CREATING A LIFE PLAN
A spiritual coach helps you create and stay accountable to a life plan.
It’s no small endeavor to investigate your mind—to sort out the conscious and unconscious views and paradigms by which you live—and purposefully arrange your life in alignment with only those spiritual principles for which you have decided to exist.
A spiritual coach understands the importance of this process for the creation of a meaningful human life. To be clear and specific about the principles by which you live makes it possible for you to realize a fulfilling plan for life while developing the power to live it.
ACCOUNTABILITY STRUCTURES
A spiritual life coach holds clients responsible for living according to their principles and goals with different accountability structures.
Sometimes it’s hard to get started with spiritual, creative work because even though such endeavors often yield long-term prosperity, they appear, in the short term, to have no return on investment, and, therefore, run counter to profit-oriented culture.
This, of course, is not the case, because creative projects often succeed, sustained as they are by passion and grit.
A spiritual coach guides you through the initial phases of spiritual reflection and creativity as you work your way to freedom and financial success—two important aims of spiritual and creative work that go hand in hand.
ACTIVE LISTENING AND POWERFUL QUESTIONS
A coach leads you to insight with active listening and powerful questions. Also, the coach will recognize, underscore, and celebrate constructive elements that openly exist in your life, but that you may have overlooked.
A coach’s ability to highlight your virtues is a powerful vehicle for transformation, allowing you to see treasures that you already have, even though you didn’t know they existed.
REFRAMING EXPERIENCES
The life coach challenges a client’s mindset and can help you reframe your understanding of yourself and situation.
A coach can help you drop negative beliefs and blinders that prevent you from seeing possibilities or taking action. Or help bring you to a more grounded, feasible sense of simplicity, focus, and realistic activity.
OPENING NEW HORIZONS
Depending on the coach’s own background, they can help to deepen your insight or broaden your spiritual horizons and what might be possible for you to achieve in your life.
HOW DO SPIRITUAL LIFE COACHES HELP PEOPLE OVERCOME THEIR ISSUES?
There are many ways a spiritual life coach can help a person.
By focusing on positive, creative, action, a coach helps a client to naturally reconnect with what’s important to you in life. Working with a spiritual coach can help you reconnect to your intuition, restore trust and confidence in your intelligence, expose blind spots, and take powerful action.
Here are some ways they may do this:
FINDING YOUR ESSENCE
Finding the essence of a person and naming it in one word sounds simple, but it involves an exhaustive interview process where the coach works with their client through a historical accounting of their major life events.
When clients find their word, the word becomes a powerful tool for cutting through life’s clutter.
JOURNALING
Journaling allows for a level of orderly introspection and reflection you can’t attain in conventional working life and leads to insight and healing.
In addition, it provides a kind of mental hygiene, helping you to improve your mood by prioritizing and taking control of your fears, problems and concerns.
OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY BIAS
A spiritually untrained mind defaults to negativity.
This is why music is played in hotels and department stores – to keep your mind occupied and to make you less likely to think bad thoughts about the environment.
Though being hard-wired for negativity helps you survive, such programming gets in the way when you want to stay productive, reach a positive ‘unimaginable’ goal, rest, or savor life.
A spiritual life coach may give you positive psychology exercises like Three Good Things, to help keep you optimistic, creative, and prolific.
MEDITATION
A Spiritual Life coach may use contemplative practices, like meditation to help you connect with focused, healing energy.
Mediation can also be prescribed for a specific purpose around a desired outcome.
DISCUSSING READINGS
Dialogue about reading is a brilliant way to learn and come to insight about yourself.
For example, a coach may ask their client to read and discuss Aristotle’s notion of Virtue, with an aim toward having a client define what Virtue looks like for them in daily life.
IDENTIFYING CORE VALUES
People feel most stuck and dysfunctional when asked to do something that contradicts their values, so knowing what your values are is necessary for taking action and living a fulfilling human life.
“Who do I have to be in order to do what I want to do?” is the kind of question you might explore with your coach.
WHAT CAN A SPIRITUAL LIFE COACH HELP ME WITH?
A spiritual life coach can help clients focus on any personal or human issue in such a way that your issue deepens into you with both universal and individual purpose. In this way, you generate a meaningful life.
A spiritual coach can help with a number of things, including:
Identifying and realizing your spiritual goals
Balancing material needs with your spiritual goals
Finding direction and purpose in life
Envisioning how you see yourself living in five years
Performing at your highest potential and finding your best self
Identify core values
Identify driving passion and what you are willing to die for
Answering the question “Who am I?”
Finding a single word that describes the essence of your being and everything that you stand for in everything that you do
Discover what you want to be remembered for
Find your passion project and how you want to use your precious life
