The Health Coach

THIS BLOG IS NOW RE-LOCATED

2008-12-21T13:47:00.000-08:00

Please visit this blog at www.healthcoachinguk.com

How to Stop Smoking

2008-12-10T15:25:00.000-08:00

Inspired Health Mind Movie

2008-02-09T14:47:00.000-08:00

It's relatively easy to put together your own personalised Mind Movie to inspire you in any area of your life. This one was made by the people at Mind Movies to show you what's possible and to give you some ideas for yourself. The software is dead cheap, buy it at Mind Movies.

Please visit Health Coaching UK to find out how health coaching can transform your life and enable you to achieve the things you always wanted but couldn't.

Free E-Book "As a Man Thinketh"

2007-08-09T15:17:00.000-07:00

Most Doctor's and Medics would be ready to admit that half the stuff they learnt at Medical School is wrong! The problem is they don't know which half!

Studies in the psychology of health and wellness have shown that good health is largely down to the way you think about your health and your expectations. Scientists have long known about the "Placebo Effect" where a non-medical intervention can cure a medical problem. There is a whole new area of research opening up in psycho-immunology, and psychoneuro-immunology, which believes that one's mental state has much to do with the effectiveness of one's immunological system - the concept that mind and body are inseparably linked. Happy, unstressed people get fewer colds. Partners who have just split up have lowered white-cell responses. It appears that mental stress significantly suppresses the human immunological system resulting in more illness.

I would like to send you a free e-book "As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen, which is a classic work on how what you think affects every area of your life, including your health. Just e-mail me at Trevor@IntelligentLifestyles.co.uk and I will send you the book by return.

Health Coaching

2007-08-09T14:23:00.000-07:00

Health Coaching is an off-shoot of Life Coaching targeted specifically at improving all aspects of health and fitness using the proven techniques and strategies that make Life Coaching one of the newest, fastest growing, and most effective self-development and performance enhancing techniques available.

Health Coaching is relevant to anyone wishing to improve their own health but is particularly pertinent to employees and organisations who want to reduce the amount of time and money lost through ill health. In the USA organisations that have invested in health coaching have seen a Return On Investment of between 2.5 and 7.5.

A recent study at Yale University has shown that "Health Coaching is a highly effective and superior strategy in reducing total cholesterol, and other coronary risk factors such as blood pressure, compared to patients who were prescribed medication but not coached."

Further research has shown that "Wellness coaching is significantly more effective than personal training or dietician consultation in delivering sustainable behavior change. (Principles of behavioral Psychology in Wellness Coaching, Margaret Moore, Wellcoaches Corporation, November 2004).