Add coaching to energy work to enhance the outcome and create a more sustainable holistic healing and spiritual experience.

In my practice and personal experience, I’ve seen many different healing methods that address the same issue or complaint. Sometimes the results are the same but they can often vary among clients and practitioners.

As a Master energy healer, embodied practitioner, and spiritual life coach, this doesn’t surprise me. Practitioners are different.

More importantly, clients are different. Therefore, I expect to see differences in their backgrounds (stories), mind-body-spirit expression of a particular condition, personal resilience, preferences and receptivity to various healing and spiritual practices, and so on. Given the variation in these significant factors, why wouldn’t outcomes also differ?

Moreover, many people don’t realize how important client receptivity or openness to particular holistic practices is, whether conscious or subconscious. But, it’s paramount to the effectiveness of the treatment.

A holistic approach is important too. Single solutions work for simple problems. But, more multifaceted, complex, and chronic issues require a more holistic approach. That’s why I integrated all my services. I blend energy work with coaching and other less-conventional embodied practices such as somatics and inner relating. This allows me and my client to approach a problem from several angles, gain a deeper understanding, and more fully resolve it.

What Is Energy Work

This blog is for someone already familiar with energy work but who is new to the idea of blending it with coaching. If you need or want more background on the topic of what energy work is, my website and mind-body-spirit blog contain considerable information. Here, I offer just a brief introduction.

Energy work is just another word for energy healing. The two are synonymous.

In simple terms, energy work involves channeling subtle life-force energy to clear blockages and rebalance a person’s energy. Balanced and flowing energy helps restore balance to other body systems, improving overall health and well-being.

Many of my clients understand that energy work is complementary to Western medicine. They realize that, unlike conventional medical treatments focusing on the physical body, energy healing techniques address the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of health or wellness issues.

7 Benefits Derived From Complementing Energy Work With Coaching

This blog post discusses how coaching expands the benefit of an energy healing session or healing program. I’ve written another blog post that covers how one energy work modality, Reiki, can create, support, and enhance the outcomes of a coaching session or process. Although the information contained in this blog is about Reiki, it’s generalizable to other energy-healing modalities such as Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) and Shamanic practices.

Complementary coaching offers the following seven energy work benefits.

1.  Manages More Aspects of the Issue or Complaint

Tackling the problem from more angles with different healing, spiritual, and personal growth tools and practices expands the holistic experience, managing the full range of relevant issues with the attention each deserves and enhancing the efficacy of the overall healing or spiritual growth process in the moment and over time.

2.  Sustains the Session Outcomes

An energy healer can rebalance a client’s energy in the moment and the client departs the session rebalanced, revitalized, and relieved. However, the client has to maintain their improved status to ensure sustained healing.

When a client returns for another session to deal with the same issue, I ask: “What have you done to sustain your balance and well-being since your last session?” Too often the answer is “Nothing.”

It’s simple. The situation that caused the problem has to change, or the problem will reoccur. The coaching process helps clients reflect, shift their inflexible or counterproductive mindset, find workable solutions, and take appropriate actions.

Behavior change involves a longer process, but ultimately one that sustainably addresses clients’ goals.

3.  Creates Change and Personal Transformation

Clients often request an energy healing session to clarify or advance their personal or spiritual growth. They’re on a journey and seek a cynosure to guide them, offer possible next steps, or divine their best ultimate destination. A spiritual life coach is equipped to facilitate and support their journey.

4.  Enhances Client Awareness and Understanding of Relevant Issues

Although energy work involves self-healing facilitated by a practitioner, clients typically maintain a passive and receptive posture. Some healers, including myself, share what’s happening during a healing session. This includes their perception of changes in the client’s energy and any intuitive insights that may arise. But, this approach isn’t the norm. Many practitioners remain silent and give little feedback to the client.

When clients are curious and receive immediate feedback, their new awareness supports energetic and bodily integration and deeper shifts. They can bring the whole story behind their pain or intention, and gain important insights.

5.  Offers Access to Additional Expertise and Support

The coaching process helps clients reflect, question, imagine, and act upon the issues and intentions they brought to their energy healing session. They introduce a range of additional coaching and healing practices.

Coaches create a safe and facilitative space for self-discovery, personal growth, and the holistic healing process. And they’re adept at asking powerful and provocative questions to draw clients out.

6.  Promotes Conscious and Subconscious Collaboration

Energy healing works on an energetic level and essentially outside conscious awareness. However, clients can sense palpable energy flowing and changes within their physical bodies and are typically aware of symptom changes such as reduced stress.

In contrast, conventional coaching works predominantly with the conscious mind. There is some crossover to the subconscious level if a coach uses embodied practices, dream analysis, or other techniques that tap into the subconscious mind.

In this way, a coach can facilitate collaboration and integration of the conscious and subconscious minds and “dialogue” behind the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Exchange and integration deepen the healing and encourage sustained change.

7.  Supports Acquisition of Self-Discovery and Personal Growth Skills

Through the coaching process, clients learn techniques that enable them to continue their self-discovery, recovery, and spiritual growth process on their own. In addition, they gain preventive, palliative, and restorative self-care skills.

To conclude, adding coaching to energy work greatly enhances the outcome and sustainability of holistic change initiated in the healing session.

For More On or Assistance With Blended Energy Work and Spiritual Life Coaching, See:

• When You Need a Spiritual Life Coach
• Spiritual life coaching blended with energy healing sessions.