How Meditation Helps Me in My Work

🧘‍♂️ I’ve been meditating for many years. It’s been life-changing and I know I’ll keep doing it for the rest of my life.
 
Meditation has helped me in my work in so many ways and in so many situations. I’d like to share a few of these in the hope that they can be of benefit to others.
 
1️⃣ When a project or case seems utterly stuck 🚧, and I feel like I can’t make any progress. If I meditate and just observe the stuckness without judging it, without trying to fix "it," the stuckness ceases to be a problem and I can move on 🚣‍♂️
 
How? There's no recipe, but what I've noticed is this: By fully embracing the stuckness as my current but fleeting state, at the same time I create a healthy distance to it. The distance allows me to see its effects, I can see the repetition of a habit, and I can see other options that I'm free to pursue 🔆
 
2️⃣ When I disagree with someone or can’t relate to them 😠 🤦🏻‍♂️. Meditation here often leads to the realization that my disagreement is saying something about me, putting me in the center, which keeps me from connecting to another person with empathy and compassion.
 
When I let go of my attachment to disagreeing, the desire to be “right,” wondrous things can happen: the “other” side feels you listen to them (because you do!) and they start listening to you, and you both gain access to a new space to act differently, change, see a solution to a seemingly intractable problem.

Here's when real dialogue and meeting of opposites emerges. Again, no recipe. But I've seen that sometimes it’s when opposites meet, I mean really meet, that we arrive at “innovation,” something believed to be next to impossible, but proves totally doable ☀