FAQ

Life-Coaching

Life coaching is a relatively new profession that helps you achieve your personal goals, much like a personal trainer assists you to achieve your fitness goals.

Many people seek assistance from a life coach because they want to: find work that they love, make more money, have less stress, or they may want to achieve a specific goal such as losing weight, or achieving better balance in their lives. Working with a coach is very much like having a non-judgemental, supportive friend whose sole aim is to assist you to create a better life.

Coaching sessions can be scheduled by telephone, or in person at a GetaBetterLife Coaching Centre. Individual coaching programs are designed over a 12-week (3-month) period, you will communicate with your coach for an hour once a week.

There are numerous benefits associated to Coaching. As a process Coaching can allow you to:

•Set and reach your goals with greater ease and effectiveness

•Create a better quality of life

•Identify what you really want in life, and create a plan for it’s achievement

•Increase motivation and momentum towards your life outcomes

•Create more time through increased personal effectiveness

•Identify and eliminate patterns that prevent you from being your best

•Enhance your self-confidence and self-esteem

•Develop more focussed concentration and attention

•Have more balance and peace in life by learning how to manage stress

•Develop leadership excellence

Consulting is generally process oriented, and involves analysis, and recommendation of appropriate solutions to a client’s questions. For example, some companies employ consultants to review business units and processes, and to make external recommendations for improvement.

Coaching is focused on helping individuals to ‘set new standards’ in their lives, and therefore become ALL that you can be. Coaching can help you to find your own answers to life’s challenges, and assist you in fulfilling your life goals, dreams and visions.

Whereas counselling is normally based on identifying and clarifying, how you came to be whom you are today, coaching is ‘future oriented’. Coaching is about helping you set and define clear outcomes for your life, and then helping you get from where you are now, to where you want to be.

During the coaching process it may be necessary to realign and change habits, patterns and behaviours that have prevented you from achieving your outcomes in the past. Coaching also shares a number of similarities with coaching, in that both involve active listening, questioning and feedback.

The main premise of coaching is that people are capable of achieving their full potential in life.

Coaching is not founded on any religious, social, philosophical or psychological theory. It does however share a common foundation with many disciplines including managing, mentoring and sports coaching.

Hypnosis is a valuable tool for overcoming and healing many of the problems associated with our modern lifestyle and culture.

The process of hypnosis allows you to accept certain thoughts which, in turn, change your attitude, so that you can do the things that you want to do, OR not do the things you do not want to do, but cannot seem to stop doing!

Contrary to what is commonly believed by many, hypnosis is NOT a "sleep" state. Even though a person in hypnosis may appear to be sleeping, in most cases the person is aware of communication and is able to respond verbally or by signal, on request.

Do you remember a time when you went to the movies and were so involved in the story that you actually felt some emotion?

At this time, you were most likely in a ‘hypnotic’ state, although you still had the power to emerge from that state if desired. Your mind may be guided by a movie, TV shows, self-hypnosis tape, or Hypnotherapist, but remember YOU still have the power to resist.

A person, who does not want to be hypnotised, cannot be induced to do or say anything, which violates their personal standards of behaviour or integrity.

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. Clients are often surprised at how relaxing this can be. There are various depths associated with this state of relaxation, and experiences will generally vary from client to client.

In general a light state of hypnosis is normally associated with feeling light (or weightless), whereas deeper levels are commonly associated with sensations such as the heaviness of sinking into a relaxing chair.

There are certain abilities that are enhanced during the actual hypnotic process itself, these being the ability to IMAGINE, the ability to REMEMBER and enhanced CREATIVITY.

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis for self-improvement and/or the resolution of issues or problems. All hypnotherapy employs hypnosis; but not all hypnosis is hypnotherapy.

For example, a student who is day-dreaming during a rather mundane university lecture may effectively display signs of being in a hypnotic state. However the intent of the lecturer was probably far from being called a Hypnotherapist!

