MY MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH
A UNIQUE MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACHING PRACTICE
DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR OR INBOX
DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR OR INBOX
Designed and Created by Coach Bill Gisclair-Sullivan
Founder/Director of Meditate: School of Mindfulness
and Author of A Mindful Peace
Founder/Director of Meditate: School of Mindfulness
and Author of A Mindful Peace
YOUR APRIL MINDFULNESS PRACTICE
SHIPS MARCH 28
SHIPS MARCH 28
HOW IT WORKS:
Each month Coach Bill and the team at Meditate: School of Mindfulness creates a MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH plan that includes:
- A MONTHLY INTENTION
- AFFIRMATIONS & FOCUS TOPICS
- RECORDED GUIDED MEDITATIONS BY COACH BILL
- CURATED ITEMS THAT SUPPORT YOUR PRACTICE (varies, depending on program choice)
- VIDEO COACHING SESSION BY BILL THAT SUPPORTS THE PRACTICE & THE INTENTION
- PRIVATE ONE ON ONE COACHING SESSION BY PHONE (with premium program plan)
Choose the plan that's right for YOU:
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By the 1st of every month, or within 5 days of your first subscription, you'll receive:
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Before long you'll find yourself walking in present time awareness.
The longer you practice - the more present you will be. You'll have so many of the tools you need to deepen YOUR practice AND every month we awaken something new. It's a beautiful journey ! |
YOUR APRIL
MINDFULNESS Coach SHIPS MARCH 28
MEET YOUR COACH
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Coach Bill is a Transformational Life Coach, Hypnotherapist & Master Meditation Instructor. Bill is the Founder/Director of Meditate: School of Mindfulness located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bill started Coaching after experiencing his own transformation through mindfulness and meditation. He studied the Transformational aspects of Mindfulness, Meditation, Hypnotherapy, Sound Healing, and Coaching before starting his private practice. In that practice which focused on addiction, PTSD, relationship issues and more, Bill found the key to real change is PRESENT TIME AWARENESS. Bill found that if he could connect his client to the practice of meditation & mindfulness, they were more successful. He believes we cannot transform our lives without first transforming our mind. In 2017 Bill opened Meditate: School of Mindfulness in order to reach as many people as possible and share the Miracle of Mindfulness and its Transformative ability. Bill coaches from a place of authenticity, NOT dogma. YOU should be able to be practice anytime, anywhere. It's simple. Present time awareness, with gratitude, kindness, acceptance, forgiveness, love and so much more. The most difficult thing about meditation is making it a practice. Bill's goal is to offer as many ways as possible for you to practice showing up in YOUR life. He is excited to become your "MY MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH" and looks forward to helping you deepen the practice of living YOUR life. |
PRACTICE PREVIEW: I AM
"MY MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH" is designed to realign YOU with YOUR authentic voice, YOUR true self, YOUR light.
The power of our words is often overlooked. When we tell ourselves something repeatedly it becomes our mindset. Words have meaning well beyond their definition. With practice, we learn to take a step back and look at what we say to ourselves. We can become curious about what mindset we are working from. The first step to lasting change is awareness. If we want to transform our lives, we need to see where we are.
The truth is, transformation is not possible with the same old mindset. We can change the exterior, but without making lasting change inside, true transformation won’t occur. My Monthly Mindfulness Coach is designed around the power we have to change through present time awareness and positive focus. When we start there, we can move ourselves in the direction our life is meant to be.
We start this program around this concept: "I AM"
“I AM are two of the most powerful words in our language, because what we put after them shapes the reality of our life”
As we practice, in Mindfulness and Meditation, we align with the fact we have three main powers: awareness, choice and change. We can’t always choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we respond. First, we must build an awareness of who we are, where we are, and what it is we want. We must always remember, we are never stuck. Just as everything in the world is changing, so are we.
We practice becoming aware of the present moment and aware of ourselves in the moment, then decide how we move forward from that place of present time awareness.
