First Aid for Life
Only a few days ago I was training a class in first aid and instructing participants in the Recovery Position and CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation). First Aid is all about providing immediate care to a person with an injury or illness until more advanced medical care can be provided or the person recovers. During the day I was thinking how coaching techniques such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy (TM), Extended DISC and Hypnosis provides first aid and advanced care for a person’s life.
In coaching the first aid and advanced care may include
- Helping you to set goals for your life, so that you have a direction and purpose
- Enables you to understand that you always make your own internal representation or translation of what something means and often misunderstanding with others is caused by the way the event or situation has been interpreted (rather than the event itself)
- Your life is often subjected to many anchors (stimuli and response) and these can be negative or positive and very easily positive anchors can be created for your life
- You have choices in your life and often your happiness is dependent on your state rather than achieving or getting something in return
- When you have a problem, to create clarity or to get new ideas you can “chunk up” and ask yourself “For what purpose do you want this?”, determine what is the highest intention
- Sometimes you need to go back to the past to obtain learnings so that you can move forward in your life
- In many instances limiting beliefs about yourself or what you can do could be holding you back in your life
- By understanding your behaviour style at work will assist you to identify your strengths and your areas needed for further development so that you can communicate more effectively with others
- And finally by actually visualising it, feeling it, hearing it will enable you to achieve a goal a lot sooner
What kind of first aid are you seeking? Are you wanting to place a bandaid on the problem? Are you looking for a solution? If a solution is what you want then coaching is vital first aid for your life!
