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Mind Power
"If you bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will save you.
If you do not bring forth that which is within you, that which is within you will destroy you."
-unknown
The most frequently asked question that I answer about my business is "What is a Life Coach?". In this month's article I decided to explain some more about what exactly I do and why I chose Empowerment Coaching.
Empowerment by definition means a process by which people gain control over their own lives. It means the freeing of yourself from limitations or living a life of misery, and taking full responsibility for everything that is in your life. It's about quitting making excuses for things that are not going right in your life and doing something about it. Empowerment is movement and action; it's not about standing still and waiting to be rescued or served. It's about being in control about what you allow in your life, who you associate with, what you read, what you watch on television and at the movies, who are your mentors, what music you listen to, what you eat, it's about your choices and being accountable for them all. Empowerment is making a decision to move in another direction in order to improve your quality of life.
Life Coaches are a personalize assistance for you who facilitates and supports the process of empowerment. I help people get unstuck from undesirable circumstances and turn their life into something rewarding for them. Through the process you will improve, develop and learn new skills, sometimes these skills may merely include coping skills to allow you to manage life stresses on your own, other times it may involve skills required specifically to your present situation. In addition, I take the time to look at and discover what is actually preventing you from attaining desired goals. Often, emotional roadblocks prevent us from getting what we want, sometimes unknowingly. This part of the process is done over time as we allow for the changes to occur. I, therefore work with present issues initially which are often triggered by something internalized and represented negatively by us from our past. People come with a problem or just a bad feeling that won't go away, often not sure why they are feeling unhappy but have the desire to change it.
When I first discovered coaching, I did not go with a specific problem, I just had a lot of anxiety that I wanted fixed. Bit by bit I started chipping away at the causes of my stress, watching my physiological symptoms and health problems diminish as I began to find more peace within myself.
When you become empowered, you begin to recognize that you have choices, with one of those choices being that you have the right to be the happiest and healthiest person that you can now. Although many people are reluctant to take responsibility for their actions and fall into the excuses trap, this accountability will inevitably gain you control over your life. I had millions of excuses for my rocky life; I wanted to blame the people in my life. In doing so, I was destroying both my physical and mental health in order to justify my problems, the exact problems I learned later, I was creating by choice. It's a vicious cycle where you can keep looping until you get empowered.
Now, there is no excuse for not getting empowered and learning better choices for your life, not even the people in your life that are unknowingly supporting the continued dysfunction, since empowerment is very contagious. As you begin to step on the wheel of empowerment, watch and notice the ripple effect that may or may not occur as you begin to teach by example, changing the lives of your friends, family and children. So what can be more empowering than that? I invite you to start today. I invite you to get empowered and break away.
Until next month,
Krista McKay
Life coach/Freelance writer
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