The Coaching of Natural Presence: Beyond Self-Optimization

Perhaps you know this too: you live in a world obsessed with improvement. You optimize your body, your career, your relationships and, above all, yourself. You have read books, attended seminars and worked hard to solve your inner “problems”.

Perhaps you have already become a master at rearranging the furniture in your mental space in the hope of finally finding the perfect arrangement for lasting happiness. You move the couch of self-doubt, hang up new pictures of success and polish the table of mindfulness. But despite all the effort, a feeling of restlessness, of effort, of lack may remain.

What if the problem is not the arrangement of your furniture? What if the real suffering is believing that you are the furniture?

My approach – the Coaching of Natural Presence – is based on a radically different assumption. It is based on the insight that you are not the collection of your thoughts, feelings, memories and problems. You are the space in which all these things appear and disappear. You are the silent, awake presence that witnesses all this. This presence – your core consciousness – is by nature whole, clear and peaceful. It has never been damaged and does not need to be repaired. The goal is not to make you a “better you”, but to remember your true self.

The process: From content to context

Instead of deeply analyzing the stories you bring with you and trying to “solve” them, we shift the focus together. When you come to me with an issue like anxiety, anger or a feeling of aimlessness, I will not primarily ask you: “Why are you afraid?”, but I invite you to explore:

• “What in you is aware of this fear right now?”
• “Where in your body do you feel this energy, and what happens when you allow it to just be there without wanting to change it?”
• “Can you notice the silent, still space in which the loud thought of fear appears?”

This is not an intellectual exercise. It is a direct invitation to loosen the identification with your “problem” and to rest in awareness itself. The practice is simple and yet profound: a repeated, gentle return from the content of your experience to the silent context that makes this experience possible. It is a process of letting go of effort, of relaxing into the ground of your being.

My role as a coach: A mirror of your clarity

In this process, I am not an expert who tells you what to do. I see myself as a mirror. My job is not to reflect your problems, but your own inner clarity. I ask the questions that turn your gaze away from the clouds and back to the infinite sky that you are. I help you to see through the subtle tricks of your mind, which also wants to appropriate this teaching, and lead you back again and again to the simplicity of direct experience in the here and now.

The result: Unshakable peace

The goal of our work together is not a life without challenges. The goal is freedom in the midst of challenges. It is the discovery that you have the capacity to hold any experience without being overwhelmed by it. It is the end of the inner war. It is the deep, embodied knowledge that your well-being does not depend on the arrangement of the furniture, but on the realization that you are the indestructible space.

It is the moment when you stop moving the furniture and instead discover the door to the outside – a door that has always been open for you.