Note from Jim: Great and quick lessons below from Peter Bregman.
Try It. Just 10 minutes a day. Separate your self from the messages that your mind produces.
Find your self. Watch / observe your breadth. Your breathing happens unconsciously. So does your thinking.
Observe what you mind is doing… what is it that your mind is thinking and saying. Don't engage with the thoughts or the emotions they create. Just be a witness. The witness is your self, not your mind, or the thinking, the messages, and the images that your mind produces.
Best Always - Jim
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Try Meditation to Strengthen Your Resilience
by Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review
http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/12/try-meditation-to-strengthen-y.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
Excerpts:
One of the great gifts of meditation is that it exposes your Self. As it turns out, it's surprisingly easy to find because it's always there, watching.
Follow your breath as it goes in and out of your body without thinking about anything in particular except your breath. soon enough, you will notice that your mind is thinking about something
The person noticing those thoughts? That's you. That's your Self. Your Self just noticed "thinking".
... no matter what happens,... you'll be fine. Even though everything around you may change — how much money you have, whether you have a job, whether you're married, and so on — your Self will still be there, observing.
... even in failure, you'll be able to let the part of you that did not change as a result of the failure see what it feels like to fail. Then, when you realize your Self is still intact, you'll get up and try again.
[REPEAT] The person noticing those thoughts? That's you. That's your Self. Your Self just noticed "thinking".
You are not your thinking. You are the person watching your thinking. That little distinction is the difference between feeling your feelings and being them — and it's critically important. When you feel anger, you're in control of what you do next. When you are angry, you've lost control.
The part of you that observes your thoughts and feelings is steady and wise and trustworthy. Identifying with your stable, predictable Self makes you a stable, predictable person and leader, one who doesn't get tossed around by random events and the decisions of the people around you.
PETER BREGMAN
Peter Bregman is a strategic advisor to CEOs and their leadership teams. His latest book is 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done.
http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/12/try-meditation-to-strengthen-y.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
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