Are you looking for a personal coach to guide you on your path to experience optimum health and wellness? A certified life coach can provide guidance with these and other areas of your life:
- Holistic health coaching
- Relationship coaching
- Spiritual life coaching
- Wellness coaching
You probably have several reasons for wanting to have a personal life coach. Perhaps you want to be held accountable to your health and wellness goals, or maybe you would like help with your interpersonal relationships. Whatever reason you have for choosing to work with a life coach, you’re making an important step to create the life you envision.
Are You Experiencing Sleep Issues?
One reason you might be looking for a holistic life coach is because you have issues falling or remaining asleep. Do you keep a gratitude journal? If not, you may want to consider doing so, because it has been shown to assist people with sleeping more deeply and longer.
A 2011 study published in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being showed that spending just 15 minutes a night listing and writing about what you’re grateful for can make a significant difference in your overall quality of sleep.
Meditation has also been shown to assist with insomnia and other sleep disorders. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health funded a study with 54 adults that suffered with chronic insomnia. During this study, the participants were taught mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia (MBTI), and a self-monitoring meditation program.
While both forms of meditation assist with improving sleep patterns, it was found that MBTI reduced insomnia more than MBSR.
Are You Experiencing Anxiety or Stress?
Another reason you may be looking to work with a life coach is because you’re experiencing some type of anxiety. This could be performance or socially-based anxiety as well as any other type of situational anxiety that could arise.
Meditation has also been shown to assist with reducing anxiety and stress. A 2012 review of 36 trials compared groups that were experiencing anxiety. Meditation made an impact on anxiety symptoms for 25-out-of-the-36 groups that meditated on a regular basis.
Would You Like to Be Smoke-Free?
Meditation and other mindfulness practices have been shown to assist people with smoking cessation. A 2015 research study found that 8% of the adults that meditated experienced significant results. This study showed promising results that meditation can have an impact on cravings and smoking cessation. Furthermore, meditation has also been shown to make an impact by helping to prevent smoking relapses.
Would You Like to Improve Your Spiritual Health?
A major aspect of spiritual health for some individuals is having and developing self-awareness. A study showed that 67.6% of people that worked closely with a life coach developed a higher level of self-awareness.
Meditation, contemplation, gratitude journals, and prayer are also integral to many people’s spiritual practice. A recent survey showed that 58% of people in the United States pray every day at least once. Other Americans, approximately 75%, will pray a minimum of one time per week
Would You Like to Experience More Happiness?
Each person has their own unique definition of happiness. Furthermore, each person also has a sense when they are happy or not. Surveys were conducted in both 2008 and 2009 that showed 35% of Americans felt very happy. A 2011 survey showed that only 33% of Americans claimed to feel very happy, as did a more recent survey.
Would You Like to Learn How to Set More Reasonable Goals?
Many people consciously set both short and long-term goals on a regular basis. How often do they attain them, however? How reasonable are these goals?
A recent survey showed that 62.4% of people working with a life coach were setting smarter goals. After guiding their clients through the goal-setting process, life coaches will also hold their clients accountable to these goals.
The International Coach Federation (ICF) conducted a study in 2012. At that time, it was determined that there were 47,500 life coaches worldwide. In North America alone, there were 15,800 life coaches. Currently, over one-third of American adults have shown an interest in complementary and alternative medicine, and have pursued this as a treatment option. Given the large number of available coaches, you will find one with whom you connect.
