Besides some already established Eastern traditions, we place little significance on mastering states of consciousness. By states of consciousness I mean our ability to stay present to, and not influenced by negative states driven by fear, such as stress or anger?
We spend far more time developing strategies and tactics to get us to where we want to go. The time, effort and the stress created out of developing these strategies and tactics ends up negatively impacting not only our well being, but also our productivity.
I'm not suggesting we don't need relevant strategies and tactics to help us along the way. I am however suggesting that the strategies and tactics we use would align much better and flow a lot easier if we learnt to master states of consciousness too.
The future will increasingly demand that we develop rare and valuable skills for new systems more useful to us and our environments. Developing rare and valuable skills can be profoundly demanding and uncomfortable. Mastering states of consciousness, like fear and all it's negative emotions, holds more weight now than ever before.
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