Do You Want to Be a Coach?

Wishing to pursue a career in which you have the skills to help motivate another person? What a GREAT and needed service this is in today's world!

Titles such as "Personal Trainer," "Wellness Coach," "Life Coach," or even "Patient Advocate" all provide clients with the symbolic comfort that this professional has the ability to reach DEEP into their subconscious mind so that "they can help me to find my motivation and have ways to support me through those sometimes difficult steps I might need to take in life!"

Isn't this the KIND of coach you wish to be?

Just like in sports, we know that TOP performers need outside guidance and support from SKILLED coaches. And we have seen over and over again that what makes a GREAT coach is not athletic ability, but their ability to understand people and know what motivates them. So is the case for ALL areas of coaching. 

Do you wish to be known as a GREAT coach ... who gets results?

We could all get "generic coaching" from the various resources that exist today, like an app, a website, or even an employer resource. But someone who really wants results knows that the more personalized the support, the better results they will have for their efforts!

So if YOU get your "kicks" from watching others succeed, then THIS whole wide-open FIELD of coaching is a great career path for you!

Don't just become skilled in the area of expertise for which you are coaching. Your training should ALSO include becoming skilled in the workings of the mind, the emotions, and the ability of thought to HARDWIRE a brain for positive change.

Become a coach, but get personalized attention for YOURSELF TOO! Reach out to the Healing Images™ style of training and find out how this can be the most effective and affordable decision you make today. http://www.healingimages.com/Pages/Classes.aspx

Do you get upset easily?

If so, then you might want to read about the couple of little things that upset ME! ... [wink, wink]

http://www.healingimages.com/blog/post/2014/01/13/Dont-you-hate-it-when-

Encourage ACTION with a cancer diagnosis!

Most want to "DO" something when given a diagnosis of cancer yet they RARELY understand the POWER of what one CAN do ... with the MIND!

Find a person with breast cancer, for example, and you will find someone who cares about taking care of everyone else around them. So they tend to put themselves last in their list of priorities.

Yet, just as all the oxygen masks dropping from an airplane ceiling need first to be placed over a mom's own mouth BEFORE she places one over a beloved child ... so too must she find the time to CHANGE her mind and take it from its most natural state of "worrying" to a place where it is instead filled with images of "peace."

A stress free mind is the ONLY place from which an immune system can make its most healthy directives and do its best work. For you guessed it ... one's OWN healthy immune system is the MOST important defense a person has upon cancer!

Your brain is doing its best to "cope" with its fears by worrying. In fact, this seems to be the "job" of the brain to "worry," for worrying has indeed kept us "safe" when in the past the brain needed to strategize and plan for a wise escape for its body that was in danger from harm.

But once this same brain "knows" that it is facing a "foe" of cancer that now feels to be "bigger than life," it MUST STOP WORRYING and "surrender" to an even bigger "INNER KNOWING," that does indeed know what is needed in order to heal!

Guided imagery can help a person to FOCUS their somewhat stubborn mind on this place of "Inner Knowing" rather than this place of Inevitable Worry. Do not discount the importance of this action any more than today's most progressive of physicians have come to realize:

Dr. Lissa Rankin, a medical doctor and New York Times Bestselling author, is the perfect example of this understanding in that she found "the motherlode question" of her intake forms to be, quite simply ...

     - What does your body need in order to heal?

This question stimulated the most "intelligent" of answers from her patients ... answers that they "knew all along" but weren't always willing to ACT upon. 

So, what answer would YOU give to that question? 

... And if you honestly don't know, or wish to give your own brain some HEALTHY focus time with that place of Inner Knowing that holds sooooo much wisdom, please consider the ease at which a welcome guided imagery recording, when listened to regularly, can get you there: http://www.healingimages.com/Pages/Store.aspx. 

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Three mistakes I made in Ireland

Dia Dhuit (is how you say “hello” in Irish Gaelic)!

I returned home from my incredible trip to Ireland. And having never been there before, it’s not surprising that I made three mistakes any “normal-thinking” American might make:

1) I had some incredibly good, fresh, & healthy food while there. But somehow I also ended up eating lots of TREATS to which I normally would have “just said NO!” My theory, of course, was: “I’m on vacation!!!” And at times I even ended up with a stomach ache!

I’m not the ONLY one who makes THIS mistake … am I?

2) On our last day there, my husband and I rented a car so that we could explore the incredible coastline like you see in this photo.

