Cultivating presence is a practice of being your authentic best, moment to moment. Aware and free of the pressures of conflicting, limiting or contradictory beliefs you simply are – present to whatever presents itself and able to respond in the moment.
This practice requires a commitment to compassionate mindfulness which, in turn, aligns vision, values and actions in service to a higher calling.
Being the Best You Can Be!
Being the best you can be is a process of becoming – of step by step, intentional and creative transformation.
Getting in touch with and aware of what matters helps clarify your purpose and eventually, with practice and coaching support, you are able to free yourself of the negative, self-sabotaging unconscious beliefs that keep you stuck.
Taking responsibility for yourself is a Self-empowering process. No longer giving power away to unconscious beliefs that so often hold power and cause you to react to the events in your life, you will become increasingly capable of creating beliefs that motivate and inspire focused, purposeful action.
Getting to NOW is the Leadership Journey.
Along the way, you may very well encounter 7 indicators of self-sabotaging beliefs. In a social context, at work or at home, you might find yourself:
- Feeling impatient, frustrated, anxious
- Trying too hard, being too eager, overbearing
- Unable to focus and be present in the moment.
- Completing sentences for others
- Rushing the speaker
- Distracted – thinking about other things
- Thinking negatively about yourself (self-doubts creeping in)
These indicators, and others like them, reveal the presence of conflicting or contradictory beliefs or judgments and are experienced as emotional discomfort to varying degrees of intensity.
5 mindfulness practices that cultivate leadership presence
- Observing without judgment
- Unattached to outcomes (The outcome is beyond your control)
- Committed to service – Client-focused
- Actively Listening (responding vs reacting)
- Holding the space for others to step into possibility, explore and discover options, and make better choices.
Transformation and healing begins with awareness of discomfort, agitation or dissatisfaction and leads to the commitment to improve the situation. Conflicting and contradictory underlying automatic commitments (hidden beliefs) keep you stuck, frustrated and spinning your wheels.
Transformation is a creative process. Stepping into transformation takes faith, self-honesty and courage – the promise of achieving relief from pain, and transforming struggle into inner peace, acceptance and empowerment inspires hope and a vision for something better.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
Becoming free and clear of negative judgments and beliefs is a process of mental house-cleaning. It’s what The Kaizen Program for Authentic Mindful Leaders facilitates, helping you identify your values, clarify your vision, rewrite your script and take purposeful step by step action, that you direct. It’s a self–empowering experience.
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