Align your heart, mind and soul with wellness coaching
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- February 17, 2023
“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson.
As Erin Hanson says – to be able to ‘fly’ comes down to a few things – your character, your attitude, your desire, your commitment and belief that you can. With positive intent and energy start to visualise what you want. Be in “achievement mode” and be on your game through the power of your senses – hear, touch, smell see, feel.
Bring your visualisation to life and find your own Life Coach who will be your own personal pacesetter who you can work with you in a way that enables you to exercise and train beyond the mood. It takes courage to step into the space of self-discovery and yet when you start, you realise that the tiniest of pushes is all you need to get things rolling and create the momentum that puts your growth into action. Who doesn’t want that?
Understanding the role that being curious and creative plays in enabling you to fly is key as well as caring enough about yourself to have the courage to go there. Ask yourself each morning – “how am I going to show up today?”. Then with intent, purpose, passion, belief and an inner confidence that is starting to soar you will move forward in the direction of your dreams. From an initial visualisation of “what could be” – you move to the world of “what is”! So you start to align your mind, body and soul. Wow! You’ve got this.
There are times when we don’t always think about our relationship with our self and it does impact on our own wellness. So, we have to establish good boundaries so that we feel both safe and productive. It’s really important to build an environment where you can thrive rather than survive. We have to protect our minds, bodies and souls from being taken over by negative chatter and harmful self-talk.
Sometimes we don’t feel connected to our true self and we can experience this as though there is an inner us and an outer us. We therefore must find ways to connect them both so that we are congruent with who we are and are
living our best life. Easier said than done at times, as the circumstances we find ourselves in are not what we always planned. Our journey that we had prepped and packed for is suddenly taken away and we find that we may be
having to head in another direction. As my colleague Laura Thomson-Staveley always reminds us – we have to be just like the fox and be foxy in our approach. So as humans can also adapt to our surroundings with ease and confidence. We can make a choice to reset or take a setback.
We all want to succeed and achieve something that makes us feel worthy and valued. To do this we need to take some time to reflect on our wins, our walls and our wisdoms. This teaches us lessons to either repeat because they were good for us or not as we went crashing into a wall! Wisdom is the one thing that we can take with us wherever we journey. Part of this journey is to be mindful of the language that you are telling yourself. Do you use language that lifts you up so your can soar high as a bird and fly or language that drags you down into a pit of despair?
As a Wellness Coach I work with people to ensure that the relationship you create for you keeps you well and I invite you to think about the following seven things:
- Be clear on your own boundaries – what will you accept and what won’t you accept?
- Know that the expectations that you are putting on yourself are realistic and within your reach.
- Use language that has positive intent to create an optimistic outlook.
- Keep above the “drama” line by focussing on your purpose, your intent and your goal.
- Look forward rather than always looking back – even if that looking forward is only for the next 10 minutes.
- Know that you have a choice and it’s about creating options for yourself that you can choose from.
- Let go of whatever you think might be holding you back and focus forward to each new day.
Looking after you as a whole person is fundamental to your wellness. To look after your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual self is the gift that keeps on giving! The relationship you build with yourself is everlasting so ensure that the destination you choose is one that brings you happiness and joy and deepens your wisdom that you can share with future generations.
Written by Debbie Green
Debbie Green is founder and wellness coach at Wishfish. For more information visit: wishfish.org.uk
