In the middle of doing something important if your attitude turns negative or you turn self-critical, do this:
• Drop whatever you are doing for few moments.
• Close your eyes and pay attention to the volley of thoughts swirling in your mind.
• Just watch them and look for the space between each thought. Do not manipulate thoughts; let them flow but maintain a watchful attitude.
• Keep focused on the space between thoughts, the calm awareness on which each thought rise and fall. Initially, thought-flow will look seamless, but stay focused without struggling.
• As you watch, you will realize that space between each appearing-and-disappearing thought widens. Thoughts tend to slow down just like waves after a storm.
• And as you become more aware of this ‘calm awareness’ underlying the seamless thoughts, your negativity will disappear because you will be getting in touch with your natural self.
Harnessing Mindfulness Good Morning Parmjit I apologize for taking so long in contacting you. I wanted to let you know that the evaluations sheets we handed out after you did the session for our Divisional Day (way back in October) were all excellent. Every single staff person who attended your session was very pleased with it. They all found it very relaxing and said that they would enjoy a further session and recommend you to other departments who were having a department day similar to the one you presented your session at.
Also, I should mention that you may in the very near future hear from one of my co-workers asking you to do a session for our individual team. She is working on the logistics with our manager to see what we can do about having you come to one of our meetings.
Once again, I want to thank you for the wonderful session you did for us and wish you the best in 2009.
Tish Rands Child Care Program Analyst City of Hamilton, Ontario Read on ...
