Are You Open-Minded?

I seem to have two very distinct types of clients. There are those that are really into the more esoteric side of Life Coaching such as manifesting, visualizing, meditating etc and those that have no interest in it whatsoever and think it is mumbo jumbo and simply want traditional coaching

I can understand and I am cool with both points of view. We have been brought up in the West to look at things a little bit more pragmatically and analytically than is the case in some other cultures, especially those from the Far East.

We have tendency to see science in absolutes and when we encounter events that do not fit neatly inside a box or we are unable to label them in a way that feels comfortable to us we dismiss them by either refusing to accept that they could be true or see them as some weird coincidence or one-off freaks of nature. Modern quantum physicists tends not to believe in random acts of nature and neither did Einstein suggesting that “God does not play dice with the universe” so I am not sure why we would think we know better.

Some of the practices we are talking about here have been going on for centuries in the Far East and there is enough anecdotal and scientific evidence demonstrating that they are beneficial to shake several sticks at. The movie The Secret (Extended Edition) has helped raise awareness but the cynical side of me says excellent though the movie is, it will have little lasting effect for more than a handful of people. I hope I am wrong but we seem to live in an age where if something doesn’t work instantaneously we discard it for something else and most of these practices take time to implement and to achieve lasting benefit.

I am guessing you feel you are an open-minded person. Most people do you know. In fact I am amazed disputes ever arise or arguments ever get out of control when the world is so full of tolerant, reasonable people.

If you don’t believe that you can manifest the life of your drams, or if you refuse to accept that visualization aids success or that meditation can help you live longer, why not suspend doubt and cynicism for 28 days and try one or more out?

If you are genuinely open-minded what have you got to lose? If you see no beneficial changes in your life then you can go back to how you were before you don’t need to buy the loincloth and Buddha statues just yet

A great many people complain about their life and their circumstances yet few do anything significant to change it and I often wonder why that is.