Vibrant Health - Pain Or Pleasure?

Would you like to enjoy vibrant health? Most people when asked this question say yes. If everyone wants vibrant health, why do most people not have it?

The answer lies in what motivates people into action. People are motivated by two thing either pain or pleasure. Of the two, pain is the bigger motivator. If we believe doing something will cause us pain, we will avoid taking action to avoid the pain.

Recently, while working with a client, the power of the pain motivation became apparent. She has reached a plateau with her healthy living plan. As we delved into what was going on for her, it became apparent that she associated more pain with creating a healthy lifestyle than maintaining her current lifestyle. As I probed deeper into her feelings about creating a healthy lifestyle, we discovered that she associated exercise with having to lose sleep, causing muscle pain, inconvenient, hard work, time consuming, and not fun.

Through a process of asking her questions about such as:
• How does not exercising and being physically fit affect your life?
• What are all the benefits you will gain by exercising?
• How will it enhance your life?
• How will exercising create greater joy or happiness?

We discovered as she answered these questions, what pleasurable benefits exercising could have for her. I could feel the shift in her energy level as she began to focus on the pleasure of exercising. She was getting excited about all the possibilities that exercising and becoming fit would have on her life. She was verbalizing how she will feel more energetic, be able to play with her kids and not feel short of breath, fit into her favorite dress she had not worn for a long time, how she will look when she is fit and healthy. She was now ready to commit to exercise and commit to focusing on what she wanted.

You will discover as you immerse yourself in all the pleasurable aspects of getting healthy and fit your momentum for positive change will dramatically shift. As you see yourself accomplishing your goals, increasing your energy through healthy eating and physical activity, looking and feeling younger, it will become more exciting to journey towards wellness than to maintain your current unhealthy lifestyle.

Is there an area in your life you are not getting the results you want? Would you like a free coaching session to discover what motivates you, pain or pleasure? If so, please go to http://www.healthcoachteam.com/exploratory-session.asp and schedule your free coaching session.