To live a positive life, we must have a positive mindset. We have the power, each and every day, to choose to see the good in things, to be grateful, to find peace and happiness in everything.
Most of us focus on the “I Am Nots” rather than the “I Ams”. We tend to pay attention in life to all the wrongs, rather than all the rights. It is the way we have programmed ourselves to think, it's what we are practicing.
"I am NOT good enough, smart enough, thin enough, etc."
We look for what is wrong before accepting what is right. We tend to fall into these patterns of thinking...these grooves. When we repeat a pattern over and over it creates a groove, like a record album that plays the same song over and over again. It’s a learned behavior and over time it turns into a habit.
We form these grooves by our past actions and choices. They are subtle impressions of our actions and over time they grow, like a stream that turns into a river and carves a canyon. Everything we do has the potential to become a groove, a habit. Most of them form without us even thinking about them. The first time we drive to work we’ve started to create a groove. After we drive the route a few times, we don’t even have to think about it, we are in the groove. It just happens. We are on auto-pilot.
The actions we take with full awareness and intention make the greatest impressions on our minds, when we choose to do something with intention, we create a deeper groove or even overwrite the old grooves. We sometimes get stuck in those grooves, but we have the ability to change them, with focus, intention and PRACTICE ! What we Practice Grows Stronger !
When we intentionally choose to do something, we are depositing the energy of intention in our mind. It’s subtle at first, but with repeated intention we form a new pathway, a new groove. This is how a habit is formed. The stronger the habit, the less mastery we have over our mind, especially when we try to execute an action that is contrary to our habits. We all know how our habit patterns subtly, yet powerfully motivate our thoughts, speech, and actions.
When our habit patterns become ingrained, they can become an addiction. When they become strong enough to alter our thinking process, they become a belief. And without introspection and reflection we just fall into the groove without even realizing it. When our mental world is totally under the influence of these powerful impressions, we begin to perceive the world from them. The world is colored by our habits, our routines, our grooves.
The contents of our mind color our perception of ourselves and others. Everything we do is wrapped around the colored perceptions of our habits. Even our intellect is colored and we spontaneously and effortlessly think, speak, and act in accordance with those colored perceptions. We have little choice but to see ourselves and the world in accordance with these potent impressions from our past deeds.
For the most part, our habits are formed from our past behavior, sometimes by mimicking others, following the teachings of others, or just falling into habit without even thinking about them, but they are still of our creation. We may not have intended for them to become part of our life, but we created them none the less, by repeated behavior or belief.
Until we make a choice to change our way of thinking, our lives will always be colored by these habits and thus these grooves become our destiny, maybe even our Karma. We get stuck in these patterns until we remember, WE CAN CHANGE. The one truth we should always remember; life is ever changing and so are we. We are never truly stuck. Transformation is always possible. It just takes practice.
It’s important to keep in mind that not all habits are bad. Good deeds and positive repetition can lead us to good habits. As we journey through life, we see good things all around us and when we practice awareness of these things, they start to show up more and more. Kind of like, when you think you want to buy a red car, as soon as you think about it, you start seeing red cars everywhere. It’s not that those red cars weren’t always around, you just weren’t paying attention to them.
Our mind is so powerful that it will seek out what we choose to focus on. We simply forget that we have the power to choose, to focus. Our mind is a vast warehouse of both positive and negative habits, and it’s up to us to practice, through awareness, through intention, and through choice. Thus, we have the power to change our mind.
The Power of Words
As we know, the mind is so powerful. It has the ability to do wonderous things, but we should always remember, the mind is ALWAYS in training mode. When we remember that, we must also remember, we either let it just train on its own, or we choose to train it. We know how powerful the mind is, but we may not be aware of how much more powerful it can be through intentional training.
We can exercise the brain through intentionally focusing on the same thing or things, over and over again. To practice connecting to the breath, meditators sit and think about the breath, repeatedly. Our mind resists, but as soon as we realize our mind has taken us somewhere else, we come back to the breath. That’s training the mind to be present and, if practiced, it works.
