Mindful In May | Day 12
Day Twelve
DAY 12: AN INTERVIEW WITH Mirabai Bush
Mindfulness for life and work
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Just like Me Meditation
A guest meditation by Mirabai Bush
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Video Objectives About Mirabai Bush Video Objectives
In this video you’ll learn:
- What is mindfulness?
- How ambition can sit alongside mindfulness without being a contradiction
- How to better manage the uncertainty and change that come with being human
- How mindfulness builds greater resilience
- A powerful and time efficient mindfulness practice for the workplace
About Mirabai Bush
Mirabai Bush co-founded the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is the author of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and has written two books with Ram Dass: Compassion in Action and Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. She was co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director, founding board member of the Seva Foundation. For over 20 years, she has organized, facilitated and taught in retreats, workshops and courses on mindfulness and action. She has studied with many esteemed teachers including Neemkaroli Baba, Shri S.N. Goenka, Anagarika Munindra Pir Vilayat Khan and Tibetan Buddhist lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Gelek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and others.
A mindful work practice
‘Everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things … since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply.’
~ Seneca
Today, experiment with this simple way to stay focused, manage the overwhelm and move from multi-tasking to mono-tasking in order to maximise your efficiency.
- Choose one task that you will focus on during the set time period.
- Get a plain piece of paper and pen and have them by your computer or workspace.
- Set a timer for thirty minutes.
- Set an intention to stay focused for your set period of time.
- When you notice yourself getting distracted or feel an urge to move to another task (such as checking your email), simply note down the task or distraction on the paper and bring your attention back to the task you intend to focus on. At the end of the thirty minutes you can review your list and set your next priority.
For further time management and productivity hacks, consider downloading a pomodoro app. The Pomodoro Technique was created in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, and it involves dividing your work time into twenty-five-minute increments of focused attention with regular breaks in between. This technique helps bring more mindful awareness to the way we work, and supports efficiency and focus. There are several apps available to help you practise the Pomodoro Technique, many of them free.
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