First part of the article taken from chapter 0 of Dr. Sara Gambelli's thesis, entitled:
"Biotransenergetics in the Corporate: the Transpersonal vision in Organizations, towards a paradigm leap"
The balance between productivity and presence.
The balance between productivity and presence is one of the hardest things to master in life, and one of the most important. We often confuse it, both culturally and as individuals, with the notion of “work / life balance”, which seems similar, but in reality it is a profoundly different dimension.
If we take a deeper inspection, it implies that we have to counter the downside, which is what we have to endure to make a living, with the bright side, which is what we want to do to feel alive.
It implies that half of our waking hours are occupied by something that we regret, anxiously waiting for the other half to get to really live.
Read in this way we can ask ourselves about the terribly short and poor way of fullness in existing. So speaks Annie Dillard, American writer and essayist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and become known for "awakening literature": "The way we spend our days is, of course, the way we spend our lives" .
And while some have argued that today's age is one in which "the big dream is to move from money to meaning," there is an unshakable and disheartening sense that, in our obsession with optimizing our creative routines and maximizing our productivity, we have forgotten how to truly be present in the pleasure-seeking mystery of life.
And that might lead us to reflect on the fact that, in these trade-offs between presence and productivity, the way we spend our days is, of course, the way we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that is what we have more or less consciously decided to do and are doing.
Having a "scheduling" and days full of commitments protects us from the chaos of ourselves, from remaining suspended in silence and from meditating on what we really want. It is a scaffolding on which a working career human being can become entangled throughout the most productive and fertile part of creativity of his existence.
A “scheduled” day is a prototype of reason and order-wanted, simulated and thus created; it is a peace and a refuge set in time; it's a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still alive. Every day is the same, respecting deadlines and scheduling, so one can remember the series on balance, as a fuzzy and powerful model. I wondered how the people of our era are living in this way, surfing the wave of the void of meaning and whether it is possible to search for atolls of Anima Mundi.
"Follow your Bliss" - Follow your bliss
Joseph Campbell saw as the greatest human transgression "the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not fully awake". He coined a philosophy slogan about life: "Follow your bliss - Follow your Bliss".
Decades before the screaming tyranny of work / life balance reached its modern crescendo - it was 1985 -, Campbell listened to the cry of the soul in sympathy and identified with enormous elegance and precision the root of our existential dissatisfaction. “If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on some kind of track that has been there all along, waiting for you, and the life you should be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are - if you are following your happiness, you are enjoying that freshness, that life is within you, always ”.
Discerning one's bliss, Campbell argues, requires what he calls "sacred space": a space for uninterrupted reflection and unbridled creative work. Away from a mystical idea, this is something that many artists and writers have put into practice through their particular workspace rituals, as well as something that cognitive science has enlightened in exploring the psychology of the perfect daily routine.
But Campbell sees beyond the practical rituals of creativity and into the deepest psychic and spiritual stimuli - that deep need for a place to take root.
Sacred space is an absolute necessity for anyone today. Having a place, or a certain hour a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe to anyone, you don't know what awaits you in the world. It is a place where you can simply experience and bring to light what you are and what you could be.
This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and you use it, eventually something will happen.
To access it you need an Epistemology, a Technology and a vision of the world that supports you in making sense of this research. The Transpersonal vision and the Biotransenergetics methodology make this new view available.
Two centuries after Kierkegaard warned against crowd cowardice, Campbell argues that we often get lost on the way to our station of bliss, while society's limiting notions of success drive us into senseless and insecure pursuits.
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