One of the simplest definitions of stress is –“perceived threat”. When you feel stressed then even an innocuous situation can be considered threatening. During this time your Autonomic Nervous System goes into an overdrive. This causes many physical changes in your body to enable you to fight or flee or freeze. These changes are mediated through hormones and neurotransmitters. Every system of the body is affected. If the overdrive becomes chronic, it leads to chronic physical and mental ill health. Commonly auto-immune illnesses occur as a result. In the early 21st century, scientists became aware that if the Autonomic Nervous System is calmed by meditation-like activities, it can change the body’s responses to stress. Coaching takes it a step further. We can use meditation as one of the methods to affect both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems at the same time. It heals trauma, reduces stress and calms the body. This changes the body’s physiology. It affects your behavior, perception, thinking and relationships.

It has taken nearly 40 years to develop this method. The main stumbling block was to overcome emotional arousal whenever someone approached to heal trauma. Strangely, simply healing emotional trauma leads to changes in perception, cognition, decision making and relationships. That is all that is to it.  To develop a method that can gently but surely bring about desirable changes, took time. For the first time, anywhere, breath and imagery have been systematically and scientifically combined to create a protocol for coaching.

Once you are sure this is the best path for you, you just follow the instructions of the coach. The importance of the first screening interview is to make sure you know what is required of you to change your life. If you are in doubt, do not start the programme.

Sometimes people are entrenched in their set beliefs and thinking. What they have been doing to make their life better is not working. Yet they refuse to take help to change. Even when they do, they try to control the way they would like to change. The best person to change you is you. If you are unwilling or hesitant, you are less likely to benefit from this programme. You need to have faith in yourself, the process and the coach.

It is currently available online, based in Ireland. But the service is not available for residents of Ireland at present.

Yes. Dr. Chadha comes with experience of helping people on psychiatric drugs. In most cases you can reduce and even come off most of the drugs if you follow the instructions. In such cases the programme has to continue for many months. The final decision to reduce your medication rests with you and your prescribing physician. In rare cases reducing medication is not recommended. You can book a Discovery Call to discuss it.