Being in the moment...
So how do you normally function when you are doing things? Are you one of these people thinking about everything else but the task in hand or do you worry about all the other things that you have to get done today? Or are you staying in the moment when you carry out your to do list?
Whilst I understand that a lot of people are thinking about the all the things they need to do, are you paying enough attention to the thing you are doing now? So, since you are reading this paragraph, is your full attention on reading it? Or do you have the phone in your hand, talking to a friend/colleague, eating some toast or a piece of fruit and putting some more paper in the printer? All this multi-tasking which is supposed to mean we can achieve more isn't really a very calm place to be and it doesn't really enable you to do your best when you are doing the task. And can result in all the individual tasks taking longer and being done to a worse standard.
In a lesson today the student in her activity of "picking up an object off the floor" tried out how it would go if she stayed in the moment during the activity she was doing. Her normal experience was that when she did something that she would be thinking about the next million and one things that she had to be doing and would try to get the task she was doing over as quickly as possible. But she would end up feeling more tense and sometimes having aches and pains that she didn't want. When she tried out the idea of "being in the moment" during the activity the activity was better, all because she allowed herself to give attention to the thing that was most important to her at that point in time.
Being in the moment gives us the opportunity to focus on the task at hand and do that task to the best of our ability at the time. This significantly improves our performance of any task that we do. It also stops us trying to pull ourselves in many different directions at once. This in turn reduces the stress and tension that we experience because we are working towards our goal in harmony. Sounds like a good way to do things to me!! Why don't you try it today?
Whilst I understand that a lot of people are thinking about the all the things they need to do, are you paying enough attention to the thing you are doing now? So, since you are reading this paragraph, is your full attention on reading it? Or do you have the phone in your hand, talking to a friend/colleague, eating some toast or a piece of fruit and putting some more paper in the printer? All this multi-tasking which is supposed to mean we can achieve more isn't really a very calm place to be and it doesn't really enable you to do your best when you are doing the task. And can result in all the individual tasks taking longer and being done to a worse standard.
In a lesson today the student in her activity of "picking up an object off the floor" tried out how it would go if she stayed in the moment during the activity she was doing. Her normal experience was that when she did something that she would be thinking about the next million and one things that she had to be doing and would try to get the task she was doing over as quickly as possible. But she would end up feeling more tense and sometimes having aches and pains that she didn't want. When she tried out the idea of "being in the moment" during the activity the activity was better, all because she allowed herself to give attention to the thing that was most important to her at that point in time.
Being in the moment gives us the opportunity to focus on the task at hand and do that task to the best of our ability at the time. This significantly improves our performance of any task that we do. It also stops us trying to pull ourselves in many different directions at once. This in turn reduces the stress and tension that we experience because we are working towards our goal in harmony. Sounds like a good way to do things to me!! Why don't you try it today?
posted by Barbara @ 3:08 pm
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