Self-Awareness vs Meditation
- 07 October 2024
The best business decisions are made when we’re grounded here, not depleted from relentless mental speed fuelled by a constant sense of lack and fear.
Self-awareness is more important than blocking out time to meditate
Don’t fool yourself: You are either present or talking to yourself.
Have you ever stopped to notice how much you talk to yourself compulsively?
And how repetitive and boring what you say is most of the time?
From stating the very obvious: “I’d better clean my teeth”, “This person in front of me’s walking really slowly”…
…to getting lost in a mental battle trying to make a decision or find a solution to something in your business or life.
But the question is: How much of your day-to-day is spent in a whirlwind of mental energy?
How much of your experience of life is conceptual: “My business”, “My relationship”, “the past”, “the future”, “me”?
And how much is real: What is actually here, simple and in flow?
There is a lot of richness here, which may involve a bit of conceptual thinking but also a LOT of intuition, the senses and feelings:
The feeling of your body and the breath that keeps it alive.
The space inside you and around you.
Colours, tastes and movement.
Your fingers on the keyboard. Insight in silence.
You are not a robot. Life is to be felt.
The best business decisions are made when we’re grounded here, not depleted from relentless mental speed fuelled by a constant sense of lack and fear.
Being able to feel the difference between being lost in this mental energy versus here in flow is a natural part of the “Finding You” journey that this article-series talks about.
It’s boring when you are addicted to thinking.
It’s rich when you start to discover it’s where all the gold is.
And that it has nothing to do with “doing nothing”, “not planning” or “carpe diem”.
Where life and you are at your sharpest.
Explore for two days and see if that is true.
If not, you can go back to droning on at yourself on the third day. 😀
Discover more over the coming weeks in our “Finding You“ series. Start reconnecting you to the YOU underneath all the noise.
