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coaching is about answering the human need for permission to
change, then spiritual life coaching is coaching at its purest.On
some level perhaps not yet accessible to you, you know what you
need. But what you probably lack is the validating and caring
support of someone who believes that too. And it's often the
case that when even one other person believes in us -- believes
in or witnesses our personal worth -- that belief, even if only
the size of a mustard seed, can make all the difference.
Not all of our people know it, and some would not care, but
all coaching is really holistically spiritual in nature. That's
because coaching is primarily about expanding awareness. It
is, fundamentally, intuitive life coaching. Awareness of your
current situation, your patterns of behavior and thought, your
self-limiting thinking, the congruence of your self and your
career -- awareness of where you are now. This is exactly what
you would learn in meditations from any religious or spiritual
tradition, though perhaps Zen and other forms of Buddhism articulate
it most clearly.
The most effective coaching occurs when our clients acknowledge
the oneness of mind and body. With that seemingly simple banishment
of the duality of self, the client acknowledges that career
is inseparable from relationship, that happiness (as even science
now belatedly tells us) is inseparable from and partially caused
by good health, and that any life that is not balanced in work,
relationship, health, and spirit is like a misshapen wheel:
it will not roll properly. It will wobble awkwardly, unstably.
To change metaphors, you need all four legs on your stool before
you can sit, much less stand on it, with a firm foundation.
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