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.

“You are not the storm of your thoughts. You are the still sky beneath them. In that sky, love already exists — quiet, strong, and unconditional.”

Tools to Include in a Coaching Session:

* Journaling prompts: “What thoughts have been dominating my inner space?”
* Stillness sessions (5–10 min guided presence practice) 
* Self-inquiry questions: “Who am I without this thought?” 
* Mirror work: Looking into your eyes, simply being with yourself