Mindfulness
Superfood for the Mind

In today’s article I’m going to share how mindfulness can not only boost your inner peace but your performance, resilience and productivity. Without a consistent mindfulness practice, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed and unable to handle the multiple hurdles life throws at you.

Many so called “high performers” simply push through until it all crashes.

The result?

What a mess.

There’s a simple way you can start shifting this from being an emotionally overwhelmed mess to being a grounded, focused, and high performing navigator of life.

Mindfulness in today’s world is perceived as a well being tool for peace and groundedness. Yes, it is. But I also see it as a required tool for being able to handle a lot of moving pieces all at the same time.

The most successful people I’ve met have the ability to deal with a lot going on at the same time. Handling multiple projects moving at speed involving different people, they’re able work on these projects whilst looking after their health and energy, being there for their family and managing their household.

What is mindfulness?

The dictionary defines mindfulness as: the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.

In the context of our topic today, we are focusing on the ability to be aware of what is on our mind.

3 Superpowers Mindfulness Unlocks:

1. Emotional regulation

Mindfulness results in increasing the gap between stimulus and response. Low performers are reactors. They react to all the thoughts coming though their mind with little consideration of whether that thought is worth their attention.

There’s a difference between:

“I am angry” vs” I am experiencing angry thoughts”

With the former, you become one with the thought. You become one with anger.

With the later, you are one with the awareness and able to view your angry thoughts objectively.

This gap allows you to be the space where thoughts reside rather than the thoughts themselves.

Why is this important?

A gap between stimulus and response means you’re less reactive. You’re able to make key decisions in from a grounded place. You allow emotions to come and go and don’t spend your life being wound up by them.

2. Managing your mental radar

Here’s a typical radar of what could be on our mind on a daily basis….

Mindfulness allows us to be the air traffic controller rather than the pilot of each plane.

It gives us a high level real time view of all the moving pieces without getting involved in the detail of each one. If you are the pilot of each plane, your view can only be from the cockpit of that one plane (or one thought).

That may make sense, if that thought or project is a priority, but you will only know whether it’s a priority focus area once you’ve assessed the whole radar.

Why is this important? 

When you’re able to have perspective of what’s on your mental radar, you don’t become too involved with the thoughts and feelings. You’re able to have an objective view.

You are less emotional and overwhelmed about the situation which then increases your resilience and decision making abilities. You’re able to prioritise which plane (or project) needs to land first, whilst multiple others are taking off.

You’re able to do this whilst maintaining your peace in the midst of chaos.

3. Deliberate creation

When you are able to have more control of your attention you can start to choose where to focus it. Where you focus your attention creates your reality in that moment.

You can choose to focus on all the things that are going wrong and get upset about it. You can choose to focus on potential solutions. You could also choose to focus on something completely different like how that bird is nesting on a tree.

This is a powerful place to be. As you control your attention, you control the reality you experience. The reality you create creates an energy field. Your vibration, frequency, that you are emitting further attracts more of this kind of energy and physical manifestation.

This is when life starts to become fun as you allow things to unfold.

Why is this important? 

You can start to change your whole experience of life and what you create by shifting your attention away from certain thoughts. This is the beginning of starting to create the life, business, career, health, relationships that you want.

How To Start a Mindfulness Practice

I may write another article (if there’s enough interest) with more details about mindfulness practices but it’s not complicated. Even starting with 5 minutes a day consistently is powerful.

It’s all about creating space.

The standard mindfulness practices you’ll of:

But there’s an even more powerful way that uses collective consciousness…and that is being around others who are on a similar or higher wavelength.

This is why I consistently receive feedback from my clients that what they experience in our coaching sessions cannot be described in words. They shift levels of consciousness. The way they see their world transforms.

People have told me the same about our group community calls. There’s a powerful shift that happens when you are around other like-minded corporate leaders and entrepreneurs obsessed about going within to bring out more of themselves.

The first will be at the end of this month.

Wednesday April 24th at 7:30pm (UK time).

Block it off your calendar. Here’s the link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7053060039

15 mins of me teaching 1 distinction. 45 mins Q&A and conversation.

No cost. A gift from me to you.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

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