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2 Simple Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tools
Mindfulness tools that require only a little time and energy.
As part of my recently revamped podcast — Self-Awareness for Everyone — I’ve begun to include tools at the end of each episode to use for applied guidance for mindfulness.
These are two more tools that I shared.
The first Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool: Identify your saboteurs
I recently finished reading Gary John Bishop’s Stop Doing that Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back, and now I have a much clearer view of the how and why of my self-sabotaging behaviors.
Second-guessing and self-sabotaging originate as thoughts. And the combination of thought and feeling gives them agency in our heads.
All this plays into our subconsciousness. While we could do a deep dive and try to root it out — that’s not all that productive.
Borrowing from Mr. Bishop, this week’s tool is a simple process to identify the sources of your self-sabotage and second-guessing behaviors.
How to Identify the Saboteurs
You only need two minutes or so for each of these. I recommend doing them all no more…