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By nlpcoach on Jul 22, 2014 in Uncategorized |

  “You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … You turn to me to feel your own emotion” — Rumi NLP is widely regarded as a powerful approach to personal development, promoting positive growth and reducing negative emotions. A number of different healing therapies have been developed, all variants of NLP, many of which have proven effectiveness. The concept of a Timeline invariably comes up in most of these therapies. It emphasizes learning from our past events and the associated emotions in order to not only overcome them, but to use our new found knowledge and insight in the future to deal with similar negative emotions. Its popularity is increasing in the field of psychology because of its effectiveness, brevity, and permanency in positive behavior change. Timeline is being used in Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, and Peak Performance Coaching etc. What is a Timeline? Our “Time Line” is our unconscious memory storage mechanism, which not only stores events, but also emotions linked to the events, causing us to later project assimilated emotions to similar negative events such as the first. You can refer to these memories and behavioral patterns as schemas, mental maps, or Gestalts which are continuously formed throughout our lives. It helps you master your negative emotions by releasing them and allowing you to replace them with positive emotions. This is done by focusing on eradicating the negative emotion from the root instead of just focusing on the event. This results in you being able move toward building a more positive mindset and ultimately a better life.  Trained NLP Practitioners use Timeline often during Coaching or Therapy sessions. Negative Emotions Harvesting negative emotions can lead to detrimental health problems, both medical and psychological. Our perception and response to stress is ultimately influenced by our past unresolved emotional baggage, which can distort our ability to reason and logic, and cause us to react counter productively. The therapy is most effective with problems related to anxiety and depression, including fear and anger, which are linked to poor quality of life, disturbed relationships, lack of ambition, and even failure. Limiting Decisions When you embark on a new venture, do you ever find yourself...

By nlpcoach on Jul 3, 2014 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

How to get more Life Coaching clients If you are reading this article, then congratulations. You went through the rigor of getting trained and are now a certified coach. The easy part is over. Whether you got trained with an ICF/IAC accredited training provider or a general NLP coaching program, you are now a coach.  Now you might be perplexed and thinking about how to get more Life Coaching clients, or coaching clients in general.  Even if you are among the select few who completed a niche certificate program like Licensed NLP Coach (which is under the aegis of Society of NLP, wherein participants get a certificate personally signed by Richard Bandler himself), you are still a novice coach whose journey has only just begun. You should have begun thinking of your brand as soon as you enrolled in your Life Coach certification program in India. At a high level, you can go vertical and super specialize. Or you could go horizontal and be a generalist. Here are some vertical options available to you, before you delve into how to find more Life Coaching clients: Corporate coaching Working with corporate employees, you could become an Executive Coach, Performance Coach, Transformation Coach or Leadership Coach. Sports coaching Here, you will be a Sports Performance Coach or Sports Psychologist, working with athletes. It helps if you have first hand understanding of this field. Entrepreneur coaching As the name suggests, you will be working with mostly start-up leaders on the cusp of greatness. Your label in this case could be Success Coach, Sales Coach, Business Coach or, quite simply, Entrepreneur Coach. Alternatively, you could be a generalist and give yourself the simple label of Life Coach.  Also, read marketing for NLP coaches to get marketing savvy.   How to get more Life Coaching Clients – Where to begin? Now that you have determined your brand position, it’s time to seek clients, and do a deep dive into How to get more Life Coaching clients. Look around. No, you won’t find clients by looking around, but you are bound to come across an endless array of books, articles and workshops devoted to the subject. A cursory glance at them will tell you that you...