Harmonic Career Balance (Relax… WAKE UP!!! )

We have visited some crazy topics before, but never one so seemingly contradictive as seeking harmonic balance in “relax” and “wake up”. Surely you can do one or the other, but not both…

RELAX: Most of my experience with yoga was learned in “Still Mountain” Boulder, Colorado with Dr. Jia Gottlieb, an astounding medical doctor who has a gift for traditional east/west medicine and life balance. I took his Refresh, Renew, Revitalize programs and appreciated the wisdom of science and life arts! We learned breath-works, yoga, and balance rituals.

It would take me about 4 more years to appreciate what Dr Gottlieb was telling me about ‘Resting“.. It wasn’t what he was telling me that was so difficult to grasp.. Quite the opposite, it was too easy! One might say I ‘woke up’ from a very very long period of insomnia, to a more relaxed, vital, healthy, and creative state.

Dr. Carrie Angus blogged on the benefits of Yoga for relaxing the mind.. Surely the gentle affects of posture, relax, and letting go are appealing to many of us who live as if all we do is one big obligation, who has time for anything but what is right in front of them!? Yoga has proven and profound affects on calming the mind and body.

Tracy Laswell- Williams of Career Magic blogs about using Yoga and other techniques to stay ‘up’ in a drawn out job search.

WAKE UP: Isn’t falling asleep a natural part of relaxation? Yes, but the sleep part is optional. Most of us have grown so busy with the day to day demands that we have fallen into an autopilot mode– we go to sleep when we can or must, we wake when we must go to work, we run out the door at work when we must run to make another obligation. Granted that is alot of activity, but how much of it are we really AWAKE for? Sometimes we have grown too busy because we have not taken the time to focus on the quieter moments where inspiration, appreciation, and satisfaction are cultivated, for a beautiful sense of well being.

If too much of our decision making is based upon ‘obligation’ and ‘assumption’ then we might fall victim to ‘toobusy-itis’.. where we lose the passion for what we do and the joy for which we are doing it.

Harmony? You, yes I am talking about you, deserve the joy and harmony from inspired livinng. You can relax and rest your mind from time to time, and prepare yourself for your next big burst of energy. This does not mean sleeping through life, or dreaming beyond practicality, but it does mean re-introducing some of the magic and wonder into life, and allowing the creativity and productivity to flourish with less constraints.

Tips towards basking in harmonic career balance.

• What career brings you the greatest career satisfaction? If I had this perfect state, what would I be doing, feeling, and being? What tiny steps can I take each week to move closer to that dream?
• “Pay it forward” attention– feeling lonely, help someone else feel better. Feeling unappreciated? Who have you appreciated? Feeling and doing are different things.. Doing can be managed.
• Be the change you want to see in your environment– as you model it, as you appreciate it, you will find it.
• We can relax when feeling constraint, into empowered choice, where new options and ideas are presented.
• Guilt, Fear, and Sorrow are highly over-rated as a predominant feeling.. but they do serve to remind us more clearly of what we do want.
• We are always free to make a new choice, unless that choice is to feel stuck
• The more “good things” in life we can appreciate, the better connected we feel to other opportunity.. What have you done for you lately to get out of the rut?

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