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Spiritual Narcissism By Dr. Fiyah Oates “Ego is able to convert anything to it own use, even spirituality.” Chogyam Trungpa What is spiritual narcissism?  A short answer is when the ego has used spirituality towards self-aggrandizement and ego-inflation.  This could look like people exploiting others as church or cult leaders for their own, I call them the 4 Ps, power, pleasure, purpose and profit.  This is so egregious that the Hebrew tradition put it as one of their 10 commandments, in fact it’s the second one:  “Exodus 20:7 thalt shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain.”  Remember the root [...]

Life Coaching is Multi-dimensionalIf you notice the root word for Question is “Quest” as it puts us on a quest.  Several things are happening in our brain when we are asked questions and it piques our curiosity.  Curiosity is now known as just as important as intelligence. Questions pulls, advice pushes.  One is coming from the higher self, the other is coming from the ego.  Look at the word “Ad-vice”, adding vice.  If you can think of it in that strata, then you can manage the part of you that wants to fix it.  Remember, they have their own fixer.  What asking [...]

Life Coach Certification Life Coach Certification offers the minimum amount of hours required in the industry to call yourself a life coach.  It teaches you the skills and core competencies of life coaching along with some practicum hours. This certification will allow you to technically start your life coaching business, however, it may not fully prepare you for the industry.  Many professionals that are seeking to add a credentials and training to increase their knowledge base and clientele usually seek out a regular life coaching certification.  Some people do it in order to have a credential so that it adds [...]