Successful, guilt-free inner work with heart and mind

Show Notes / Exercises — Episode 12:

 Successful, guilt-free inner work with heart and mind                                           

Play:

• Being a teammate
  • Picture the benefits in being a good teammate and boosting others on your team
  • See the various people in your life as teammates
  • How could you help them thrive through your attitude and approach?

• Playfulness
  • Look at your most difficult settings and situations
  • Is it possible to see them differently?
  • Could a spirit of playfulness help? Even humor?

 A play on Einstein’s thought experiments:

• Picture yourself filled with light and love
  • This feeling has nothing to do with outer events or circumstances
  • If necessary, start small. Feel love in the tip of your finger
  • Don’t be discouraged
  • Don’t give up
  • Einstein’s ideas took years to develop

• What qualities would you add to make you the person you’d like to be?
  • Note: Consider qualities, not abilities
  • Why did you pick these?
  • Which ones are you already good at?

• Test these out in your imagination
  • How would you bring these into play in different settings?
  • How different would you be if you had these qualities?

 

Quotations

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

 — Albert Schweitzer

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. 

— R.D. Lang

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

— Dylan Thomas