Philosophy Coach

Consciousness

Spirituality

Wellbeing

Mind, thoughts & beliefs
Personal identity
Consciousness & experience

Nature of life & death
Spiritual experience
Awakening & self-realization

Holistic healing therapies
Embodied wisdom
Cultural influences on health

What is your philosophy for health?

Your therapeutic philosophy is the process of using ever-deepening insights into consciousness as a way of elevating your healing practice.

We all have our own philosophy for health - a set of beliefs, ideas, and habits which directly impacts our approach to wellbeing.  Usually these beliefs are things we have learnt from other people - either through college, university, or a professional training programme.  Once we have learnt these ideas, we naturally assume that they are correct, and proceed to teach them to other people through our work.  But what if our philosophy for health needs to go deeper?

Is looking at healthcare through the lens of a purely physical worldview limiting the extent to which we can help others? Are some approaches to holistic health incomplete? Do we perhaps need to move past popular spiritual views into a deeper understanding of consciousness?

What happens when we view health and healing through the lens of the primacy of consciousness instead? When we take a worldview in which consciousness is the underlying nature of reality, and in which health and illness can be deeply influenced by your own mind?  How does this consciousness-based viewpoint impact our beliefs about health, illness, the placebo effect, and spontaneous healing?

Why for wellbeing service providers?

Individuals who support the wellbeing of others often have deeper questions about life and health.  Like existential questions about the meaning of life, why suffering exists, and what happens after death. Contemplations on how spirituality relates to health and wellbeing. Or questions around social inequalities and ethical issues which lead to human suffering.

So, wellbeing practitioners are already committed to the process of exploring life on a deeper level themselves.  Their life experiences mean that they are more likely to question things which are often not on the radar for other people. Plus, their work automatically puts them in a better position to integrate their insights more fully, and to make changes which will also improve the lives of others.

With this in mind, I work with all types of wellbeing service providers who are genuinely interested in exploring holistic health through the lens of consciousness. This also includes people who work in mainstream healthcare: nurses, social workers, caregivers, health assistants.  Or those who are already involved in holistic health: spiritual workers, health coaches, bodyworkers, and holistic therapists.

My aim for this programme is to support the evolution of deeper insights into consciousness for people who work in a wellbeing capacity.  So that together we can elevate the perception of holistic health, the services that we offer, and the support that we provide for people in our care.

The 3 stages of your developing your philosophy for health

There are three levels of insight that are needed to work through in order to understand human experience, and to define your own philosophy for health: 

Individual: Developing your own philosophy for health is an important component for anyone who provides health services for others. Most therapies and wellbeing services focus on improving personal and relational insights.  But once you reach a certain level of self-awareness, you begin to recognise that whilst there are many benefits to these approaches, they are also incomplete, and there is an even deeper level of insight.

Collective: For example, many therapists don't always fully take into consideration the collective influences on individual wellbeing.  Things like the impact of cultural beliefs, social norms, political influences, or environmental issues and how these affect our life.  

Existential: Nor do they account for the spiritual nature of our existence and how this can impact the level of suffering we experience.  Yet these issues are so important when it comes to dealing with problems like loss, bereavement or life-threatening illness.

By developing your own philosophy for health in each of these 3 areas, you can make progress on your own path of embodied wisdom. This in turn helps you to let go of the beliefs which may be keeping you stuck on the path of self-realization.

The 4 dimensions of consciousness in holistic health

The second pathway is developing your own awareness of the levels of consciousness which make up who you are on a deeper level.  This involves working through each of these on an experiential level, and understanding the key differences between medical and holistic views.

The four dimensions of holistic health are:

Physical: In mainstream healthcare, the focus lies mainly with physical health interventions, and includes things like biochemistry, medication, surgery, lifestyle habits, and physical support.  From a holistic viewpoint, this physical dimension is quite real, and it still exists, so all treatments are still relevant and important. It is just that the body is viewed within a fundamentally different perspective of life.

Mental: Mental health in most Western healthcare usually approaches the mind from a dualistic perspective - where mind and body interact with each other in some way (which has yet to be found). Whereas from a holistic perspective, mind is associated with the mental level of consciousness.  So this is where the difference between begins to become apparent, and this is one of the main reasons why people get confused - because both views are referring to the level of mind.

Energetic: This dimension is where the split between medical and holistic approaches to wellbeing occurs. Many holistic health practitioners offer services to include an energetic level of healing with the use of therapies such as Reiki, acupressure, or reflexology. Spiritual workers also work on this level when they offer services such as mediumship or soul readings. This is the level where many holistic practitioners stop their own enquiries. They realise that this energetic level exists, but do not recognise the deeper level of consciousness.

Consciousness: This is the level of the primacy of consciousness - the space where no-thing exists. It is associated with the arising of personal awareness. You can choose to view this dimension within a spiritual context, and associate it with awakening, union, enlightenment, or self-realization.  You can also view it purely through the lens of consciousness, and without having any spiritual context at all.

Why is this perspective on life important for healing practitioners to understand with clarity? Because it holds the potential for improving the lives of so many people.  It can help your clients to experience less suffering, and greater levels of wellbeing, especially when they are dealing with existential or life-changing situations.

So, my intention for this pathway is to help healing practitioners to understand consciousness and healing on a deeper level.  So that they can help their clients to harness the power of their mind, and make more of a difference in the world through their services.

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