Hello there! Welcome to this latest video
here on Evercoach.
And in this video we are talking about
coaching questions for you as a health coach,
to help your clients take control of their health.
Like all of our videos,
this video is not only useful for you as a health coach,
but if you are somebody,
if you're a coach that wants to work on their own health,
this video is going to be powerful
because it'll help you understand
how to reframe or frame some of the questions
that may change the way you look at health.
Health is the key to our energy levels.
Health is the key to long life.
Health is often responsible for great relationships.
Health is often responsible for great business.
It's rightly said health is wealth.
But very often it gets ignored.
And it's because our body is such an amazing machine
that you can throw anything at it.
And it tries to process it,
tries to work through it.
And so very often we ignore exercise,
we ignore eating right, and that may or-
the short term be okay.
But as you grow older,
you realize that you've been torturing your body.
You're torturing that one thing
that is really holding your soul together so hard.
And so maybe it is time for us
to start giving some attention
and change the way we look at our health.
So in this video, we are going to discuss
some coaching questions that you can use as a life coach,
as a health coach,
as even a business coach,
if you're introducing wellness to somebody's life,
and if you want somebody to re-imagine and question
how they have been looking at their health right now.
The first question that I'm going to share with you,
that you can use as a health coach
to inspire change in somebody else's health journey
is a question that changed my personal self
and my own vision of myself recently.
The question is framed something like this,
and you can tweak it the way you want.
But the question is,
if we were to time travel to when you are 65 or 75,
how does your life look like?
What is it that you do?
How is your vitality, what are you doing?
And when you ask that question to someone,
there are some images that will pop in everybody's mind.
If I asked you that question, you may go,
I would be taking a hike with my life partner.
I would be going to the gym, I would be surfing,
I'll be living on the beach, walking out to the beach,
I'll be running at the beach,
I'll be living in this five-star place
doing these five-star things.
I will be vital, I will be joyous,
I'll be laughing with my friends, I'll be drinking,
I'll be eating the best foods.
And while you share all these visions
and I shared the same vision, so I was like,
"Oh, at 65 I'll be vital, I will be fit,
"I'll be healthy, I'll be having
"the greatest amazing time with my partner.
"I will be doing the best thing with my kids.
"We will be going to great places,
"getting great food and go travel and this and that.
"And hopefully by that time,
"they would have opened up tourism to space for everyone.
"And we would go probably to space."
And all that type of fun stuff
that probably you want to do, I want to do too.
So I answered that question,
a follow-up question came to my mind.
I was like, if life would be like that at 65,
why is my life today not similar to that?
And if I can't do those things today,
do I believe that my body's going to be ready at 65
to do those things, or at 75 to do those things?
So if today I'm not running on the beach
and taking hikes every day,
What tells me that at 65 I will do it?
If I can do it today when I am more vital in principle,
I have a body of 30 some year old.
If I can do it at that,
how would I do it at 65 or 75?
So that question inspired and sparked
a whole transformation in my health journey suddenly
because suddenly I was wondering
if I want to live like that at 65,
and that's my future.
If that's what my reality is going to be years from now,
it needs to be my reality today.
So I can have that reality in the future.
I need to start acting today to be equally vital,
to do the activities that I want to do later,
because if I won't do it today,
there's no reason to believe that I will do it later.
And that changed my health journey.
So my invitation for you-
For you, for your clients, for your-
The health transformation that your clients are seeking,
is to ask your clients to go walk into the future
and define their ideal 65, 75, 85 year olds.
And as they defined themselves into the future
and they list it down,
ask them what are they doing today
to be able to live that life in the future
or how is it that today their life does not look
anything like that, but in the future it would.
And that would hopefully spark a whole transformation
like it did for me.
The second question is closely related to this question,
but it is something that inspires a conversation
that is slightly different.
So the question is:
How long do you think you will live?
And how is it that you will be living
at the end of your time?
So say, for example,
if you would ask this question to me a few years ago,
an average age in my family is like 70,
so I would be like, all right, how long do you live-
How long do you think you will live?
I'll be like maybe around 70.
