Coaching practices for Ahimsa Non Violence as a Daily Practice at Work

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I say I care about not causing harm, but when I look honestly at what I eat and buy and how I treat the people serving me, there’s this gap between what I claim to value and how I actually live every day that’s started to nag at me.
  • I have to tell someone something hard and I’m stuck between two bad options
  • There’s one particular person I can’t even think about without my whole body tightening with resentment
  • The same fight with this person spirals every single time
  • My practice lives in a little window and the rest of the day

Practices that may help

  1. Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
    Ahimsa — the principle of non-harming held across Jain, Hindu, and Patanjalian traditions — extends far beyond avoiding physical violence. As a daily practice it means bringing deliberate non-aggression to thought, speech, and action toward oneself and others. The practices are grounded in real psychological mechanisms: non-judgement reduces reactivity, compassion training builds prosocial capacity, and self-compassion buffers the shame that drives self-attack.
  2. Extending non-harming to daily choices
    Apply the ahimsa lens to one domain of daily life — diet, speech, consumption — and make one concrete adjustment.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  3. Delivering honest feedback without cruelty
    Be completely truthful about a problem and completely non-cruel in how you deliver it.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  4. Compassion meditation for widening the circle
    Extend deliberate well-wishing to people you find difficult, building non-aversion before you encounter them.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  5. Responding to conflict without escalation
    In a conflict, address the problem without attacking the person.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  6. Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
    The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
    Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
  7. Catching harm before it reaches speech
    Notice aggressive or condemning inner commentary and name it before it shapes what you say.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  8. Use karma yoga as a practice of ethical purification
    The Gita teaches that selfless action gradually purifies the ego — each act of genuine service reduces self-centred craving.
    Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
  9. The speech audit: THINK before you speak
    Before speaking in a charged moment, check whether the words are True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  10. Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
    Karma yoga is one of the four classical paths of yoga described in the Bhagavad Gita — the path of selfless action. The practice involves doing all work as a form of service, without attachment to personal reward or recognition, as a path to both ethical refinement and liberation. Its psychological overlaps include intrinsic motivation, flow theory, and prosocial motivation research; the evidence for the framework as a whole is contemplative and philosophical rather than experimentally established.

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