Open heart and mind

“The future is no place to place your better days” – Franziska

Every second our brain is stimulated by the events that happen around us, sometimes we are aware of them and sometimes we are not. In today’s society where information is there as an overload the question is not whether to find some but rather to see the right information that fits your purpose.

What is our purpose? And what state of mind or being helps us to cope with this overload of information that has to be filtered? About these questions I am currently reading in the book called “Presence” by Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer and Betty Sue Flower. The four authors share their profound personal and professional experience on the topic. As I am reading I took some of the elements of which one of them I want to share with you. I experience myself to be calmer and also happier while practising.

The authors refer to suspending of judgement as an important element of presencing.  Judgement is a creativity killer. It can prevent you from seeing new situations emerging and feeds “group thinking” that is eager to keep up the status quo.

You can practise suspending your judgement by simply noticing what you observe. Literally observing the things you notice around you ( for me now: “I am sitting on a chair” I see a small French village as my view”) I have been doing this now for a couple of weeks and I notice it gives me way more energy to observe than to judge and I feel more open to receive from my surroundings (especially if it comes down to people). It also surprised me to notice how quickly you have your opinion or assumption formed, suspending these also helps to focus rather on what is than what is not, an surprisingly nice exercise If you want to read more about Active Listening, a theme close to this one I wrote a post about it on my blog a while ago.