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Question - Please talk to us about holding space for my team at work.

To me holding a space for another actually begins as a state of inner spaciousness.

Have you ever noticed that in the middle of a meeting or a discussion you suddenly become tensed? Do you know Why?

When you are engaged in a conversation and you feel an inner rush or feel tense  it is because you are unconsciously engaging in a judgement over the other.

You are judging that the other is inadequate in their skills, capacities and knowledge or inadequate in their attitude and personality.

Or you are judging that the other is incorrect - incorrect in their views, in their  opinions or in the way they are functioning.

or you are judging that the other is a threat to your self interest or that the other is judging you.

As a result of this stress and rush, there is compulsive urge within you to set them right, to correct them or to make them own up their mistakes.

Don’t mistake me that I am saying, you should not judge at all. Judgement is necessary. But when judgement arises because of prejudice, it hurts the other. This makes the other feel disrespected and devalued.

Do you know that more than 54% of people on average feel disrespected at work? 

How can someone who is battling with disrespect ever be creative or productive or efficient?

Holding space for another means being able to connect and listen to another without this internal rush or stress.

In this space of connection, something magical happens. The other becomes a part of the solution. You radiate an energy of calm and trust that nurtures them, that allows them to express their potential.

Let us take an example from nature.

Do you know what a thick growth of mushrooms on the forest floor means?

It means the forest is thriving and vibrant with life; because mushrooms are packets of energy and life. Mushrooms help trees extract minerals and water from the soil; in exchange the trees supply mushrooms with sugars. Thus there is a healthy symbiosis and growth of life in the forest.

In the same way, an organization should nurture individuals in various rungs who live in a state free of inner rush, free of judgements and hold conversations in a space of connection.

You then build each other into forces of energy, that are aligned towards a common vision. Like forests that nurture the giant trees as well as the mushrooms-organisations should nurture the small as well as the big.

If you can emerge into a connected human being and if you can go through a transformational journey together with your team, with diligence, you will see a strange happening unfold.

Your brains will begin to connect as one. Inspiration, and ideas will begin to flow from one to the other - as if you had one collective brain, one connected brain.

Without this connection your organisation is like hundred strong horses each running in its own direction. If you want every member of the organisation to move towards success and achieve their goals, you must hold a space for everyone through regular practices of meditations.

Only then you can build success from One Collective Brain and One Connected Brain!

To uninstall defective programs in your mind, you need a greater power, A power beyond your mind

DEBUG YOUR MIND  

If your computer or phone gets hung, you sometimes uninstall all the external software’s and then reinstall them again. And then the system begins to work perfectly.

What do you do if your mind gets hung? What do you do if it gets stuck in a space where it is not able to do intelligent thinking?  Let us go into it now. 

Most people actually are unclear about what the connection between the mind and the brain is.

In simple terms, we can look at Our brain as the hardware and the software is the mind.

So what is the mind? The mind is its thoughts, it’s beliefs, it’s memories, perceptions and it’s views. mind is basically old. Since it is old, it is also mechanical.

If you have noticed all feelings, emotions and opinions actually they are based on memories.  That is why we have the same feelings and same emotions that goes repeating again and again. It repeats within us over the years.

the bugs in the hard ware of the mind are suffering states.

When any of your mind files become corrupt with suffering states, you get bugged. Let us say you got hurt  with a loved one - some of your fond personal memories with  that person actually goes corrupt.  A memory that was beautiful in the past could now get distorted and you feel you were naïve, you feel you were cheated to have believed in that person’s love until then. You in-fact imagine that you were manipulated all these years!  You feel ashamed about the love, you feel ashamed about the trust you held.

Like some viruses that probably begin with corrupting one file, and then go on to corrupt the whole system and make it crash, this bug of emotional hurt also spreads into every other relationship in life and actually leads you to total depression.

Every suffering state be it anger, fear, disappointment, can become bugs that can corrupt the system of the mind.

So what is the sign that a mind file is corrupt in you ?

Whenever you feel unbearable thought noise or your  thinking become extremely chaotic,

whenever your thinking does not allow your unwise reactions towards others to slow down,

When ever your over active mind does not allow you to sleep,

When your inner noise does not allow you to sit still-

You know one of your mind files has gone corrupt.

you need to repair this situation immediately before the whole mind system crashes- taking down relationships, taking down your career, your joy, your life's meaning. Before it takes down everything in your life you need to attend to it. 

To uninstall defective programs in your mind, you need a greater power, A power beyond your mind. The power of consciousness

If you are in a slippery deep pit, You actually cannot pull yourself out of by tugging at your own hair-you need someone who is strong from the outside to pull you out of it.

Just so- to stop this incessant thought noise generated by your suffering states you need to access the power beyond the mind-you need the power of your consciousness.

Consciousness is ever present presence. It is living intelligence. It is a field of infinite possibilities. It is the divine, it is the sacred. 

When you are awakened to the limitless power of consciousness, you see through the limitations of your mind.  You transcend the mind. You also heal the mind.

Mother earth- she is a good soul to fall in love with.

