Coaching practices for Wholehearted Living
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Wholehearted Living, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep telling myself I’ll finally feel okay about myself once I hit the next thing
- My everyday life — the dishes, the walk, the commute — passes in a fog while my mind is somewhere else entirely, and I want to actually be here for the plain, mundane moments instead of sleepwalking through them waiting for the parts that supposedly matter.
- I open my heart to other people’s suffering and then I drown in it
- My days revolve so tightly around my own needs that I feel a bit hollow
- My most alive moments have come when I was so deep into something that I lost track of time and forgot myself entirely
Practices that may help
- Practice wholehearted living
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Bring contemplative attention to ordinary moments
Practice full presence in mundane activities as a form of sacred attentiveness.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Integrate metta with equanimity to avoid compassion fatigue
Metta extended without equanimity can become distress; grounding goodwill in steady non-attachment makes it sustainable.
Metta Bhavana: The Practice of Loving-Kindness - Generosity and giving to others
Use time, money, or attention for others’ benefit rather than your own.
Self-Transcendence: Beyond the Self - Cultivate deep absorption in a chosen activity
Give a meaningful activity your total, undivided attention until self-consciousness drops away.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - Always abide by the three principles
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Connect to purpose (spiritual energy)
Anchor effort to values and meaning, the deepest and most renewable source of drive.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical - The discipline of action
Act for the common good, with a "reserve clause": I intend this, fate permitting.
The Inner Citadel - Connecting phrases to felt warmth
Anchor the practice in the body’s felt sense of warmth, not just the words.
Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation - Live according to nature
Act in accord with your rational nature and with the nature of the whole — not by instinct alone.
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Related concerns
- Living Wholeheartedly
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
Practice wholehearted living
- Sustainable Loving Kindness Practice
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Always abide by the three principles
- Wholehearted Living Guideposts
Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
- Awe Encounter Practice
When things go wrong unexpectedly, use that moment as the actual practice rather than a break from it.
Practise with the unexpected
- Brief Tonglen Daily Life
A single in-breath of someone’s pain and an out-breath of goodwill is a complete act of tonglen.
Use flash tonglen in the moment of encountering suffering
- Connection To Living World
When human community feels inaccessible, find the sense of belonging in the natural world you are part of.
Find belonging in nature and the cosmos
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