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10 Tips for Mindful Leadership
We all have been inundated with strategies and techniques on how to manage unhealthy stress. Even before Covid-19, there has been plenty to get stress about. Climate change. Technological change. Politics. Aging. Endless distractions. Competition. Relationships. No doubt, it’s all a challenge to manage, and now more than ever. What is a leader to do?
Here are ten tips for challenging the very idea of stress and inspiring others with poise, grace and unlimited power—in any circumstance.
1. Recognize that stress is self-inflicted. It does not come at us from external people and situations. It comes from us. It is a response to a negative projection of the mind, triggering a physical, hormonal response in the body which makes it seem real. We are given proof of whatever it is we are looking for. Our perception becomes our reality. We reap what we sow. Examine your perception and challenge your assumptions.
2. The root cause of anxiety and stress is an individual’s attachment to the ego thought system—a mindset that is fear-based and dualistic. The ego does not see unity among us, and it does not understand true forgiveness, atonement, and peace of mind. It feeds on drama, constantly searches for greener grass, and sees duality in everything: us/them, win/lose, good/bad, male/female. Stress-free leadership requires transcending this thought-system by learning to see from a…
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"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams |