Why meditation may be essential for your success!

Whether you are in business or not, your life energy naturally wants you to evolve to your highest potential. Many people enter the business world because of an innate desire to reach a pinnacle of success. Some people achieve measurable success and a great sense of satisfaction while others fail to achieve at all. However many people who attain to money, power and prestige still complain that they do not feel a sense of contentment, happiness or peace. I remember having a conversation with a man who described himself as the sixth richest man in Australia. He openly shared with me that his wife was always away in Europe spending his money and leaving him alone in Australia. His mansion was secured with the latest in security devices because as he put it, "He was scared all the time about having his money and possessions stolen from him." Clearly money, power and prestige did not bring this 60 year old man peace or contentment.

Harvard Business Review did a study in the 1980's which showed that semantic responses, that is emotional reactions and hidden agendas, cost American companies seventy billion dollars a year in lost business. And that was just in the boardroom! That did not take into account the personal problems of middle management down to the employee and their contact with the customer. If you have ever worked for an organisation, which most of you have, then you will be aware that there is an undercurrent, a need by most people to talk about their personal life with other staff members, to share their problems and their aspirations; that liking, disliking and judgment of fellow staff members and even of the customer, envy and resentment, a need for approval, competitiveness and a desire to position oneself with an advantage over others, all can work to block the flow of energy that is required for the organisation to perform at peak. These are all traits that make us human but it is some wonder that some organisations manage to be profitable at all when you consider how much thinking power is not focussed on the task at hand. Clearly the more that staff members clear up their personal stuff and learn to work with others as a team then the greater the potential profitability for the organisation.

It is easy to judge others but what you probably don't realise is that you are your own biggest obstacle to your success. By 'you', I mean your ego or sense of 'I'. The ego is the centre of the mind and a strong integrated ego works for you but at the same time it works against you. Psychology in general works to strengthen the mind and build a strong ego whereas meditation helps to take us beyond the mind into a space of silence - and it is from exploring the inner silence that you get in touch with your essential energy - and it is out of this essential energy that your creativity arises. The same energy that an artist taps into to create a work of art should be the same energy that a business person also relies upon to be the driving force for their business and that an individual follows to find peace and contentment. If you want to get out of your own way and achieve success at the highest level then you are invited to consider NLP Coaching with Abby Eagle.

Abby Eagle has combined the technology of NLP with Osho Zen Meditation to create a  unique style of meditation that is easy to learn and gives faster results. Using traditional methods of teaching meditation a few meditators may achieve great success yet most remain average even after decades of practise. However NLP gives us a set of tools to transfer excellence from one person to another. To this end Abby spent a decade modelling the teaching's of Osho and the result is a methodology in which most of the participants learn in a matter of weeks what could ordinarily have taken decades by traditional methods.

In addition, as a result of scientific research, meditation is now becoming more accepted by the mainstream community. Neuroscientists who studied the brains of experienced meditators have demonstrated that there are positive neuro biological differences between the brain of a meditator and of an ordinary person. Meditation is now recommended as a standard treatment for many medical conditions including but not limited to anxiety, IBS, insomnia and cancer.

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