And then if you ask me, okay, how will you be at 70?
I'll be like, oh I'll be vital,
I'll be healthy, I'll be doing things with my wife.
We'll be traveling the world,
and we'll be having fun times with our kids
and grandkids maybe at that time
and so on and so forth.
And then that question really begged the next question,
which was: Well, if that is how you will be,
do you think you will die at 70?
If you are somebody who is vital and vibrant
and lives amazingly well,
do you really think you're going to pass on?
Well, if you're healthy, you will not.
And that means you would firstly live longer,
and secondly, if you want to live like that at 70,
what do you need to do today
so you can live like that at 70, right?
It changes the way you approach life.
And it also expands your horizon to thinking
that life can be much longer
than what you previously anticipate.
It also brings attention of your clients
towards how long do they think,
how much is their programming, subconscious programming,
putting themselves at how old they will be, right?
And that helps us understand the subconscious reality
that your client may be living
because they've created an expectation
of the lifespan that they have
without understanding how lifespan really works
and how it is actually been expanding
over the last several decades,
and it's going to continue to expand in the coming decades
with the research in science and so forth.
Not only in context of number of years that you get to live,
but also how, when you are at that age.
So that question helps you
extend the lifetime of your clients.
And it also inspires your clients to really ask themselves
that how is it that today their life needs to be
for the vitality that they seek in the future.
The third question that will help your clients
to change their health story,
to help your coaching clients
change the way they look at their health
is to ask them this question.
What do you believe is the role of your health in your life?
Where does that belief come from?
And are you living in alignment
with how you see yourself health-wise?
The reason why this question is so important is
because very often our clients have never really
paid attention to what do they think healthy is.
What do they believe about health?
What's their relationship with health?
What is their relationship with their body?
And because they've never really reflected on it,
they have not built a true value system around it.
They've never really diagnosed
their own value system around it, and because of that
it's harder for them to even know
that they are doing something wrong,
or they are not paying attention
to their health because in their reality,
they're doing everything right.
They are thinking about it right.
And if you challenge that notion, if you say,
okay, let's bring attention towards
what is it that is healthy?
Do you think you're healthy?
What does healthy mean for you?
What is the role of health in your life?
Suddenly as you bring attention to health in their lives,
they get to question it.
And as they question it, it leads to the wheels turning
their thought process turning and them going: "Huh,
"What is it that I really believe?
"What is healthy for me?
"How is it being healthy for me?
"How is, or what is the rule of health in my life?
"And does it play a wider role?"
And if the answer is, "Yes",
"what am I doing about it?"
Most of us live subconsciously, unconsciously,
in our health realities, right?
We get hungry, we get food.
We're not thinking about food ahead of time.
You're not thinking about why we should eat that for lunch
and that for dinner.
We're just responding to what's happening in our body.
So when we bring attention
of our coaching clients towards their health,
their story around health starts to reveal,
inviting it to be questioned
and hence inviting you to be transformed.
Now, me inviting you to ask your health coaching clients
to question their health is so that they can start
to transform their lives.
This is exactly what we tried to do
at this YouTube channel as well.
Every single week, we release a new video
so you can question what you have been thinking
about your coaching practice,
about how you've been approaching your clients,
how you've been working with your clients.
And every single time you watch one of these videos,
you hopefully get a new way to think
about your coaching practice.
You get a new way on how to coach your clients.
You get a new way on how to transform more and more lives.
And most importantly, you continue to change your own life.
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If you're a health coach, a life coach, a business coach,
any kind of coach,
it is going to be widely useful for you as you transform
your client's life and transform your own lives.
If there's a particular question
that has already stood out for you,
leave it in the comment section below,
because I'll be very interested to see
which of these questions
are already turning wheels in your own mind,
where you're starting to question your health,
where you're starting to question things about your health
and you're thinking about, "Oh,
"how can I think about my life differently?
"How can I think about my future differently?
"How can I think about my health differently?"
Because that would be so interesting to find.
So go ahead and share that with me
in the comment section below.
And that brings me to the fourth question.
