You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brookestio episode number 365.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brookestio.

Well, hello, my beautiful friends. Can you like feel spring coming? I have to tell you Austin in the spring. Amazing. Amazing.

I can feel it coming the water, the sunshine, loving, loving, loving it. I have such an amazing view from my place.

And I look down on Ladyburg Lake, and there are so many people out there rowing and canoeing and kayaking and paddle boarding.

It feels like life, rebirth and life. I'm so happy today.

Today I want to talk to you about the model.

And one of the things that comes up as soon as I teach someone the model is a hundred questions on why it is this way and how we can fix it and how to make it better.

And I always say this model is tried and true. If you stick to the rules of it, it will change your life completely.

That doesn't mean that there are questions that come up. So I queried a bunch of the questions that we get on the regular about the self coaching model and I'm going to cover them and answer them in this podcast.

But first before I do that, one of the things that I want to tell you, especially as I give you some more advanced tips and tricks about it, is that the model in its purist form is always the most powerful.

So when I teach advanced classes and when I try to teach different tricks in different ways that I use the model, sometimes people will lose sight of the simplicity and the elegance of just the basic model and using it to drop in deeper to your life.

So I want to start with the idea that the main purpose of the model is discovery and awareness.

And it's very powerful to understand the concept of watching yourself think.

And when you can understand that your brain is incredibly designed to observe itself, the human brain is designed and you can observe your brain with your brain.

When you really get how powerful that concept is, you don't need a lot of fancy tricks. Even the process of doing a thought download, which basically is emptying your brain of your thought.

So you can look at it on paper is one of the most powerful things you can do.

Understanding what is going on in your brain and becoming aware of it and then evaluating the influence of those thoughts on your life is all you need to change your life completely.

Because when you really get the concept that your brain is thinking thoughts that are creating your emotions that are driving your actions, you can see how you are consistently creating your own life and you're either doing it consciously or unconsciously.

And most people before they get the model before they understand that their thoughts create their feelings before they understand that they can observe what they're thinking about, they are living an unconscious life.

They are thinking thoughts and thinking that those thoughts are observations. They're thinking that those thoughts aren't optional.

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