“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
– Victor Hugo
Human history glows with the truth of Hugo’s words. Human civilization has progressed through every age because courageous people dared to dream a better future and then dared to make it true. If you doubt it, pick up any novel by Victor Hugo and read the beautiful and transformative stories of those who dreamed and whose dreams shaped the future.
In this culture of cut-throat competition and fast-paced living, taking a minute would not likely matter to anyone. For some, it’s just a moment of mum. You can achieve the most coveted calmness, peace of mind, and inner serenity on your own. In other words you can find your own inspiration through reading an inspirational article or book chapter in a minute.
What are some examples of readings that can inspire you? It merely depends on the reader’s personality. There are many self-help books, as well as inspirational material written by religious writers that can uplift your spirit. Here are some books that you can choose from:
You can be a mom, a WHO doctor on mission, or an Internet marketer, but at one point in your busy schedule, you need a 1-minute breathing space. This minute may mean just a couple of tick tocks on your wall clock but taking a breather has long-term benefits.
What’s in store for you in a 1 minute break? More focus, more ideas and imagination, and a more personable attitude are just a few things you can gain from taking a minute from work.
How can you manage to acquire all these in a minute? Surprisingly, you can do this when you allow yourself to do something that makes you happy. Who wouldn’t feel better by looking at a happy picture? A happy picture is any visual representation that can inspire, motivate, or simply make you happy. Once you try this, you’ll see how this can make a difference in your mood.
When you’re a top executive in a Fortune 500 company, the last thing you have on your mind during working hours is a retreat. It’s even likely that you haven’t the faintest idea what a retreat might look like, since all you know is consistent hard work. Finding time to look out the window for a minute to break away from the daily barrage of meetings and phone or conference calls might be like a retreat to you.
Silence, calmness, tranquility, peace – they’re all synonymous to serenity. It’s the absence of sensory distractions, allowing calmness to rule over. And surely you have a minute to spare for it in a day.
That’s not difficult to achieve in your waking hours. There are opportunities for it at home, even in a quiet room in your workplace.
The best way to achieve serenity is through meditation but you can have your own one-minute version of it. The meditative discipline has several techniques practiced and ‘perfected’ by gurus but if these feel like an added ‘workload’ for you, just find your own quiet breathing space. You don’t have to trade one regimen with another.
Rush. This is the byword of the new generation. Time speeds up and people keep up.
Stopping often means losing in the business rat race. The goals are to do well, have more, and enjoy the best. But do these people really reach their goals, or do the goals just keep getting higher?
You need to distinguish yourself from pumped-up lemmings. Take a pause. Sit awhile. Examine what you have and what you have been missing.
How will you make most of your time when you are at ‘pause’? Consider meditating.
Creative Hands
‘To be born every day’ means to be constantly amazed by the things life has to offer, to not tire of watching the sunset, the moon peeking from the fleeting clouds, the crowd of stars on a clear cool night, the sunlight on the breakfast table.
For every new day, nutritionists and exercise gurus can suggest several things for your health: eating a hearty, balanced breakfast and doing stretches, cardio exercises and strengthening routines. But what about your soul?
Early morning must be a treat not only to the person’s ‘corpus’ but also to his ‘anima’ (call it inner self or soul). The Chinese usually go to the park or in their gardens to do tai-chi, which relaxes both body and mind. But you can do something simpler than that right inside your own home.
‘Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive.’ – Gautama Buddha
If ordinarily mortals like us saw life the way the Enlightened One did, there’d be no cause for suffering — for the negativity that consumes most of our passions. Perhaps heaven is not a place after all but a way of seeing things.
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