Work isn’t the first place we think of when we hear the word zen. In fact it can be quite the opposite.
Traditionally, zen, meditation, yoga, or “being present” aren’t what you would call your typical career attributes. But this is shifting drastically.
Companies like Google, Apple, are starting to realize the benefits of meditation and personal growth workshops for their employees. Even athletes like Tiger Woods claims that his path to success comes from “staying in the present.”
Check out this cool article on the new trends that are taking over the business environment. Maybe you can even show it to your boss and see if the company will sponsor some meditation classes 
But if your company isn’t as advanced as say Google or Apple are, what are you doing to keep zen at the workplace. Drop a comment below with your tips. I’d definitely love to hear them
Zen and success at work
By Philip Delves Broughton
If you have ever watched Tiger Woods play golf, you know the look. Brim pulled down over the eyes, which are locked on some point far down the fairway.
Despite all the hubbub, he is locked into the moment.
His opponent stands off to one side gnawing his knuckles, knowing another defeat is just a few holes away. Credit meditation for Woods’ extraordinary focus.
An essential part of Tiger Woods’ success is what he calls “staying in the present” and not letting his mind wander off to hoisting a trophy or depositing another million-dollar cheque.
While other golfers may live in the future, at the moment Woods plays his shots, he is apparently free of the conscious worry which plagues the weekend duffer.
And he puts much of this down to meditation and the Eastern philosophy, mostly Buddhist, he learned from his Thai mother.
In addition to his early morning workouts and hours on the driving range, he also meditates daily.
The value of meditation has long been known to those who practise it. David Lynch, the director of Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart, established a foundation for “consciousness-based education and world peace” inspired by his 30 years’ practising transcendental meditation.
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Fabulous so far — thanks for this — I often said that about Tiger — that he got his discipline and focus form his Thai mother
No one ‘achieves’ zen.
Zen cannot be ‘achieved’.
Zen is zen.
Gary: omg NO WAI! It’s just a title. Nowhere in the rest of the article is “zen” mentioned in the context of achievement. Keep getting caught up in semantics and I’m sure you’ll “achieve” zen in no time! Your pedagogical standpoint makes you so superior and that much more enlightened. Oh, I’m sorry, I’m sure you know that people don’t “become” enlightened, but are rather made aware of their own inherent buddha-nature. Ooh look I have the best understanding of nitpicky linguistic discrepancies, I did my homework Professor!
I lecture in Accounts and Business. I started meditating to overcome stress. I discovered Burt Goldman and every day I am getting ‘better and better’. I am now starting to share it with my students. If they start huffing and puffing I ask them to ‘Breathe’ then we take a break. I also found myself saying ‘how do we ‘feel’ about this?’ when I used to ask ‘what do we think?’. It helps me assess the mood which helps me to calm any anxiety before it overtakes the class.
I’m still developing — sometimes their anxieties and prejudices still affect me — I have to consciously remind myself to use the ‘Bhaga’.
My aim is take it furthur. It does seem that businesses and the teaching profession are starting to take these methods on board. In one of my accounting magazines there was an article on positive thinking. The image they used was Mohammad Ali who it stated was saying he was the greatest before he was.
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If you are here and not any were else were are you creating from ?
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NO one is doing nothing to you but you it takes your agrement for it to be .
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only you can free your self ‚for you are free from the time you your freedom it self .
Hither you creat your freedom or you can create your destruction or let other do it for you .
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Dream not of the dream ‚but of the dream maker .
If you are here and not any were else were are you creating from ?
A wake from the dream and then you will know that you and know one else is creating your reality .
It is better to know that you are dead so that you can regain awareness of live .
wen you Concord your inner self you will learn to make peace with your self and have regained your power to be .
NO one is doing nothing to you but you it takes your agreement for it to be .
words are live vibrating strew the universe ‚and the cosmos ‚that is WY we understand each other .
only you can free your self ‚for you are free from the time you your freedom it self .
Hither you create your freedom or you can create your destruction or let other do it for you .
The journey is yours to seek let no one stand in your way not even the person that you be live that you are because it could’ve ben created by you or other to keep you a slave in
this universe