Mindful Embodiment Coaching

This is what mindful embodiment coaching is all about.

Mindful embodiment coaching can support you in discovering who you are beyond thoughts.

By developing a relationship with our bodies, our minds, our presence, our fullness, we begin to recognize ourselves as a whole beyond our thinking. We can include our thinking, but we are not it.

It is very liberating to identify who and what we are in a much larger way than what our minds tell us.

In our work together, we will focus on developing this relationship to yourself. By practicing mindfulness and awareness exercises in the present moment, you will develop this awareness and in time begin to experience a much larger sense of yourself that is not bonded by thoughts or even feelings.

I will support you in this process by asking open-ended questions designed to stimulate inquiry into your experience. I will also support your curiosity and invite you to be like a scientist observing and discovering how your internal processes operate. However, this type of inquiry is not just a mental phenomenon, but an embodied one. In other words, as you grapple with the questions, you are also searching your heart and your body for the answers.

It can help you heal old conditioned wounds.

We have all been impacted by our past in one way or another and that has at times included painful traumatic experiences.

These have created wounds, patterns of thought behavior, and feelings that have a certain repetitive rigidity to them.

By becoming in touch with ourselves in deeper ways and recognizing who and what we are beyond those patterns, we can begin to see them and not be controlled by them. This is very healing to our nervous system. In our session, we will explore these wounds when they come up.

This coaching equips you to feel embodied and conscious of your feelings, which gives you a sort of “internal GPS” from which to navigate your reality.

Our nervous system is an incredible instrument for navigating reality when it is properly attuned.

We can become sensitive to the signals of our body being able to tease apart how we are being affected by others. As we understand our own internal patterns, we can tease apart if our reactions to others come from our own past conditioning or if we’re actually picking up something in the other.

Imagine that you are at a meeting at work. You are new in this job and have only been there a few weeks. A colleague whom you don’t know very well compliments you about the awesome presentation you gave earlier that day. However, you are left in disbelief about it, and you feel a weird subtle nausea in your belly.

Since you have been working on developing presence and embodiment for a while, you don’t simply ignore the feeling; you get curious and explore the nausea. You feel it and allow it. At the same time, you ask yourself what’s this about.

As you sense yourself, you recognize that the feeling of nausea is a familiar one to you. It is the same feeling you have gotten in the past when people have been disingenuous with you.

Now you have more information about this colleague. You might not do anything with it at this time, but at a later point it might be good to know that the person might not be as honest as he presents.

It can also help you find balance between your thoughts, your feelings, and your body.

Often, we think one thing, we feel another way, and we act differently.

A good example is when someone asks you, “Want to go to the party tonight?” And you think, “Sure that could be nice.” But your body tightens, and you feel aversion. And then you say, “Sure, let’s do it.”

You end up having a terrible night, and you regret going. However, when you are in touch with yourself, you might recognize that part of you wants to say yes to not disappoint your friend. But at your core, you don’t want to go.

Mindful Embodiment Coaching is like working out for your insides

In our work together, I will help you connect with a deeper sense of self than you have known. Think of me as a trainer, like a gym trainer but for your consciousness. I will invite you to constantly explore what is happening in your body, what you are feeling emotionally, and what kinds of thoughts you’re experiencing. What are the connections between all forms of experience?

Furthermore, I will prescribe practices for you to do between sessions. This will help you integrate and further develop what we learn in sessions.

The good news? We all have a choice.

Most of us are robots living our lives based on our conditioning – repeating patterns again and again without even knowing what we are doing. And it’s comfortable; it feels safe. But there is a price to pay.

In a way, it feels safer to just be in our minds, disconnected from the rest of us.

Existing in our fullness feels too open, too raw, too immediate. The direct present moment experience feels very threatening to our mental cages, and we are attached to those cages. But if we want to feel free, if we want to know ourselves fully and connect with the value of being a full human, we must be willing to expand beyond our thinking.

We must recognize the fact that we are living, breathing, dynamic, pulsating, instinctive, mysterious animals who happen to have hearts. Yes, hearts – loving hearts, capable of experiencing all kinds of feelings, from the most hellish to the most blissful sublime states.

We can either be robots ruled by our conditioned thinking patterns…

… or we can become full participants in our lives.

We can take responsibility for our experience, embody our power, and choose to live our lives fully conscious.

It’s time for you to tap into your full potential!

I dare you to take the step out of your head and into your aliveness. Reach out to me, and let’s schedule a free 30-minute zoom consultation: (415) 891-9562.