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2011

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Dr.Michael

Question Your To-Do List and Be Well: Coaching The Urgent/Important Matrix

Despite our best efforts to avoid “holiday stress” it always seems to arrive as reliably as Santa himself. The “to do list” seems impossible and we pay the price physically and emotionally when the st... read more..

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Cancer and Lifestyle Improvement

We’ve often viewed getting cancer as luck of the draw. Other than eating enough fiber and avoiding smoking and too much sun exposure we haven’t really seen it as having much relationship to lifestyle.... read more..

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Retreat, Review, Renew and Rewrite The New Year Now

The ancient Celtic Calendar rings in the New Year at the very end of October with the holiday of Samhain. Looking at a Northern European year’s climate through largely agricultural eyes this makes per... read more..

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Pre-diabetes – A Wellness Opportunity To Help

There is an opportunity for wellness and wellness coaching to impact the lives of millions of people in a life-saving way. 79 million Americans are estimated to have a condition called pre-diabetes. U... read more..

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Dr. Arloski’s blog has a NEW ADDRESS!

To reach more folks in the wellness community we've relocated our blog "Real Balance Wellness: Wellness Wisdom and Wanderings" to a new address at IDWellness.org. Please visit us and subscribe to htt... read more..

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Maybe The Last Heart Attack

Each year over one million Americans experience a heart attack, about one every thirty seconds. CNN produced a program recently about this that has everyone talking: “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: The Las... read more..

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12 Ways To Avoid Collusion In The Coaching Relationship

Whenever I’m training wellness coaches and use the term “collusion” a definition is required. The term can have a variety of meanings and a search done on “coaching and collusion” will yield an array ... read more..

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Wellness Coach Certification: What It Means and the Top Six Features to Look for in a Wellness Coach Training Program

The field of wellness coaching is growing and more job opportunities are unfolding for people with the right training and expertise. More and more a qualification for those wellness and health coachin... read more..

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A More Sociological View Of Wellness

Who has time to exercise and eat well when life is on overload? We are often urged by wellness professionals to exercise more and improve our diets, but isn’t that just adding more to the “to do” list... read more..

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Self-Deception and Living Well

Enjoying abundant good health often means having a great wellness plan for our way of living and sticking to it. Sometimes we struggle and don’t know why. The problem may be that we don’t know what we... read more..

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Unconditional Positive Regard: The Being and Doing of Coaching - Part Two

When our coaching clients experience complete acceptance of who they are without judgment, and feel prized and understood, great things happen. The suspension of judgment is a real challenge for many... read more..

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Being Well. There’s an app for that!

There are over 10,000 fitness apps for Blackberry’s, iPhones, iPads, etc. and more being created daily. The fitness app “Loseit” has had over six million downloads! People use these apps to do calorie... read more..

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Compassionate Detachment: The Being and Doing of Coaching Part One

Over six thousand wellness coaches have been trained by The Real Balance Global Wellness Services that I founded. In the process of teaching these people how to become effective wellness coaches ... read more..

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Meaning and Purpose and the Motivation to Be Well

“Wellness is the experience of living life with high levels of awareness, conscious choice, self-acceptance, interconnectedness, love, meaning and purpose.” Michael Arloski (Wellness Coaching For Last... read more..

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Dancing In The Moment: Three Keys To Thinking On Your Feet During The Coaching Process

I never did get the Cha Cha. It looks like line dancing is a lot of fun, but I’ve got two left feet that seem to always get in everyone’s way. Following prescribed steps in a precise way is just not h... read more..

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Plan Now To Be Well In The Middle of Summer

Spring is in the air, if not on the ground quite yet. Spring Training for baseball is in full swing, our aspen trees are budding out and folks in the Northern Hemisphere are planning their vacation an... read more..

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Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part Two – Inner Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement – II by Dr. Michael Arloski.

6. Practice Extreme Self-Care Many times coaches and clients co-create a wonderful set of self-care action steps that the client knows will help them to be healthier and well. Then, on the next coach... read more..

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Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part Two – Inner Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement – I by Dr. Michael Arloski.

Your client has their motivation to be healthy and well energized, they’ve checked out their readiness for improving their lifestyle and, perhaps, with your help, they’ve even gotten a real wellness p... read more..

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Really Full Engagement in Life, Work, and Coaching

In 1971 Ram Dass (psychiatrist turned meditation teacher/guru) admonished us all to BE HERE NOW! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Here_Now_(book), and the battle with the distraction capacity of our b... read more..

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Universal Introspection: From Tucson to Trust and Compassion

The January 8, 2011 tragedy in Tucson, Arizona shocked the world and stimulated a discussion about how we do, in fact, discuss things. It is the “how” more than the “what” that we have realized bears ... read more..

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Ten Ways To Coach Through Barriers To Change – Part One – Outer Barriers To Lifestyle Improvement by Dr. Michael Arloski.

A key part of effective coaching is helping our clients to find a way over, under, around and through the barriers that get between them and their goals. The best-laid wellness plans are inevitably ch... read more..

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