What is Life Coaching?
I define Life Coaching as the art of empowering the Client to live a more fulfilling and effective life.
There are Life Coaches, Executive Coaches, and Business Coaches; the name changes according to the field they are working on and the services they are offering. We will focus here on Life Coaching.
What is a Life Coach?
As a Life Coach, I inspire my clients to live a more fulfilling, loving, and joyful life, by assisting them to reconnect with their inner wisdom and life purpose, in order to discover what they really want in life and achieve it with ease and grace.
How does Life Coaching work?
The Life coach and the client work together to establish goals inspired by the clients dreams, and design a plan to reach them. The client commits to the plan and is responsible for taking action. The life coach commits to supporting the client in overcoming any obstacle that may arise during their journey.
The life coach creates a safe and loving atmosphere full of acceptance, empathy, and appreciation for the client, in order for the client to open up and work on his process by reconnecting with his inner wisdom and power. In addition, the role of the life coach will be one of supporting the client to take action, overcome the obstacles, learn from them, keep moving forward, cheering him, and celebrate with him his achievements. The life coach also educates the client by sharing with him new tools, skills and a way of being that will assist him to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
What are some of the tools the Life Coach uses and shares with the Client?
In my opinion one of the most powerful tools the life coach can share with a client is the asking of open ended questions. They are also called “right questions” because they allow the client to answer them from the right side of their brain. This is where his intuition and creativity resides. Doing this allows him to shift his awareness to a new place of consciousness where he can see things in a different way and open up to new possibilities.
The rational and logical thinking area is in the left side of brain. This is where we have stored the patterns of behavior and limiting beliefs that at first sight may seem as inherited or learned from family and society. They create and condition our current life. This part normally tends to limit us by telling us what is possible and what is not. As children, some of these beliefs were useful and practical. Nevertheless, as we grow up, they hold us back, not allowing us to expand in love and use the gifts and talents we came to express and enjoy in life.
By asking only right questions, we bypass the left side of the brain and allow our inner wisdom to speak to us and guide us. The answers to our questions are revealed, as well as the actions to be taken to move into the flow of this new way of being, where we are guided now by our intuition unobstructed by our rationality.
How does Life Coaching differ from therapy?
Therapy’s main focus is in the precedent. Therapists normally help clients to heal emotional wounds from the past. They also assist them to address their problems as well as their issues related with what has been called mental illness or mental disorders, in order to empower the person to live a functional life.
Life coaching focuses in the present moment. The coach and the client determine where the client is, and the coach will assist the person to move into the future, by guiding him to take action and responsibility for the process.
As a life coach I always focus with my clients in the present moment. I see them as Divine Beings having a human experience; whole and complete, with all the inner resources and wisdom to find the answers within themselves.
In our work together, I inspire them and assist them to align with the flow of unconditional love, joy, and abundance of the Universe. And to open up to all possibilities, allowing their life purpose to manifest gracefully, with all the support and blessings from the Universe.
We only visit the past in order to release the energy trapped in the feelings associated with previous limiting beliefs, patterns, and experiences; to transform it into what it really is: unconditional love that manifests itself as joy.
How does a Client take the Life Coaching sessions?
I offer my Life Coaching services:
Face to Face: In my studio or in the client’s place of choice, if the location is convenient for me. The sessions normally take one hour.
By Phone: The client calls me to a number I provide. The sessions normally take one hour.
By E-mail: Limited to one cyber session per week.
By Webinar: Group Life coaching experience facilitated via internet. It is limited to three participants per module; it takes place once a week for six weeks, and each session last for two hours in average.
How many sessions before a client experiences results?
The client will start feeling a change and a shift in consciousness from the first session. In average, it takes a person 12 weeks to change an old pattern or create something new. Then, it is recommended to take a program of twelve sessions, one session every week to get more tangible results. The results also will depend on the client’s commitment and responsibility to take action during the process.
In the case of the Webinars, we offer the client two different modules of six weeks each, where the client will receive material that will assists him to connect with his inner wisdom in a more graceful and easy way; in addition to twelve hours of coaching, that will support him to release old patterns and take action.
How does a person benefit from Life Coaching?
Clients report that, through life coaching, they finally accomplished something they always wanted to do, change, or create. They replaced old patterns that were not serving them with more effective strategies. During the life coaching sessions, blocked energy is liberated, and clients feel the power to create gracefully and easily.
Connecting with our inner wisdom and living our life’s purpose brings immense joy. This joyful energy allows us to experience our lives from a higher perspective. Self-esteem increases, along with our appreciation for ourselves and what we have created in the past; and that is reflected in our daily experiences.
As we become more aware of whom we really are, we express more from our Authentic Self. We learn that appreciating ourselves and our creations, both past and present, along with surrendering to what is, are the keys to open up to all possibilities and experience a fulfilling life.
How do I get started?
You can contact us at info@realmecoaching.com to receive further information
and get started on the journey of your life.