It isn’t the heart OR the brain. The alignment of the two creates the shift in your life.
Based on personal experience, Nienke found the power of the brain’s neuroplasticity.
The brain can be trained to create new patterns when the old ones don’t function or serve you any longer. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book and TED talk My Stroke of Insight started Nienke’s curiosity about what was possible for herself and others in activating neuroplasticity.
In the Brain Rehab Centre in the Netherlands, she got the first tools she could apply herself.
Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to reorganize and rewire its neural connections, enabling it to adapt and function in ways that differ from its prior state.
This process can occur in response to learning new skills, experiencing environmental changes, recovering from injuries, or adapting to sensory or cognitive deficits.
Such adaptability highlights the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of the brain, until we die.
Learn to reset: neuroplasticity.
All we do in life is what we develop at a certain point. We create patterns and habits, even if those habits and patterns no longer serve us in our favour.
If life is like driving a car, unconsciously driving on cruise control isn’t helpful. Changing gears is healthier. Also, life is flexible and probably more changing than we like.
The brain patterns we developed are not suitable anymore.
There is hope. The brain is flexible and has neuroplasticity.
Prepare, reset, sustain…
To unlock the new brain patterns that serve us, we can combine them with our hearts’ intelligence. In our embryonic stage, our heart-brain cells were developed first. Later, our brain cells are formed.
We can take advantage of both intelligences by aligning them in coherence.
Like rowers in a boat, we can get in sync. That moves us in our response-ablilty with less effort and more envisioned results than without.
Developing the consciousness of preparing, resetting and sustaining your resilience is key to taking care of your life again.
In heart-brain coaching, Nienke helps you change gears before you burn yourself out.
Difficulty in keeping up our energy resilience has become, over the last decade, the number 1. stressor that causes sick leave, burnout, depression, anxiety issues and chronic illnesses related to stress.
The heart-brain coaching has four pillars based on the acronym E.A.S.E.
Here, you will see a quick overview.
Energy
First, we look at the areas where you gain or drain your life’s energy. We can use our energy to start and perform. But like going just on cruise control doesn’t serve us, functioning at high-performance full speed doesn’t work either. So, where is your energy dedicated?
Heart brain coaching starts with an inquiry into your energy drain or gain.
In what domain do they settle? How does that influence your daily life?
Authenticity
From there, we discover where these areas show up in YOUR life and the patterns underneath these energy leaks. Here is where the unexpected perspectives play out in disguise. Revealing these patterns is the first step to transforming the patterns without any judgment, guilt or feelings of shame. Nienke helps you to add your Phoenix Frequencies to apply and become authentically resilient.
Becoming who you are, but you didn’t know YET.
Self-regulation
In this part of the program, you learn to become the driver of your ‘life’s car’ again.
Based on what you can regulate, it becomes an effortless effort to change gears without the energy drains of the past.
There is no need to hand over your life’s remote control to the circumstances that will occur because that’s the reality of life.
Engagement
In many programs, you can learn how to change cognitive behaviour. Sustaining from within yourself, your response-ability transforms not only your energy drain but also how you perceive the world, relationships, team collaboration and parenthood.
From the ownership of your emotions to communication and engagement with other shifts.
Getting there on the journey together in the program is a heart-smart choice that will shift your life and how you engage with the world around you.
If this is a program to shift your life to what you would like to explore, contact Nienke by filling out the form.