• Mindfulness is the deliberate study and observation of thoughts and emotions as they are happening. The key is the deliberateness..

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• A Centered Mind Life Coaching will refer to it as "real time conscious awareness."

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• Using this strategy helps us develop greater effectiveness and tolerance in any area of life, no matter the circumstances.

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• It tends to our mental health by taking the painful edge off of life's upsets, increasing joy, more easily reducing anxiety, and moving us forward to and living the life we want but but haven't been able to attain.​

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• There is no judgement or opinion about what should be. We state what we want. We can state what's imprisoning us from true happiness.​

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• We don't use judgmental language to try to force what we want. By using this approach, we can get to what we much much more quickly and for the long term.

• ​Achieving an authentic born desire, not typical "motivation" that feels like a forced chore.​ ​

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• Reduces feelings of, "I have to," "why can't I?" and "I need to." ​

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• Mitigates emotional "flooding", evens out temperment, and reduces reactivity. ​

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• ​Reduces the need to beg, bargain, and plead with ourselves to get motivated, creating a natural flow of progress.

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• A natural segue into positive thinking.​​

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• Develops the art of skilled emotional balance. that can be applied to any area at all.​​​ ​​

• Giving our emotions a voice before trying to change them.

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• Personalizing strategies that are concrete and specific to the changes you are trying to make.

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• Planning of real life application to various emotions, situations, and relationships.

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• The "problem" or "issue" is not the focal point. They are templates for how we might apply skills in various situations.

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• We do deliberate exercises to use as a blueprint for change; not talking in depth about the problem itself.

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• Observing positive changes that may be present.