Life Coaching v NLP Breakthrough Coaching

For the last 12 years I’ve been helping people to sort out the biggest problems in their lives and create amazing lives for themselves using NLP Breakthrough Coaching. When I started, my style and approach seemed very new in the world, well before “Life Coaching” became popular. When the term arrived a few years ago I was very excited that there was actually a label for what I did! Hurrah!

I have since heard many reports from people who’ve been to see a ‘Life Coach’ and had mixed to disappointing results. Once again it is time for me to explain what I really do!

Life Coaching, it seems, can mean many things – some coaches give advice, some do counselling, others do basic level coaching on making surface level changes – but very few create consistent, deep level change.

For any change to stick, it has to fit with what you believe about yourself deep down. If you don’t really believe you can do something, or in fact deserve it, you just end up TRYING really hard until your willpower runs out! Just think, why don’t diets work?

From my point of view, if coaching doesn’t consistently produce long term results, then why do it?

Life Coaching tends to be for the CONSCIOUS MIND (ie your thinking mind). It:

• focuses you on goals
• uses workarounds to help with problems (ie how to COPE with STUFF better)
• gives you advice on steps to improve your life
• provides someone to chat to

For some people, it may well be enough for them to create a short term fix.

NLP Breakthrough Coaching is for the CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MIND (your thinking AND your deeper mind).
It:

• focuses you on what is actually important for you
• removes the blocks and limitations that hold you back in life
• teaches you how to communicate really well with your deeper mind to help you be naturally more happy, aware and fulfilled
• ensures your Conscious Mind and Unconscious Mind work together so that you make a life for yourself that you love
• enables you to start being who you want to be, doing what you want to do and having what you want to have

For example, a recent client I had had ME. He’d had it for 12 years and had tried various different approaches to sort it out – none of them had worked. Using deep questioning techniques, he discovered that he thought power was a bad thing – a belief he’d had from being bullied in childhood, where power was misused against him. Since that time, he had switched his own power off and created symptoms that doctors labelled ME. Once he had let go of the attachment to this early experience, his beliefs about power changed immediately, causing him to instantly turn on his internal power again. Over the space of a few hours, he had uncovered the root cause of his ME, resolved it and all the emotions around it, and suddenly his mind and body came back to life, with his ME symptoms disappearing instantly and staying that way. 6 months later he ran the San Francisco Marathon!

He had proved that this kind of problem couldn’t be solved with just trying to think or do things differently.

If you to chat to someone, see a Life Coach. If you want your life to be different, book yourself an NLP Breakthrough Session.

Adam Sprackling

Posted on Thursday, January 31st, 2008.
Categories: Coaching, NLP.
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