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Presence-Based Coaching
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Presence-Based Coaching

by Doug Silsbee
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 10m
English
Jossey-Bass
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CHAPTER 7
Body
The body is incapable of not practicing. And what we practice we become. . . . Even as you sit here reading . . . you are shaping yourself by your posture, the way you’re breathing, what you’re thinking, feeling, and sensing. While this may seem subtle and far below the level of our awareness, over time this has a powerful effect in how we perceive the world and how the world perceives us.
 
Richard Strozzi-Heckler
 
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
 
Indira Gandhi
 
 
 
CHANGE IS FUNDAMENTALLY A BIOLOGICAL PROCESS. EVEN WHEN we try to override an old behavior through a cognitive decision (as in the classic New Year’s resolution), we still need to have our body cooperate in ...
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