
Rising Above Your Thougdht Coaching
Rising Above Your Thoughts: A Self Love Coaching Framework
Help individuals experience their true self beyond mental noise and reconnect with the stillness where self-love naturally arises.
Rising Above Your Thoughts” is a powerful theme inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s teachings and can serve as the foundation for a transformative self-love coaching approach. Here's how you might shape a coaching session or practice around this idea:
🪷 1. Awareness is the First Step
“You are not your thoughts; you are the awareness behind them.” — Eckhart Tolle
Coaching Focus:
* Teach clients to observe their thoughts without identifying with them.
* Use simple mindfulness practices to help them become the “watcher.”
Practice Example:
“Close your eyes. Now notice a thought. Any thought. Don’t try to stop it. Just watch it like a cloud passing by. Now ask: Who is watching the thought? That awareness... is you.”
2. Identify the Inner Critic (The Ego Voice)
Coaching Focus:
* Help them recognize the inner critic or judgmental voice as ego, not truth.
* Encourage naming this voice (e.g., “the judge,” “the perfectionist”).
Shift:
From: “I’m not good enough.”
To: “There’s a thought saying I’m not good enough — but I’m not that thought.”
3. Practicing Presence and Acceptance
“Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond.” — Tolle
Coaching Focus:
* Guide the client to accept the present moment — including discomfort — as it is.
* Self-love grows when there is no resistance to your inner world.
Presence Practice:
Body scan, breath awareness, or simply sitting in silence and asking:
“Can I be here fully, just as I am right now?”
4. The True Self is Already Whole
“You are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind whatever you do.” — Tolle
Coaching Message:
* Self-love is not something to achieve; it’s revealed when the ego quiets.
* Guide them to sense their being, not “fix” themselves.
Affirmation:
“I am not broken. I am already whole. I allow myself to rest in who I am.”
5. Emotional Presence vs. Emotional Suppression
Coaching Focus:
* When pain or sadness arises, don’t resist or analyze.
* Teach clients to be present with emotions without getting lost in the story.
Prompt:
“Can you feel this without naming it? Can you be present with this sensation in your body without making it wrong?”
6. Integration Practice: The Self-Love Pause
Daily Micro-Practice:
1. Stop for 60 seconds.
2. Breathe. Notice the body.
3. Say silently: “I am here. I am enough.”
4. Watch any thought that arises, then let it pass like a cloud.