Self-coaching and visionary power. An inner guide to the freedom that lives within you

e-Essay by Thierry Limpens, 20-2-2022, revised 9-11-2025

Rediscovering inner strength through self-coaching and visionary power.

Introduction

Controlling your feelings is what society expects of us. Everyone recognizes strong negative emotions such as fear, anger, suspicion, irritation, and displeasure—and the equally powerful positive ones: enthusiasm, satisfaction, happiness, infatuation, and security. Yet it is not always easy to deal with such strong feelings if we do not search for balance within ourselves each day. Finding that balance can be the work of self-coaching — a way of discovering the strength within us that guides our decisions and gives direction to our lives.

That is what this essay is about. It is an invitation to self-coaching—with the aim of finding harmony between our emotional world and our freedom.

Psychology can support us in this search for balance. From a therapeutic point of view, much has been written about emotions, and the field is vast. But this essay is not a therapeutic manual. If you are facing psychological difficulties, I encourage you to seek therapy or turn to the appropriate literature.

This text simply speaks about everyone’s life—including your own. It is an invitation to self-coaching, and throughout these pages you will also encounter fragments of my personal experience. I want to address you directly, to open a dialogue through reading. Too many people hide their emotions behind social masks. That is why I invite you to believe in the strength we radiate toward one another when we succeed in bringing—or keeping—harmony within our emotional world.

For me, this insight deepened profoundly when, at the age of forty, I discovered that some people are more sensitive than others. There truly are highly sensitive individuals for whom sensitivity is not a weakness but an added value—a gift that can bring more humanity into the world. I believe we can all benefit from shedding a positive light on our sensitive side. That, too, can be achieved through self-coaching.

An important key phrase for this essay could be “harmony and life dreams.” It captures what I call visionary power—the inner drive that gives us a clear vision of where we want to go in life. Visionary power helps transform our dreams into reality. It makes us great, whoever we are. It means we can see our future and believe in it so deeply that we begin to act with conviction in the here and now.

This does not mean that visionary power shields us from adversity. We all carry pain points—and that is why self-coaching is essential. Self-coaching and visionary power go hand in hand: visionary power moves us forward through our deepest dreams, and self-coaching keeps us connected to that power.

No matter how low we might fall, visionary power lifts us back up. Self-coaching helps us stay in touch with that inner strength—the quiet source of harmony in our lives.

Everyone has enough to be proud of, enough strength to guide themselves and others toward the path of freedom. Discovering this potential and building on it constructively leads to what I call visionary success.

Visionary power defines the true success of our lives. Success is not primarily about achieving great things that society admires—even if it can include that. We naturally look up to those who embody success and resilience, and it is wise to learn from them so that we can determine what success truly means to us. But visionary success is deeply personal. It invites each of us to reconnect with our sensitive nature—the inner compass that reveals what truly matters.

The visionary power we carry is the splendor of our lives. It touches a deep core within everyone, regardless of who we are, what we do, or what we can do.

So why not discover or expand this power? You might seek out a coach—a supportive guide—or a mentor, a teacher who walks beside you. But you can also travel this path alone, through self-coaching. After all, who knows you better than you? Or you may choose to combine both: external guidance and inner reflection.

This essay offers a few guiding principles for self-coaching rooted in our emotional world—a world that both frees us and draws on our visionary power. That is what connects the chapters: the awareness that we are all sensitive beings who need the courage to live fully with our feelings, to nurture humanity among one another, to practice mutual self-coaching, to embrace life with joy, and to share our emotional world openly and sincerely.

The harmony we seek in life begins quietly—in the way we listen to our feelings and in the courage to let them guide us toward freedom.

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