Ellie Shojais an award-winning Writer, Producer, and Motivational Speaker. She is the founder of Peace Unleashed, a personal transformation company that focuses on helping individuals and groups level up holistically. The Peace Unleashed philosophy is rooted in the understanding that teams are more efficient and companies more productive when individual members attain a level of internal peace and groundedness that remains unshaken by life events.
There is a reason many high-profile individuals and thought leaders of our time from every industry are advocating meditation. It's not an accident that many companies from Apple and Google to the FBI are encouraging their employees to participate in meditation.
The benefits we receive by meditating even for a few minutes per day are many and result in surprising side effects such as improved communication skills, increased productivity, the ability to make connections more easily and solve problems more efficiently, improved sleep, and even the ability to replace old habits with new ones with more ease.
There is no doubt that the simple act of meditation can literally change a person's life for the better, yet most people don't meditate. The greatest objections we receive about meditation include statements such as, "My brain is not made for that," "I can't stop my thoughts," and "I don't have time to sit and do nothing."
The fact is that meditation does not require a quieting of the mind though it can result in that, and it is also far from a passive activity. Meditation is the simple and active observation of the mind. Once we become aware of the the fact that we are thinking our thoughts, our thoughts stop thinking us. And in that lies our true power as a human being. When we retrain ourselves to recognize that we are thinking, we then can identify which thoughts are not serving us and replace them with thoughts that do serve our greater good.
This is what meditation does. It is a focusing of the mind and a training of the mind, so that we can live actively rather than reactively.
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Bringing Meditation Into Schools, Companies, and Large Organizations | The Nonprofit Exchange: Leadership Tools & Strategies podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
