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Intuitive life coaching is
about the life coach listening to him- or herself as closely
as the coach
listens to the client. Some would call it
spiritual life
coaching; others, holistic life coaching. But I call it
listening.
Every day, I am able to hear
something a client is not saying; indeed, I hear things
the client doesn't even know he or she is communicating
(or feeling, or believing) at all. Before I became a
life coach, I would have believed such listening was
possible, at least in the abstract, or by other people,
but the first and greatest surprise I had while life or
career coaching was that it was happening to me: into my
head popped a question to ask, or an observation to make, and the client
was never as stuck afterward. "How did you come up
with that?" I'd be
asked. "Wow. What made you think of that?" This was and
is the most thrilling
part of what I do.
And I'd be pleased to share it with you, and so would
the great
spiritual coaches at Feroce who work with clients on
spiritual Coaching.
A scholar calls for help in
starting her dissertation. She just can't seem to get
started; it's worse than writer's block. She feels very
strongly about her subject but there's something holding
her back with the writing and life generally. She says she's always been very intuitive; she even begins the
conversation by asking me where my Mercury is (I don't
know).
 Now it's my turn. Answering my questions, she
says she does bodywork for a living, has a healthy
fitness lifestyle, but only used to meditate -- just not
lately. Now she doesn't do any of the things that would
bring her into the experience of her body -- and
its attendant feelings. I can "see", as it were, that
she's afraid. She tells me about the obscure novel on
which her dissertation is based. She is surprised I have
heard of the author, more so when I quote him. She talks
about the title character's disdain for his body, says
the author was critiquing Cartesian dualism, the notion
that mind and body are separate.
Then it hits me: "You identify
with Murphy," I say, referring to the title character. "Your critique of him in the novel is the same as the
critiques I've heard you levy against Americans
generally, about their disconnection from their body. But you feel so strongly about it because you, like
Murphy, have gotten outside your body. There are some
feelings in there you're afraid of. You are Murphy, and
you don't want to go near him."
A long silence. I'm right, she says. She knows this because, amazingly
(or not, not really), she can feel her body responding.
"I'm starting to have these really unusual feelings in
my chest since you said that," she says. "I know
intuition when I see it," she says. "You're very
intuitive." There's that word again. Whether it's
"intuition" or I just intuit something that to me seems
obvious, I can't say. But labels aside, this is what
good coaches do. We listen, ever so closely, and try,
holistically, to
get to the bottom of whatever's getting you stuck. Sometimes it doesn't take long to hit the first chunk of
pay-dirt; like most of my "hits" on something true, the
one above happened during the first, free
session!
It's not about religion, of course,
nor any belief in spirituality -- good coaches listen to
and help Christians and agnostics, Buddhists and lapsed
Jews alike. You will know good advice by its effects. Does it resonate with you? Does it sound or feel right? Does it at least lead to an unclogging of the log-jams
in your mind and life?
And then we got down to
the real work, sometimes mundane, sometimes analytical
and strategic, and sometimes intuitive and
spiritual:
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Choosing a spiritual path
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Choosing a career reflective of
who you are (which may include our figuring out who
you are -- easier than many clients think!)
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Supplemental and crucial support
and direction during depression
and similar crises
Spiritual Coach Gerry
Eitner and Spiritual Life Coach
Laura Svolos are available for alternative approaches.
Please
note that we also offer a sliding scale of rates, so money and coaching
are more independent issues.
Related
Intuitive Life Coaching Pages:
Spiritual Life Coach --
Laura Svolos
Kriya Yoga Life
Coach -- What Is Kriya Yoga?
Spiritual
Growth Coaching: From Monty Python to the Bhagavad
Gita
Health and
Spiritual Coaching
Spiritual Life
Coaching
Spiritual Life Coach
-- At Feroce
Depression Self-Help
Health and
Spiritual Coaching
Holistic
Relationship Coach -- Christina Winsey-Rudd
Intuitive Life
Coaching
Contact us about intuitive life coaching now.
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