Why student needs Holistic Counselling for a Healthy Career?

– Harishankar Mahato, Counselor

“Every soul is potentially divine.”

– Swami Vivekananda

In the present scenario, students of both schools and colleges are undergoing through stress. Counseling, thus, plays a vital role. Students are overburdening with huge loads of information. The information are useful but which information is for me, that is not made understood. Institutions are failing to make students self capable in understanding their true potential. Here, holistic counseling helps visualizing future with their potentials for a healthy career. G. Stanley said that adolescence age as the age of “storm and stress”. Storms of many biological and psychological changes occur during this age. Also, stress of studies increases the burden . Here, Holistic counseling helps in following manner:
  • Develop passion
  • Develop curiosity
  • Know Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Achieve the desired goal
  • Getting rid of confusions
 

Holistic counseling helps To develop passion:

Counseling discriminates our good and bad habits. Thus, it helps to identify one’s true passion.
 

Holistic counseling helps To develop curiosity

Curiosity comes from a Latin word, Lura, which means “to care for or to cure”. Holistic counseling develops curiosity. It guides to take care of the body, mind, and soul.
 

Holistic counseling helps To know your Strengths and Weaknesses

No one is perfect. Everyone needs to nurture and take care of themselves. Holistic Counselling helps this by identifying strengths and weaknesses. Also, it helps to decrease the weaknesses and increase the strengths. Life is a journey of continuous learning.
 

Holistic counseling helps To Achieve the desired goal

Life is not a straight path journey. There will be ups and downs in life. One should find short term goals and long terms goals. By doing this, whatever may be the situation, one is able to reach the destination irrespective of adverse conditions.
 

Holistic counseling helps To Get rid of confusions

The world is full of confusions. It is very difficult to distinguish one, who is completely right or completely wrong. Everything is relative. A positive mindset seeks positive results and the same is true with a negative mindset. Holistic Counselling helps to eliminate confusion.
 
Today children are facing substance abuse, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, etc. These can be avoided with proper guidance and counseling.There are many career options worldwide. But being unaware of counseling, one takes the wrong path. Career counseling, thus, helps you to choose the best career options. Thus, leading to a healthy career.