Energising You - Parallels Between Questions & Needles...

We believe that there some parallels between a coaching session and an acupuncture session as a question alone often can feel like a needle and can bring up deep seated emotions or pain.

The aim for both is to assist the client to feel better and help with regulating energy and emotions but although both methods are completely different, they sometimes feel similar.

In both an acupuncture and coaching session maintaining great energy between both parties during a session is essential and not taking things personally can assist in the transference of energy overall.

When the acupuncturists inserts a needle we don't take it personally however when the coach asks a question it something feels as annoying as a needle being inserted.

In many ways a 'coaching session' is like 'energising therapeutics' as the rippling effects of questions, exploration and examination aims to go through many layers as the energy conductors of a needle itself.

According to the book of Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance by James Oschman, when an acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin it goes through six layers including;

· Perivascular tissue

· Vasculature

· Perineurium

· Nervous system

· Myofascial

· Periosteum

We need energy to vitalise us towards actions. This also got me thinking about what happens to the ripples of effects of energy when having a great discussion or coaching session and how we can benefit from the information that it uncovers and the waves of emotions it can induce.

Often then it is our jobs to be open and responsive and also earn to handle our emotions and how we feel and here it has the potential as it opens and changes channels that can positively charge many aspects of our life including our;

· Mood

· Feelings

· Emotions

· Relationships with self

· Relationship with others

· Confidence

· Motivation

· Goal seeking momentum

Just like a needle being inserted has a rippling effect, so too does the benefits of having a conversation or explorative coaching session can induce so many emotions and more questions and uncover aspects and actions of our life that are currently positive or negative and take steps to change our lives.

According to Oshman waves of energy and information travelling away from a site of acupuncture needle insertion or injury which are travelling in a crystalline semiconducting piezoelectric medium. These waves may be electronic, protonic, and other solid-state phenomena, as well as waves of various chemical actors, and inhibitors.

According to his book, wound healing is a remarkable and intricate process involving the integrated and cooperative activities of a variety of systems as each wound is different and the body’s response must be precisely appropriate if the body is to be fully restored to the way it was before the injury.

Coaching too is a remarkable and sometimes intricate process whereby a conversation works on the entire system of the individual and looks at how one is responding and acting in all areas of their life.

Here we seek to understand one's stressors and anxiety and what can be done to assist or support the person towards attaining a certain goal or obtaining specific results and reduce their anxieties.

A common denominator to both eastern and western approaches to the human body is a set of systems that are well known to bio-medicine but that are not usually thought of as being connected to each other.

In a similar way we have systems of thinking and being and we don’t often realise that asking questions is a great way of connecting and opening up pathways. It can create beneficial ways of seeing possibilities, not normally thought of, and is an integrated approach to helping to see issues in a different light.

Asking questions is sometimes not easy or simple and does not necessarily mean that there is a right or a wrong reply in the explorative process, but just a great way of identifying whether something is suiting a person or not.

As in acupuncture, there are also waves adhesion-disadhesion, cell movement, mitosis and contraction. Each feed-forward pathway has a set of feedback loops.

The same applies with the communication of questions and answers and the replies and insertions of being how one acts and responds and their actions there-after. There is often a feed forward pathway with feedback loops generating in how a session can affect ones life which again includes;

· Mood – repercussions on allowing us to think better or differently

· Feelings – modulating how we feel better, negatively or differently

· Relationships with self – seeing ourselves in a different way

· Relationship with others – enhancing our ability to act/communicate

· Confidence – transforming our skills, talents and ways of living

· Motivation – creating avenues for us to feel we can succeed

· Goal seeking momentum – having the energy & interest to get the results

Sometimes feeling uncomfortable in a safe setting is great as it allows for a truer assessment of the situation and there are often many parallels in the processes of a coaching and an acupuncture session as a question alone can feel like a needle being inserted. It can often bring up deep seated emotions and make us question ourselves, our time and our motivations.

There are also feedback loops that sometimes require more time and attention than others and asking how long it will take to fix an issue or obtain a result is not possible, it can just take time and effort and a number of sessions. Here too sometimes the same question is asked week after week in different ways just like a needle is inserted into the body along a meridian only along a different pathway.

As Oschman writes,

…continuum goes a long way towards explaining some of the miraculous consequences of ‘hands-on bodywork and ‘hands-off energy therapies, martial arts and other phenomena…”

The continuum being the range, variety and scale of what feels like an insurmountable problem can be assisted by one session or take a few as the gamut of emotions and rippling affects can take time to resolve.

We’ve often seen this first-hand and some of the miraculous energies changes and transformation people make in a coaching and hypnotherapy session, like losing weight, stopping addictions, and taking greater positive actions to gain better results in one life in so many different avenues.

I would rather be asked a question than have a needle but sometimes one is better than the other short and longer term and necessary for healing.