Health Coaching is a new model for total health and wellness in the
individual. Health Coaching is not something you only do when you are
sick. Health Coaching is about optimization of human potential and has a
philosophy of ever expanding possibilities. Health Coaching recognizes
that there is an innate intelligence within you, an inborn wisdom that
governs all healing, function and repair and that the purpose of all
health and wellness practices is to remove interference to this
intelligence so your body can heal itself. The 7 good reasons to work
with a Health Coach below will outline clearly how you can reach that
state of health and wellness in your life right now.
1. You need to be held accountable.
As
children there is always someone there to make sure we're doing what
we're supposed to. As adults, we're supposed to be able to do this for
ourselves. But what if we can't? What if we keep making other things
more important than our health and well being and not moving forward? A
health coach can help by checking and asking the right questions and by
being a gentle reminder to keep you moving toward your health and
wellness goals.
Also, in most traditional models of seeing a
health practitioner, we tend to see that person as an expert - they know
more about our body than we do and they can tell us exactly what we
need to do to get better. This system encourages us in a sense, to place
our health in someone else's hands. We are no longer responsible, the
health practitioner is. We are not really accountable, the health
practitioner or the pills they told us to take are. In health coaching,
you are the best and only expert on you and the only one qualified to
know if something will work or not.
2. You want to get your health and well being on track once and for all
Far
too many of us have joined gyms or started a diet in the past feeling
initially excited only to watch our enthusiasm drain away a few weeks
later. We can feel disappointed with ourselves, with the money we've
wasted and with the lack of results we've achieved. Things change, our
responsibilities change, time we have available changes and our health
and wellness goals. What is it that's stopping you from committing to a
path of improved health? A health coach will help you figure out those
answers once and for all and help you find real-life solutions that not
only work for you but keep working for you in the future.
3. You know what you need to do be healthy but you just can't seem to stick to the changes
So,
it's not a question of good health education - the majority of us
understand clearly what we need to do to stay healthy - eat lots of
fruit and veggies, minimize red meat, exercise regularly and don't smoke
or drink too much. Simple right? Why aren't more of us doing it then?
Before we make any changes in our life we need to agree with the
changes, they need to be congruent with our values and they need to make
sense in the context of our lives.