Cognitive counselling deals with issues at a cognitive (awareness) level; and many of life's problems require just that. When someone has to make difficult cognitive decisions, competent professional help is absolutely essential.

For example, hypnotherapy is not a substitute for marriage counselling. But when it comes to changing habits or behaviour regulated by the subconscious, there is nothing faster than competent hypnotherapy to facilitate change.

However, hypnosis is not a panacea for all of life's problems. It is also important to realize that a competent Hypnotherapist recognizes that he or she is not licensed to diagnose (unless trained and licensed to do so). A diagnostician formulates a professional opinion on the cause of a problem. A competent Hypnotherapist will ask the client's subconscious mind to disclose the cause, and then either proceeds or refers accordingly, based on the information disclosed.

There are many roads leading from Melbourne to Sydney; likewise there are many ways to successfully help someone quit smoking or manage their weight. The KEY however is simple: “The Client Must Choose to Change”.

Hypnosis can be extremely useful in assisting clients to create rapid and lasting change in their lives, whether this is a means to uncovering internal blockages, eliminating self-sabotage or changing limiting behaviours.

Pain is a warning that something is wrong with the body, and it needs to be diagnosed by someone qualified to do so. A competent Hypnotherapist will emphasize to their clients the importance of requiring a written referral from an examining physician before ever using hypnosis to reduce pain or other physical symptoms.

A competently trained Hypnotherapist should know, when to use hypnosis for symptom removal, and when and how to use hypnosis to search for subconscious causes of the symptom(s). Hypnosis can also make a difference even with major disease!

Hypnosis of and by itself is safe. If it was not, we would all be in jeopardy every time we were engrossed in a good book, movie, commercial or television show.

A competent Hypnotherapist will assist their clients to understand how hypnosis can be used safely, and effectively, and will help the client to focus on obtaining the desired results or outcome at all times.

Feel free to try different therapists to see which one you feel more comfortable with. Not every therapist is ideal for every client. So if you feel comfortable with the established rapport within the first two sessions, then it would be worth your while to continue and focus on your outcome.

If not please ask your therapist to recommend another therapist that may be suitable for you. They would be more than happy to accommodate.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioural technology, and is simply a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behaviour. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviours, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well being.

NLP is a synthesis of a number of disciplines and offers a systematic means of achieving consistently outstanding results across a broad spectrum of human experience. It has been successfully applied in a wide range of fields including business, health care, sport, therapy education and the performing arts.

The name Neuro-Linguistic Programming comes from the disciplines that influenced the early development of the field. It began as an exploration of the relationship between neurology, linguistics, and observable patterns ("programs") of behaviour.

NLP provides processes and techniques that can show you:

• How to run and effectively manage your own brain and thoughts.

• How to take charge of your emotional states of being.

• How to develop strategies for improved effectiveness in your everyday life.

• Attract the right person for you

• Create ideal relationships

• Advance your career & make more money

• Increase motivation and energy

• Create your desired self-image

• Communicate to produce the kind of results you want

Time Line Therapy is the result of a collection of techniques that produce long-lasting transformation, faster than briefer forms of therapy. These powerful Time Line Therapy™ techniques are becoming the method of choice to make fast, effective, long-term changes in behaviour.

Your "Time Line" is how you unconsciously store your memories or how you unconsciously know the difference between a memory from the past and a projection of the future. Behavioural change in an individual takes place at an unconscious level. People don't change consciously. The Time Line Therapy™ process allows you to work at the unconscious level and release the effects of past negative experiences and change "inappropriate" programming in minutes rather than days, months or years.

Design Human Engineering™ (DHE) is the successor to NLP as developed by Richard Bandler.

NLP concerns itself with modelling existing cognitive processes, and designing interventions based on redirecting resources that a person already has.

DHE™ concentrates on creating powerful states and mental tools so a person naturally moves in the direction they want to go. DHE™ training consists of learning to create sounds, sights, and internal experience in a way that naturally propels you to be the kind of person you want to be.