| Health Coaches help people make
healthy changes that impact all aspects of their lives. This includes
the physical, mental/emotional and spiritual. |
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| In his book, Radical Healing, Dr. Ballentine makes reference to a cancer clinic where the staff was able to determine with incredible accuracy for whom the cancer treatment—chemotherapy or other—would be successful. When asked, the staff replied that if the person made a change post treatment, i.e. left a job or a difficult marriage, then they had a much higher likelihood to remain in remission. Those that went back to the same situation they were in previous to the cancer therapy had a higher incidence of the cancer returning. | |
| Health Coaches are committed
to telling the truth as a tool for awareness and change. |
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Commitment to the truth does not mean seeking the "Truth," the absolute final word or ultimate cause. Rather, it means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness, just as the great athlete with extraordinary peripheral vision keeps trying to "see more of the playing field." |
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| Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline | |
| Health Coaches understand and
use holistic and integrated healing concepts in their coaching relationship. |
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The tools used for holistic healing are different from those used in the old kind of medicine. The more frequently used tools, such as simple homeopathic remedies, diet, cleansing techniques, and energetic breathing, foster awareness rather than blur it; they reorganize rather than disrupt your mental and physical processes, bringing out emotions or concerns that are submerged, rather than covering them over and hiding them. |
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| Radical Healing, Rudolph Ballentine, MD | |
| Health Coaches champion NAMO,
the practice of emotional wellness. |
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| NAMO is the practice of emotional wellness-the practice of coming home to the true self. Our emotions lead us to explore and heal ourselves from patterns that constrict our mind, body, and spirit. Emotional wellness allows us to be compassionate with ourselves and others. Practicing NAMO, we open to our inner truth and access our innate wisdom and serenity. As we seek emotional wellness by using NAMO, each revealed truth frees us and moves us closer to unconditional love and well being. | |
| Health Coaches facilitate for
others according to their own level of personal growth. |
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| A Zen Story | |
There is a lovely Zen story that illustrates how we can only facilitate others to our own level of growth. A distraught mother asks an abbot to talk to her son about his smoking habit. The abbot said he would consider it but to come back in two weeks. After the mother and son returns he counsels the boy and the boy announces that he will quit. The mother wants to know why they had to come back in two weeks. The abbot humbly replies. When you first came to me I was a smoker. I had to quit to counsel your son. |
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| Dan Menkin, Transformation through Bodywork | |