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As part of my ICA coaching graduation I write a research paper on tunnel vision versus broad vision.
You could wonder how I got fascinated by the subject.
During my coaching I experience that we all have it hard opening up to possibilities outside our own limited world that we see now. For instance this typically shows up when people are looking for new carreer opportunities. They feel unhappy where they are now. And still they find it hard to look outside the experience they have build till now. Off course it is good to look at what you have gained as experience and build on that. But still that omits people to look behind that. To dream big. What do I want to do? Who do I want to be? in case I hadn’t any restriction.
In what directions I am looking at?
In first instance I am looking at what makes us limit our view. And then I come to the functioning of the brain. Currently I am reading a book from Edward de Bono – I am right, you are wrong. He clearly describes how the very functioning of the brain makes us filter what we see and this in turn limits us to return to the big patterns in our brain that were formed based on our experience. We get into a kind of circular movement : we look at the world and our possibilities through the lens of our patterns which filters what we see, thus what we see confirms that our patterns are right which reinforces our patterns and strengthens our filter …
What I am looking at is: what makes us look outside of circular movement of our brains? What tools do exist that I can use during my coaching sessions for my clients to also see other possibilities?
Edward de Bono speaks about: provocation, any given word. I will discover as I move forward in the book how they could serve for me in my coaching.
Also he mentions a program he developed to teach ‘thinking’ at schools called CORT (Cognitive Research Trust).
So in case you can help me with clues to broaden my view on possible tools or share your experience in this area, let’s discuss here on my blog.
I will be sharing my discoveries with you on this blog. Let’s interchange information, thoughts, feelings, …
Ready to receive an abundance of information : )
Hilde
“Mindfulness is kijken in de spiegel. Met gesloten ogen. Kijken naar jouw denken, je gedachten. Ze zien en er niet in mee gaan. Zitten en kijken binnenin. Je emoties voelen, zonder erin de verdrinken. Ze omhullen, zonder ze te verdringen. Je lichaam voelen, weten hoe het voelt. Opmerkzaam zijn voor al wat er is in jou. Met aandacht hier, nu, helemaal.”
– Mindfulness voor kinderen, Pim Catry en Jan Decuypere
Free Englisch translation :
“Mindfulness is looking in the mirror. Eyes closed. Looking at your thinking, your thoughts.
Seeing them and not going along with them. Sitting and looking within. Feeling your emotions, without drowning in them. Enwrapping them, without suppressing them. Feeling your body, knowing how it feels. Observing everything that is in you. With attention here, now, entirely” – Mindfulness voor kinderen, Pim Catry en Jan Decuypere
I feel full of energy again & it feels great 🙂
What lead up to this ?
Well first of all I am convinced that my sabbatical without specific deadlines & rushing has helped a lot. But there is more. Why else did it take me almost 9 months to get fully back on track.
First of all there is my diet. After having read the book ‘Homo energeticus’ from Peter Aelbrecht I have followed his proposed diet. I have re-introduced fish and eggs (special Columbus eggs, I have a tendency for high cholestorol) since I ate animal proteins before my puberty (for more details I refer to the book itself). Each day I eat leguminous plants, nuts and seeds on top of once vegetal proteins and once animal proteins and vegetables and 5 pieces of fruit. I did not loose the kilo’s that I would loose as a side affect but this is really of less importance.
Besides the new diet I have also started 5 rythms danse (only 3 times now) but I feel it is ‘moving’ me not only fysically but also mentally as my coach had predicted.
Both feel good … it is the right direction for me for now …
On the job side no new info. A next meeting with my HR director is planned for September 17th.
In the meantime I enjoy every minute of the last month of my sabbatical preparing for a new and fresh professional start.
Cheers
Another book that I would like to share with you is the book ‘De kracht van meditatie’ by Joan Goldstein and Manuela Soares, editor Omega boek, Amsterdam (the original English version is mentioned in the title).
It is an ideal book for people that have no anterior experience with meditation. You will find specific instructions for starting meditation including a 4-week program to start your regular meditation practise.
The meditation that I have been trained in and that I perform is
anapana meditation : concentration on or ‘feeling’ beneed the nose and above the upperlip => this helps me to ‘master my mind’
vipassana meditation : see http://www.pajjota.dhamma.org or http://www.dhamma.org for the full information
metabana meditation : focus on love, peace, harmony, compassion
I found this meditation forms highly effective for myself even given the fact that I am quite a new-comer in this area (I started beginning this year).
They bring me inner peace and they permit me to stay more equonomous in live. I see things more easily through a different perspective. I look and feel but not necessarily react directly or impulsively.
I have picked up this book without any specific references, I have found it on the bookshelf in my local bookshop. The title translated as ‘The big silence’ appealed to me.
And yes, I have read it in one day.
It gave me such a feeling of recognition of what I have been going through, searching the silence within meditation. I have put post-its on the pages that I wanted to share with you or highlight but my book is now full of it so I can only recommend you to read the book.
It is very conceize and written in a clear language. Too me it seems like a good short introduction to meditation and what it could mean for you but also, as it was for me, it can serve as a confirmation of what you are living is similar for anyone on that same road.
It is written from a catholic background. My meditation training was given from a boedist background. Amazing that the content, experiences are so similar. This shows that as I was thaught during my meditation training the whole experience is not linked with any religion or conviction, it is universal.
Inner strength 
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