Can a 500-year-old, 5-minute technique help you manage your day - How the Pope Does Mindfulness - Fast Company
Note From Jim
As described by writer Drake Baer, the new Pope is a Jesuit, a sect of Catholicism that emphasizes education and awareness. This sect calls on it’s followers to practice mindfulness twice daily for the purpose of examining one’s state of mind.
Access Drake’s quick and insightful article below. To tickle your curiosity, see excerpts.
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How The Pope Does Mindfulness
Can a 500-year-old, 5-minute technique help you manage your day (Catholicism not required)?
By Drake Baer
Excerpts:
You just make five minutes in the middle of your day and again at the end for a quick check-in with yourself. Lowney describes the practice in three steps:
- First, remind yourself why you are grateful as a human being.
- Second, lift your horizon for a moment. Call to mind some crucial personal objective, or your deepest sense of purpose, or the values you stand for.
- Third, mentally review the last few hours and extract some insight that might help in the next few hours. If you were agitated, what was going on inside you? If you were distracted and unproductive, why?
The practice has a genius to it, Lowney says, because…
Access Full Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/3007253/how-pope-does-mindfulness
Also See Related Article: A Simple Ritual for Harried Managers (and Popes) - HBR, by Chris Lowney: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/a_simple_ritual_for_harried_managers_and.html
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