Is not that the workplace that is stressful, nor the workload, it’s just that you are overthinking.
Instead of focusing your attention on what needs to be done now, in this right moment, you are thinking in advance: “how much you have to do, how you are working and other people don’t…how they have a bigger salary, how someone is smoking and you’re sitting there doing all the work….”
This is, what is stressing you, not the actual work. You can make your work a spiritual process. Lose yourself into a 8h meditation. All the attention is on what you are doing, and giving your best, to that moment, not thinking at what others do, not comparing, just doing your work.
Those 8 h will transform in such a short time, and you will enjoy it. Because when you re focused on something, when you re engaged into an activity, time and space just disappear.
Working is just another form of yoga.
When we talk about yoga we don t refer to a certain activity but more of a state, you are in yoga, you are in union, all inclusive.
You are everything there is to be.
My teacher used to say God is more present in kicking a ball, in a football game that it may be in a church. Because to kick a ball, you need a lot of attention; to give it an angle, to calculate the wind, how much speed, what is the other player going to see, you become that kick!
All you attention and focus has to be there in order for it to work.
I just remember the moment in the bible with Moses and the burning bush:
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[c] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
I am who I am…I am that I am…I am this and that..i am everything there is to be…”I am…”
For me the physical form of yoga, asanas are just a mean to take your attention and to make you become and feel a posture. Instead of identifying yourself with a body, you evolve into a feeling and reduce your identification with your body.
From there you move to your mind, but even that becomes something that you own, not what you are, you say “My mind” so it must be something that you own and use.
Later you understand and become what you really are, something that cannot be named or defined, because “you” can be everything you want, you just put your attention on something, focus and become that.
But to experience “God” your attention should be on your attention.
Consciousness observing itself
When you sleep you’re gone, the absence of your attention is “death”.The body is still there, but “you” that energy, that awareness has disappeared.Without that attention, the body has no longer any meaning you can keep it alive, but without the person occupying it is worthless.
An unoccupied body has no value, all you can do is to give it back to nature, it was borrowed from earth.
Since the first day you have come here, you took from earth something and put it somewhere else, it comes a time when you have to give it all back.
You came empty handed and will leave like that, you can only take with you your awareness.
Increases your awareness, from becoming one thing, that IS limited, an infinitely small fraction of what god is, to become all inclusive, everywhere, in everything, to identify yourself with god.
Every time you have undisturbed attention towards something you become that thing even for a second. You see somebody drinking a coffee, you almost feel the taste in your mouth, you see somebody hugging another, you almost feel that feeling, objects and actions, you experience them in a small percentage, just by looking, just by imagining, just by recreating it in your mind.You can lose yourself into singing, working, moving, breathing, painting, wherever you put your attention on.
And times just fly, the whole dimension of time and space, is distortioned ,all there is, an undisturbed attention, you will find “peace of mind” and joy in what you do, experience bliss.
All you learn is to become more aware and instead of making it accidental, transform it and cultivate it so it happens at will.
Unhappiness comes from the moment you limit yourself and you say you are something, you can enjoy something for a moment, but your soul wants expansion, wants to be something more.
Don’t define yourself, don’t limit yourself to something, because you can never settle for something else than everything. And to become everything, first you have to reduce it all to nothing.
If you are willingly and consciously, becoming whatever you want to be with no feeling of judgment or analyze, you, as a cosmos, experiencing all the creation and more, everything there is, Experiencing yourself and with it, the creator that is in you.
No likes or dislikes attached to the intention or focus, no feelings, just awareness.
Nor crying or laughing independently, but both at the same time; that is ecstasy.
Melancholy and happiness …. Instead of becoming something…you become two opposites, good and bad, beautiful and ugly and find union in between polarities.
Yoga is union. A state of mind.
Can we do everything consciously….or at least try? To be present in every situation… in everything we do… and to do it with total involvement…to be present…here now…the only moment there is.