The sixth chakra, or Ajna, is located at the third eye area or the middle of the forehead. Actually if you drew a line from temple to temple and another from the middle of the forehead straight back, you would…
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Day 6 – Chakra and Productivity
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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Day 2 – Chakra and Productivity
Today we look at second chakra in our dive into energy and productivity. Second chakra is called Swadisthana and it is classically associated with creativity including reproductive. It is also the center of feelings and pleasure. Let’s look at our…
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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Chakras and Productivity Deep Dive – Day 1
I have been thinking more about the connection of the Science of Chakra and the Science of Productivity. Both about the movement of energy Both can lead to manifesting results for ourselves in the world and within ourselves consciously. For…
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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Is your Work a Well Fare?
Your work is to find out what your work should be and not to neglect it for another’s. Clearly discover your work and attend to it with all your heart. (Dhammapada, v. 166) I found this Buddha quote in a…
Tagged with: alignment, Buddha, inspiration, integrity, learning, Purpose, welfare, wellness, wisdom, work, work and welfare
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
Flowing Energy = Ease
Which of these two people looks more relaxed and at ease? Which looks like they are exerting more energy? We know from the physical law of inertia that an object in motion stays in motion. We know from the Wizard…
Tagged with: Ease, flowing, health, isometrics, Joy, law of inertia, mental-health, natural flow, Practice, productivity, wellness, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Run Through the Finish
In 1986 I took a seminar called Insight. The facilitator, made an analogy that has stayed with me these twenty five plus years. So often, as we approach our goal we tend to let up. Amateur runners see the finish…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, goals, Practice, self management, wellness
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Posted in personal productivity
Extreme Balance
This video is a mesmerizing meditation on the concepts of balance, focus and letting go. Watch his eyes. Focus and Balance are in motion. In this fluid state of shifting yet constant balance, notice how important it is to let go of…
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Posted in creativity, personal productivity
If at first you don’t succeed….you fail
So what! No platitudes. Failure feels bad. Success feels good. But stasis feels numb, a false comfort. No question which feeling I want more of. But which do I want less of? Comfortably numb is not a good place to…
Chakras and Productivity
In Yoga and other practices there is a knowledge of energy systems called Chakras. I think of them as a system of reservoirs and locks that work much as a system of canals like the Panama or Suez canals. There is not…
Don’t Postpone Joy
I first found this button in a store on the upper west side of Manhattan in the 1980’s. My father introduced me to a place called The Last Wound-Up. Imagine a 20 something and a fifty something busting a gut…
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