In this way we can see that we have the power to transform the mind in amazing ways. Practitioners of meditation have known this for centuries but now we have studies that show this through neuroplasticity. Research studies now show how the brain changes through directed focus and repetition. What We Practice Grows Stronger !
A multitude of studies have linked meditation with both physical and mental health benefits, from reduced depression and anxiety to improved immune system functioning. And thanks to a line of research that looks at the brain power of Buddhist monks, who have devoted their lives to the practice of meditation, compassion and non-attachment, we now know the brain changes that result from years of mindfulness practices can be staggering.
"Meditation research, particularly in the last 10 years or so, has shown to be very promising because it points to an ability of the brain to change and optimize in a way we didn't know previously was possible," NYU researcher Zoran Josipovic told the BBC in 2011. Josipovic has conducted research putting the brains of prominent Buddhist monks under fMRI machines to track the blood flow to their brains while they are meditating.
The monks who are part of Josipovic's research (and the research projects of several other neuroscientists) have accomplished extraordinary feats of mind and, in some cases, have managed to rewire the brain.
"What we found is that the longtime practitioners showed brain activation on a scale we have never seen before," neuroscientist and meditation researcher, Richard J. Davidson told the Washington Post. "Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance."
You can change the brain's structure and functioning. Davidson's groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that years of meditative practice can dramatically increase neuroplasticity -- the brain's ability to use new experiences or environments to create structural changes. For example, it can help reorganizing itself by creating new neural connections, new grooves.
THE POWER OF I AM
With this in mind, Coach Bill will be focusing the structure of "YOUR MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH" around the power of I AM.
What we tell ourselves repeatedly becomes our reality, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start speaking to ourselves differently. Through this immersive practice you will begin to see the power you have to change your mindset and we now know that when we can change the mind, we can transform our lives.
We begin this series focusing on the concept of goodness.
At the core of what Bill teaches is, What we practice grows stronger.
Meditation and Mindfulness is all about practicing choice. Choosing presence, choosing gratitude, choosing kindness, etc.
If our mind is being colored by negative messaging, as we seem to be bombarded with day in and day out through the media, our politicians and society, then we live our life colored by those messages.
If we grow up always being told what we are doing wrong, then our life will go down the path of negativity. It’s hard to be good when all we think about is bad. It’s impossible to overcome anything when the messages we keep sending ourselves reinforce that old storyline.
So, to begin, we want to reframe our lives around the basic goodness that exists within us all and in the world. Of course, as soon as I say something like that, the mind starts sending messages that say otherwise. That’s where we begin. Seeing the pattern and choosing to change it. Doubt is a difficult thing to overcome but it can be changed through practice.
Our practice starts with the truth and the truth is We are basically Good. We are basically Compassionate. We are Basically Loving.
If we can learn to let go of the ego, it gives us some space so we can start to see the truth in the phrase…we are basically good.
"I think people are good." Coach Bill says, "As a student of human behavior, I see basic goodness all around. Now, there are many who have lost their connection with that truth, but we don’t focus on them, they need to find their way. I am talking about YOU! You are basically good!"
We all want to feel good. None of us want to suffer. We all want the people we know and love to feel good, we don’t want them to suffer. That, right there shows, We Are Basically Good. We begin here because until we recognize and become aware of our basic goodness, until we start practicing the truth of the goodness we hold within us, then everything we do will be colored by our old ways of thinking. We will be stuck in those grooves and over time fall back into the same old canyon.
Goodness is easy, because despite what our mind tells us on the surface, deep down we know goodness exists. Goodness has shown itself in our lives repeatedly. Our minds tend to latch on to the bad things we do, the mistakes that we make, and the voices around us that scream the loudest most negative things imaginable. That’s the problem and the blessing of the mind, it will begin to believe whatever it is we tell it, whatever we practice.
