Now is a very good time to take a look at what we are doing to create the lives we have; and what we may need to do in order to create something different. I suggest starting with what you consider your constraints and what you consider your opportunities.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is a book agent who is reminding me that I promised him a proposal for a book on the work that I am doing....Let's take a look at this.

Opportunities

• Yea! Someone of note is actually pursuing me to publish!
  
• What an amazing opportunity to keep moving this work out into greater awareness and the coaching community.
  

Constraints

• I am not clear about 'the work I am doing'.—Let's see, there is all the research from Institute of HeartMath, http://www.hearmath.org, that I am incorporating in my coaching and consulting. It's all about the heart's electromagnetic field being 5000 times greater than that of the brain and how we actually are connecting and beginning our relationship with people up to 10 feet away and most of us don't even know it. It tells us that the heart is considered a 'brain center' and so is our gut. That old saying 'I feel it in my gut' came from somewhere!

• I don't know exactly how to describe or articulate it.— Well, there is the powerful concept of the messages behind our emotions. This is the idea and process that comes from Karla McLaren and Linda Kohanov's (http://www.toaofequus.com) work on Emotional Intelligence. They tell us how our emotions are powerful sources of information that can inform our actions and decisions we make daily—if we would just connect our mind with our body. We have heard about the 'mind/body' connection for years. This is a literal integration of the mind and body. And when we problem solve, create or get into action to manifest the life we want from this connection, it enables us to get very different results.

• I am not sure exactly what I should write about.—What about 'Integrated Energy Science'. This is a term I use for the integration of the energy and boundary work from HeartMath, the EI work around messages behind emotions, somatics; which involve using the body as a sensory device, and ontology; the awareness of how are we being vs. what are we doing. It is part of my Multi-Level Systemic Coaching model, http://www.metacg.com/mls_coaching.shtml

• Is there any 'real' value?—I could include how I am using this in Multi-level Systemic Coaching. A coaching methodology that combines coaching, systems work and the integrated energy science. It is a consensual learning environment where people experience and learn how to coach from this place of integration. This has created incredible openings for clients who have been struggling for years to go forward; but only using one aspect of their 'system'.

  
  

• But how do I connect them all together?—And finally, there is Equine Assisted Coaching which combines all of the above. It is powerful work combining the Multi-level Systemic Coaching model with the horses. By far my favorite! I also offer two Coach Training programs to teach people how to do this. http://www.equinealchemy.com/workshops.php#8 and http://www.metacg.com/coach_training.shtml.
  

From this perspective, these so-called constraints actually look more like opportunities. They can be tricky, especially these days. However, adjusting my perspective allows me to work with what I have, not spend my energy focusing on what I don't.

If you are feeling like you have little or no choices these days, maybe it's time to step back and shift your perspective. MetaSystem Consulting Group uses an approach to coaching that begins with your perspective and the question, "What part are you playing in creating your current reality?" If you are interested in exploring the answer, give us a call. Or just share you perspective with us, it's all just information. What we choose to do with it determines our reality.
http://www.equinealchemy.com and http://www.metacg.com.