Here are typical responses when I tell my corporate clients to meditate...
After the eye roll, "Yeah right, I don't have time to go to the bathroom let alone sit cross-legged saying OM."
"You've got to be kidding me. There's no way I can sit still that long."
"I have a thousand thoughts going through my mind. I'm not capable of just being."
I get it. Years ago when I was in the throws of corporate life, all the Zen people in my life kept telling me, "You just have to learn how to mediate and be present." I remember thinking, What the hell does that mean? And how do these Zen people have so much time to just sit around and meditate? I bought books, did yoga and started running in an effort to learn how to be present. It didn't work.
After years of trying to figure out this meditation thing, I got it. I finally understood what mediation was and how to make it happen in the busiest of workplaces. I figured out how to be Zen when the world around me was anything but Zen. I figured out the secret to being present, mindful and outrageously productive as a result.
Here's how to meditate at work...
By definition, meditation is simply time spent in quiet thought for the purpose of relaxation. Notice, the definition doesn't say time spent https://delicious.com/ritascribner
