Impediments To Mindfulness During Work

There are definitely distinct impediments that arise during work; impediments that often serve to set us apart from our activities. We are talking about divorce at work--alienation, dissociation. A full engagement of our whole being in the midst of work is both the problem of the one who is working, as well as of the product or service being rendered, not to mention the leader striving to get the best out of his or her people.

For instance, if we are the worker whose mindfulness is being disabled--such that we are not fully engaged and present in what we are doing--then we suffer an irretrievable loss of our own existence. Moments escape us. Our life slips through the cracks. We miss out on the simple fact of being because we have gone elsewhere. Body and mind are not one--fused, united, whole, or cohesive.

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