And the fourth question is a key question because
most of us, at some point
has tried to transform our health,
and we have failed at it, right?
That's why we call the yo-yo diets and the yo-yo exercises
because we go, "Oh, I'm excited about my health.
"I'm going to do this."
And then we try for a couple of days
and then we fail at it, right?
And that becomes a big challenge
when we are trying something else to change our health.
So when we are approaching our clients,
who've been struggling with health
and now you're showing up as a health coach.
You may find inherent resistance in their life
where they don't even know why they're resisting
because they want the change, but they're resisting it
because they haven't really identified that
it has happened with them so many times
that they feel a little jaded subconsciously.
The question for your health coaching client is:
Have you tried and failed in the past
to work on your health?
If the answer is yes, would you be willing
to give a try to something that's fast, easy,
and sounds fun at the same time?
The reason why you're bringing awareness towards
that they may be resisting what you are proposing to them
because they've tried and failed in the past.
And this awareness brings attention to words
that what has happened in the past
may not have to happen in the future.
And that's why the followup of the question,
and this is an invitation for you as a health coach,
to make sure that this happens as well
in your client's journey
is to make it fast, make it easy, and make it fun.
Health or health goals are hard.
We have lived a big part of our lives not focusing on it.
And because of that, every time we try
our past programming, our default behaviors just take over.
And even when we really, really,
really want a new life for ourselves, health wise, we fail.
And so our job as health coaches, our job as coaches,
our job as life-transforming coaches is to make it easy
for our clients to be able to get those results,
make it fast so they don't feel like
it'll take forever, and to make it fun
so they can have fun along the way,
because this road is going to be long
irrespective of where your health is.
If you're trying to get better,
it'll take time.
Your body has been conditioned to behave in a particular way
for years, decades.
Now you're reconditioning it.
It needs to unlearn all those bad behaviors and patterns
and find new behaviors and patterns, it will take time.
It better be fun.
So, ask your clients,
are you resisting change
because in the past it didn't work out?
And would you be open to change?
If we, as a coach-coachee relationship,
as your health coach, can make it fast,
can make it easy, most importantly, make it really fun.
So we can have this journey together.
And that brings me to the final health coaching question
that you can ask your clients
that are willing to change their health, as a health coach,
and be able to hopefully transform their lives.
And this, if not presented right,
could hit really hard for your clients.
So be careful as to when you present this question.
The question is: When did you give up on your health goals?
Do you believe you have grown from that point?
And are you willing to bring a new version of you
to your future self?
The reason why this question sometimes hits hard
is because we are bringing attention
to something that they may have given up on
that they don't want to give up on.
When did you give up on your health goals?
The reason why this question is important is because
it registers in the mind of your client as to
when is it, or what was the event,
when was the circumstance,
what was the thing that they were trying to do
that didn't work out, that they said,
"Screw it I'm not going to do it."
And that attention to that event gives you permission
to work with your client to suggest
that that was in the past
and that they're moved on, they've grown from it.
They're a different person now.
And now is the time where they choose version 2.0, 3.0,
5.0 for themselves to take it into their future
where they are their healthier selves,
their selves that they truly know
that they want to be are capable of being.
So my invitation for you is to ask this question,
but be careful as you ask this question
because it can offend a few people.
But it's an important question to ask,
so if all else fails here is that question.
Now, as we were experiencing all these five questions
that will help you transform the life,
health life of your clients as a health coach,
which one was the one that hit home for you?
Which one of the ones that you think
will really resonate with your clients
and they will be really excited about that question?
And they will really see that turn of wheels
happening in their mind,
and they can change their health story?
Share with me in the comment section below,
I would to hear what is that question
that really landed for you as a person
and you think the land for your clients.
If there's any additional question
that you as a health coach think
we should incorporate in here,
go ahead and post that in the comment section below,
it's always good to help other friends here.
Where all health coaches are trying to change
the health story of this world
because we all know that is so very needed.
We all need to work on our health,
especially during these times.
Thank you so much for watching, this is Ajit Nawalkha,
and you are watching this on Evercoach.