Thursday, March 26, 2009

Coaching + Energy Work

I did a one-to-one coaching session with a client recently on personal growth and development. That includes using NLP techniques. I've always love coaching even when I was just a newbie volunteer coach back in 2005 and having just absorbed all the skills and techniques that were taught. What I didn't realise back then was that I was highly effective because I was both practicing what I've newly learnt as well as relying on my intuition to guide me.

Now, I consciously combined energy work with my coaching. This means that I actively scan the energy flows in my client during the coaching session to obtain even greater awareness about the client so as to push his/ her learning curve up a notch.

For example, during a segment where we did NLP anchoring techniques, because I could perceive the client's energy flows, it was extremely beneficial. For example, ensuring that the anchor was set at the client's peak of each state that he wanted to have anchored. At the same time, we realised that each state that he desired to anchor corresponded to a particular chakra as well for example, confidence corresponded to solar plexus. When he truly anchored confidence, his solar plexus spun vibrantly as well! This allowed us both to know with certainty that the state was strongly anchored. At the same time, I also got him to spin his chakras to complement energetically the anchors.

Another example is that the client had to be truthful and honest in his sharing. No giving of answers that he thought I wanted to hear. I would know if he was not aligned to them. That ensured that the client obtained the most out of the session. For sure, it was stressful at times for him but at the same time, utterly valuable and liberating! He managed to maintain a proactive and positive state in spite of the "scrutiny" and that was an important achievement for him.

As I've often shared, be creative and PLAY, you can so easily combine energy work with whatever else that you may be doing. Beauty treatments, massage, training, fitness, meetings and so on. Energy follows thought so nothing is impossible. enJOY!


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