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Series 1 – Episode 32: We look at change in ourselves: why it’s hard & yet, we resist it even when we want it. Then, we look at why it’s easy, how we’re already good at it! Julia Seal draws on insights from Change Management, neuroscience, team coaching, midlife metamorphosis, meditation to offer a way to embrace negative emotions & discomfort to serve your highest happiness. So, what have neuroscientists got to do with meditation, Billy Ocean & old dogs?

This week, coach Julia Seal dives into the topic of Change and Change Management as it applies to us and changing ourselves on our happiness coaching journey.

We explore why change is hard, why we believe “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and we find out why it’s just so difficult to stick to our goals, our New Year’s Resolutions – why we’re not like Billy Ocean’s song “When the Going gets Tough…”!

Discover how we continue to add to our unhappiness and emotional suffering every day just by resisting the Reality of Change. How resisting the reality of impermanence, one of Buddha’s 4 Noble Truths, gets us stuck in the Circle of Chaos and Pity City. Knowing how and why our brains resist change holds a key secret for us.

Then, find out why changing ourselves is actually NOT HARD > why we’re actually good at it… and how to use our current change skills for our happiness coaching!

Use the discoveries in Neuroscience, led by William James and Michael Merzenich, to change how we think about our brains in change and how we can use this knowledge to further our self coaching.

Then… we “add wood to the fire” just as experienced meditators do, in order to understand why “getting used to being uncomfortable” is such a vital skill in your happiness – why “discomfort is the currency of your dreams.

Finally, learn how to coach yourself “over the edge” of your changing horizons by understanding the world of Edge Work from ORSC team coaching – Julia shares an example here from her own self-coaching around procrastinating her To-Do List.

And of course, learn more about how the Midlife transition of Menopause is your best opening for this work of change – your best time for metamorphosis, your best chance for deep Happiness, ever!

Lastly, Julia briefly wraps up the 17-part Negative Emotions mini-coaching journey within Series 1: Defining – Assessing – Visioning – just so we can see where we are before we embark on our next exciting step.

” May you be Happy, May you be Free – there is no better time to coach together!”

WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE

  • Why change is hard and why we believe “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”
  • How recent discoveries in Neuroscience are changing how we think about our brains in change
  • Why our plans, goals and New Year’s Resolutions don’t stick despite what we know about “plastic brains”!
  • How and why we continue to create so much unhappiness for ourselves just by resisting Reality…
  • Why change is actually not hard > when we’re good at it and how to utilize this for our happiness coaching
  • Why “getting used to being uncomfortable” is such a vital skill in your happiness – why discomfort is the currency of your dreams – how “adding wood to the fire” will serve your highest happiness
  • How you can “go over the edge” of your changing horizons by understanding the world of Edge Work from team coaching
  • How the Midlife transition is your best opening for this work of change – the best time ever!
  • Quick wrap up summary of the Negative Emotions mini-coaching journey within Series 1: Defining – Assessing – Visioning
  • What do Neuroscientists Michele Malacarne, William James, Marion Diamond and Michael Merzenich have to do with meditation master, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Billy Ocean’s singing and old dogs!

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#1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!
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