The One Who Is Not Busy: Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way - Hardcover

Cohen, Darlene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586852515 ISBN 13: 9781586852511

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2004

Synopsis

Do you:
*Ever feel like you consistently take on more that you have time to do?
*Ever wish you could not only get things done, but also enjoy doing them?
*Feel like you're barely making it through one ragged week to the next?
*Live only for weekends and a chance to put your feet up and close your eyes?
"Busyness" is the problem. Knowing how to manage it is the solution.

About this title

About the Author

Darlene Cohen, Ma., LMT, earned her graduate degree in physiological psychology and spent the majority of her Zen training-thirty years-as a laywomen. After developing rheumatoid arthritis, she became a movemont teacher for people with joint restrictions, and was then certified as a maddage and movemont teacher. Currently, she sees clients and gives workshops, classes, lectures, and seminars that emphasize mindfulness, at various medical and meditation centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington State, Illinois, and New York City.

From the Inside Flap

In a culture that de-emphasizes process and rewards only the final product, many professionals find themselves always looking to the next project, the next reward, the next vacation. By never focusing on the present, they miss what is right in front of them. With proven meditation techniques, Darlene Cohen walks the weary business person from this exhausted frustration to enlightenment: a fresh approach to time management. In these pages she will teach you to: *Narrow or widen you focus at will. *Develop the mental flexibility to shift your focus at will from one thing to another. Following six professionals through this process, Cohen affirms that it is learning to be simultaneously "busy" and "not busy" that will allow us to experience work and the rest of our lives in a deeply meaningful way.

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Introduction: The Problem of Busyness
I agreed to write this book almost a year ago. Gibbs Smith and I had met during a five-day workshop on the topic of time and busyness at Tassajara Hot Springs, a Zen Buddhist retreat center in Big Sur. I co-facilitated the workshop, "The One Who Is Not Busy," with Basya Petnick and Rabbi Helen Cohn. Gibbs was quite taken with the notion of "simultaneous inclusion," that a worker could be both "busy" and "not busy" at the same time. "Is that enlightenment?" he asked me once after a delicious breakfast prepared by the monks at Tassajara and eaten in a charmingly rustic dining room. "Gibbs," I replied, blissfully stuffed with buckwheat pancakes and maple syrup, "if you've got simultaneous inclusion, you don't need enlightenment."

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586852515
• ISBN 13: 9781586852511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144