What makes work worthwhile? What about life?
Those moments where everything seems to be fulfilling your life purpose are some times called “Flow States.” You may have notice how sometimes everything seems to be going your way. At those moments “you” are dead. The ego “I” ceases to exist when totally absorbed in the flow of now, with enough challenge that it is not worrying about anything else. If this focus also happens to move us toward fulfilling our life’s values then something special happens.
To live on the edge of the wave, that razor-thin line where everything you do matters, and everything you think is in service to what you do, and your heart is completely open so that your feelings are as sensitive as possible to what you are trying to accomplish. This is where the ego I disappears. Death while physically alive.
I find this a worthy practice. My clients have been having a discussion about ways to support that fine line and live there more of the time.
It takes more than conscious awareness, though this is necessary. It takes love and groundedness as well.
Think what could it mean to be in the middle of a technical project fully alive and living with the conscious question, “How can I be in the living cycle of love at this very moment?” This is a high human aspiration indeed. What could it possible have to do with solving technical or team or project problems? This is the sort of question that makes us more than just an animal or an automaton machine. The living cycle of love requires that we know where that longing is in our body and to tend to it consciously.
It probably doesn’t require that we work in any particular profession. Could be computers, or training, or projects, or coaching, construction, accounting, whatever.
When we live our work lives It seems that it is all meaningless and empty, and perhaps it is. But all that we do can be of consequence. That is why if work is to have meaning it is important that we learn to create the meaning for ourselves.
Being the senior consciousness is only half of the equation, the masculine or active half. The other half is the reciprocity of ever-changing feedback cycle of love. The sacred witness is one side, the cycle of loving compassion is the other. Both are required to live a meaningful life, to make work really worthwhile.
We need rituals. Little practices of the mind and body that serve our success. We need rituals for grounding, rituals for evoking the cycle of love, and rituals for evoking consciousness.
Grounding is coming back to self connected to reality and to highest and best spirit and has to do with finding the stable place within the moving center of the body.
Consciousness is of the mind and the willingness to be at the witness awareness on the cutting edge of the now with presence.
Loving compassion and the cycle of love is holding each other, and one’s self, as sacred manifestations of the life force and tending to us with high expectations and positivity so as to encourage expansion.
What does all of this have to do with leading? With technical projects? What does all of this have to do with making meaning from your work or work from your life’s purpose? I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
