Simple coaching techniques anyone can use

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Here are some tools you can use with and outside of coaching.  Some of them are free, some of them are available for purchase.

Meditation.  Here is a topic that is so often misunderstood.  While some view meditation in the strict sense of Zen Buddhist, rigid, static, striving for that illusive spontaneous self, other see a way to relax.  The bottom line is that meditation helps you connect back with your self, take scope and regroup.  It’s a must for anyone wanting to reclaim their runaway life and none other than high up successful executive and business owners know its merit all too well.

You can start simply on your own by devoting 15 minutes every day by yourself, with yourself.  Find a secluded spot in your home.  If you can, buy yourself something to shield any lights away from from you.  I found  MindFold to be particularly effective and anyone can actually build one from scrap.  You can also use noise cancelling headsets, such as Boses Quiet Comfort or others.  Once comfortably seated, close your eyes, and start by observing yourself.  Observe your breath.  Don’t be disturbed by thoughts coming into to your mind.  Simply, in a detached way, let them slip away.  They are not you, nor do they define you.  The are just thoughts.

Binaural Beats:  Binaural beats are interesting and for those who have been reading this blog, I wrote a little about it a year or so ago.  What they do is put a tone in one ear and another one, slightly off-tune in the other in order to balance both hemispheres.  This allows you to go into deep states of relaxation, meditation and even concentration.

The  Monroe Institute pioneered this type of work and perfected it over the decades.  Their CDs are available.   Mark Certo hails himself as a sonic alchemist and worked closely with the Monroe Institute.  His CDs called The Tranquility Training Method (TTM) are fantastic and I’ve particularly enjoyed them.

Soul Contract Reading.  The new tool I added for my practice is called Soul Contract Reading.  The system, also called the Holy Numerology of Moses goes back to millennial and has been “reintroduced” in order to facilitate this forward momentum the human race is experiencing.  By phonetically translating each letter to its Hebrew equivalent, a number and “energy” is given and put on a chart.  This charts helps you understand why your life works the way it down and how to make full use of it.  My initial reading was so fascinating and intense, I felt this would be an amazing tool for coaching.

Listening to your heartbeat is very helpful, so is your breath.  After sometime, you will find that inner peace many speak of.  In these states, everything becomes relative and problem solving is done with great ease.

Those are the basic free, if not at least affordable techniques anyone can use.  Still, nothing replaces a certified, professionally trained Coach.

Soul Contract reading available to our readers

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I’m very happy to announce that we are now offering a free reading for you specific Soul Contract for those of you who have subscribed to the bog.  We will open the reading to everyone else at a later date.

The gist is I came upon Soul Contract when Nicolas Ngan at  Center for Conscious Ascension gave me a reading which was both profound and so uncanny, it picked my curiosity enough to learn how to do it.  After a few months of intense studying (and I mean INTENSE!), I would like to open the reading to a select few of you who have signed up for this blog.

What Is Soul Contract?  Soul Contract is an ancient holy tool called the Numerology of Moses.  In essence it is a direct Spirit, Life, The Source, God or whatever you feel more comfortable calling it given to humanity in order to accelerate our development by reading what we have chosen to experience with our lives here on Earth.

What Can You Expect?  The reading will take about 20 minutes and will touch upon the major parts of your life, why you have chosen this life and to accomplish what.  You will then have a better idea who why you are the way you are, how to turn anything in your life into a positive tool and better realign yourself to your original goal.

Soul Contract reading is a great tool for Coaching.  It takes a direct look at what we signed up to do and experience before birth, what can we do to achieve it and how.  It is my hope you will take the opportunity to try it.  I’m sure you will derive as much as I have.

Thank you, Nicolas

The Kybalion, a guidebook to understanding this Universe

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I could have used a more pompous title but after living decades with this little book and having met some of the most amazing people related to it, The Kybalion is truly a priceless life guide.

The gist is far away from the controversy of who wrote it, the book is inspired by ancient hermetic philosophy and does a good job at synthesizing its basis.  Simplistic on the surface, overwhelming when you realize its complexity, The Kybalion is the perfect guide for those who have dabbled with esoterics but have gotten lost in the often contradicting paths.  In many ways, it is the unifying glue.  So what is it anyway?

All Is Mental.  With such a powerful underlying axiom, The Kybalion clearly sets the fundamental basis that all is mental.  Period.  After you have wrapped your head neatly around this concept, the rest falls into place.

