Let’s Meditate on Coaching

Here at the-Coaching Blog-run by Gerard O’Donovan, our aim is to constantly bring value to those seeking to improve their lives. Therefore we have a policy of publishing articles and materials by guest authors whom we value and appreciate. Today’s guest author is Denisa Palii (Germany).

If I were to ask myself what is the link between ‘meditation’ and ‘coaching’, I would reply ‘everything’ – like a thread leading to a needle.
The feelings that you get during meditation – ‘inner balance, ‘joy’, ‘inner silence’ are key. When ‘feeling nothing’ and ‘thinking nothing’ is achieved – ‘feeling present’, ‘feeling like yourself’ comes up, ‘being there’ truly awakens and all you need to do is watch: watch your feelings coming up in the session, watch your mind trying to cripple in some thoughts taking you from non-judgmental awareness to full judgment and paradigms.
Meditation is key. Putting yourself in that ‘nothingness’ state in which you are there for your client, ‘you know you know nothing’, and as a newborn child, you freshly listen and watch as if just born in this world and with full curiosity you put your good energy to use. The benefits come there – when ‘being’, ‘loving’, listening with full open heart and truly connecting with your client happen there.
What would I ask myself more?! Well, how does one enlighten his being, how does one awaken his ‘potential’, how does one transcend what he is and connect with is ‘inner’/’superior’/’better’ self/version?! If not through connecting with himself, if not through asking himself ‘Who am I?’ and going to all that this means.
What else? Some more?! How about ‘being-ness’? How many of us are truly present, are truly there – full heart and spirit?! How many are truly ‘empty-headed’, ‘new born childlike’ in dealing with clients, ready to give our free mental space for them to get ‘enlightened’, for them to ‘figure out their minds, their hearts and spirit’, their ‘true core desires, values, aspirations’..? How many really do that?
How many really know deep inside their guts ‘people feel each others’ and without even knowing, just by ‘being there’ coaching starts to happen. Coaching is a powerful process, it’s true – yet how do we become really true coaches, how do we connect to our deeper being and truly make is happen? What if ‘just being there’ for one another is the key to achieve it?!
‘Despite all its popularity, today very few of us truly know what meditation really is. Some regard meditation as the mental concentration on something, others consider that we meditate when we imagine something that gives us peace and satisfaction. All these methods are being with one goal – to slow down and, eventually, completely stop the incessant activity of our minds. These exercises are not really meditating – they are substitutes for meditation because it is normally very difficult to stop our minds all-together. In reality, meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness.  It is not an act of doing – it is a state of awareness. We either are in this state or we are not, regardless of what we are doing in life.
Truly, a man can be in meditation while doing his day’s labours as another man can be very far from meditation, while sitting in a lotus posture on the top of  a mountain.’
Reference:

• What is meditation? – Meditation Explanation freemeditation.com
• sahajayoga.org

 
About Denisa Palii
Practitioner Coach Diploma Student with Noble Manhattan Europe. ICF Approved Coach Specific 32h Training Hours for Life and Work Place Skills Coach Training – ACSTH
 
 
 
 
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