Buddha In the Boardroom: Not Knowing is most Intimate

It’s a tough sell to try to convince a businessperson that he or she might be better off knowing less; an even tougher task to get them to try knowing nothing for an hour or two.

After all they got where they are by acquiring knowledge – knowledge of their industry, the politics, the corporate structure, who to listen to and who to mistrust. Without their knowledge they’re vulnerable. They’re on a foggy moor without any discernible landmarks or up a creek without a paddle – drifting wherever the current takes them.

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myzendo.com

If you like to meditate at home or if you’d just like to have a more restful time for any activity you should check out myzendo.com

You can set a meditation block of any length, choose beginning and ending options of a singing bowl or traditional Zen wooden clappers, and the site even has a feature whereby you can save your preferences.

Beats a kitchen timer. 

Cutting edge addiction treatment

A Bermuda-based drug company is attempting to bring to market a vaccine against cocaine. This is stunning and welcome news for individuals and healthcare professionals affected by the current crack epidemic.

TA-CD stimulates the increase of antibodies to cocaine in the bloodstream. The antibodies bind to the cocaine molecules and the resultant molecules are too large to reach the brain.

The theory behind this novel treatment is that if the pleasurable effects of the ingestion of cocaine are substantially reduced or eliminated the positive reinforcement that the body associates with cocaine will be blunted. This can give the addict an opportunity to break the cycle of addiction and abuse.

This same company is also representing TA-NIC, a vaccine which will hopefully do the same thing for non-smokers looking to break the habit. Seems like a logical next step that the tobacco industry should step up to the plate and put some money into developing this one.

You can read more about these two developing products here

Zazen : Settling Down

There is a practice in Zen Buddhism known as zazen. It’s commonly misconstrued as a meditation but in fact it isn’t. True, if you came upon someone practicing zazen you’d either think they were meditating or they had a fondness for non-prescription medication.

Whereas meditation is about achieving some kind of a relaxed state and withdrawing temporarily from the world – zazen is about staying in the world. Zazen practitioners face a wall, keep their eyes open and basically just sit still and perfectly attentive for periods of time.

The trick is to stay in the world but not of the world. Hence the open eyes. An attempt is made to still the chattering ego mind – that internal, infernal conversation which goes on inside your head all day, every day!

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The Constructed Life Coaching Program

The Constructed Life Coaching Program is a simple, but very powerful, re-education process which will show you how to:

• Initiate action

• Manage change

• Make clearer decisions

• Reduce stress and anxiety

It is very different from conventional therapeutic Life Coaching, which may offer support and expert guidance in various life situations.

Constructive Living takes the contrarian viewpoint that it is a useless endeavor to go back over the past to understand ourselves, “work” with feelings, or “fix” ourselves by building self-esteem, boosting self-confidence and the like.

Because it is more of a lifestyle re-educational process, it provides for a complete shift of perspective and provides an easy methodology for dropping old, useless habits, belief systems and non-productive behaviors.

In many cases, it also has the power to reduce stress, help quiet the internal, chattering dialogue and still our anxieties.

Despite the proven and beneficial psychological effects the Constructive Living lifestyle provides, it is completely behaviorally oriented and rooted in common sense.

It will easily and immediately :

• Get you out of your head and into action

• Fuel your Creative Spirit and sharpen your vision

• Release you from the tyranny of your own feelings

• Show you how to eliminate negative internal chatter which you may be using to hold yourself back

• Free you to respond spontaneously and confidently to whatever arises

For a more comprehensive summary of Constructive Living, I encourage you to click on the hover pop-up on this site for an absolutely free e-book.

“Seven Simple Principles of Constructive Living”

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