Sensory processing is crucial.

Most work when developing our human skills are done from a top down approach. We believe that if we want something bad enough, we will succeed. The approach becomes "if you can understand it on an intellectual level, you can implement and succeed with the necessary changes". If we just grind and push through, we will reach our goals.

Very simply put, we end up coach and guide people around us in exactly the same way we as run and manage manny companies. 

But here is the thing that do not apply.

We forget that the head and brain are only the top of a very complex and powerful structure. A branch of spinal nerves, peripheral nerves, visceral nerves, organs, hormonal systems and cellular communication, that all contribute to the information gathering and processing. 

That the resources we have at our disposal. The experience we have around doing what we are about to do. And the fact that the systems are developed though 100.000 of years, all are constructed to succeed with one goal in mind. 

Survival.

And survival will ALWAYS beat performance. 

So if you coach the whole person, you will need to address the available resources on all levels. 

If you do not eat enough to fuel your perfromance, you will in the end lack the necessary resources to make your survival systems allow for top performance. If you do not regulate your homeostatic systems, you will end up in a stressed state that will degenerate your physical state and your health over time. If you do not allow your survival system time to learn new skills, in a safe environment, you will abandon the project, you will resist the change.

How you breathe, convert oxygen, fuel cellular energy production, supply micronutrients, allow for detoxification and excretion. Are just as important as how you construct behavioural startegies, allow for awareness and reflections, and how to put consciousness into actions.

The sensory informations we process all the time, must be clear and precise.

 The informations must be integrated into the bigger picture for us to construct and develop strategies for successful change. 

We can't solve sensory issues by cognitive reasoning alone. We can´t push through our inherited survival systems. 

We need clarity to make the safest and most sustainable choices. 

That is why all systems must be addressed. Not just the one at the top.