If you listen to your Bad Boss
long enough, you may start to believe his or her blather. Especially the part
where your boss is telling you that you’re not good enough, you’ll never make
it, you’re a loser, you’re laughable, you’ll never make the grade . . . need I
go on?
Believe what your Bad Boss says
and you may change the functioning of your brain for the worse! You may find
yourself becoming more negative, anxious, insecure. These are not winner
traits.
But the good news is that you
can keep your brain functioning the way you
want it to--on an optimistic, positive, self-confident track--simply by taking
a few moments to meditate.
According to scientists Andrew
Newberg, M.D. & Mark Robert Waldman: “… it takes less than two months
to alter the overall neural functioning of the brain. This is amazing because
it demonstrates that we have the power to consciously change our brains, and
improve our neural functioning, in far less time than scientists used to
think... we can see permanent changes in single neurons in a matter of days,
and as other studies have shown, most forms of meditation will create subtle
but significant changes in a couple of months.”
Meditation doesn’t have to be a
big deal--with incense, New Age music and your legs pretzeled into lotus
position. Just take a deep breath, allow your eyes to close, and follow your
breath as it moves gently in and out for a minute or two. That qualifies as
meditation.
Whenever you feel your Bad
Boss’s negativity over-riding your natural good feelings, chill with a moment
of meditation, and keep your brain functioning the way you want it to.
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