CRAIG ING
Behaviour is DNA
CRAIG ING
Behaviour is DNA
For over 20 years I have been working with Private Individuals, Professional Athletes and Corporations. Through my work, I have discovered that it does not matter whether you want to run the 100m in under 9.5 seconds, score more goals, hit a hole in one, find happiness, live happy without the usual constraints or prejudices, find a meaningful relationship, get a marriage back on track or deliver a global, multi-billion dollar Corporate Change programme......the ingredients are always the same and the perceived obstacles are always the same. The common denominator is always "the environment within which you wish to be."
Having lost my father far too early to heart failure; my younger, recovering addict sister in a car accident; as well as a grandmother and a number of friends to cancer I have had to figure out how to deal with some of the most traumatic types of suffering. I have had business go well and earn good money and I have had business fail and send me into hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt. I have worked with some of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, and some of the poorest. I have even worked with Royalty.
What all this has taught me is that the effect of life’s curve balls is determined by our own self. How we react to things is often the deciding factor as to how much pain we feel and for how long. Plus importantly, how we continually behave determines how we live in our present and for our future.
Before dying, my father was a counsellor and he worked with people dealing with redundancy and those trying to “reinvent” themselves to get ahead in their careers. Some of the methods and practices he used have been woven into my “Philosophy to Life”.
Over the years of contemplating and reflecting how I have dealt with my own experiences, I have recognised that there are“3 Key Pillars” to Living Happy. These pillars are “Love, Compassion and Honesty”. No matter what I was doing, dealing with or where I was trying to get to, I kept coming back to these 3 Pillars.
Understanding "The Person" is key. A life long passion in people led me to blend Western theories like psychology and psychotherapy with Eastern practises such as Ayurveda and Buddhism to give me that understanding. Intricate knowledge of the human "self" enables me to understand the person I am working with and establish mechanisms and interventions to ensure maximum harmony and “performance”. Finally I have coupled