Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Relaxing amidst the buzz -- Part 1

We lived in the time of Hunt, Agriculture, Trade, Industrialization, Information, and now Knowledge. Each phase of change is characterized by greater production.

The easiest way to higher productivity is spending more time, working harder. Yet, its also a danger that the more focus we are with work, the more of ourselves as human beings are lost. Lost are our beliefs, emotions, friends, family, and maybe our goals we set out to be.

Relaxing amidst the buzz is becoming an important life tool. Yoga, exercise, meditation are all some of the things we can learn. But still having work-relaxing separation can never be fully ideal, because our sense get tense and relax is successive iterations. In Chinese medicine, stability leads to better wellbeing.

The trick, I believed, is to achieve a state of mind that we are relaxed even when we work. We work as the way we would live. This way work-relax(life) separation would not exist. We take things easy and treat our colleagues as friends, friends as colleagues, work as life, life as work, meetings as social, and social as meetings.

To be continue...

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