Coaching

For my birthday present, I gave myself a life coaching certification course. It's a 6-month course and I'm thrilled to be doing this. I love the idea of helping people come to their own solutions for issues in their lives.

When I was around 18, I remember reading a book about Super Thinking. Most people only use about 10-15% of their brain capacity. This book focused on harnessing more than this 10-15% of your brain to learn more and become a genius. (Supposedly Einstein used 20% of his brain). I don't remember much about the super thinking, but I remember one seemingly unrelated chapter about living a wonderful life. The book's author wrote that approximately 10% of people are what he called insane. They have a chemical imbalance in their brains that prevent them from living a totally fulfilled life as society traditionally thinks of it. He then goes on to say that 10% of people live lives that he considers "sane." According to this author, a sane life is one in which all the parts are working. Sane people have jobs they love, healthy relationships, security, abundance, play a part in their communities, etc. In other words, they are happy with everything in their lives and are truly living the lives they want to live. What about the other 80% of society? They are what he called "unsane." There is no chemical reason why they are not living the lives they way, but for whatever reason they are in unhealthy relationships or jobs that make them miserable, etc. In one way or another they are living lives that are out of alignment. They have the power to change that and become sane, but they don't. When I was 18, I remember reading this and thinking 1) I want to have a truly sane life and 2) I want to help others to do the same. And so I'm becoming a life coach.

Life coaching is a very sane career for me, but it's also the perfect tool to help the "unsane" become sane. Life coaching is a co-creative relationship between the client and the coach where the life coach supports the client to come to their own solutions to create positive change in their lives.

My ideal for my coaching practice is to combine reiki with coaching. I'm a reiki master and have seen reiki's miraculous effects on every area of people's lives. It works for physical healing, but also helps people emotionally and mentally. It aids in bringing spiritual clarity and evolvement. It is also relaxing and stress-relieving. I believe it's a perfect complement to coaching and will help supercharge any coaching efforts.

The perfect thing about all of this is that both the reiki and the coaching can be done remotely. Reiki is traditionally a "hands-on" practice, but works equally well with distance treatments. (At Reiki Level II, practioners can practice this form of treatment).

So anyway, I'm embarking on this new path and I'm really thrilled. I'll let you know what happens next. You can let me know if you're interested in having a life that's more sane.