Replacing Automatic Habits With Creative Possibilities with Arjuna Ardagh

Arjuna Ardagh describes enlightenment as an on-going process rather than an arrival at some fixed point. He prefers talking about awakening which suggests motion and an on-going unfoldment. The kind of coaching that he advocates is one that goes beyond the achievement of goals. He emphasizes the pursuit of your deepest longing. For example we might have a goal to be earning more money. Awakening Coaching would guide us to the deeper question of what more money in our life would give us. It is a kind of coaching that leads to peace, relaxation, and flow. He believes our “true potential is held back through all sorts of unconscious habits.” He describes the unique gifts we all have to give as our “brilliances” and it is our job to give them.  He tells us that a good coach is one who can see through your personal struggles “…into your essence. You are seen beyond the packaging of your personal story and are seen in the brilliance that wants to shine through.” He describes awakening as “…a spacious, limitless consciousness which is pregnant with possibility. It’s the source of all love and creativity. It’s your true nature.” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

Bio

Arjuna Ardagh is a writer, public speaker and founder of the Awakening Coaching Training in Nevada City, California. It’s a training program dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life.

Arjuna Ardagh’s books include:

• The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World (New World Library 2005)
• Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment (Sounds True 2008)
• The Last Laugh (Hay House 2013)
• Better than Sex: The Ecstatic Art of Awakening Coaching (Awakening Coaching 2013)

To learn more about the work of Arjuna Ardagh go to www.arjunaardagh.com.

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• What is the difference between psychotherapy and coaching
• Why enlightenment is an unfolding process rather than an arrival
• What is Awakening Coaching and how is it different from other types of coaching
• How can we dissolve our resistances into free choice
• What is radical awakening
• What is the difference between the masculine and feminine paths to awakening
• How true coaching is a collaborative non-hierarchical effort
• Why sitting meditation may not be as optimum for women as for men

Host: Justine Willis Toms        Interview Date: 6/7/2014                Program Number: 3510

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