Your Coachee has an addiction and doing things with excess – eating, drinking, gambling, drugs, spending, sex, cellphone, work – often trying to fill an emotional emptiness inside him/her.
NLP Techniques: Anchoring & Swish
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Anchoring is a powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique to anchor a feeling in the nervous system. Swish is a technique to reprogram the brain associating a trigger action with pleasure.
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Try to find any potential disgust of your coachee with the unwanted behavior (Eating disorder: how he/she feels after eating? For smokers, impact on his/her children? image of dark lungs?). To help cigarette addicts, Tony Robbins famously locking them up in a room and forcing them to smoke packets and packets, until disgust, reprogramming their brains from pleasure to disgust.
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3 Key Strengths
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​People who use their strengths every day are:
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3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life,
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6 times more likely to be engaged at work,
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8% more productive,
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15% less likely to quit their jobs.
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Ask your Coachee to identify his/her key strengths:
What does your Coachee gets complimented on? What do his/her friends value? What do colleagues or boss value? What does your Coachee like about himself/herself? When does he/she feel in the flow?
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Mindfulness
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Mindfulness is a technique to maintain moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle and nurturing lens. The Coachee pays attention to his/her thoughts and feeling without judging them. The thoughts are tuned into sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.
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There are many Mindfulness Techniques. One of our favorite ones is the box technique. Tell your coachee to: "breathe in deeply by the nose for 4 seconds, hold it for 4 seconds, breathe out by the mouth for 4 seconds, hold it." [Repeat].
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Visualisation
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Visualisation is a simple yet powerful technique during which your Coachee sits in a comfortable position, close his/her eyes and imagine — in as vivid detail as possible the outcome.
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Ask your Coachee to relax and close his/her eyes. "Imagine yourself in one year. How will you be because of this addiction? Implications on your family and friends? How will you feel? Now in 5 years.. [similar questions] .. now in 10 years [similar questions]. You see yourself in the mirror. What will you tell yourself?
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Common Symptoms
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Craving Access
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Restlessness
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Anger or irritability
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Difficulty concentrating
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Sleep problems
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Feeling a void
4 Techniques
to Help Overcome Addiction
Sources:
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The Impostor Syndrome: Becoming an Authentic Leader, by Harold Hillman, Chris Abernathy, et al
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The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook), by Rebecca E. Williams PhD and Julie S. Kraft MA
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Coach's Casebook, by Kim Morgan
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Compassion for All Creatures, by Janice Gray Kolb
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Perfectionism: A Practical Guide to Managing "Never Good Enough", by Lisa Van Gemert
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The Fulfillment of All Desire, by Ralph Martin
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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment, by Tal Ben-Shahar
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The Disease To Please: Curing the People-Pleasing Syndrome, by Harriet B. Braiker