End Autopilot Cycle Rut to Alter Confining Lifestyles
There are 13 wise ways to end autopilot cycle rut and to turn the ensuing creativity into personal development and professional success, according to 2016-released online and print articles by Yoga Journal.
Personal development and professional creativity benefit from diversifying daily routines and escaping comfort zones, according to Sally Wadyka, article author and freelance editor in Boulder, Colorado. They come during conscientious meditation and from lucid yoga as well as in new endeavors and through unexpected ventures that challenge usual behavior and thought patterns.
The first step from predictability into creativity depends upon becoming productive by taking risks, despite the anxiety that changes generate and the depression that routines inspire. Theo Tsaousides, author of Brainblocks: Overcoming the 7 Hidden Barriers of Success, explains that imagining different outcomes to challenges and opportunities beats dreading one worst-case scenario.
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WriterArtist, Thank you for the insights into creativity and routine. In particular, I like your observation that routines that are necessary do not encourage creativity but may encourage awareness and therefore meditation.
My comment below to Mira mentions vipassana in the context of the excellent online course from Andrew Quernmore's Vipassana Fellowship. I recognize the reference to your two fine Vipassana-related articles since I read, and voted on, them as well as all of your wizzleys.
This past year I read all of the articles on the German Wizzley, known as Pagewizz, and almost all -- I have I think five or six contributors left to read -- on Wizzley. Your articles, especially those on Vipassana, stand out for me.
Anything that becomes routine does not encourage creativity. Some things of course should be done as a part of routine. Cleaning, bathing, brushing your teeth and eating etc. But you can do this with awareness too, if you do so it becomes meditation.
Vipassana is not an online course. I have dedicated 2 articles on Vipassana, it is discovering yourself. So many impurities are filled in oneself, one gets to see that deep down.
Yoga is a part of life for many Indians. Pure Yoga taught in the tradition of Patanjali is discovering your body and becoming healthy. Nowadays, people are mixing and ruining it. Both East and West are engaged in this. Same is the case with Vipassana, these things need to remain pure and original.
I agree with you on personal development to end autopilot, but certain things should be preserved for authenticity. Once they are commercialized, the benefits end there.
Thank you for this!
Mira, Thank you for the visit.
Part of an excellent online course, through Andrew Quernmore, on insight vipassana meditation involved starting at the head and moving down to the feet, meditating about whatever comes up along the way. I also refer to Donna Eden's energy medicine techniques.
I should do body scans too. Are you referring to those where you relax different parts of the body? I've tried it but can't really do it. But will try it again.
Mira, Thank you for the revisit. Yes, I do. It's great along with insight meditation body scans.
I came back to this article and found new useful things in it :) I wish I could do yoga. What about you? Do you do yoga?
Thank you, Derdriu. I will try to do that. There are wonderful alleys and patches of vegetations even downtown.
Mira, Thank you! It would be interesting to read a write-up on one of your altered routes since you always find the exact phrases for experiencing your reactions (to paraphrase Fernando Pessoa) and since you always have such beautiful images.
This is interesting. I try to vary my routes through the city but sometimes it's difficult. I keep telling myself I should take the subway and walk in various neighborhoods, but I don't do that unless there's a reason for me to be there. But there would be so much to discover: farmer's markets, new malls, new vegetation, different parks, and so on. Thanks for reminding me. I'll try to make some changes :)