So, as we align ourselves with the truth of our basic goodness, we begin to see that our thoughts are often wrong. As we become more and more aligned with our goodness, then we start to see things from that place, the place of goodness. As we begin to walk in that truth, when someone comes along to try and challenge that truth, we don’t let them. When someone says you are bad, you can stand strong and say “No, I am good.”
When our mind throws us a curveball and says something like, people don’t care about you, we pause and look at our life and think of all the people who have and do care about us. When someone states a phrase like “The world is a horrible place.”, we breathe and remember the sunrise, we remember the way someone helped you that time you needed it. We begin to see our thoughts are often wrong, and when we practice goodness, we can discern those wrong thoughts and begin to think right.
RIGHT THINKING
The basic idea of goodness helps us to see those wrong thoughts because if we believe we are good then we wouldn’t entertain thoughts that say otherwise. Those thoughts will still be there on occasion, but we can see them for what they are, just random thoughts. We see the wrong thoughts and the right thoughts, and we CHOOSE TO GIVE POWER TO RIGHT.
Right Thought: I am Good.
The program continues as follows:
12 Month Practice List:
You can start at any time and we will set you up with Month 1- "I AM Good".
Ready to take your journey of a lifetime and get your life aligned with who you TRULY ARE?
The power of our words is often overlooked. When we tell ourselves something repeatedly it becomes our mindset. Words have meaning well beyond their definition. With practice, we learn to take a step back and look at what we say to ourselves. We can become curious about what mindset we are working from. The first step to lasting change is awareness. If we want to transform our lives, we need to see where we are.
The truth is, transformation is not possible with the same old mindset. We can change the exterior, but without making lasting change inside, true transformation won’t occur. My Monthly Mindfulness Coach is designed around the power we have to change through present time awareness and positive focus. When we start there, we can move ourselves in the direction our life is meant to be.
We start this program around this concept: "I AM"
“I AM are two of the most powerful words in our language, because what we put after them shapes the reality of our life”
As we practice, in Mindfulness and Meditation, we align with the fact we have three main powers: awareness, choice and change. We can’t always choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we respond. First, we must build an awareness of who we are, where we are, and what it is we want. We must always remember, we are never stuck. Just as everything in the world is changing, so are we.
We practice becoming aware of the present moment and aware of ourselves in the moment, then decide how we move forward from that place of present time awareness.
To live a positive life, we must have a positive mindset. We have the power, each and every day, to choose to see the good in things, to be grateful, to find peace and happiness in everything.
Most of us focus on the “I Am Nots” rather than the “I Ams”. We tend to pay attention in life to all the wrongs, rather than all the rights. It is the way we have programmed ourselves to think, it's what we are practicing.
"I am NOT good enough, smart enough, thin enough, etc."
We look for what is wrong before accepting what is right. We tend to fall into these patterns of thinking...these grooves. When we repeat a pattern over and over it creates a groove, like a record album that plays the same song over and over again. It’s a learned behavior and over time it turns into a habit.
We form these grooves by our past actions and choices. They are subtle impressions of our actions and over time they grow, like a stream that turns into a river and carves a canyon. Everything we do has the potential to become a groove, a habit. Most of them form without us even thinking about them. The first time we drive to work we’ve started to create a groove. After we drive the route a few times, we don’t even have to think about it, we are in the groove. It just happens. We are on auto-pilot.
The actions we take with full awareness and intention make the greatest impressions on our minds, when we choose to do something with intention, we create a deeper groove or even overwrite the old grooves. We sometimes get stuck in those grooves, but we have the ability to change them, with focus, intention and PRACTICE ! What we Practice Grows Stronger !
When we intentionally choose to do something, we are depositing the energy of intention in our mind. It’s subtle at first, but with repeated intention we form a new pathway, a new groove. This is how a habit is formed. The stronger the habit, the less mastery we have over our mind, especially when we try to execute an action that is contrary to our habits. We all know how our habit patterns subtly, yet powerfully motivate our thoughts, speech, and actions.
