My life changed when I experienced the truth of being happy as a natural state of being.
Prof. Srikumar Rao explains that most of us grow up believing that there is something we need do, get or be in order to be happy. The ineffective model most of us employ is:
IF we get this, THEN we […]
Through focusing the mind or with determined observation, meditation increases self-awareness and provides a safe space of emptiness where creative thought naturally flows. Further reflecting on Jill Taylor’s video, this space of meditation seems to be similar to the right-brained state she describes.
This week, I am monitoring my thoughts throughout the day. After a 35 […]
My experiments with Getting Things Done have started. (Right-brained people of the world - don’t have a heart attack… it’s just an experiment.) Objective: to use this methods for reducing stress and to become more efficient by:
Gathering all the thoughts on my mind
Processing the thoughts
Ensuring that items which need accomplishing have a clear, concrete next […]
One of the biggest inhibitions to creativity and creating mindful work environments is the stress that accumulates from the looming cloud of vague commitments. In an age addicted to the hyper-speed of technology, e-mails, meetings, tasks and “stuff” flying around - the stress from trying to hang on to what we […]
What can you do to cultivate your intuition and creativity?
Try meditation. It is not just a spiritual practice. Meditation serves to calm the rampant mind-chatter that runs through your head. When your thoughts quiet down, truth and insight arise from within. It is from this […]
The world we live in treasures the intellectual mind. From a young age we go to school - a structured environment where we are taught to follow instructions, process information and return expected answers in order to succeed. We are not encouraged to fail, nor are we given the […]
Creativity & Personal Mastery has started again. This week’s exercise is to record our mind-chatter throughout the day. It is a very powerful reminder of how unproductive our thoughts can be. The objective is not to get rid of the mind-chatter, just to observe it.
A brilliant example of how useless mind-chatter can […]
Wikipedia’s defines creativity as a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. (Which, by the way, is much better than Merriam-Webster’s attempt, defining creativity as “the quality of being creative”. In Britain that is called sarcasm.)
But where does creativity come from? I […]