In her is every form of love we aspire for - A friend, a beloved and a parent.

The rocks, the trees, the stream, the flower, the bee, the bird, butterfly, the scents of the wild and the colors of the changing seasons - The spirit of our great earth courses through them all.

Her breeze flows into us as our breath; 

her waters are our blood and tears; 

her soil, our flesh and bones; 

her fruit and  grains, our radiant skin.

From her womb all emerge

And  to her depths we return.

In her we are one - The kings and beggars, 

the black, yellow, white and brown,

 like various flowers that fall from the trees.

She is Dhara. 

She is Pachamama. 

She is Gaia. 

Love her and let her be

That old world is shrinking and a new world is opening wide.

YOUTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT 

This is indeed a hard time for many young people - especially for those who must be graduating at this point in time and emerging into the market looking for jobs. But this need not sink your hopes for a greater future.

 I would tell every young person out there to realize that this crisis can be an incredible door way to new opportunities and a new world.

 You need to shake off the old world- view and look at the world afresh. If you however looked to the dying, old world to build your future, you will move into desperation and helplessness. Because that old world is shrinking. A new world is opening wide.

 To enter this new world you need to shift from an exploitative tendency towards nature, to one of respect and symbiosis with nature. Your have to build careers on paths that consider the well-being of nature. You need to shift your career frame works from the old world that was stuck extensively to the brick-and-mortar structures to the new world that will increasingly orient to online world, to the virtual world and the internet world. You need to shift from following the old ways of conformity shown by your parents and society to the new ways that shine with creative potential.

 For all this, you must refuse to use your career as a means of survival and money making alone. You must see your career as an avenue to express your passion, as a way to contribute to the well - being of the world around you.

 If these shifts can happen in your outlook and in your consciousness, you will be pioneers of the new world. You will emerge as new world leaders.

 Let us now take a look at the big picture. Let us not speak of the present crisis alone but of the future generations too.

 It is unfortunate that education in early years of a child’s life in many parts of the world is structured to tame and discipline the child, than nurture and support the natural explosive creative potential of a child. 

 Education for a couple of 100 years has got so structured that it is destroying the curiosity and playfulness that is natural to childhood and has the potential to later become genius! Education in most countries and at most stages, sadly is a cookie cutter education. It is one kind of learning dished out at one speed for all. But does not every student have their own rhythms of learning, their own unique creative potential that would flower at different stages of their life? Consequently, does not every student need support that is uniquely designed for their pace?

 Hopefully in the emerging new world, education too will go through this much needed revolution. And will focus not merely on equipping students to fit into jobs for survival, but will create fearless thinkers and passionate doers.

 Such a generation will not helplessly suffer at the mercy of the ebb tides and the flow tides of economy and politics. Young people who will go through this transformed education can adapt themselves to any kind of changes in the world and live joyfully and meaningful lives.

 In the ultimate analysis, the test for a well lived life is in whether you lived life as a burden or as a celebration, whether you lived it in loneliness or in love,  whether you lived it for yourself alone or whether you included others well-being into your own.

living in a beautiful state is a must for every wealth creator. For it is your state that transforms you into a conscious human being. 

BEAUTIFUL STATE AND WEALTH CREATION

For centuries popular religion and spirituality have got associated with renunciation and giving up the world. We have seen wealth and comfort as enemies of a spirtual life. This is because time and again we have come upon the image of "the wise hermit living in a cave" as the go to person for wisdom. 

But it is time to break this stereo type. What the world needs is engaged spirituality - not a detached spirituality. 

We need parents, leaders, teachers, doctors, - people who are shaping society actively to evolve into living in beautiful states. 

For, the essence of spirituality is not a changed life style - it is to live in a beautiful state of consciousness, a transformed consciousness. 

You could be a king and live in a beautiful state; You could be a beggar and live in a beautiful state. 

You could be a couple and live in a beautiful state. You could be a monk and live in a beautiful state. For, what is a beautiful state? A beautiful state is one in which you live free of the incessant conflicting inner chatter. 

A beautiful state is one in which you are more present to life. You are not carried away by the stresses of life. 

A beautiful state is one in which you are more connected to the people around you. 

With this clarity, let is understand who a wealth creator is?

To conceive of wealth creation as the pursuit of money alone is a particularly limiting assumption. 

If you equated wealth creation to a hunt for money, then you are looking at a greed filled, stress filled, comparison driven society - Which is sadly the case with the majority today. 

Money is a by - product of wealth creation. Wealth happens when there is an application of intelligence to solve a problem around us or when there is an application of intelligence to make life more beautiful for others. 

This application of intelligence requires you to live in a beautiful state of passion.  For without a state of passion how can there be consistency? With out passion you will give up an any idea mid - way, when confronted with an obstacle. 

With out the beautiful state of passion, you will interpret every obstacle and hurdle you find difficult to handle, as a personal failure. 

I would therefore say, living in a beautiful state is a must for every wealth creator. For it is your state that transforms you into a conscious human being. 

Given the current crisis every nation is going through, you as wealth creator will definitely need a beautiful state for greater intelligence to cut through challenges and flow with life.