When our habit patterns become ingrained, they can become an addiction. When they become strong enough to alter our thinking process, they become a belief. And without introspection and reflection we just fall into the groove without even realizing it. When our mental world is totally under the influence of these powerful impressions, we begin to perceive the world from them. The world is colored by our habits, our routines, our grooves.
The contents of our mind color our perception of ourselves and others. Everything we do is wrapped around the colored perceptions of our habits. Even our intellect is colored and we spontaneously and effortlessly think, speak, and act in accordance with those colored perceptions. We have little choice but to see ourselves and the world in accordance with these potent impressions from our past deeds.
For the most part, our habits are formed from our past behavior, sometimes by mimicking others, following the teachings of others, or just falling into habit without even thinking about them, but they are still of our creation. We may not have intended for them to become part of our life, but we created them none the less, by repeated behavior or belief.
Until we make a choice to change our way of thinking, our lives will always be colored by these habits and thus these grooves become our destiny, maybe even our Karma. We get stuck in these patterns until we remember, WE CAN CHANGE. The one truth we should always remember; life is ever changing and so are we. We are never truly stuck. Transformation is always possible. It just takes practice.
It’s important to keep in mind that not all habits are bad. Good deeds and positive repetition can lead us to good habits. As we journey through life, we see good things all around us and when we practice awareness of these things, they start to show up more and more. Kind of like, when you think you want to buy a red car, as soon as you think about it, you start seeing red cars everywhere. It’s not that those red cars weren’t always around, you just weren’t paying attention to them.
Our mind is so powerful that it will seek out what we choose to focus on. We simply forget that we have the power to choose, to focus. Our mind is a vast warehouse of both positive and negative habits, and it’s up to us to practice, through awareness, through intention, and through choice. Thus, we have the power to change our mind.
The Power of Words
As we know, the mind is so powerful. It has the ability to do wonderous things, but we should always remember, the mind is ALWAYS in training mode. When we remember that, we must also remember, we either let it just train on its own, or we choose to train it. We know how powerful the mind is, but we may not be aware of how much more powerful it can be through intentional training.
We can exercise the brain through intentionally focusing on the same thing or things, over and over again. To practice connecting to the breath, meditators sit and think about the breath, repeatedly. Our mind resists, but as soon as we realize our mind has taken us somewhere else, we come back to the breath. That’s training the mind to be present and, if practiced, it works.
In this way we can see that we have the power to transform the mind in amazing ways. Practitioners of meditation have known this for centuries but now we have studies that show this through neuroplasticity. Research studies now show how the brain changes through directed focus and repetition. What We Practice Grows Stronger !
A multitude of studies have linked meditation with both physical and mental health benefits, from reduced depression and anxiety to improved immune system functioning. And thanks to a line of research that looks at the brain power of Buddhist monks, who have devoted their lives to the practice of meditation, compassion and non-attachment, we now know the brain changes that result from years of mindfulness practices can be staggering.
"Meditation research, particularly in the last 10 years or so, has shown to be very promising because it points to an ability of the brain to change and optimize in a way we didn't know previously was possible," NYU researcher Zoran Josipovic told the BBC in 2011. Josipovic has conducted research putting the brains of prominent Buddhist monks under fMRI machines to track the blood flow to their brains while they are meditating.
The monks who are part of Josipovic's research (and the research projects of several other neuroscientists) have accomplished extraordinary feats of mind and, in some cases, have managed to rewire the brain.
"What we found is that the longtime practitioners showed brain activation on a scale we have never seen before," neuroscientist and meditation researcher, Richard J. Davidson told the Washington Post. "Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance."
You can change the brain's structure and functioning. Davidson's groundbreaking research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that years of meditative practice can dramatically increase neuroplasticity -- the brain's ability to use new experiences or environments to create structural changes. For example, it can help reorganizing itself by creating new neural connections, new grooves.
THE POWER OF I AM
With this in mind, Coach Bill will be focusing the structure of "YOUR MONTHLY MINDFULNESS COACH" around the power of I AM.