The Seven Principles.  And therein starts to unfold the amazing Universe of hermetics and how these “ancient” ones had either unfolded life’s mysteries or had been taught its whys.  The seven underlying principles are down to earth, observable facts that have far reaching consequences, beyond our plane of existence.

  1. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM.
  2. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.
  3. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION.
  4. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY.
  5. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM.
  6. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
  7. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.

The Secret.  By now, some of you might liken The Kybalion to the famous movie; The Secret.  Yes, The Secret borrows heavily on The Kybalion and more with Napoleon Hill’s work, as with the Abraham-Hicks books, yet The Kablion stands on its own.  There are no Kybalion schools, temples, nor masters, and teachers, at least to speak of.  Beware of those pretending to be.  Hermetics starts with observations and is a lonely road until you meet like-minded students.  As said in the book, never equaled, much copied, it has never been surpassed.  There might be schools pretending to be Hermetic, but the real masters shy away from the public.

It can take some time to understand and live the philosophy expounded in The Kybalion.  It takes a lot of observation, freed from bias, almost in a practical scientific way.  This is what appealed to me most with hermetics.  It’s the bridge between science and esoterics, the way it should be taught and never been separated.  But then again, things happen for a reason and this separation has probably taught us that all is indeed one.

Read the book once and put it away.  Give it no more thoughts.  Come back to it later.  Months, even years and start to see how the Principle of Mentalism applies to everything around you.  See how what you and others think affects the world around you.  Find the clever subtlety in that statement.  Then tackle the next, the Principle of Correspondence and write a comment or two to share to the wealth of what has already been built upon this marvelous little book.

The Shift’s From Ego to Essence free teleseminar, don’t miss it

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Dear friends,

I’m excited to let you know that The Shift is about to start another powerful free teleseminar with celebrated evolutionary leader Barbara Marx Hubbard and transformational meditation teacher Patricia Ellsberg on The Shift from Ego to Essence.

You will most likely greatly benefit from this call in which they will reveal the keys to shifting from the egoic “local self” to the Essential Self — giving access to divine guidance and the ability to live with grace, confidence, creativity, purpose and joy — particularly needed in these times of great change.  A much needed quality to develop these days.

Please, register for free  here:

It’s happening this Monday, November 21st, at 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern! Don’t worry if you can’t make it live — you can register and you’ll be sent a link to the recording.

Warmly,
Nick

Why Wholistic?

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Kindle the ligh of spiritualityI get asked this question frequently, if not: “Don’t you mean holistic?”

The gist is yes, I do mean wholistic because you need to see life, approach it in its entirety as a whole.

So why wholistic?  If you don’t look at life in a wholistic way, then you are missing pieces…

Join me for Global Oneness Day Monday 24

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Dear friends,

I’m happy again to invite you to another top leader summit, the Global Oneness Day on Monday October 24th!

It’s a one-day virtual telesummit featuring 40 inspiring thought leaders such as Ambassador Chowdhury, Neale Donald Walsch, Gangaji, Kenny Loggins, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Lynne McTaggart and many more for free.

You can gain access to these leaders, October 24th, or by recording, and be part of groundbreaking sessions that offer profound insights for creating your life and our world based on the principles of oneness.

You can register for free  here.

What Is Global Oneness Day?  Global Oneness Day is an opportunity to connect deeply with a global community of changemakers and heart-centered people. You’ll learn practical steps and actions you can take that will benefit your life and help create a culture of Oneness.

Join me and let’s celebrate our oneness together!

Nick

Social media, what are you and what’s your worth?

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How to use Social Media intelligently

USing social media to listen, not just to sell

I admit, I love social media and I get it.  It’s fun, can be a great tool and of course, it’s not very well used most of the time.

The gist is social media is great.  The varieties of social media channels available cater to almost every type of businesses.  The trick is what do you want to use it for and to do what?

IBM Survey.  IBM had an interesting survey of global companies where CEOs said their biggest difficulty is information management and second, social media.  It turns out companies know how to market to the mass but not to individuals.  Companies spend a lot of money advertising to groups of people but they are not good at reaching out and hearing to individuals.

So how do you reach out to individuals?  How do you get individuals to tell you what they want?

It’s not very difficult if you offer something needed and worthwhile.  You need to compete for 5 to 10 minute attention from individuals who are overwhelmed with a hectic pace of life leaving little time to stop and think.  What makes your question or offering appealing to them?  It’s what you offer.  It can be as simple as giving them enough attention to express themselves, something they would like to see or have, something that would actually make their life easier.  Intrigue them, put out reports, let them ask, and ask back, what should the company provide them.  There is plenty to offer but the key is to offer something they need and can use.

