How can you quiet your mind and better prepare yourself for the peaceful practices of meditation and intention when there are already not enough hours in the day to finish the simplest of tasks? Answering these questions today were Chris Pan founder of MyIntent, Dina Kaplan founder of The Path, and esteemed holistic health advocate and transcendental meditation guru Deepak Chopra.
Here are their best pieces of insight:
“Its a constant struggle to maintain zen-ness in business.”
“Kanye’s word was ‘beautify’ to make the world more beautiful.”
“I kept asking ‘what does the world need more of? I wanted positivity in life. I want to make a difference with my life.”
“It’s the very act of getting people thinking. Having a moment of asking yourself what you need more of in your life.”
“You have a beautiful conversation about what that word means to you.”
“I felt anxious and lost so I started working with an executive coach to learn how to mediate.”
“Take a few minutes to just breathe. Ask what you need more of in your life.”
“What’s a challenge you want to overcome? What’s your intention with any event? Is it going to make you feel fulfilled?”
“What would it look like to build an online community that’s a little more vulnerable and a little deeper?”
“My current word is ‘balance’ but I’ve had 15 words to date.”
“Part of my own success is to be laser focused on one thing at a time but now I’m trying to be more balanced.”
“The Headspace app does quick meditations.”
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DINA KAPLAN
“It’s counter to startup culture to stay peaceful.”
“Some people think meditation feels scary. We make it accessible.”
“We do meditation in bright, beautiful areas. We teach in modern, light spaces like our partnership with the W in Union Square.”
“Anywhere else you go in the world people will say ‘do it this way,” which is not they way we teach it.”
“There are 4 ways we teach: Energy, mindfulness, mantra meditation, or anything to help you accomplish a goal by using compassion and gratitude.”
“Look at how diverse the people are who say they are meditating. It crosses many industries.”
“Meditation is about 6 to 7 years behind yoga in being mainstream.”
“Yoga’s become a way to work out your body. Meditation is an unbelievable workout for your mind.”
“The benefits are unbelievably extreme. It gives you the power to see if all your busyness is that important.”
“I am literally ten times more productive the days I meditate versus the days I don’t.”
“I am more efficient and productive when I meditate.”
“The Path has become a networking event. It makes people more open.”
“Meditation makes you more you.”
“When you travel you’re more relaxed, you’re more open to meeting new people. The same is true after you meditate.”
“You’re never ready for a 10 day silent retreat. But both times after I completed one I fell in love. That’s how open you are afterwards.”
“If you have kids I know how hard it is to carve out that time but just get up from bed and do it first thing.”
“Take one minute and focus all of your intention on the air and the breath coming out of your nostrils.”
“Watch thoughts come in and float away. You can smile to yourself as those thoughts come and go.”
“If you can do it for 20 minutes in the morning you’ll notice your day will change then your life will change.”
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“You can be more efficient and productive if you devote your work time to work not multi-tasking.”
“I like to advise people to divide their day into segments. Focused work time, meditation time, relationship time, sleep time, down time, exercise time.”
“If you do less you accomplish more.”
“The biological effects of meditation improve clarity of mind, insight, creativity.”
“When people say they don’t have time to meditate once I day I say those people need to do it twice a day.”
“Employers should encourage meditation but a person’s behavior can’t be enforced.”
“Exit plans are a terrible way to do business. If your daily work is aligned with your higher calling you won’t have to focus on your success.”
“You should always ask yourself ‘why am I doing this?’ If your answer is ‘money’ you’ll never be happy.”
“We have to change how business is done. The purpose of a business is to improve the quality of life.”
“LEADERS: Look and listen, provide Emotional bonding, have Awareness, are Doing it, Empower themselves and their team, take Responsibility, work in Synchronicity.”
“Always ask what people need.”
“If you have all the best ideas but don’t take action, what good are they?”
“Empower yourself and your team.”
“You’ve got to want to change. Some people change only when in the midst of a crisis.”
“I have 4 intentions every morning: I want a joyful energetic body, a loving heart, an alert mind, and a lightness of being. Everything else is a by-product.”
“Some forms of meditation are beyond thought.”
“Who am I, what do I want, what is my purpose, what am I grateful for? Asking these questions in stillness leads to spontaneous knowing.”
“The difference between having an experience and the awareness of which it occurs is time.”
“When you feel you’re inseparable from the web of life it leads to joy and compassion.”
“Just do it. Spend the time. If you’re doing it, you’re doing it right.”
“In sleep we release stress through dreams. In meditation we release the thoughts disquieting our mind.”
“My word would be LOVE—it’s the ultimate truth for creation.”
“I don’t have any personal goals. I want a happier, sustainable world for my children and future generations.”
“I’ll be at a lecture and use Periscope to reach people all over the world.”
“With Flipagram you can take inspirational quotes and put music to them.”
Deepakchopra.com
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