Proceed Mindfully: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Proceed Mindfully, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
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Try it here: name the action that fits you
Write the one action that fits your goals and values right now, so you act on what matters rather than on impulse.
What action fits my goals and values right now?
Practices that may help
- P — Proceed Mindfully: Act from Wisdom, Not Impulse
After observing, ask: "What action is consistent with my goals and values right now?" — then act on that.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Walking at a noticing pace
Take a slow walk with attention on the senses rather than on getting somewhere.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Single-task with full sensory attention as a beginner
Choose one ordinary task and perform it attending to each sensation as if doing it for the first time.
Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical - Coordinating breath with each step
Let each step happen with the breath so movement and breath become a single process.
Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation - Step-breath synchronization
Match the pace of your steps to the rhythm of your breath — so many steps per inhale, so many per exhale.
Walking Meditation, Made Practical - Anchor attention to the present moment deliberately
When the mind pulls to past regret or future worry, redirect to what is actually here.
Psychological Flexibility, Made Practical - Arrive: openly notice what is happening right now
Pause and acknowledge thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without editing.
The Three-Minute Breathing Space - Practising li: ritual propriety in routine
Choose one recurring interaction and treat it with full deliberate attention as a form of practice.
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach - Mindfulness and Wise Mind
Observe and describe your experience without judgment, finding the balance between emotion mind and reason mind.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical - Pu — simplicity and the uncarved block
Return regularly to an unconditioned, open state before adding complexity or opinion.
The Tao Te Ching, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve managed to pause and breathe, but now I’m frozen
- Even on a walk my mind is somewhere else
- I do the same everyday things
- When I try to walk slowly and meditatively my mind just drifts off and I realize I’ve been somewhere else for half the path
- When I walk to be present my mind just drifts off into planning within seconds and I don’t even notice I’ve left
Related concerns
- Wise Mind
Observe and describe your experience without judgment, finding the balance between emotion mind and reason mind.
Mindfulness and Wise Mind
- Awe Walk
Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
The awe walk
- Awe Walk Meaning
Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
- Awe Walks
Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
- How To Mindfully Walk
Match the pace of your steps to the rhythm of your breath — so many steps per inhale, so many per exhale.
Step-breath synchronization
- How To Move Mindfully
Bring full, present attention to slow stretches and movements, sensing the body from the inside.
Mindful movement
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