What we tell ourselves repeatedly becomes our reality, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start speaking to ourselves differently. Through this immersive practice you will begin to see the power you have to change your mindset and we now know that when we can change the mind, we can transform our lives.
We begin this series focusing on the concept of goodness.
At the core of what Bill teaches is, What we practice grows stronger.
Meditation and Mindfulness is all about practicing choice. Choosing presence, choosing gratitude, choosing kindness, etc.
If our mind is being colored by negative messaging, as we seem to be bombarded with day in and day out through the media, our politicians and society, then we live our life colored by those messages.
If we grow up always being told what we are doing wrong, then our life will go down the path of negativity. It’s hard to be good when all we think about is bad. It’s impossible to overcome anything when the messages we keep sending ourselves reinforce that old storyline.
So, to begin, we want to reframe our lives around the basic goodness that exists within us all and in the world. Of course, as soon as I say something like that, the mind starts sending messages that say otherwise. That’s where we begin. Seeing the pattern and choosing to change it. Doubt is a difficult thing to overcome but it can be changed through practice.
Our practice starts with the truth and the truth is We are basically Good. We are basically Compassionate. We are Basically Loving.
If we can learn to let go of the ego, it gives us some space so we can start to see the truth in the phrase…we are basically good.
"I think people are good." Coach Bill says, "As a student of human behavior, I see basic goodness all around. Now, there are many who have lost their connection with that truth, but we don’t focus on them, they need to find their way. I am talking about YOU! You are basically good!"
We all want to feel good. None of us want to suffer. We all want the people we know and love to feel good, we don’t want them to suffer. That, right there shows, We Are Basically Good. We begin here because until we recognize and become aware of our basic goodness, until we start practicing the truth of the goodness we hold within us, then everything we do will be colored by our old ways of thinking. We will be stuck in those grooves and over time fall back into the same old canyon.
Goodness is easy, because despite what our mind tells us on the surface, deep down we know goodness exists. Goodness has shown itself in our lives repeatedly. Our minds tend to latch on to the bad things we do, the mistakes that we make, and the voices around us that scream the loudest most negative things imaginable. That’s the problem and the blessing of the mind, it will begin to believe whatever it is we tell it, whatever we practice.
So, as we align ourselves with the truth of our basic goodness, we begin to see that our thoughts are often wrong. As we become more and more aligned with our goodness, then we start to see things from that place, the place of goodness. As we begin to walk in that truth, when someone comes along to try and challenge that truth, we don’t let them. When someone says you are bad, you can stand strong and say “No, I am good.”
When our mind throws us a curveball and says something like, people don’t care about you, we pause and look at our life and think of all the people who have and do care about us. When someone states a phrase like “The world is a horrible place.”, we breathe and remember the sunrise, we remember the way someone helped you that time you needed it. We begin to see our thoughts are often wrong, and when we practice goodness, we can discern those wrong thoughts and begin to think right.
RIGHT THINKING
The basic idea of goodness helps us to see those wrong thoughts because if we believe we are good then we wouldn’t entertain thoughts that say otherwise. Those thoughts will still be there on occasion, but we can see them for what they are, just random thoughts. We see the wrong thoughts and the right thoughts, and we CHOOSE TO GIVE POWER TO RIGHT.
Right Thought: I am Good.
The program continues as follows:
12 Month Practice List:
- I am Good
- I am Present
- I am Accepting
- I am Grateful
- I am Forgiving
- I am Love
- I am Kind
- I am Patient
- I am Energy
- I am Abundant
- I am Whole
- I AM ME
You can start at any time and we will set you up with Month 1- "I AM Good".
Ready to take your journey of a lifetime and get your life aligned with who you TRULY ARE?
Have further questions?
Send them via email to Coach Bill at meditateyou@gmail.com or call (954) 641-8315
Send them via email to Coach Bill at meditateyou@gmail.com or call (954) 641-8315