Build Self-Belief Through Mindful Action - by Kate James

COURSE

Build Self-Belief Through Mindful Action

With Kate James

Living a more mindful life takes practice. Over 10 sessions you will learn how to create a positive relationship with yourself and learn to be more mindful of the actions you take. Introducing principles from Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, ACT and Self-Compassion, this course includes practical tips to help you transform your thinking and your behaviour to live a more mindful and meaningful life.


Meet your Teacher

Kate James is a favorite amongst the Insight Timer community. She has been sharing her guided meditations on the app for more than five years and in that time has acquired over 63,000 followers. She regularly receives praise for her clear, practical and considered teaching style, which extends to this course. Kate works as a coach, meditation teacher, speaker and retreat facilitator. She is also the author of six best-selling books. Utilising tools from mindfulness, Positive Psychology and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Kate has worked with leaders and business owners to help them increase self-awareness, build confidence and gain clarity about their direction. Kate has practised daily meditation for over 30 years and she is a sought after media expert in Australia.

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10 Days

32.2k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Happiness

English


Lesson 1

Coming Back to the Present

Today’s lesson introduces one of the foundational elements in this course. Without present moment awareness, it’s difficult to identify the ways you interact with yourself and your life that diminish self-belief. You’ll be introduced to an activity that will help you understand how effectively you’re using your time and how you’re interacting with your day-to-day activities. I’ll also share four simple anchors that will help bring your attention back to the present moment.

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Lesson 2

Discovering a Mindset of Calm

In the previous session we spoke about the fact that judgement often gets in the way when we try to engage in the present moment mindfully. In today’s lesson, we look at a three-step approach designed to reduce stress and cultivate a mindset of calm. You’ll become more aware of your current stress levels and we’ll look at the factors that are contributing to your stress. You’ll also be introduced to an approach that will help you to feel more at peace with life, regardless of what’s going on around you.

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Lesson 3

The Negative Bias of the Brain

Researchers tell us that the brain has a strong negative bias which leaves us with a distorted view of the world and often a less than positive view of ourselves. In order to build self-belief, we need to ensure our thinking style is balanced. In today’s lesson I’ll introduce you to tips to help you connect with the positive aspects of life and I’ll share a methodology to help you manage difficult thinking.

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Lesson 4

Making Room for Your Feelings

In our previous lesson we looked at how to make room for difficult thoughts and how to balance negative thinking. Today we’ll explore how you can become more connected with your feelings and in turn, be more at ease with the complex range of emotions all of us encounter — sometimes even in a given day. The main focus for today will be teaching you how to cultivate mindful acceptance of all of your feelings which will help you to make peace with and heal from difficult feelings more quickly.

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Lesson 5

Choosing Self-Compassion

Now that you have awareness about how to cultivate a more mindful and balanced relationship with your thoughts and feelings, we’ll explore how you can begin to express kindness towards yourself. In today’s lesson, I’ll introduce the different elements of self-compassion and look at how self-compassion can help you become more resilient and more at peace with who you are.

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Lesson 6

Building Self-Belief

One of the most important steps in the process of building self-belief is getting to know yourself well. In today’s lesson we build on earlier lessons where we have focused on balancing the negative bias of the brain. Often this bias leads us to become overly identified with our weaknesses. We’ll explore the importance of recognizing and cultivating your natural strengths as well as making peace with your imperfections.

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Lesson 7

Moving Beyond Anxiety and Fear

In today’s lesson, you’ll learn about how to soothe the ‘fight or flight’ response to help reduce anxiety and fear. You’ll also be introduced to examples of how you can manage stressful situations in a more effective manner. Learning to effectively deal with anxiety will help you to make more mindful life choices as well as building your sense of self-worth.

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Lesson 8

Prioritising Your Wellbeing

Today we’ll explore the changes you would make to your lifestyle and your daily routine if you truly valued your wellbeing and acted from a place of self-compassion, not self-recrimination. Learn about how to be mindful in your decision-making about food, exercise and self-care in order to create a healthier and happier foundation for your life.

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Lesson 9

Taking Mindful Action

In our last lesson we began to explore how to take better care of your wellbeing. Today, we’ll look at how we can use our values as a guide to help us take more mindful action. Learn how to identify your values and create manageable steps that will move you toward a more peaceful and purposeful life. When you know your personal values, you’ll have your own personal compass to guide you through your life.

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Lesson 10

Living A Purposeful Life

Our final lesson includes a brief recap of all earlier lessons, which will give you the opportunity to reflect on how far you’ve come over the course of the past nine days. We’ll begin to explore how you can use your unique life experience and your personal strengths to start living with more purpose, regardless of what you’re currently doing with your life.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 279 community questions and 154 audio replies from Kate James. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Karen

February 14, 2026

Excellent course!

GLORIA

February 10, 2026

Very insightful 👏.

Cleo

January 5, 2026

This course is amazing. Detailed, informative, compassionate, comprehensive. I recommend completing the course multiple times. Use a journal to reflect and take a day between each lesson and a week between each repetition of the full course. This needs to be in school curriculums

Glenn

December 17, 2025

Thank you thank you 🙏🙏

Mark

December 11, 2025

Incredible and amazing! Anyone, at any stage of their life and self-growth can benefit from this course

Jeffrey

November 28, 2025

Thank you for creating this curriculum on healthy living

Sage

September 7, 2025

This was amazing. I want to listen again to help it all sink in. Lovely!!!

Beth

September 1, 2025

My favorite course and I’ll return often. Thank you Kate. This opened up real change in me, toward self compassion and alignment with my purpose. Final lesson made me sad that it was over! (Which is why I’ll return!)

Becky

August 20, 2025

Very practical and well explained tips for wellbeing. Thank you!

Sue

July 25, 2025

Really resonated with your cours

Sylvie

July 21, 2025

What a truly beautiful and inspiring journey, lovingly guided by Kate, one of my most cherished teachers on Insight Timer. With gentle wisdom and deep compassion, she leads us into the depths of our souls, illuminating the shadows and offering tools of light to help us find our way toward greater peace and clarity Endless gratitude 🙏

Adwait

July 17, 2025

Well structured, breif, practical. Very soothing, unassuming and reassuring voice.

Sarah

July 10, 2025

Thank you for this insight course! I am incorporating these ideas into making positive changes in my life. I may have to give it a repeat! Many blessings!

Lisa

June 27, 2025

Calm, clear, and practical advice. I enjoyed this course and will repeat it. UPDATE: I have gone through the course again. Loved it even more. 😁

Beth

May 20, 2025

A well developed course with practical step by step practices to help you move in the direction you want to go.

Shelley

May 16, 2025

Loved this course

Chad

May 7, 2025

Very helpful course Thank You

Michael

February 1, 2025

Excellent program. Highly recommend!

Martin

January 23, 2025

Kate’s meditations are some of my favorite on the app. This course was a great balance of practical techniques mixed with inspiring reflections.

Dan

January 15, 2025

Dry helpful!

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