Watching me hurl from one activity to another, this is one of the pearls of advice that I had gotten from my uncle. I have found his advice invaluable and has help me take a spectator stand in many of my activities though I am a part of it and completely involved in it.

1. Transition Contours
Dhaval Dalal
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2. Jagged Contours
• Most of 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, On Thoughts and Aphorisms
“Live within; be not shaken by outward
happenings.”

4. Smooth Contours
• Make room 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 assimilation of 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.

7. Thank-you!