Quick tip to turn your day job into karma yoga (feel better after work)

[softlyblossoming]

Technique: Irrespective of your paycheck or how much of an asshole the higher ups are, be the best goshdarn employee you can be.

Mindset/Attitude Reframe: You aren't there to trade your precious time in for a paycheck any more, but to serve selflessly for the highest good of all, near and far.

Benefits:

• Soul-sucking work can feel (the precursor to become) meaningful again
• Improve your self esteem and radiate that out to colleagues, which improves theirs too
• Dissolve the ego (sense of separate self standing between you and Enlightenment)
• Make your bosses adore you, improve workplace relationships and atmosphere/culture
• Cultivate resourcefulness and find new ways to be a better person wherever you are, for the highest good of all

 

What are your thoughts? Have you tried it? How did you improve it? Any thing you think ought to be added, or edits you'd make to what's there? e.g...

• An alternative mindset/attitude shift that worked better for you?
• What auxiliary process did you, intentionally or unintentionally, go through that made the transition easier?
• What benefits I have I forgotten to include? What about cons/downsides  ?

 

Best wishes, and hope this improved someone's day at work (and if it didn't and totally backfired and made you more miserable, just remember that those good deeds you produced will have wide-ranging ripple effects (which are like your spiritual children ?)). Seriously, visualise those ripples! You did that! Nice!

 

[BipolarGrowth]

“Devotional service is the means…” -Lord Krishna

The only thing I would add is to keep the mind transfixed on the Absolute/God/etc. while doing what you said above. Great thread.