Learning and Delivering through Mindfulness
Mindfulness Helps Focusing on Self-Awareness and Builds Trust
Sep 23, 2009
Mindfulness encourages concentration and people may be encouraged to focus their best efforts on one task at a time. For instance cook while you cook or read while you read. Mindfulness leads to improving commitment, compassion, and open communications.
A saint in Rishikesh (India) gave the essence of mindfulness, saying, " Saints eat lunch, not worrying for dinner. Sleep, not worrying for bedding. Undertake pilgrimage, not worrying for travel. Our minds are occupied in the present.” This provides insight into why saints are wiser, happier, healthier, and live longer.
Live in the Moment with Mindfulness
Not many people are able to spend quality time with their families. Some may possess power, respect and money yet they are lonely. Surrounded by business, work, and life complexities; most people forget to feel and experience the moments that make up a day.
Some understand that it is only their thinking, feelings, contentment, and acceptance in the present which determines their happiness. Mindfulness advocates principle of living with acceptance, making the most of it and moving on in life.
Mindfulness Corporate Mantra
Mindfulness is a mantra for keeping the human resource "well informed and well involved." Employees become focused, less reactive and communicate openly. It transforms attitudes and thoughts resulting in enhanced performance. Mindfulness helps those in power to carry their self assessment by evaluating their leadership traits, management styles, and business ethics. Using more of EQ over IQ changes the work culture to 'learning and delivering' in a fearless environment.
Yesterday’s business solutions become base for today’s business problems. For instance, Multi-task may work wonders in terms of saving costs. But have organizations ever thought what it means to the individual? It brings in distractions, overloading, physical and mental stress. Research shows that Multi-task slows the work output compared to the output associated with doing each task separately; this is largely due to the mistakes that are more apt to occur when Multi-task is performed.
Some people feel that mindfulness is a practice that's not applicable to work situations. However, Swami Karmananda, based on the teachings of Gita, opines that mindfulness is highly successful in the work place.
Mindfulness Improves Power of Concentration
By managing one task at a time, mental faculties work in tandem to complete the task in a satisfactory manner. People are therefore left with no alternative but to concentrate. Slowly concentration becomes habit and part of the mindset. It brings in efficiency, alertness, happiness of fulfillment, and a drive to achieve tasks.
Mindfulness improves creativity. Look at a manual carpet weaver for instance; his mindfulness usually results in original master craftsmanship. It is nearly impossible to produce the exact same design on a new carpet.
Mindfulness Controls Thoughts and Emotions
Thoughts wander like a fish moving aimlessly from one point to another in a pond. Mindfulness acts as a therapy for controlling thoughts and emotions. One task at a time leads to filtration of irrelevant and unconnected thoughts.
Mindfulness discourages living in the past or thinking about the future. It makes aware of thoughts, but it discourages attachment to these thoughts and the experience washes over one's mind and body as it occurs. Birds and animals are a live example of mindfulness when they search for food. They live for the moment and make best use of it.
Mindfulness Helps in Enlightenment
As a result of practicing mindfulness, people can change their ways of working, thoughts, beliefs, jealousy, greed, excess desire or even angry behavior. The mind and heart start becoming transparent. Living life to the fullest each moment becomes the sole motto.
Mindfulness encourages enjoying each moment, regardless of success or failure. People can begin to experience self-realization and be on the journey towards becoming enlightened.
Reducing Stress Through Mindfulness
Scientific research suggests that mindfulness helps reduce stress, while enhancing performance and improving quality of life. Stress and frustrations gradually change to cooperation, team spirit and fellow feelings.
Mindfulness discourages negative internal conversations and helps refocus mind to the present goals. It helps calm negative thoughts and feelings.
Living life in the mindfulness mode requires an attitudinal adjustment and this does not occur overnight. Thoughts, beliefs, and feelings in subconscious mind create obstacles and are happy maintaining the status quo. There is need to transform to this mode gradually. Be aware of thoughts and focus on the activity at a particular point in silence, say, for five to ten minutes daily. Initially it would appear as if humans are short sighted and going backwards. But with practices, people will realize that they are able to set realistic goals with a workable and focused plan of action in the immediate present. One can become a step closer to a mission of learning and delivering.
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