Does mindfulness meditation make you less ambitious? This is a question I hear often. In fact, I used to wonder about this also. The answer is no. I’m sharing from personal experience: mindfulness and ambitious can coexist.
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However, what it may do is change the motivation for the ambition from an external one to a more internal one. Our external striving will be more linked to our own growth and development. Thus one becomes rooted in the self and thus, their ambitious becomes meaningful and fulfilling. It remains steady and it becomes easier to balance the ambition with other aspects of life. 🦋
My experience in creating this video series is an example of this. I may have my moments of vanity and need for validation, but for the most part, my ambition for sharing is a very internal one. Thus, it is meaningful and deeply fulfilling. It is easy to do regularly, regardless of the number of followers or likes. And can also let go of it (like I did yesterday) without concern because I know it’s not leaving me.
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Meditation can help us feel not only more rooted in our ambition, but also more alive. Truly alive as we are more aware and present moment-to-moment. Let’s begin discovering how that’s possible by exploring our senses. They link us to the external world and start to form our initial perceptions of the world around us.
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Today: sense of sound. Close your eyes and take in all the sounds around you, without processing or reacting to any of them. You can start with the gross, loud sounds and then slowly, as your awareness deepens, move to the softer sounds. And finally, to the sound to your breath.
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