What do you know about Your Thoughts?
Mindfulness and our Thoughts
Bring your investigative skills to work
Do you notice when your mind wanders off from your task at hand? Maybe you realize you are no longer listening to that news on the radio, to the person presenting in a business meeting, your client on the other end of the video meeting or phone call. Or perhaps worse, in the middle of an important conversation with a loved one, you realize you didn’t catch the last few sentences and you don’t want to ask them to repeat.
Thinking is a gift of being human. It allows us to analyze, evaluate, plan, imagine, create, collaborate, and so much more.
At the same time, our thoughts are our biggest distraction. When left to their devices at all times, they keep us busy, more than we recognize. They can decrease our efficiency as our brain keeps switching between the task at hand and the thoughts that hijacked our mind. Each time we shift focus costs us anywhere from 64 seconds up to 23 minutes. Each shift costs our brain extra energy that it could utilize elsewhere. Thoughts can reduce our productivity and creativity.
Thoughts can also increase stress and anxiety. Before we know it, we are longing for the past or worrying about the future.
We obviously need to think and analyze.
What would happen if you become more self-aware, including of your thought process and patterns?
A brief guided mindfulness of thoughts meditation from a recent practice circle is waiting for you below. Give it a try and see what you notice:
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