Coaching and the Immune System

Coaches, as well as their clients, now have another reason to rejoice. Coaching is good for your health!

How?

Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found that when you strive for goals that are associated with more meaning in your life, such as goals around personal development or exploring possibilites, something wonderful happens...

your immune system responds favorably!

No one really knows exactly how this works, but researcher Julienne Bower, Ph.D, the study's lead psychologist, thinks it probably has to do with enabling the body to counteract the effects of stress hormones which are produced in reaction to our hectic, fast-paced lives.

But the really good news is this...

your immunne system gets a boost just by attempting to reach the goal...

even if you never make it to the finish line!

The study was published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 25, Number 2, 2003.

Comments

[Cecile Adams]

Hi, Ellen! I like this newsletter in blog
format!

The link between action taken toward a goal that has meaning and a boost in the immune system makes sense to me. The goal of the immune system is to keep a person healthy. The most helpful goal of taking action is doing something that is healthy for your life. The synchronicity between inner and outer life is no accident: What we experience in the outer realm is indicative of our inner state. What we do for ourselves in the outer realm affects us internally: the food we eat, the emotions we cultivate, the actions we take, etc.

Coaching provides clarity, as well as opportunities for purposeful action and a resulting learning, peace, joy, harmony, satisfaction, etc.--all of which are bound to create a more impenetrable defense system for negativity, disease, and self-defeating behavior.

Peace,
Cecile

[kiki]

i unfortunately have been huge since birth. i gain about 4 pounds a week on average. i can no longer fit in an elevator. i way 843 pounds and are still gaining weight. i have cancer but can not have the right operation because they would have to cut through oover 5 layers of fat to get there. also they would have to build a special operating table because they won;t hold me. i will probably die in the next 5 years.