Towards a better life - Freedom, Peace, Love, Happiness

During uncomfortable situations, do you often think “This is just how life is” ?

There are ways to open up your thoughts on life. Life can be whatever you want it to be.

Life can be free - freedom from internal conflict, freedom from external validation, freedom from the past and future, freedom to live, love and laugh.

Life can be peaceful. You can learn to be peaceful from the inside no matter what is going on outside. With inner peace, you are able to stop worrying about the little things that you already know you shouldn’t worry about. You are also able to stop worrying about the big things that you currently think you should worry about. You are able to live life without worry. Period.

Life can be full of love. You can learn to love everyone unconditionally. You can feel love in every cell of your body. When you feel this love, you feel compassion and can spread the love to everyone. You are able to forgive and trust with this love and build relationships.

Life can be lived happily. You can learn to make happiness a choice in all moments of life. Just imagine the possibilities when you can choose to be happy and content from the inside.

To enable such a life, you don’t need to live on a mountain, or give up your work or leave your family. You can live such a life doing the same things you are doing today (and actually do more with the new energy for life). You just need to learn how to do that.

For most of the day, we are driven by our thoughts and emotions. This is an endless loop that many know is the cause of dissatisfaction and many believe that we can’t come out of.

I hope some part of you believes that life can be different. The belief is important to tap into to come out of the loop. You can learn to observe and silence your thoughts and emotions.

The silence can show you a source of infinite energy and wisdom within you. You can choose to call it whatever you want - energy, aatma, soul, etc. The word doesn’t matter. The experience matters. The experience can change everything you think you know about life. You will realise how you feel and think is a choice. You will realise you can solve any problem of life and much more. You will realise there is no problem in life - everything is just a situation that you can choose to either worry about or to handle internally and externally.

Learning to live such a life requires hard work, patience and persistence during doubt, struggles and failures. It is a journey that can take several years. But the journey has to start to be completed. You are required to surrender to the journey. The surrender and struggle is important and overcoming them will teach you what you don’t know about yourself and life.

The journey will take you to a life full of excitement, beauty and joy.

The only step that’s required to live such a life is to be present in the moment and pay full attention to everything within you - thoughts, emotions, body. The attention will drive everything else required. Life will teach you how you can live life.

The step requires continuous practice and an open mind to learn.

So, you have a choice to work hard, challenge yourself and thus live a life of freedom, peace, love & happiness.

What is Coaching ?

In my words, coaching is a process which enables clients to learn to understand themselves & learn to help themselves to move to their desired state of living life.

You are currently at a certain state in life. It is typically a combination of mental, emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal states. Your own body, career, relationships, experience influence these states. You have your own preferences, skills, beliefs, mission that drive your behaviour.

You probably know some of these elements about yourself to some degree, while others may be unexplored or unknown to you.

Most of us have a fuzzy idea of where we are at, where we want to go, what actions we’re taking and what actions should be taken. We live life based on this understanding of ourselves.

Life’s satisfaction can increase if the current state, desired state and the path are more clearer and more aligned with your inner self. The greater the alignment, the smoother life becomes.

As an example, in some cases, when we are not able to take the actions (changing habits, making decisions), it could be due to mis-alignment with the desired state the action is supposed to take us to.

As you live life, do you feel there is some mis-alignment in what life state you should be at but are not ? Or what life state you desire to be in but are not ? Or what actions should you take to be at the desired life state ?

If yes, coaching is a tool that can help to drive alignment in your life.

The coaching process is a self discovery and a self empowerment process that enables you to discover your current state and the desired state of life and then move towards the desired state.

The interesting part is the coach doesn’t need to know your entire life nor analyze every little detail. You already know that . The coach’s job is to show you the process and power of self discovery. Once you experience the process and realise the power, you can then also learn to apply the process in your life regularly.

To have an effective coaching engagement, start with identifying one very important life area you want to improve. It could be an actual goal related to health, career, etc. Or you might choose to improve a particular relationship or improve your leadership qualities. Or it could be about achieving a better balance and fulfillment in day to day life.

Choose an area that is very important to you and you’ve already tried to improve but couldn’t to the required degree. As you go through the coaching process, you will realise that properly improving one important area, greatly improves other important areas of life too.

The work needed from you is to be true to yourself, be open to learning new things about you and take actions from these learnings. As you probably know, this is harder to do than it appears. The coach’s job is to help in making it easier.

If you are open to trying me as a coach, you can get on a discovery call with me to discuss more details.

You can also read how the International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching here.

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Towards a better life - Freedom, Peace, Love, Happiness

What is Coaching ?