What is neurocoaching
Neurocoaching is an emerging field that combines principles from neuroscience, psychology, and coaching to enhance performance and well-being. It involves the use of brain-based techniques and strategies to help individuals achieve their goals, overcome obstacles, and improve their overall quality of life.
These techniques are incredibly simple, do not require any special knowledge or training and most can be implemented as you need them throughout the day.
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Neurocoaching techniques
Gratitude Journal
A great way to end the day, gratitude journaling has been proven to enhance our positive emotions and happiness. Each night, before bed, write down 3 things you're grateful for. Only the good stuff. Nothing too long - it's just a quick awareness to bring yourself back to what's important.
"The active neurons related to gratitude reflections have longer axons than other neurons sometimes by a factor of three. In my clinical experience, writing out lists daily in a gratitude journal appears to embrace the capacities of the salience network in some way and the outcomes in terms of life satisfaction, happiness and emotional balance far outweigh the effort and time expended," Michael Kirton, Clinical Psychologist
Hand rubbing
Gentle hand rubbing is a neuroscience-based technique that can calm you down, and soothe your mind and body. It’s been clinically proven that anxiety and pleasure cannot coexist, and pleasure always overrides pain. It’s super easy to do - just a minute at any time - and it can be practised anywhere. Start by gently rubbing one hand with the other and notice how your brain begins to relax.
Practice this whenever you start feeling anxious or overwhelmed, or if you need to calm down before making an important decision, taking an exam or going into an important meeting.
Stretch and yawn
One of our favourite techniques at YungMash Collective is a super slow mindful yawn combined with an equally slow stretch, in fact, the slower you go, the better. It’s a thermo-regulator for the brain, it increases blood flow, it can reduce migraines, hypertension and chronic pain, and we use it mostly to decrease anxiety and to balance ourselves throughout the day.
Give it a try, you’ll be amazed at how effective those yawns are!
Values
Want to reduce anxiety with just one word? We promise it’s not too good to be true! Another stress-reducing technique backed by neuroscience is now available to everyone. Use the stretch and yawn technique and as you’re doing it, ask your intuition for your deepest inner value. What’s the first word that comes up for you? Breathe in your value word, breathe out your value word.
Connecting with your deepest innermost values on an hourly basis will help you feel grounded and secure. This technique is a perfect way to reduce anxiety quickly and regain balance.