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No single stress reduction technique automatically reduces stress for everyone. When dealing with a client who is challenged by stress, you must first empower the client to be aware of when stress is occurring.
People, like your client, are frequently unaware that the reason they are always tired or have body aches, is that they are experiencing the negative effects of stress. Find stress reduction techniques that work best for the client. [Read more…]
No Stress Here. This is Your Golden Ticket.
Think about your current coaching career.
I am willing to bet your clients experience stress (not the good kind) on a regular, or simi-regular basis.
It’s called life.
As a coach, do you know all the physiological and psychological signs and symptoms? Do you know the leading causes of stress? How do you define the distinct difference between good and bad stress? Do you have an action plan for clients who experience high levels or extended periods of stress?
It’s actually a really interesting and complex topic. And, due to our hectic world, coaches who have specific skills and credentials in stress management are doing very well.
In the last 3 days, we’ve had 12 new students become Certified Stress Management Coaches. When asked, they said clients are demanding the skills, resources and solutions. I wanted to pass this along to you.
STRESS FACTS: Proof that you have job security and people need your professional help [Read more…]
For thousands of years, people believed that stress made you sick. Up until the nineteenth century, the idea that the passions and emotions were intimately linked to disease held weight, and people were told by their doctors to go to spas or seaside resorts when they were ill. Gradually these ideas lost favor as more concrete causes and cures were found for illness after illness. But in the last decade, scientists like Dr. Esther Sternberg, director of the Integrative Neural Immune Program at NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have been re- discovering the links between the brain and the immune system. [Read more…]
Meditation can conjure up visions of yogis peacefully residing on a mountaintop, one with the earth and sky. That may seem to be a very unobtainable state, however, meditation is something that everyone can do (mountaintop optional).
As a yoga instructor and a mom of three, I welcome families to come together to take my classes, in fact I encourage it. New moms with their babies, moms and dads with toddlers in tow, everyone can benefit from the practice. Parents are often surprised at how their kids are natural-born yogis! I often use the babies to show the proper way to breath, deep from your belly. The babies are my best assistant instructors in long deep breathing. After class, no matter the group I am teaching, is always meditation time and there are some wonderful meditations that families can participate in!