Many people would like to improve their relationships. Being an effective communicator is the key for good relationship and the first step is to be a good listener.
What is easier for you? speaking or to listening?
Most people feel more comfortable speaking. When we listen, it helps us understand the other person’s perspective, their ideas, and their needs. It is through listening that learning occurs. When you consciously listen, you don’t plan in your head the next things that you are going to say. You simply listen. You have a curious attitude to really hear the other person.
Play with this tip this week. When you ask something, consciously listen.
Do you want to stretch yourself?
Approach a person with whom you have some communication issues. Ask her/him a question and commit to not say anything – just listen!
Creating and maintaining BALANCE in life is like putting pieces of a puzzle, a huge puzzle that’s constantly changing. Some of you know me for many years. My puzzle usually includes Reiki, meditation, positive thinking, positive affirmations, breathing and relaxation. Each piece of the puzzle is a powerful and practical tool that helps create balance. I will never recommend a tool unless I have benefited from it myself.
Recently, a new piece was added to my puzzle. When I became an Energy Leadership – Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), I became an expert in energy management. Working with many people, including myself, on managing their energy taught me that the one piece I was missing from my BALANCE puzzle is a physical, dynamic, active piece. All my previous tools are excellent tools to create inner-peace and be in the moment. The additional piece is a physical movement that is essential in relieving stress, clearing your head and breaking through energy blocks.
Why is the physical piece important?
Because we live in our body! The work with do with our mind is essential and necessary. But the physical movement will actually release the stuck negativity, will raise our energy level and our consciousness level. With this physical component, we can move forward and make changes in our lives effortlessly and with ease.
One day after my regular meditation, this vision came up: I saw a group of 50 empowered women, walking in the park, smiling, sparkling, and shining. They were “shaking off” their bodies and they were energetic, high energy, happy and stress-free. In my vision, the sun was shining, the air was fresh and full of health and smiles.
I trust that each one of you will help me make this vision into a reality. That’s why everyone in my team here, at Balanced Moments, is working behind the scenes to plan a
Day of Active Rejuvenation & Balance:
“RECHARGE YOUR LIFE”.
All the information will be revealed to you soon. I’m very excited about this event and I would like to make sure you save the date in your calendar:
Sunday May 15th, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm.
Those of you who know me know how excited and passionate I am about coaching. It excites me to see people who are breaking through whatever is holding them back and moving forward to create the life they want. The truth is that I experience the same results myself. I love being coached. It has empowered me and it helps me to change my life every minute.
On Thursday morning, I was getting ready for my weekly session with my coach, Erika Baez. When I called her, she asked to call me back: she was checking in to a hotel in NYC. Erika flew to New York to spend a weekend with motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
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Most of us underestimate our own value and potential.
“Look past your reflection in the mirror and see the truth, I am always, and in all ways, greater than I think…I am”. Bruce D. Schneider, founder of IPEC.
I meet so many different people through my healing and coaching business. Although I am located in Atlanta I get the opportunity to work with people all over the world. If there is one thing everyone has in common, it’s listening to the inner voice that says “you are not good enough”.
What is Life Coaching?
Life Coaching is a one-on-one professional partnership between two – you and the coach – that enables you to realize your life vision, clarify your deepest desires, and create a plan of action for success. Coaching takes what’s inside and translates it into outer goals that you can accomplish one by one.
Coaching helps you move from where you are now to where you want to be in the future.
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Coaching is different from therapy, consulting, mentoring and even friendship.
Coaching is not therapy
In therapy, we usually focus on the past. Therapists help their clients to fix problems and overcome issues by digging into the past and asking why things happen. In coaching, we don’t dwell on the clients’ past or try to analyze behavior. That does not mean a coach will ignore the past – it must be recognized and accepted. The focus in coaching is how to move forward.
Read More Comments OffCan you believe that it is time to say goodbye? Does it feel like they were just born? Do you look at then thinking: “I remember the day they were…”
Leaving your child at college can be an emotional experience. It was for me, when my son left for college 3 years ago. I did not expect it to be so emotional, but it was. It was harder for me and for my husband. My son was completely ready. I remember thinking that if I’ll be very organized and help him prepare in advance, the process will be easier for me. But it wasn’t. What I learned is that it is completely normal and understandable to be sad and even to feel grief. Your mind knows that it is time and that they are ready. But your heart cries inside. Don’t feel guilty for being sad. Don’t expect yourself to be strong, perfect and a super-parent. Acknowledge your feelings. Accept them. Talk with someone who has done it before and ask for support. Plan something nurturing for yourself for the days after saying good bye.
Read More Comments Off“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
In my IPEC Life Coaching training I came across this concept. Choice is the freedom to see things as we desire, feel what we want, and live as we create our lives to be.
When we choose to do one things, we are choosing not to do another. We can’t do two things at once. As I progress and grow in my spiritual journey I learn that even my emotions are a matter of choice. I can choose to change my thoughts, and it will change the feeling. For instance, when I stressed out, it is not an objective fact. It is my choice to create stress. I can do the same action in a calm way. It is in my hands to change it.
Some people will say the life is pre-determined and that we have no control over things.
