Will Self-Coaching Work for Spiritual Growth?

Self-Coaching for Spiritual Growth
You’ve probably heard about all the experts, the seminars and the gurus who can allegedly help you change, whatever your personal problem might be. But whether you experience anxiety, lack of confidence or any other condition, there’s one other method that will get you to where you want to go. Self-coaching is a more direct variant of life coaching, and it may very well start you off on the change that wants to happen.

You Are In Control
Under self-coaching, you essentially work with yourself. Why not? After all, you’re the best person to know how it feels to be in your shoes, to be living your life. Ultimately, you are responsible for your choices and how they affect your spiritual growth. If there’s change that will improve the quality of your spiritual life, then you’re the best person to bring that change to the finish line.
But self-coaching isn’t 100% all about you. You’ll need other people on board as well, to help you ask the right questions and look in the right places. As for the answers to those questions and your discoveries in those places, those are all up to you. The change and the corresponding steps that need to be done will still be yours to outline and define. Part of coaching yourself is to determine the types of people and relationships that are most compatible with your personality and unique life situation. At this point in your life, do you simply need a friend to help hold you accountable for working towards your spiritual goals or do you need an expert to help you better understand what it means to follow the spiritual path within your chosen spiritual tradition?

The Spiritual Self-Coaching Profile
Like most other coaching methods, this technique will work best with certain kinds of people. For example, you’d have to be a fairly well-adjusted person on your own. It also tends to work better with single, isolated problems; coaching yourself tends to get more difficult and complicated when you’re dealing with complex sets of issues.
You also have to be in a position to make changes in your own life. That is, you have to enjoy a certain level of independence and decision-making in order for the coaching to be effective. Otherwise, you’ll just be stuck at the earlier stages of the self-coaching process. Whether it’s changing your routine or modifying your lifestyle, your circumstances have to be able to accommodate those kinds of alterations.

Will It Work?
Believe it or not, it does in most cases. With the right structures in place, you can coach yourself to improve your life permanently. It’s all a question of commitment, motivation and dedication. Can you stick to a program that you set yourself? Are you changing for the right reasons? Is this something you really want? If you can answer those questions with conviction, then chances are good that you can succeed just by coaching yourself.

Although the clinics and the ‘spiritual professionals’ will have you believe otherwise, you don’t really need to have a doctor, psychologist or spiritual adviser on your case 24/7. If you know how to do it properly, sometimes the only person you need is the one you see in the mirror.