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Transition contours
The document discusses the importance of transitioning between activities with intentional stillness to enhance focus and learning assimilation. It emphasizes creating voids to withdraw from chaos and connect with one's inner self, preparing mentally for subsequent tasks. Consistent practice of this technique can improve the quality of engagement and positively influence those around us.
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Transition contours
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- 2. Jagged Contours • Mostof us “hurl” ourselves from one activity to another. • Absence of spaces of voids or stillness. • Result • Less assimilation of learnings of earlier activity • We remain scattered and stirred • Less focus into the next activity
- 3. –Sri Aurobindo, OnThoughts and Aphorisms “Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.”
- 4. Smooth Contours • Makeroom for spaces of void or stillness between 2 activities. • Gather your self and wind-down the earlier activity at all levels of the being. • Physically be quiet first. This is the start of withdrawal process. • Next, start withdrawing from all chaos or emotions, feelings of earlier activity. Gradually start going inwards into yourself. • Connect with your inner-self during the period of void. • This will keep in situated in our own self. • Start preparing for the next activity by imagining about it first and then when the time is right, begin the activity. • This is called meditating on the upcoming activity. • Prepare for how we are going to BE all that we have to DO.
- 5. Result • Increased assimilationof learnings of earlier activity. • This is because when we withdraw ourselves, we let go our earlier chaotic or emotional and mental state. • Slowly when the mind starts replaying • Distill only the essence. • Don’t get pulled into earlier activity mentally or react within. • Awareness springs forth. • It prepares the whole being to accept the new activity consummately. • This is because you begin in a self-situated state internally.
- 6. The Practice • Daily,Daily, Daily! • Each time when we transition from one activity to another. • Allow the time for this drill. • These tiny retreats will help you improve the quality of your BEING in DOING. • Others around you will automatically benefit because your BEING springs forth in DOING.
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