Just about anybody can call themselves a life coach. However, a registered psychologist is a better choice, as they are trained in science-backed strategies, accountable professionally, and able to help should mental health issues arise.
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How to Let Go of Fear & Listen to what your Intuition is Telling You
One of the benefits from our many years of work in the profession of psychology is that we appreciate earning our living by helping people. Another extraordinary benefit is that we gain much wisdom and insight from listening to the valuable lifetime perspectives of many thousands of clients over the past 22 years in our private practise.
Read more5 Simple Tips for Positive Thinking
Blocking out diary time to spend regularly on your well-being is not an idle luxury. It is essential to nurture and invest in your own seeds of greatness. Rituals that ground your physical and mental fitness are vital because you are worth spending that time on just developing you.
Read moreWill A NEW YEAR mean a NEW YOU? Positive Psychology Tips for Real World Success
Congratulations on being interested in an article on the New You, as we step into 2016another year of growth opportunities beacon for each one of us to become healthier, wealthier and wiser.
Read moreIs Your Attention Under Siege?
In their recently released book One Moment Please; It’s Time to Pay Attention, authors Martina Sheehan & Susan Pearse wisely remind us to step back from the all consuming, task driven busyness, of our working lives and instead remember that deep happiness is found in moments of clear and open attention. May I invite you to stop for a moment, please read their selected comments in the three paragraphs below and consider whether you might like some focussed professional guidance to get back on track too – like so many of our valued, but initially frazzled clients?
“We became concerned that attention has become one of the most threatened resources on the planet. More information, more access, more choice, more change, more uncertainty, more expectation, more noise, more distraction, more, more, more…Attention is fragile and limited, and when you’re surrounded by an endless selection of things just itching to steal a piece, it becomes overwhelming, almost sickening. In fact it is making us sick.
Stress, anxiety, loneliness, guilt, confusion and disappointment are the symptoms, and an empty life is the result. It’s ironic that living in a world with so much to offer has left us feeling like we have less, rather than more. But it’s clear that the things we are adding to life are just pushing out those things that make life worth living.
We live in a world of contradictions. We care about happiness, but spend time dwelling on worries and frustrations. We care about our loved ones, but allow our to-do list to come before spending time with them. We care about our friends, but only half listen when they tell us what’s going on in their lives. We care about living a life of meaning, but fill the space for deep reflection with busy activity.
Calming Your Mind & Nurturing Your Body
A core part of our work for the past 20 years has been assisting individual clients with the tools of positive psychology and more recently including guidance for people on their nutritional well-being. The mind and body are self evidently connected. In a recent program, called “ Happy Body At Work “ delivered to people at work at Sydney University by physiotherapists, two thirds of participants had become much more aware of how physical things affected their mood. In our own Guidelight Psychology “ Creating Healthier Workplaces “ program we see significant growth in the self belief and ability of our clients to better cope with the stresses of their home life and workplace demands.
Check out our specialist website www.creatinghealthierworkplaces.com.au for more interesting background information on the power of these programs to positively transform a persons life and enhance business outcomes. A study by Medibank and KPMG estimated that across Australian workplaces, staff showing up to work feeling physically and/or mentally unwell cost our economy an estimated $34.1 billion per year.
Whether as a client on one of our workplace programs or as an individual seeing us privately, please remember that investing in tools to maintain your positive psychological and nutritional health is worth it – both for yourself and for your career.
The Psychological Importance of "Letting Go"
Across the range of interesting clients we appreciate being able to work with, we regularly encounter hard working individuals who are seeking to change old patterns of behaviour that are keeping them in a rut. Aspects of their life can feel stunted, or not well grounded, leading to restrictions in the level of joy, excitement and zest for life currently being experienced by that person. One form of powerful breakthrough to help people move out of that rut in their life is to explore the concept and feel the emotional shift associated with choosing to “ Let Go” !
This can be a challenging step if the person mistakenly assumes that letting go is a sign of weakness or capitulation or failure. Nothing could be further from the truth ! Appropriately letting go requires wisdom, courage and trust in yourself.
If this concept of wisely “Letting Go” of past limiting patterns or personal setbacks seems important to you at this point in your life, then please enjoy taking some moments to reflect on the following selected themes :
“To Let Go” does not mean to stop caring. It just means accepting I cannot do it for someone else.
“To Let Go” is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.
“To Let Go” is not to be protective, it is to permit others to face reality.
“To Let Go” is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
“To Let Go” is to fear less and love more.
If you are finding it difficult to let go, call Guidelight 07 5527 0123 to arrange a confidential appointment with one of our caring counsellors.
The Process of Personal Development and Power of the Mind
Do you feel like you are in a rut?
Do need help in developing the power of your mind to help you become the leader you should be?
Our reputation for providing leading edge personal development and character based coaching skills to an extensive client base over the past twenty years, has resulted in many people choosing to book an initial one hour consultation with us to expand the power of their mind and boost their emotional skill sets.
We have been privileged to work with diverse coaching clients from all walks of life, including inspiring everyday mums and dads seeking new insights, to empowering many hundreds of leaders in assorted business and community service roles.
In common across all these fields of service we provide with our wonderful clients, is the essential principle, that character based leadership success requires the development of a series of four building block rituals at the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual level.
Our strong recommendation is to look to integrate these four building blocks into your life through engaging our exciting individual coaching services by booking an initial one hour consultation.
If you are seeking to break out of a rut, transform to a better level of success and step more deeply into the full potential of your life, you are already thinking like a leader – A specialist title is not required for anyone who wants to work with us.
Anyone who is seeking to make a positive change can choose to access our services and begin their wonderful journey of personal development.
Contact Us on 07 5527 0123