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Deep Breaths, Relaxation, and Inspiration

Satoko — Wed, 08 May 2019 23:38:23 +0000

If you don’t have time to meditate or be mindful in daily life, how about taking a couple of deep breathes in every couple of hours? When you are having stressed life or feeling overwhelmed with everyday tasks and work, it is essential to regulate the autonomic nervous system to relax and reset your body for the well-being.

Breathing is the only autonomic process we have some control over. Setting your cell phone’s alarm every couple hours, and take a couple deep breathes. So you can focus on the present moment and tasks, and don’t forget to take deep breaths.

Let’s take long deep breaths for a couple of times. Inhale deeply and exhale much deeper and longer. In your head, count 3 on inhalation, and count 5 on each exhalation.

Breathe from your nose deeply, and then slowly exhale with your lips pursed. Or inhale deeply, and then say, “Shhhhhh….” to exhale. You don’t have to put your finger to your mouth though. This makes physically harder to exhale, but it would promote more relaxation.

Deep breathing is beneficial to enhance creativity if you are required inspiration and creativity for your work. The deep breath would manipulate the states of consciousness and bring you a relaxation state. It would promote to clear your thoughts and emotions.

Thoughts and emotions are mostly conditioned by your past experiences. If you want very new ideas, take deep breaths and empty all your information in your head and mind. In those clear and empty spaces, new ideas and inspiration would be coming over.

As you are taking deep breaths and feeling relaxed, you might want to close your eyes for a while. You could imagine and visualize yourself being in a very special place…. Someplace you like to be in your imagination. It might be somewhere in full of nature, your hometown, or some special place that is beautiful and peaceful.

You might want to take some time and give yourself some time to enjoy being there. Enjoy the sounds, the smells, the temperature, and just feel what you are feeling…

What are you feeling in there? You might be feeling some calmness, safety, peace, or some connections… whatever you feel in your special place.

Please give yourself permission to connect with the feeling for a couple more minutes, and directly experience that quality in your mind and body.

You can remember and register the feelings of that quality in your mind and body. You can bring the quality into your daily life. And, you know that you can come back to your special place anytime.

When you open your eyes, you might feel refreshed and more clear in your head, mind, and body.

-Satoko

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QOL to VOL

Satoko — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:33:20 +0000

QOL stands for Quality of Life, and this is an essential concept when it comes to patient care. As health care professionals, we consider patients’ QOL when we make the decision of the treatment and provide care for our patients.

However, many health care professionals have known that each person has a very different lifestyle, and one person’s QOL differs from the others. For example, people with diabetes all have very different lifestyles and values. They take very different approaches to control their blood sugar, or even decide not to control their blood sugar.

It is essential for health care professionals to share the possible causes of diabetes, the necessity, and options of controlling blood sugar with the patients. However, the final decision of the treatment is up to the patient.

Here is the reality.

Mr. A. takes “diabetic pills” but does not want to control his diet. He loves high sugar foods and describes that food is the most important thing in his life. He wants to eat whatever he wants to. Ms. B hates to take pills, so she strictly cuts her sugar consumptions and controls the blood sugar. Mr. C reviewed his lifestyle and modified his activity, diet, and stress management. These decisions are based on, so to speak, their Values of Life (VOL).

When people want to change their habits or patterns for any reasons, it is important to review their VOL. Our values are the keys to acknowledge who we are and what we want to accomplish in this life. Each person is unique and has different meanings of lives. Self-awareness of our own values can be a new awareness to lead new action and progress.

Holistic coaching values the client’s VOL and takes unique approaches to assist clients in achieving their goals.

How is your goal related to your values?

Spring has come, the air is warm, and flowers are in full bloom. Let’s start shaking up a little bit of body and mind. Now is the perfect time to start taking new actions for new results!

-Satoko

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As a New Partnership To Grow Together With a Client And Coach

Satoko — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:22:41 +0000

As a new partnership to grow together

With a client and coach

Holistic coaching is a new partnership between a client and a coach. The client shares difficulty, hardship, joy, and achievement with the coach. There is no right or wrong in holistic coaching. We are free to choose from numerous options when we take actions. What is essential is your values and a sense of purpose. Holistic coaching is a safe field that the clients can share their feeling, thoughts, and actions.

Coach trusts the client, the rapport, and the process of a session to reach the best answers for the client at that time. Holistic coaching is a co-creative process to explore more aspects of the being and the surrounding from numerous perspectives. As a result, we can find new awareness and options together that was difficult to see by the client alone. Each session is a creative and productive time in the relaxed and sacred field.

Spring is almost here. It is perfect timing to welcome new starts! Holistic coaching can help you to find more possibilities and accomplishments in your life.

-Satoko

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Holistic coaching is just like dancing together.

Satoko — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 03:03:51 +0000

Holistic coaching is just like dancing together with a client and coach. It is a co-creative process between client and coach to achieve the client’s goals. I love Salsa dance but think about the other couple dances such as Tango and social dancing. If you like dancing, you might be able to relate my words easily.

Couple dance is a sort of communication, supporting one another, creative process and fun! Coaching session proceeds based on verbal conversation, but the process is an image of dancing together with the client and coach.

I would say that the coach’s role is escorting the client and the client’s one is leading the session. With the coach’s support, the leading role of a client is to listen to self, explore your inner voice, becoming aware, making decisions, creating steps towards the goals, taking actions, evaluating the process, and celebrating success.

In many times, this co-creative process leads to explore more aspects of the being and the surrounding from numerous perspectives. Yes, this is a fun and exciting dancing called holistic coaching!

-Satoko

My favorite, SF ballet

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Wishing You a Happy New Year

Satoko — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 05:38:41 +0000

Thank you very much for coming to my website in 2018, and I enjoyed meeting you guys in person. The problems and concerns that you are facing right now are the processes of getting to know yourself better. It is a lifetime learning and fun! Your creativity and possibility are unlimited, as you’re aware.

We are passing through today into the river of tomorrow. The current of the river is going faster and faster as we all notice…

What would you like to accomplish in 2019? Also, how would you want to get there?

I could assist you to achieve the goals in the coming year as well.

Wishing you a happy new year with lots of smiles

-Satoko

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Dear our Planet

Satoko — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:13:45 +0000

Dear our Planet,

You are beautiful.

Just the way you are.

-Satoko

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Have you recently searched inside yourself?

Satoko — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 02:08:37 +0000

The world is full of information. You can access this information 24/7 from anywhere in the world using a variety of devices such as a tablet, smartphone, and PC. The Internet of Things (IoT) will seamlessly make our world even more accessible. Savvy business people with busy schedules will always take the time to keep an eye out for the latest information and trends to cater to their customers’ needs. However, they unfortunately tend to neglect searching inside themselves.

Everyone understands the importance of information. Yet, searching inside yourself and its importance is not easily recognized by everyone. In fact, both types of information are equally important to enriching your life. Holistic coaching helps you to search inside yourself. Through utilizing a wide variety of tools and approaches, what was “unknown” becomes “known” and valued through each session. What if your “unknown area”, that is, your “inner voice” reflects the world that you are seeing?

Before you start actively looking for your true needs and passions, let us start by turning your antenna to inside yourself. It is the first and actually “the” biggest step to transforming yourself. Through a series of Holistic Coaching sessions, you will eventually find your passions and needs. You will also find out what “passion” or “true need” means to you.

Contact me if you have any questions at all. I will be glad to assist you with searching within yourself and exploring what your needs and passions are together!

-Satoko

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