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mindfulness coaching
Mindfulness is a way of cultivating our awareness to experience being more in the presence moment. Mindfulness Coaching will show you mindfulness techniques which can help you to slow down enough, so you can start to bring moments of mindfulness awareness and notice more in your daily live. Practicing mindfulness techniques, and being in the present moment can help you to reduce stress and anxiety, support mental health and bring more emotional balance at tricky times.
“Mindfulness is knowing what is happening when it is happening;
no matter what it is.”
Rob Nairn– Mindfulness Association
Pause for a moment
As you read this,
you can choose to be mindful.
Take three deep breaths.
Come into the present moment.
Become aware of your experience,
thoughts passing through your mind,
emotions that may be present,
physical sensations,
and feelings in your body.
What did it feel like to become more present?
With mindfulness training we can start to see the world differently. We may see the people in our lives with new eyes or start noticing more maybe the steam on top of our hot drink! We can become more aware of our habitual tendencies, patterns of thinking and responding; especially those that may not serve us well. This is where kindness and compassion (for self and others) becomes really important; these qualities can help us to become more resilient as we start to navigate the areas we may want to change.
Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds,
but it is always there.
Andy Puddicombe (Co-founder Headspace)
Mindfulness Coaching allows us to be fully present in life, even when it is tricky. This helps us to bring more awareness to “where ever we might find ourself”. We can learn to better flow with our full range of human experiences be that happiness or sadness, feeling energised or tired. As well as learning to accept rather than avoiding our experiences we can start to tame our tricky emotions and cultivate experiences such as joy, equanimity, loving kindness and compassion to ourselves and others. Mindfulness builds our resources for resilience and teaches us to be fully awake living moment to moment as our life unfolds.
Meditation can help to understand our mind better and how it operates. By utilising mindfulness coaching, we can begin to familarise ourselves with our mind brings the aha moments…. “I am always thinking about the past” or “I’m leaping to the future again”, “I feel anxious”, “I have a pain in my back but did not notice”. We can learn to shift gear or rest before issues get worse, or choose a new path.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl Austrian Holocaust Survivor (Book Man’s Search for Meaning)
Meditation and body-centred practices can help us to become aware of our bodily sensations and develop and strengthen more helpful mental habits and qualities such as kindness, patience, joy, courage, compassion. Regular meditation practice, including guided meditation, can help us to build new networks in our brain.
“energy follows focus, what we pay attention to gets stronger”
Hebb’s Law
A focus on mindfulness coaching and business mentoring
elementas coaching and mentoring:
elementas combines a mindfulness approach with high quality coaching and business mentoring services, with a specific focus on mindfulness coaching.
Clients can experience simple tools and techniques to become more aware of their mind and their habitual tendencies including negative thought patterns. As a result clients find new insights and recognise they have more agency than they realise. They become more motivated to make better work and life decisions.
Today Lou uses her skills and experience to help clients try out mindfulness or build upon their own interests. Clients find they gain:
- More self-awareness
- Greater self-understanding
- Improved focus
- Improved wellbeing
- Better communication skills and emotional intelligence
- Improved connections and relationships with others.
This helps clients to discover how to:
- Be in more touch with their personal needs
- Live their lives with their authentic values in mind
- Tap into their abundant inner resources
- Find a natural balance in work, life, and play
- Renew their focus, clarity, and motivation to reach Goals
- Improve their confidence and healthy self-esteem
- Increase their resilience to deal with life’s ups and downs
- Handle change and transition better
- Live with more harmony and happiness.
Mindfulness Integrating true Wellness, be that physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Lou Booth’s Mindfulness Experience and Training
“I believe that Mindfulness is a bridge to the healing power of Self-Compassion, elementas coaching sessions offer a unique process, approach snd safe space for lasting change and powerful growth.” Lou Booth
You are in confident hands with my mindfulness based coaching. In 2015, I started a three-year training pathway to mindfulness, compassion, and insights, as a practitioner with the Mindfulness Association, which I successfully completed in June 2018.
As a coach I am always encouraging people to step out of their own comfort zone and so I have ‘walked my talk’ by undertaking a 3 year par-time MSc in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen. It is challenging but fun! In 2018 I was lucky enough to travel to Tibet and learn from our Tibetans guides about Wellness and Compassion visiting Lhasa, Everest Base Camp and many ancient cultural sites.
Today my rich understanding of mindfulness techniques and compassion continues to deepen and is flourishing with new ideas and techniques. I love to carefully synthesis and deliver the practical benefits of mindfulness practice daily to individuals, teams, and organisations. I am motivated the changes I witness that mindfulness can bring to peoples’ lives.
I am committed to my personal daily mindfulness mediation practice with the Mindfulness Association and attend regular training conferences with some of the worlds best teachers, and share good practice with clients and colleagues.