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Is life coaching considered a therapy or a counselling?

My own personal experience says that 99.9 % so called life coaches are just motivators and public speakers. I really respect them a lot but do not politely agree with them. There is no disrespect for any profession but the truth is a kind of virgin reality which must be exposed to everyone.

Preeminence and Transcendence is the true Life transforming coaching. Even life coaching is not the right word. It should be Life transforming coaching.

Sigmund freud introduced psychoanalysis in the world. It is absolutely based on analyzing the mind. It is totally confined to the mind. It does not go beyond mind or step out of the mind, not a bit. On the contrary it goes deeper into the mind, into the hidden layers of the mind, into the unconscious, to find out ways and means so that the mind of man can at least be normal. The goal of Freudian psychoanalysis is not so awesome.

The goal is to keep people normal. But normality is not enough. Just to be normal is not of any significance. It means the normal routine of life and your capacity to cope with it. It does not give you meaning, It does not give you significance. It does not give you the insight into the reality of things. It does not take you beyond time, beyond ultimate reality. It is at the most a helpful device for those who have gone so abnormal that they have become incapable of coping with their daily life – They cannot live with people, they cannot work, They have become shattered and their life has been completely devastated.

Psychotherapy provides them a certain consolation and togetherness – not integrity, mind you, but only a certain togetherness. It binds them into a bundle. They remain still fragmentary. nothing becomes crystallized in them, no spirit is affected, no soul is born. They do not become blissful and ecstatic, they are only less unhappy and less miserable.

Psychology helps them to accept the misery. It helps them to accept that life is capable of giving you, so do not expect more than that. In a way it is dangerous for their complete transformation or inner growth, because the inner growth only happens when there is a ultimate discontent. When you are absolutely disgruntled with things as they are, only then the real search takes place, only then do you start going beyond and start rising higher, only then do you make ultimate efforts to pull yourself out of the misery of the mud.

Carl Jung went went little further into unconscious. He went into the collective unconscious. This is getting more and more into deeper muddy water, and this is not going to help.

Roberto Assagioli moved to the other extreme. Seeing the failure of psychoanalysis he invented psychosynthesis. But it rooted in the same idea. Instead of analysis he emphasizes synthesis.

But the Life transformation coaching which I ( S A Anand ) teach is neither analysis nor synthesis; it is metamorphosis , transcendence, It is moving beyond mind and touching the meta emotions. It is the understanding that it is not the money which is the root cause of all the misery, but it is the mind which has made you a slave is the root cause of all the problems. So there is only way is the way of transcendence ( going above mind and watching its all activities ). That’s exactly is the meaning of the English word ‘Ecstasy’ – to stand out.

When you are capable of standing out of your mind, when you are competent enough to create the distance between mind and beyond mind, Then you have taken the first step towards the psychology of Life transformation coaching not just life coaching which just the extension of motivation. And the real powerful results happens when you are standing out of the mind by knowing about mind’s all the reality; It loses the grip over you completely.

Psychoanalysis is like pruning the leaves of the tree, but new leaves will be coming up. It is not cutting off the roots. And psychosynthesis is sticking the fallen leaves back into the tree again – gluing them back to the tree. That is not going to give them life either. They will look simply ugly; they will not be alive, they will not be part of the tree but glued, somehow.

Life transformation training / coaching cuts the very roots of the tree which create all kinds of neurosis, psychoses, which creates the fragmentary man, the fake mechanical man, the robot like man. And the way is simple….

Psychoanalysis takes years, and still the man remains same. It is renovating the old structure, patching up here and there, whitewashing the old house. But it is the same house , nothing has radically changed. It has not transformed the consciousness of the man.

Life Transforming coaching not just superficial life coaching but it is a true understanding the activities of mind. It has no interest in analyzing or synthesizing. It is a simple awareness of going beyond mind by developing the wisdom of being more conscious and reaching to the height of collective consciousness. And this very act or training is called Life Transforming coaching. The moment you can look at your mind as an object you become detached from it , you become disidentified from it; a distance is created, and roots are cut.

And why are roots cut is this way? – because it is you who go on feeding the mind. If you are identified you feed up the mind; if you are not identified you stop feeding it. it drops dead on its own accord.

So I would say fraud talks on analysis, Assagioli about synthesis. Life transformation coaching talks about Awareness ,Alertness, watchfulness and Consciousness. Therefore It is absolutely correct that Transcendence is true therapy, and it’s not only psychotherapy. It is not only a phenomenon limited to your psychology, it is far more than that. It is the going beyond mind and working from your spirit and soul. Mind is only your circumference, not your center.

8 replies on “Is life coaching considered a therapy or a counselling?”

Perfect explanation for the reason why people suffer due to their own invisible part, the mind, especially the unconscious mind which hold a lot of debris which didn’t let us get out of its web and keeps us trapoed. This is where the mental disorders like bipolar, OCD , depression, ADHD, stuttering are born.
This is where heart disease, cancer ,paralysis, multiple sceroisis ,and so called psychsomatic disorders are born.
I am suffering from ocd and little bit bipolar too.
I wanted to know about the procedure to take the help of you.

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