THOUGHTS ON
Mind rejuvenation
Sacred space is an absolute necessity
By Chuck Morris
where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you
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e live in a busy time; all of us. Throw in an ever increasing workload as we strive to accomplish more to satisfy those demands and then top it off with COVID-19. There is no doubt that people are stressed, full of angst, and wonder if they will be without an income or if an immune-compromised family member will become ill. You can see it in their faces; the way some are reserved when speaking and losing concentration while trying to do their work. One method to deal with some of these distractions at work is to pause, and take 30 minutes for yourself to collect your thoughts and clear your mind. Leave the phone and email alone and ensure you close your door. This is your time, and after those 30 minutes, it will become productive time. Set a calendar appointment for yourself to allow you the time to move into that 30-minute period. If you do not, like many small projects, it will get pushed to the
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for anybody today. This is a space
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might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens here. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)
side to allow more time to deal with something else. Don’t let that happen to you. However you describe that 30-minute time frame, it will become one of the most valuable periods for yourself that you can allow for, during your workday. Aldous Huxley once said, “There is only one corner of the universe you can be sure of improving, and that is your own self.” With that in mind, why not use your 30 minutes of Mind Rejuvenation (MR) to relax, de-stress, and just ‘be’. If you are like many I know, that will eventually (soon) morph into “how can I tackle this from a different angle” and enable you to move the job along. Or, what frequently happens while working your way through the 30 minutes, you may think of a different method to tackle whatever it is you are working on. I have seen it countless times in my long career. Just sitting back with the phone off and email ignored, suddenly a new thought pops into the mind with that new path showing the next step or completion you may have been struggling to find! Build this session into your work week. Practice it at least once a week. However, make sure you dedicate the half hour to the aforementioned processes. When stuck on a problem, taking the 30-minute break works wonders! In a recent book, author Todd Henry asked, “Why don’t we pause to think?” That’s a good question. He went on to suggest: 1. T oo busy doing the work. 2. Afraid how it may look to others around us. We have entered a new dynamic around work and the way in which it is accomplished. There is a lot of work out there that speaks to this. Help yourself, take your MR, and benefit from it. Ovid, a Roman poet who died in the 17th Century simply stated this: Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. n
