Is your toolbox gathering dust?

I was working with a client recently who for years had been enthusiastically gathering lots of wonderful tools for helping deal with tricky situations. 🔧 🔨 ⚒ 🛠 ⛏

He was regularly journaling, had a gratitude practice and meditated regularly. 🧘

However, he still struggled with worrying excessively about things and he couldn’t seem to break that habit.

When we explored it further, it was clear that he understood what he was doing wasn’t helping things, yet he just couldn’t seem to do things differently.

This was when I asked him what he thought the point of meditation was. 💭

Boom!! 💥

Here was the thing which surprised me.….

And I realised that clear communication is SO IMPORTANT..

We make assumptions that what we mean by something another person interprets in the same way.

He figured that meditation was to help him feel calmer and when he was meditating it certainly did that. 🧘

However he hadn’t realised that meditation is a TOOL to develop our awareness of our thinking patterns and to be used in everyday life when our thinking is causing us problems.

So now what he has started to do when he notices himself caught in a loop of worrying is to

- Notice

- Stop❗️

- Do whatever he can to solve the problem

- And then put his attention elsewhere

Is this something you would like to understand some more?

Do you find yourself repeating the same types of behaviours which you know are only causing you distress?

It doesn’t have to be this way!!

I would love to help you do things differently so you are not bogged down by unhelpful thinking so you can maximise your life and unleash your potential. 🕺🚀🚀

Please reach out if this resonates and you would like to learn more.

I would LOVE to help you get out of your own way!!