Does life have to be full of ups and downs, highs and lows? Do we have to get in these places where we feel stuck? Do we have to just repeat the same mistakes over and over? Actually we don't. I wish I could have known years ago what I know now. I've been to all those places mentioned above to varying degrees. Very slowly, I have brought myself to a place where I am no longer depressed. I know how to live in a place of peace, to feel a deep connectedness to others, to feel the joy within rise up filling my whole being.
If someone had told me twenty years ago I would feel like this I probably would not have even know what they were talking about. I was that far away. It is wonderful now to be able to coach others to help them get by, or around some of these life events. One of my clients is in his 70's and is going through major life changes. There is not much support out there for him and many others his age. To often, our culture just doesn't want to deal with our elders. To bad, cause they have so much to offer and contribute.
A coach can help look at beliefs that are not useful to us; that are in fact keeping us stuck and repeating the same old patterns of behavior over and over. Relationships are a good examples of how we repeat the same mistakes. By looking at our behavoir and the beliefs underlying them, we can begin to make shifts. It is an amazing feeling to go beyond these limiting beliefs. It is the feeling of emerging into a new and brilliant place of expansion. Our western culture is based on many old Christian beliefs and values that really don't serve any purpose now, accept to limit us. One example of this is money. Most of us have some pretty deep rooted beliefs about money. Maybe that we don't deserve it, or that there is something wrong with people who have a lot of money. How many times have you heard "they got rich by being very selfish?" I heard so many of these lines when I was a kid. I'm sure we can all make quite a list. When we hold these beliefs they limit us terribly. A lot of the time we don't even realize how much they are affecting the way we think. Beliefs keep us from reaching our full potential and finding lasting happiness.
We all deserve to live a fulfilling, abundant life, but it means doing the inner work to get there. I support and encourage my clients to make the changes necessary to move to place in life where they want to be. We work on looking at the limitations that keep them from achieving what they want: their passions and their dreams.
Linda Webster is a Personal Life Coach. She works with people from all walks of life, at all ages. She believes in a wholeness appoach to bring health to all levels of her clients lives.
www.creativeinneraction.com
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