How to build a Neuro Coaching Program

Mindfulness is a technique extracted from Buddhism where one tries to notice present thoughts, feeling and sensations without judgement. The aim is to create a state of “bare awareness”. What was once a tool for spiritual exploration.

• Mindfulness does not seek to change or manipulate the content of the coachee’s  / client's beliefs. It is about cultivating awareness through relaxation.

• A mindfulness approach is not about trying to change the client's mind. Mindfulness is about observing your client's thoughts without necessarily believing their story.

• Cognitive restructuring traditionally emphasizes the need to change one’s thinking. However, a core feature of mindfulness is not try to remove, suppress, or change thoughts that occur, including negative ones.

• Using mindfulness the coachee is encouraged by their Neuro Master Coach to cultivate a decentered relationship with their ‘self’. This also helps them learn to observe their emotions at work.

Mindfulness (achieved though relaxation techniques and focusing using neurofeedback technology) is a CRITICAL KEY for successful neurocoaching change efforts! Through the use of guided coaching the client can move into 'a state of mindfulness' within minutes.

• Mindfulness is simply being present as the observer, with compassion, acceptance, and non-judgment, and that in this place there is no “right” or “wrong”. For the purposes of self-exploration and discovery the Master Neuro Coach guides the coachee to move to this place so they can take effective action with awareness, openness, and focus.

The two key components for awareness, openness, and focus or 'psychological flexibility' are:

1. The ability to be psychologically present. - In other words:
• to focus on the here-and-now
• to be engaged and absorbed in what you are doing
• to have full awareness of the current situation
• to have an attitude of openness and interest

2. The ability to take effective action. - In other words, to take action that is:
• conscious and deliberate with full awareness
• in the service of valued ends while being flexible and adaptable

Mindfulness is a key factor in psychological flexibility.
Indeed, mindfulness training has recently become a 'hot topic' in psychology - increasingly recognized as a powerful means to:
• develop self-awareness
• effectively handle difficult feelings
• disrupt unhelpful thought processes

Note: Mindfulness is also a key to "Emotional Intelligence".
-Happiness is a primary feeling, as is sadness, fear, and anger. Research tells us that feelings only last 4 minutes or less when they are simply and mindfully observed and felt. Feelings are expressions of emotions, or states of being. The 2 key points here are:

1) When our clients mindfully experience their feelings, they are able to create the necessary space to consciously choose how they allow feelings to evolve and then, guided by their Neuro Master Coach, learn how to exchange one undesirable feeling to a more suitable one to create a better behavioral outcome.

2) Discipline of the client's mind (emotional self-management) brings them closer to their desired state of “happiness”.
 

MULTI MODEL APPROACH
Meditation and Mindfulness is integrated with cognitive and behavioral approaches to quickly and easily generate a superior coaching outcome than the traditional coaching model could achieve. 

MEDITATION -THE FIRST STEP TO CHANGING OURSELVES.
- THE FOUNDATIONAL PLATFORM TO BUILDING A DESIRED FUTURE!

Our unique course teaches students how to guide their clients to ACHIEVE A DEEP MEDITATIVE STATE IN JUST MINUTES then combined with mindfulness to:
1)  open the mind to cognitive change (the way we are thinking / ‘state of mind’) and,
2) prepare the brains neurons to ‘fire’ (create new connections / behavioral patterns when using proprietary Neuro (Cognitive and Behavioral) Change Coaching Models.

Our brain cells are continually forming new connections and restructuring our perceptions over time. This everyday process of neuroplasticity provides us enormous potential to change areas of our brain and behavior we wish to grow or change in ourself. 

Achieving Deep Meditation in just minutes..

-The Science and Process

Focused Attention
Focused attention and mindful action can be used to push through any resistance and rewire habitual patterns. This process of intentionally changing our brain circuits is called ‘self-directed neuroplasticity’. 

Action potential -the necessary state of the brain ready to change itself achieved through enhanced/deep meditation.

