Helping our ability for awareness and decision-making

I watched a video this morning, of a mindfulness exercise (link below).
And as I watched it, I felt myself become calmer, more aware. I became more capable of reviewing what was going on in my life, both work and personal, and for making decisions.

This sounds unremarkable. But I think it’s pretty fundamental.

When I began working in consultancy in the 1990s, a pattern in the work emerged.

We’d attend organisations, look quite deeply into what was going on, talk with and observe people, and then present back our thoughts, and draw out their thoughts on where they were.

We’d then talk about and analyse where they could be.

We’d then look at ways to navigate between the two points: the status quo and the desired place.

We’d produce data on all of this – where they were and where they could be – but frequently we’d use intelligence that was already available to them, if under-used.

It would be a question of enticing out of them the capability to see things anew. To uncover a better picture of who they were, where they were, where they could be, and how to get there.

(Incidentally, I think that the ‘holding environment’ is key in this process: giving them a place where they felt safe to enquire, even if that enquiry felt a little self-critical.)

Central questions that occurred to me during this process were: ‘What is preventing this level of awareness in the client - why do they need us?’

These realisations prompted my shift from purely business studies to looking at workplace psychology, system psychodynamics, more deeply into organisational behaviour and organisational development, and particularly the subconscious function of individuals, teams and organisations.

I suppose it’s time I came back to the initial purpose of my thread – how do we improve our executive function, get to think better, be more aware, make our decisions from an enlightened state?

C60MEDIA Wellness Workout Animations: Karen Liebenguth 2 Minute Workout

Karen Liebenguth and C60MEDIA’s two-minute video on mindfulness practice, in the YouTube video on the link below, is a great example of a way of taking the brain to a relaxed but alert state, where awareness is improved.

Have you tried methods like this? Let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZrZ5GRTBI&t=3s