Evolve by Design - Teri Gyemi

Welcome to my RESOURCES page.

I created this page as a way to share with you many of the resources I use as a way to stay connected and informed as I take this journey through ‘earth school’. Some of the information I developed as tools to assist you for your personal transformation; others are links to some of the amazing people who help me on my path. I hope you find this page of value.

Namaste’… Teri

Before entering into a coaching relationship with me, I will request you fill out an In-Depth Client Profile Form. These questions will support you in deeply looking at your life. They will also help me to get to know you better. Allow yourself the benefit of some relaxed, uninterrupted time to complete this form. Be as open and honest as you can. Be assured that one of the primary tenants of my coaching relationship is confidentiality. I agree to hold the information you disclose on this worksheet, or in any other coaching setting, as private and sacred.

In order to create the Life of Your Dreams I will have you fill out this form: Your Coaching Objectives. These goals and objectives support us in attaining your deepest desires. While going over these questions, be very thoughtful. Reflect on each of the questions and explore your deepest desires.

If you are being coached in my Blueprint Shadow Coaching Model, you will choose one or two areas of your life to work on in-depth. This Life Wheel Form is a simple tool to help you do a quick, initial evaluation of your life in terms of quality, balance and personal satisfaction. There are no right or wrong answers or results in this exercise. The Wheel merely gives you an opportunity to look at your life from a simple, clear perspective. With it you can easily see which areas are more balanced and fulfilled, and which area or areas most need your attention right now.

The premise of all of the work that I do is that the answers are within. If you find yourself feeling plugged in, upset, stuck, blocked, confronted or otherwise having a hard time, begin by using this Inner Wisdom Exercise and it’s sequence of steps to resolve your issue.

It’s easy to forget that the circumstances of our day-to-day lives are the result of decisions we made yesterday, last month, and last year. We don’t wind up thousands of dollars in debt because of one extravagant purchase, nor do we gain thirty pounds as a result of one decadent dinner. And our relationships certainly don’t end overnight because of a single heated argument. We are where we are because of the decisions we make every day. If we want to better understand how we have created our present-day reality, all we need to do is look at the choices we made and continue to make along the way. The Right Questions, created by Debbie Ford in her book ‘The Right Questions’, offers a remarkable new awareness of why we do what we do, providing the tools as well as the freedom to create the life we always wanted. The Right Questions consist of ten powerful inquiries designed to reveal what is motivating your actions. The answers to these questions will immediately clarify your thinking and support you in making the choices that are in your highest and best interest. They are deceptively simple but incredibly powerful and can be used in any situation or at any crossroads.

Becoming a Life Coach has made me a bit of a ‘Question Junkie’. The usefulness of the knowledge we acquire and the effectiveness of the actions we take depend on the quality of the questions we ask. Consider the profound quote by Albert Einstein…

"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper questions, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes”.

Questions open the door to dialogue, discovery and possibility. They turn a moment of despair into it a moment of delight and shift your whole way of being. After his own inquiries, my friend and colleague, Arne Rantzen developed the ‘Creative Question Cards’. He says, ‘the simplest way to change our current results is the straightforward process of switching the unfavorable questions that usually run around in our heads, for new favorable Creative Questions.’ Rantzen put 52 major conditions that we usually struggle with into a concise format called the Creative Question Cards. I find the content in these cards profound and have been quoted saying, ‘These cards, when used fully, can instantly shift your energy from fear to faith’. You can purchase these cards at www.CreativeQuestions.com.

“Forgiveness is hallway from the past to the future”. This is a very profound quote by Debbie Ford. In order to heal our hearts and move out of being a victim of our circumstances, we need to take total responsibility for ALL of the outcomes in our lives. To most people, this sounds like an outrageous statement. But I can tell you as a coach that in order to heal your heart and move out from being stuck in the pain of your past a shift in consciousness needs to happen. What if all of these ‘experiences’ that you deem as bad or negative were actually created for your souls evolution in consciousness? What if having a controlling bitch for a mother or an millionaire ex-husband who left you with nothing happened not because of you but for you? Please see the attached link and article I wrote... See how the theories of a Holographic Universe, Projection or Mirroring play out in your life. See how taking total responsibility for your life can bring you that deep peace, love and contentment you are looking for. Seems radical? In an article written by Joe Vitale on Ho’oponopono, read how Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, a psychotherapist at a lock down unit for the criminally insane in Hawaii used this ritual to heal his patients. “I was simply healing that part of me that created them, he said.” Dr. Len explains that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life – simply because it is in your space/life – is your responsibility. In a literal sense, as in the Holographic Theory, the entire world is your creation. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you. I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as Vitale spoke with Dr. Len, he began to realize that healing for him and in Ho’oponopono means loving yourself. If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. Here is another article for releasing and clearing of your past, written by Lori Anne King.

When working with my clients, I notice one of the hardest things for most people to do is to acknowledge themselves for their success. It really is a phenomenon. Why is it that we so readily notice what we can’t or don’t do or have but rarely acknowledge all the amazing things we do during our day? This is why I came up with this simple form called Daily Acknowledgements. I ask my clients to use this form every day, acknowledging themselves for even the seemingly simple things that they do. You are to come up with 15 things you would like to acknowledge about yourself every day. For instance, I say to my Hot Yoga students, “After finishing a rigorous Hot Yoga Class, take the time to acknowledge yourself for your success. You could have been sitting at home in front of the TV, eating something bad for you and filling your mind with crap. Instead you chose to come and feed your mind, body and soul with inspiration and health in this class". If you don’t acknowledge your success, nobody else with acknowledge your success. When you acknowledge your success, The Universe will give you more success! So, take the challenge and put down all of the things you do in a day that deserves your acknowledgement.

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious”

…Carl Jung

In my article called “Don’t be Afraid of Your Shadow”, I inform the reader of how it’s our Shadows that stop us from our success in life. Do you ever wonder what prevents you from having all the love, happiness and success you desire? I used this article in summer of 2009 issue of The Northwestern Breather Magazine to give the reader solutions to why they may keep running into the same road blocks time and time again, not finding their way out of that never ending cycle of pain and discomfort.