Mindfulness and other meditation techniques can result in a big confusion when it brings the closing of the eyes. It happened to me at the very beginning of my journey. I felt life binary, awaken with open eyes and sleeping with close eyes. It took some practice to enter also in the middle state of […]
How to help humans to cope with digital transformation
Much has been written about digital transformation and its 360º impact on business. After more than 25 years in the IT industry, I can simply reinforce what a deep impact it has and how important it is for any business (and any businessperson) willing to make a living (keep market presence and earnings) in the […]
Mindfulness and the power of breathing
Mindfulness fully rests on the power of breathing. However, breathing and its benefits rarely are in the spotlight. This article will add more focus and explanation around it. Let’s start by the most common position to practice mindfulness: seated in a chair. We usually are asked to find a way to sit where you can […]
Well-being on return to the workplace: the leader’s role
Returning to the workplace remains uncertain for the vast majority of people. Even with the complete vaccination schedule, the proper care and the slow return to a certain “normality”, many of the employees feel insecure about interrupting the new routine and returning to the workplace with new and different dynamics. Organizations face unique challenges, with […]
M1: Self-knowledge
In this post, we will explore the first movement of this journey and everything that happens inside to add more clarity to our conceptual framework. You can go deeper in these concepts by reading the previous articles of this series. The first movement draws and coloring the self. These corresponds to self-perception and self-knowledge. By […]
The path to consciousness
“The map of the self” integrates in a single framework “the 5 levels of the self” plus “the skeleton of the self”. This framework builds order and meaning to all meditation practices that build “self-awareness”, “self-knowledge”, and “self-management”. The basic movement that we experience with a sustained meditation practice takes us from a distracted, unaware […]
The skeleton of the self
A complete meditation practice trains five elements: attention, intention, attitude, action, and impact. It helps to understand attention, intention, and attitude (the first three) as the upper triangle which easily represents the mind, the dedicated practice, or the being. On the other hand, attitude, action, and impact (the last three) conform the lower triangle and […]
How to experience the Christmas season more consciously
Traditionally, Christmas season is a festive period that is intended to be full of light, colour, joy, and family life. Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, everything around gets us into a festive mode. But Christmas comes also with the automatic pilot impulse to buy gifts and decoration, to organize celebrations and dinners. And this automatic […]
How can mindfulness impact well-being?
We all want to feel well and live better, but our lifestyle or conditions are causing damage, manifesting as fatigue, anxiety, exhaustion or even physical pain. This historic time that we are living with the pandemic has aggravated many of these symptoms. Many of us feel disconnected, stuck in past routines that no longer have […]
Training in attitude, action, and impact (part 2)
A complete mindfulness practice deals with the training of the five characteristics that we identified in the first part of this article: attention, intention, attitude, action, and impact. This drawing illustrates these five elements and establishes their main relationships. Any deep mindfulness practice includes integrating the two levels that the drawing clearly identifies: First, we […]