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Incorporating Mindfulness Meditation Into Coaching Practice

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Mindful Nation UK, 2015). Mindfulness is not a solution to your story problem. It is not a narrative solution at all. Instead, Mindfulness is a solution for the problem of having to live with these narrative constraints. Daron Larson, 2015). Daron Larson, Ted Talk, 2015 [link].

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Flexibility as a Coaching Framework for Better Well-Being

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2015; Bestmann et al., Inner voice enhances self-regulation (Alderson-Day & Fernyhough, 2015). Playing games stimulates brain activity and makes you look for new solutions to old problems (Glass et al., Add omega-3 fatty acids to your diet. or you go for capsuled supplements (Zamroziewicz et al., Bestmann, S., Rothwell, J.,

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Life Coaching and Emotions

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When clients feel that their coach understands and empathizes with their emotions, they are more likely to trust their coach and be open to feedback and guidance (Cooperrider & Whitney, 2015). Clients expressing a feeling of fear struggle with getting into action, finding a solution, and sometimes even exploring the solutions.

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Mind-Boosting Power of Exercise on Mental Well-Being

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Exercise is not only pivotal for physical fitness but profoundly impacts mental well-being. Over the years there have been consistent results researched showing the positive effects of exercise on the mind, showing that it boosts cognitive function and assists in alleviating many well-known mental health conditions. Erickson, K(2011). Pedersen, B.

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Building Resilience Through Coaching

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The Science of Resilience/ author Bari Walsh/ March 23, 2015.) From the stories explored for this research, five factors emerged as the most common themes for high resilience, they were: Faith, Purpose, Grit, Positive Mindset, and Solutions-Based Thinking. Solutions-based thinking is resilience in action.

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Shutdown vs. Liberation

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Freezing puts you on hold; able to further prepare yourself to respond (McCabe & Milosevic, 2015, p. This was a perfect solution because she realized she could use an existing learned response (the coach response) – that was easily accessible even in the heat of the moment. Her very own, unique strategy. References McCabe, R.E. &

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Developing Curiosity

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Together with presence, it enables all that happens in the coaching session – clarifying, exploring, reflecting, learning, and finding solutions, which in its turn ensures progress and change. Hayden, published on 4 November 2015. [2] Hayden, published on 4 November 2015. [4] Hayden, published on 4 November 2015. [7]