 0/7
Problems don´t exist in the world, but in our minds A problem exists in our mind, as an interpretation of our situation or our experience. Problems come into existence through negative thinking about our situation and our experiences. A problem is seeing a situation or an experience in the light of what is wrong and bad about it. An issue thought about as a problem perpetuates the issue as a problem.
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Reframing a problem into a heart-opening takes only three simple stepsLecture4.1
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Step 1: Describe the ProblemLecture4.2
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Step 2: Connect with your longingLecture4.3
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Step 3: Allow and experience the longingLecture4.4
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Longings in disguiseLecture4.5
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Feeling into our longingsLecture4.6
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Reframing as a way of livingLecture4.7
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Reframing as a way of living
Our life can be lived in this way, as a continues practice of using each situation and experience as a doorway into essence, and as opportunities for release, transformation and new possibilities.
The obstacle is the path. Everything we experience is a possibility to meet ourselves at a deeper level. Nothing needs to be discarded, nothing needs to be fought against, pushed away, rejected. Everything can be welcomed – and when we welcome it, it transforms, and we transform with it.
We are, most of us, strongly conditioned to interpret experiences and situations in terms of what is not good and right about them. Therefore a continuous focus on reframing is necessary for most of us if we want to live in connection with ourselves, and not get lost in the limiting and painful perspective of seeing challenging situations and experiences as problems.