(12.1) Metaphysical Exercise
Fred Kofman
Executive Coach | President at Conscious Business Center International - CBC
"Think of headspace as a gym for the mind"
Andy Puddicombe
If you don't have the muscle, you won't be able to lift the weight. That's why you go to the gym.
In your regular life, you don't do squats, pull-ups, or push-ups, but you use your muscles in infinite ways. Lack of exercise would cause them to atrophy--use it or lose it.
The same goes for consciousness.
Meditation is a way to develop metaphysical muscles such as peace, benevolence, objectivity, self-awareness, discipline, and happiness.
These strengths are essential to implement the principles of conscious business. These principles are simple but not easy, common sense yet not common practice, seem good but don't feel good. When you most need them you will least want to use them. That's why you have to apply them through rationality and will.
In this video, I describe why emotional intelligence requires practical consciousness and why practical consciousness requires practice.
Readers: If you have tried headspace, let us know how it went for you. If you haven't, give it a try (it's free) and tell us what you think. It's the easiest way to go to "the gym for the mind." If you are ready to go all in, try also John Kabat-Zinn (see his amazing program with Bill Moyers in the Related Content of module 12 of Conscious Business Academy).
Fred Kofman is Vice President at Linkedin. This post is part 12.1 of Linkedin's Conscious Business Program. You can find the introduction and structure of the program here. Follow Fred Kofman on LinkedIn here. To stay connected and get updates please visit Conscious Business Academy and join our Conscious Business Friends group.
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5 年I have not used Headspace but I have other apps that I use for meditation. I do a daily meditation practice.
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6 年I didn't see a video above, however, I'll answer the reader prompt.? I have tried Headspace, and often recommend that my clients offer a subscription to it? as a benefit to their employees. However, day to day, I used Insight Timer. The way it allows you to time things, add music and do bells works better for me. When I learned meditation (after a few attempts at methods that didn't work well for me, my instructor told me to think of meditation as "part of primary care" - you brush your teeth, you meditate.?
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6 年I'm off to get the Headspace app!
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6 年I did try Headspace 3 years ago. I remember some animated videos. They were powerfully simple. They helped me to understand certain situations like the busyness generates by thoughts in my brain as well as the flow of emotions and events in life (like clouds in the sky, they come and go). Ihave also heard of John Kabat Zinn but never tried any ofhis programme in full unfortunately.
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6 年I didn't try, but I will learn more about it.