Coaching and the Body-Mind

In my coaching practice for senior executives over the last ten years, in addition to using standard coaching tools I have developed a supplementary toolkit based on some of the findings in quantum physics working with energy, the body-mind, applied emotional intelligence and metaphor.  I have found the results to be quite astonishing as the process seems to by-pass the logical, restricted understanding of the brain and works directly, intuitively and swiftly with the mind-which-is-in-the-body.  Time after time it brings about the shift in the problem situation that leaves the mind simply wide-eyed in amazement.

The process works essentially because it takes the client into the present moment through focusing in a particular way on what is happening in their body when they think about the problem situation.  When you are experiencing an emotion as a physical sensation in your body you are automatically in the present moment and this enables the body to 'tell its story'.  And the story simply unfolds during the session in such a way that the body comprehends and often results in the problem appearing to dissolve.
 

Because the work is undertaken 'energetically' it is difficult to describe exactly how it works, but what seems to be happening is that the client moves towards the problem situation and the pain that it causes, with interest, curiosity and compassion - and it is in the middle of the pain itself that the healing occurs. When we resist pain and pull away from it, it will always continue but this process creates the courageous space for the client to go right into the centre of their pain, with no fear, and watch while it opens up and melts.