Do you make your decisions from fear or love?
June 12, 2014
by Marlena Field
A short video is going viral on social media this week. It is 60 seconds of a commencement speech made by Jim Carrey to the Maharishi University of Management’s class of 2014. He shares a moving story, makes several compelling points, and ultimately leaves us with a truly powerful question: How do we make our decisions? Do we make them from fear or love?
Embodying Resources through Celebration and Metaphor
May 15, 2014
by Marlena Field
Metaphor is a powerful tool for accessing our embodied resources. Using symbolic language allows our clients to play with and connect to ideas and experiences both more deeply and sometimes indirectly, which can provide space for safety and creativity. Bringing a body-centered approach to exploring the metaphor deepens the experience, and gives our clients access to their inner resources.
Embodied Resources: Gathering Resources through the Gateway
May 7, 2014
by Marlena Field
A foundational premise of coaching is the idea that our clients are fundamentally capable, competent, resourceful human beings; that they have within them all that they need. We are not here to fix them, (they are not broken) but to walk alongside them, challenge and champion them, and mirror back to them their innate wisdom and brilliance. Sometimes, we hold the vision for our clients when they cannot see it for themselves.
Mindfulness opens the Gateway to the Body
May 1, 2014
by Marlena Field
If our bodies hold our wisdom, mindfulness is the key that gives us the access inward. As we work with clients, mindfulness increases both our capacity to be fully present with them and their capacity to access their inner wisdom.
Mindfulness in its most general sense is about waking up from a life on automatic, and being sensitive to novelty in our everyday experiences….Instead of being on automatic and mindless,mindfulness helps us awaken, and by reflecting on the mind we are enabled to make choices and thus change becomes possible.
~ Dr. Daniel Siegel: The Mindful Brain
The Body as an Access Point for Discovering Limiting Beliefs
April 24, 2014
by Marlena Field
When our clients are stuck, the body is a powerful access point for discovering, and transforming the limiting beliefs, fusions and fears that have them immobilized. There is a continual feedback loop between the thoughts in our mind, the sensations in our body, and responses from our nervous system.
In the face of danger, we have a built in “flight or fight or freeze”reaction to protect us. If we are being chased by a tiger, our survival is dependent on these reactions – which are instantaneous, involuntary and automatic. Unfortunately, our very primal reptilian brain doesn’t know the difference between a physical threat (hungry tiger) and a socio-emotional one (limiting belief).
Layers, Fusions, and Double-Binds: Getting Your Clients out of Dark Corners
April 18, 2014
by Marlena Field
While limiting beliefs are generally, at their core, as simple as ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I am alone,’ they often present in far more complex and subtle ways. One way limiting beliefs can show up is in the form of fusions: two separate concepts that have been fused together into one, seemingly irrefutable, disempowering belief. When this happens, our clients may find themselves immobilized in a double-bind corner, convinced there is no way out.
Are Your Clients Limited by their Beliefs?
April 11, 2014
by Marlena Field
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right” Henry Ford
What we think, the attitudes we hold, are formed by our beliefs – what we believe to be true about the world, about ourselves, and about the people we interact with. Those beliefs are often layered, complex, and subconscious. The process of forming beliefs begins early in life, based on what we were told and what we experience. … and continues as we layer on new experiences and new relationships.