Although I’d been traveling for days on “the wrong side of the road” via many other modes of transportation, this was the first time I was placed into a front seat that put “the wrong side of the road” right in my face! Now add to that: THIS picture -- narrow roads with s-curves that were taking us closer and closer to the sea, all at a “normal” speed of 80 Kilometers per hour, (which isn’t even dangerously fast), on a typical, misty, Irish rainy day!

So what exactly was my mistake, you might ask? Well, I just couldn’t stop “expressing” my fears to my husband (the driver), which tended to make him even more nervous as this “new” driver of the “wrong side of the road” scenario!

Even though I would never have guessed I am capable of such ‘anxieties,’ am I the ONLY one who would react like this given the same set of circumstances?? ?

3) No matter what your answers … it’s my last mistake that is most likely the one we ALL make … AND … we make it constantly: I kept forgetting the important truth that I always saw whatever it is that I believed!

My whole trip to Ireland was a beautiful reminder of just how powerful is the mind! I saw firsthand that they don’t have the same bodyweight issues that we have in America, even when they consume more alcohol and sweets than we do; and NEVER are they bothered by driving on the “wrong” side of the road! (HAHA)

But guess what? The real blessing I got from this trip is that I can now USE my mind to lower my stress levels and go on another “vacation” any time that I wish by simply tapping into this wonderful ability of the subconscious mind to believe that I am there again through the power of imagery (as long as I don’t conjure up the image of that nerve-wracking coastal drive, of course)!

The mind is INCREDIBLY powerful, and we could/should use it SO MUCH more than we do!!

Instead of letting our fears push us around, the DEEPEST parts of the subconscious mind can be used any time we wish to boost our immune system, speed healing, reduce pain, lower depression, and sooooo much more!!!

Hasn’t the mind always intrigued you, with how much it can change from individual to individual and how much it can change … well … everything … on the outside too!?

Discover more about how to REACH deeper states of mind! Learn how to direct the power of the mind to your choosing, through tools like guided imagery, journaling, and other simple, but scientifically-based, integrative practices that can be added to what you do every day.

Attend the next Healing Images™ weekend Guided Imagery Certification Symposium with me in the St. Louis area on October 14th thru 16th, and make it a wonderful time for your own next getaway!

You will learn about psychoneuroimmunology, neurogenesis, neurolinguistic programming, metaphorical language, CAM therapies, and even nutrition as it relates to the bodymind.

Save these dates on your calendar and make this a “working vacation” that you will remember for a lifetime!

Partial scholarships are available to help you with tuition through a nonprofit’s “Healing Images Across America” Project, designed to further the education of these holistic therapies that are not mainstream simply because they are NOT profit driven. In other words … our timing couldn’t be better!

Register for the symposium online through www.HealingImages.com, where a scholarship is already waiting for you, or call me directly at 972-322-7782 to find out more about how this might be a great investment for furthering your life and livelihood!

Oh … I forgot to mention: returning alumni get to attend (now and always) for JUST COST!!!!

Let me know your questions or requests for details, and know that I would CERTAINLY love to hear whether or not YOU ever made any similar mistakes during any of YOUR travels!

Let me know what goes on within YOUR mind! [big smile]

Neurogenesis - it's not just for kids anymore!

What a surprise when we discovered that the "pruning" process of a teen's brain is actually holding us back now as an adult? Learn how to keep your brain "evolving" ... into more than you can currently imagine!

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Epigenetics Offers You a New Story for Your Life!

Science has not given us this much "hope" and "control" for our future in a long time!

Take a quick moment to click on this podcast and enjoy a basic five-minute explanation of epigenetics in words that anyone can understand. But be sure to take an extra moment to add your comments below. Tell others what YOU think about the possibilities that this may offer us all!

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Podcast: Is Guided Imagery Controversial?

If guided imagery is so great ... why is it sometimes controversial? Listen to the podcast to hear a bit more on this topic by clicking on the title of this post. Or download it yourself here.

Let other professionals know: Have YOU run into situations where clients have been hesitant to USE holistic or integrative techniques? How have YOU handled that?

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Podcast: Why would a person add guided imagery to their health care journey?

Click on this post's title for the podcast. Then, colleagues, let's discuss this type of health care addition below.

If you as a professional healer within the traditional health care system REALLY wants to help your clients become involved with their healing journey (vs. passively accept whatever is being dictated to them), then here is just a quick point to help you explain why!

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