In the meantime, social media is a fun game you can tweak to serve your broadcast platform.  It will not work if all you do is tell people to check out your site or your product.  If you don’t get personal, you won’t get much out of it and be just another sales pitch drowned in a sea of look alike.

So here are some questions to get you going; What is social media?  What does it me to use social network?  What is networking?  Why use it and to what end?  After this go talk to your coach and if you don’t have one, reach out I can help you.

The greatest session I had… today

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Do you know that Smashing Pumpkin song: “Today”?  That’s a little how I feel.

The gist is breakthroughs are wonderful when they happening but what we choose to do with them is where the real work is.  In order for a breakthrough to happen a few things must be in place.  You must be aware that life has been sending you signs, most of you the time, we disregard them until they become too powerful to neglect.  See my  post yesterday.

Stepping Into Your True Nature.  There is a great saying in French, chase away the natural and it will come back running to haunt you.  In my case, most of my adult life, I tried to look like the person I wasn’t.  Needless to say, that doesn’t work in the end.  When things got tough, I applied what I had been taught at school… work harder.  That doesn’t work because you will eventually collapse at some point.  If you do, the only alternative is to truly be yourself.  Once you allow yourself to be, it feels great.  The road there is more difficult.

Honoring Your Purpose.  In the end, it’s a case of honoring your purpose in life.  Trying to be what you are not in order to appease those who care about you is counter productive, for you and them.  You must be who you are deep inside, not supposed to be.

Oh, and my personal story?  Today I actually did the type of coaching I feel is the most natural.  At the request of my client, I took out my pendulum and we asked questions.  It felt genuine, comfortable and at the same time, I saw my real face and it wasn’t proud, righteous or anything like that.  It just was.  Yes, some coach would scoff at this, but other MCC will smile.

Indeed Today is the greatest, day of my life… Can’t wait for tomorrow…  The Smashing Pumpkins.

When I learned one of the biggest life lesson

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As a kid and teenager, things happened effortlessly.  Even in my twenties, they did, but the flow was slowing down.

The gist is life is the perfect orchestrated teacher in the best, well furnished University called life.  It will give you everything you need, provide you with with every sort of warnings, classes, tests, experiments, etc for you to develop your latent inner talent.  The rest is up to you.  And therein lies the crux of our frustrations.

I Just Didn’t Appreciate It.  Growing up in a pink rosy world where everything is perfect makes it hard to fully appreciate what you have.  You may be aware of less fortunate than you and have a certain sense of feeling lucky, but true appreciation is usually out of grasp.  After all, you never witnessed hardships.  Slowly life sends you signals.  If you don’t heed to the signals, it sends you obstacles.  Any normal human being compensates with renewed ardor and marches onward.  At some point, if you do not hear, life deals you powerful blows.

Serious Obstacles Are Our Greatest Teachers.  It wasn’t until I re3ached my 30s that things changed.  While I easily commended wealth into my life, it was becoming harder and more difficult.  It peaked when I lived in Japan when I had the perfect balance… the only problem is that I wasn’t aware of it.

Learning To Be Aware As You Move Through Life.  For us gifted children, things come easily and that can be a problem if you just go through the motions, enjoying the relative ease of life.  I went through life enjoying it but not appreciating it.  It came easy and I had little respect for the mechanics and architecture of its wisdom.  I eventually hit a wall and reeling in form it.

In hindsight, I now understand and appreciate how easy things fall into place in my life.  I also can appreciate what goes into it and behind events.  It’s a mixture of happiness at observing the ease and a deep appreciation that extends to full awareness and praises for the great work behind it.

In the end, even the most carefree develop a taste of respect for what comes naturally…

How to live a balanced life anywhere

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Watching the movie: “The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg” made me smile.  Western medicine is discovering the virtues of traditional Mediterranean healthy living…

The gist is many of us know intuitively or by having lived abroad that a healthy involves a life/work balance.  That documentary approaches that topic well.  Dr. Sternberg discovers a century old way of living and it health benefit.  In other word balancing work, play, eat, enjoy and rest makes for a healthy life.

It’s interesting to see the paradigm shift currently happening.  On the one hand, there well established business 1.0 companies making a fortune on consumers not living well, eating poor food and treating ailments.  What happens when more people become vegetarians, vegan and eat organic or local produced foods?

It will be a few interesting upcoming years…