Just as exercise or practicing a sport can get sloppy, last week, my practice of meditation and mindfulness got very sloppy as I just carelessly went through the routines. It showed up in the self-sabotaging form of a scattered brain resulting in not getting anything accomplished.
Therefore, I had to work especially hard to pay attention.
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Your brain is neutral. It is your mind that literally sculpts your brain. The brain does cares not what neural circuits are grown… it only responds to signals. When I graduated from college, a mentor told me to remember that it is just as easy to learn bad management skills…
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So, I love the idea of a motto… I love it because it serves as a tool to remind us to be who we want to be… it serves as a metric to make conscious decisions by… growing and raising you level of consciousness is a process, a journey, a way of life. The way I see it, we do things unconsciously all the time that do not serve us well (like getting angry when someone cuts us off), I call this unconscious…
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I have come to strongly believe that masters, be it musicians, mathematicians, athletes, artists, or computer programmers, are made, not born. We may be born in different environments with different skill levels, but significance resides in if and how we build our skills…
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I went kiteboarding this afternoon and quickly realized that when one is kiteboarding, one is practicing a type of Mindfulness, especially when the seas are as rough as they were today. It requires your total presence and a skillful use of attention… and when you are in that state of mind, it feels good. Kiteboarding forces the need to be totally present.
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It is during these moments that the ego rears its head and it plays hard ball. The ego can justify anything when it gets something it doesn’t want or wants something it doesn’t get… and it is very, very good at it.
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As simple as this idea is, and as often as we may have heard variations of this idea, taking the time to contemplate and understand the power of this sentence can be life changing. It was for me. If your inner world is subjective…
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The question arose, how do you keep the positive mental and physical effects flowing between moments of joy… such as the first day of work after a vacation?
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WE ARE all born with essentially the same brain. Dan Seigel created a work-in-progress definition of the brain and the mind that satisfies many fields of study that I have adapted. And he defined the brain…
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“Paralysis by analysis” is an overactive prefontal cortex. Sometimes you need to break free of your knowledge… to think outside of the box. The working memory provides a narrow focus of attention, when what is needed is the part of the brain that has a wider array of awareness…
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