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Yes, life for me is still about being and becoming…what a concept, what a reality, what a way, where the blush is still on the bloom (or is that rose? Whatever, I like the alliteration).
Being one who’s been involved in spiritual development practices for some 26 years now, I’ve been noticing over the past decade how the quality or dynamic of “innocence” has been playing around in my awareness as to how it might apply to our capacity and abilities for being more effective in our business life. Certainly the naïveté of innocence probably wouldn’t be a very wise ingredient to infuse into our mental functioning in business. However, on the other hand, given the high value we place on innovation, personal effectiveness, and wellbeing, there are qualities of innocence–freshness of perspective, authenticity, nonjudgmentalness, wonder, simplicity, loving, playful, adventurous, in the moment, keenly seeing “what is”, trust, open-mindedness, an experience of life where the blush is still on the bloom–that could be highly valued in business if applied or enacted discerningly.
I’m sure that most of us have noticed the increasing popularity of books in the marketplace talking about spirituality, be it about how to be more present or centered, how to be more mindful, how to get beyond our ego, how to attract this or that, how to be more authentic and real, how to be more loving, find inner peace, feel more joy and wellbeing, reduce stress, and the like. In my 61 years on the planet I’ve learned to become an advocate of such orientations, particularly as they might apply to our business lives. As they say, once we’re on our deathbed we are not likely to thinking anything like, “I wish I had spent more time at work”. Our personal life and well-being are much more important to us than we give ourselves time to notice and consider. And with “doing business” as the maypole of our lives combined with the hyper urgency of everything, it’s extremely challenging for us to step back far enough to put things in a healthy perspective.
So, innocence. In business? Right. Well, certainly not “childhood” innocence in toto. But what if there was some version of “adult” innocence that we could learn and utilize in our business lives? Not so much only as a quality or characteristic of mind, but as an authentic state of mind that when we were in it, functioning in it and from it, we would experience the best of “childhood innocence” yet it would also serve our “adult” business-oriented needs? Sound impossible, implausible, or infeasible? Keep reading.
Like I said at the beginning of this post, at 61 the blush is still on the bloom of life for me. Several years ago, during the recent period of “channeling/writing” of my book (meaning that aha’s, epiphanies, insights, and revelations would come to me–often during my writing but usually during meditation—that I had never thought about or realized before) I started discovering another way of “being here”, being present, perceiving, performing, that is a result of a perspective shift, a paradigm shift, in awareness (and consciousness, as I later learned). My biofeedback training helped me recognize that this was the Theta brainwave state that avails us more naturally to the non-dual state of consciousness and awareness (think “walking meditation” or some such; eyes open, engaging others). I won’t go into this much here, but we are usually asleep or near sleep (not “functionally” aware) in the theta brainwave state, but we can learn to be “awake” or at least aware in this state. There are many benefits of learning how to make this shift in perspective/awareness/sensing during the day, especially while “at work”. It’s what I’m positioning as a state of “adult innocence”, and what I’ve come to call “innascence”…a state and condition of being-as-becoming. After a time, once we sufficiently assimilate the dynamics of this state, we can more easily enact these dynamics when not in the theta brainwave state itself. Juicy stuff.
(To be continued)
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