Every day we are forced to produced at inhumane rates. How do we overcome procrastination? How do we keep on task when our day is full of distractions and an array of pointless meetings? Maybe, the whole problem is how we are looking at the issue. Maybe, you have tried all the traditional approaches with lists and such. We’ll offer some easy-to-try tips on how to get motivated and focused during your most stressful times using meditation. Be prepared to shift how you look at productivity.
Show Summary
- Segment 1: A new perspective on productivity – Learn how to balance your outer chaos with a sense of inner peace.
- Segment 2: Tips to Combat Procrastination- Taking responsibility for your projects and gaining the energy to plow through action items even when you feel stalled.
- Segment 3: Distractions – What would it look like if you leaned into your distractions and accepted them? How can meditation help your distracted mind? Why do distractions leave you feeling confused and lost?
- Segment 4: Not Getting Anything Done- It’s one of THOSE days when despite all effort, and intention none of your action items off your list got done. Do you beat yourself up about it and get filled with guilt/shame? What is a more helpful way of dealing with times when you don’t get anything done.
Blog Post from our Guest
Want Some Order In Your Daily Chaos? Here’s How To Get It!
Straightening up the kitchen, hanging up your clothes, putting away the groceries, picking up the living room, scheduling your days and weeks in appointment books or calendars, sequencing your goals and strategies, organizing your paperwork and bills, looking in the TV Guide to determine how to arrange your evening, sorting out what you have and what you need for the next week’s meals, and on and on . . .
In today’s world, there is so much to put into place, you’ve probably acclimated to the idea that feeling overwhelmed has to be a daily visitor knocking on your door.
This leads to a sense of impending chaos, a tightening of control, and often fear of losing your way. The result? Losing sight of your purpose for doing it all in the first place.
In this state of frustration, exhaustion, and fear, you find yourself scrambling even more to get your life in order — once and for all.
At often breakneck speed, you find yourself racing from one task to another, hurrying to out run the ever encroaching chaos. You believe this will keep your life from falling into a complete uproar of bedlam, pandemonium, and madness.
This, of course, causes immense stress, decreases the effectiveness of the immune system, extends a less than polite but continual invitation for exhaustion and illness, and usually closes the door for good communication, clear thinking, and compassion for yourself and others.
To sum it all up: you may actually feel like a hamster running round and round on that ever turning wheel having forgotten why you’re doing it and what your life is actually all about. Seeking to create orderliness means you are also wanting to find a sense of peace, harmony, and security. Yet the result of “ever faster” and “more” and “better” is actually confusion, turmoil, and insecurity.
When you’re lacking clarity and feeling wobbly about what you’re doing in your life, where you’re going with it, and who you think you are, stop a moment and realize you are in the grips of yet another Unresolvable Dilemma.
Emerging Marketplace Mystics know that Unresolvable Dilemmas call for a different approach and an altogether different strategy.
Managing This Unresolvable Dilemma
An Unresolvable Dilemma is defined by the presence of an interdependent polar pair of opposites. Because order and chaos actually define one another, they cannot be separated and thus are interdependent. The easiest way to manage this Unresolvable Dilemma is to understand the dynamic unfolding between the two options.
Chaos is pulled into being by one life force that moves to destabilize any steady state.
Order is pulled into being by the opposite life force that moves to stabilize any changing state.
When these two forces are free to engage in the continual process of re-balancing, creativity arises out of the rhythmic movement between the two. Creativity can be described as a gap in a habitual way of thinking or perceptual patterning.
In order for creativity to arise, any stable state will have to be disrupted to allow a new pattern to arise. And, the disrupted state will have to be stabilized for the new pattern to arise and be perceived. This means disruption and stability are two sides of the same coin.
A creative act unleashes the joy of human expression. Whether we call this learning, discovering, growing, or awakening, it is dependent on the deep partnership between chaos and order.
The appropriate strategy here is to relax in the presence of both chaos and order. Too much chaos results in anarchy and pandemonium. Too much order results in rigidity and fixation. Just the right amount of balance between the two allows creativity to arise. In this gap of possibility, the new thought, insight, feeling, discovery, innovation or invention, becomes free to emerge.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, Mirabeau and Politics, 1927
Life is a creative process unfolding. Understanding chaos and order from a paradoxical perspective allows you to be privy to the nature of creativity itself — and thus the freedom to become immersed in its arising and embraced by its joy.
If you’re not yet aware of my on-line training designed to give you this precise strategy, click here for details on The Mystic’s Wisdom De-Coded 12 week program.
Enjoy discovering how this dance frees the magic of your own creativity to unfold.
Much love,
Ragini
About Our Guest
Ragini is the founder of Facticity® Trainings, Inc., a training and consulting company established in 1988 offering certification trainings in Paradox Management, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian Hypnosis.
Her original work on the Psychology of Paradox has received critical acclaim and taken her throughout America, Canada, Europe, and India presenting workshops and seminars. She is the creator of eight hypnosis/meditation CD’s, and the author of two books on paradox with her third,Unflappable – 6-Steps To Staying Happy, Centered, and Peaceful No Matter What, available May 2012 (Conari Press).
Ragini is a true expert on human communication styles and practical spirituality.
Her approach relies on the practical application of her behavioral change skills and personal wisdom from 35 years of exploring meditation and stress release as it relates to living in a paradoxical world. These elements create a unique perspective and style that supports people’s desire to blend the wisdom of their spiritual lives into the fabric of their material lives to produce results, a sense of purpose, and more joy and inspiration from daily living.