Action potential occurs during the firing of a neuron / change process. During this action potential stage, part of the neural membrane opens to allow positively charged ions inside the cell and negatively charged ions out. 

This process causes a rapid increase in the positive charge of the nerve fiber. Neuroscientists use other words, such as a "spike" or an "impulse" for the action potential. 

When a neuron is not sending signals, the inside of the neuron has a negative charge relative to the positive charge outside the cell. Electrically charged chemicals known as ions maintain the positive and negative charge balance.

When at rest, the cell membrane of the neuron allows certain ions to pass through while preventing or restricting other ions from moving.  

What happens during the Action Potential stage?

When an impulse is sent out from a cell body, channels open and the positive sodium cells surge into the cell. Once the cell reaches a certain threshold, an action potential will fire, sending the electrical signal down the axon.  

Neurons always fire at their full strength. This ensures that the full intensity of the signal is carried down the nerve fiber and transferred to the next cell and that the signal does not weaken or become lost the further it travels from the source. 

The practice of long term deep meditation (eg; achieved by experienced practitioners) effects a permanent restructuring of the brain.

Most people struggle with meditation practice: Am I doing this right? What should I do next? Why is this so hard?

The Neuro Coach acts as the user’s personal Meditative Guide and helps the client to quickly enter into a meditative state and provides feedback that helps them track their progress, keep consistent, and stay engaged.

Guided Meditation
Guided Meditation provides us the key to reach deep levels of meditation quickly and easily.

Guided meditation helps the client relax, connect with themselves and become present for the coaching process (cognitive and behaviorally change).

An example of Guided Meditation is like looking out over a lake or being at the top of a mountain.

In this state of calmness and openness the client (guided initially by their coach) obtains the insight necessary to get answers to particular questions eg. meeting a future or wise self. 

Meditation also helps the client create an inner resource, the wise self that can be called upon to open a pathway to a future the client wants for their lives. 

Guided Meditation (as opposed to meditating alone) helps because calming visuals complemented by words by the coach provides a doorway into the power of stillness (the portal for change to occur and where a desired future is created). 

Special Note:
For the client this is like going to the gym for your brain because they will get better at staying focused during a session. The Neuro Coach helps their client boost their levels of meditation obtained and also makes it fun to do and easy to stick with.

SELF-MASTERY
The client works initially with a coach until self-mastery is attained (usually in just a few short sessions).

With their coach the client uses meditation as a means to:
1) prepare themselves for the change process using the proprietary Neuro Change Models (cognitive and behavioral methodology) and,
2) to re-center themselves after intense exploration before moving onto a new area of focus. 

During the coaching process the coach empowers the client to self-coach themselves to reinforce and measure their change/progress and set new goals to reach. That said, many clients simply desire to just learn how to efficiently and effectively use M&M to achieve the many benefits a deep meditative state can provide.

Once a client has been guided by their coach how to best use M&M , they can also use it themselves as a powerful stress management tool.

GUIDEDED M&M  - SOME CLIENT FEEDBACK

• Coach feedback helps persons meditate that previously worried that that were not doing it right
• Helps those people to meditate who believed they couldn’t because their mind is always racing
• Helps those people who find it hard to remain motivated especially when not getting immediate feedback
• Helps people who cannot sit “very long” by themselves to meditate.

“ I love the guided feedback from my personal coach.  I finally "get" meditation after trying for over 5 years now.” 

“Just after 2 training sessions with my coach I am now experiencing amazingly deep meditation at will that washes over and cleans my body and mind. As a result I feel like a new person -I’m far happier, productive and more sharp minded than I was before.” 

“It works! It helps my anxiety go away, makes me feel better and I can now have a deep, restful sleep at night.”  

“Guided M and M is a great way to get busy professionals and geeks to practice mindfulness / meditation!"

Traditional Coaching has just been super charged and replaced by NeuroCoaching. Today my client's desired future state is only minutes away using the latest Neuro Change Methodology!