Coaching from Not A Blue Tree

Negative emotions from the past and limiting beliefs can hold us back, preventing us from having the now and the future that we want for ourselves and those around us. Indeed, they can be so powerful that they prevent us from seeing opportunities and choices, reducing our reality and stopping us from achieving more.

Time Line Therapy® is a technique for resolving the negative emotions from the past which are affecting our present and future, and releasing limiting decisions which we have adopted at any time. The process works with what our unconscious mind does almost all of the time; processing events and emotions, and then storing them separately. Only be reliving those painful memories do we keep the event and the emotion together, impeding their resolution and stopping us from learning from what happened.

In this episode I talk about the very real turmoil, for some, of the mid-life crisis. It really is a thing which some don't experience at all, while others go through serious distress and confusion. I therefore explore some of the ways of exploring all that's going on, learning to take stock, and work out what's working and what could be working better. It's then about deciding next steps, which includes the possibility of changing everything and the possibility of changing nothing now with at least an understand of what the future can hold.

As more and more people experience anxiety, and the waiting lists for support and treatment continue to grow, I explore the nature of anxiety and how we can enhance the power and limitations of the human mind to take back control. In addition to offering an explanation and understanding of anxiety, I offer four techniques which can assisting in regaining control of anxiety. The techniques all work with processes that the body and mind already do.

In this episode I explore values. I start by looking at what values are and how they affect our feelings of satisfaction with all that is going on around us. I explain how we organise values in hierarchies, and then move on to the motivation direction which sits behind those values. A key part of this podcast is considering the importance of understanding our values, and how this can shape our plans and goals.

In this episode I look at the wheel of life, a coaching tool which uses a wheel as a visual representation of life, which is divided into six categories: career, family, relationships, personal growth and development, health and fitness, and renewal. I explain how the tool allows us very quickly to establish how satisfied you are with each area, the values linked to each area, and some loosely framed ideas of how you might increase your levels of satisfaction. It is a very simple tool which leads to powerful results.

In this episode I provide an overview of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how NLP assists in the coaching process. By understanding how we perceive and process the world around, by exploring how the mind works, and by learning how we create the processes that lead us to what we do, we can increase our ability to be the change that we want to be.

In this episode I talk about the power of hypnosis and how it can assist in supporting change as you move from where you are to where you want to be. I explain how the mind works and how hypnosis can work directly with the tremendous capacity of the unconscious mind, which is where all behaviour, all learning, and all change takes place. Hypnosis is a powerful tool with complements the change work you undertake as part of any coaching relationship, you remain fully in control, and you become the change and success that you want to be.

In this first episode I talk about coaching and goal-setting. I discuss three key benefits of setting goals, the importance of being precise in what we want, and setting an end date when we can evaluate what we have achieved. I also consider an essential reframe when considering the processes we follow to get to where we want to be as well as looking at how to approach achieving what we want and getting something other than what we want. Further to this, I look at the power of the unconscious mind and how to use that power to increase our chances of success.