Page 19 - Pure Coaching Magazine - Issue 1

How often do you stop and think that you are
Do something different to inspire yourself and
an animal? Daily, once in a while or maybe
kick start your imagination that has been lying
never? In the scheme of things and the
dormant since childhood. Do a doodle even if
hundreds of thousands of years that have
you feel you can’t draw, sing if it makes you
gone by in the past, modern man is a fairly
happy or have a dance in your kitchen to a
recent descendant from our monkey
favorite tune. How about a family ritual of
ancestors. And, it is only over the last hundred
regular games nights with no TV or devices or,
years that we have changed the way our
a story telling night with older family
brains work compared to those of our
members to pass precious tales down the
ancestors. We have lost much of our survival
generations?
instinct and place within our tribe and
replaced it with the conveniences of our
We must not lose sight of what we are, were,
current age.
and of what we have become. We must make
the most of every opportunity to talk and
In a time of lawsuits and legal claims our
conjure up new ideas with our imaginations,
children have a far less free childhood than
and therefore make the very best of ourselves
that of our parents generation or those before
each and every day.
them. Instead they are brought up in safe
environments, yet, to replace their physical
safely we put their mental safety in jeopardy
by providing them with devices which give
them access to the World Wide Web of
information, people and ideas. In turn our
lives are pretty much computer controlled,
from a visit to the doctor and its
documentation to the social media we receive
daily on our portable devices. How did our
ancestors cope with problems they were
wrestling with in their minds? They largely had
better communities and watched over each
other, offering protection and sitting on long
dark nights talking, singing, dancing and
playing games. We have lost this art of
communication, talking at dinner, visiting our
neighbours for a cup of tea or saying a
casual ‘Hello’ to someone on the street.

Finding someone you can trust and confide in
is not always easy, families can be flippant or
With a wealth of experience of the world,
dismissive of your genuine inner concerns,
Nicola Warner has a creative mind fuelled by a
and, when not addressed these concerns can
lively imagination and sharp intuition. She is
grow and spread through your mind and
able to work with a varied client base to
body and, at times, they become obsessions.
enable people to Go Their Own Way in the life
The desire to communicate and share is a
they wish to lead.
wonderful trait of humans and is something
which should be kept alive and cherished in www.nicolawarner.com
the busy lives we lead. Find time to talk, share
and create.

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