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How meditation can do much more than achieve work-life balance
Recently, work-life balance has been an important topic of discussion for many organizations. In close relation to this, CEOs and influential personalities have expressed a number of viewpoints around the optimal number of working hours for employees in a week.
For some years, some experts have suggested that a four-day work week instead of five might provide a better work-life balance.
Then suddenly, opposing viewpoints recently mentioned the opposite—that for someone to be successful and impactful, a 90-hour work week might be the best, setting off another storm of reactions and responses on the internet.
And then, seemingly wiser people commented that the quality of work or outcomes mattered the most. Or productivity. So, it does not matter as much as the number of hours someone works in a week.
Since meditation is closely linked to stress management and quality of life and health, it has a lot to offer in this debate around work-life balance and wellness in the workplace and one’s career.
With decades of experience in meditation and thousands of practitioners who have had long careers, we offer a simple yet powerful solution to this question of working hours and work-life balance.
Better than a New Year resolution
Wishing a Happy New Year to all our subscribers and meditators. As another year comes into focus, we can’t help but wonder how we’ve been accustomed to positive thinking and optimism at the beginning of each year. There’s an innate desire to make changes in our lives and consider new ventures and attempts at self-improvement.
It is also the most introspective time of the year than any other. For most of us, that’s because another year has slipped by, and we’re re-evaluating if we achieved what we had set out to do. Also, where do we stand, and what more we can strive for?
For whatever it’s worth, we try to establish new goals, resolutions, and decisions—anything we can do to use this fleeting moment of shining the light into our lives to make them better. Experience tells us that the “New Year optimism and excitement” wears off pretty fast. It gives way to falling back to old ways, embracing the mundane lives we’ve been leading, or worse still, locking us deeper into the grind that we seem to be stuck with.
New Year’s Resolutions are great; they represent our attempts at introspection, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. But they come with the usual risks—the reversion to the mean or the same old life and habits and the disappointment of yet another promise we make to ourselves remaining unfulfilled.
But most people don’t notice that they almost always come with something we have to do, take action on, and spend time and effort. Instead, what if we went the other way for a change? What if we did nothing physically or cognitively but surrendered to the great spiritual power that we already have access to and allowed it to tell us where we stand in our lives and guide us into necessary changes? Stated differently, we pause our everyday lives for a moment and shift our attention to what the all-powerful nature that created us is telling us.
Can Sahaja meditation Influence Personality?
No one is perfect. Every human being has strengths, weaknesses, and facets of our personalities that we would like to improve. And yet we wonder, are there things about ourselves that will never change? While many personality traits may seem unmoving, often with perseverance, perspectives, behaviors, and responses can shift.
Changing habits – winning the fight
Everyone on a self-improvement journey knows how difficult it is to form new habits or eliminate bad ones.
The obvious traits that we use are willpower and discipline. Some YouTube self-improvement gurus may also give us cognitive strategies backed by science. However, these take time to implement and sustain continuously. If you can exercise them to change your habits, then let them be a plus or nice to have. We need other powerful ways that are intrinsic to us and that we can tap into.
The best way to overcome tiredness
Relax, take it easy, get some rest, they’ll say. As meditation practitioners, we can certainly do something much better and specific than that.
We feel tired because our attention within us is tired, and we cannot cope and take it anymore. Ever notice how you feel tired or lacking motivation even when you haven’t exerted yourself physically or mentally?
When we keep our attention fresh, recharged, and raring to go, we can cope with nearly any level of physical or mental exertion.
The secret to having lots of energy is to work on our attention, cleanse it, and recharge it frequently.
Let’s examine how meditation can help with this.