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Friday, September 30, 2011

DISCOVER AND ESTABLISH MEANING

In a Gita Coaching session, through asking important questions about what you want, who you are, your identity, core values and the purpose of your life, you will be able to reconnect with a sense of meaning.

For some people, their core value is love. If that is also true for you, then through a process of understanding what love means to you, you may be able to see how you could begin to apply it in your life.

You may start to invest more time and energy in the people that are close to you or that are dear to you. If you are a leader, you may begin to take a genuine interest in the development of your people. You may commit to doing a daily check-in to see how you are going to apply love specifically each day.

Probably the most significant crisis in society and the work environment today is a crisis in meaning.

In 2004 Time magazine reported that approximately 75–90 percent of all visits to primary care doctors are for stress-related problems, with job stress being the leading source.

The Health and Safety Executive stated that work-related stress costs society about £3.7 billion every year.

Research from the National Institute of Mental Health in America reports that ‘Everyone will, at some time in their life, be affected by depression – their own or someone else’s.’

So many of the planks on which previously life was built have fallen away or become unbalanced. Our modern society suffers from ‘the virus of fragmentation’. The break-up of the traditional family, and the resultant broken bonds between children, adults and the elderly, are well documented and familiar to us all.

Societal values are often driven by individual preferences and choices, which result in greed and selfishness. The future seems ever more uncertain and fearful.

One of the fundamental human needs, as part of a balanced and fulfilled life, is to have a clear sense of meaning.

Coaching helps people reconnect with what is most important for them by clarifying their vision, mission and values. A coach can then ensure that this becomes the inspiration to drive both their work and life forward.