Mindfulness Mondays 5: Radical Humility
June 29, 2009 by dr. lam
One thing that I have been struggling with is my ego. Yes, believe it or not, I am human. A lot of things have pointed me toward thinking about the importance of humility. I finished Jim Collins’ book, How the Mighty Fall, that talks about stage 1 descent of a company being caused by hubris, which he describes as outrageous arrogance. Further, I just finished Elizabeth Lesser’s Broken Open in which the psychologist turned guru, Ram Dass, talks about his stroke and how it led to his release of ego. Finally, I also just finished Wayne Dyer’s Excuses Begone! in which he features Ram Dass talking about his events prior to and after his stroke. I will be covering a lot of these topics in the coming months in blog format.
I would like this week’s focus of mindfulness to be what I would like to term “radical humility” being the opposite of Jim Collin’s hubris, or outrageous arrogance. I would like all of us, especially me, to turn our hearts with gratitude to God for giving us our breath, talent, desires, strength, rather than feel that it emanates from ourselves. As a human, we all are limited creatures but we invoke the power of God or our own spirituality (which these blogs are centered on) and we are reflections of our Creator.
As you know, I do not talk directly about religion or politics in these blogs because they are conversations that ultimately lead to division or offense. Instead, I am talking about a spiritual consciousness that we can live and breathe this week whatever our religious persuasion, or even lack thereof. We can be mindful this week of being radically humble in the face of our perceived accomplishments or whatever makes us prideful. Replace that emotion with gratitude for what we have and say a prayer or meditation about how we can be thankful for where we are today. Be radically humble this week with me and set the intention for that starting this week and move that forward into our lives in full.
namaste,
sml
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I LOVE this blog post! Okay, that will be my focus this week. Thanks for the wonderful blogs, Dr. Lam!
love your gravatar, and yes i have been waiting all day for your comment. Where is Nord?
Thanks, Dr. Lam, you’re so nice! Well, it was either going to be Garfield or surfing Santa…lol Love your gravatar too!
Yeah, Nord, can’t wait to see your gravatar!! Get a funny one!
Can’t wait to see any new blog buddies’ gravatars!
very, very inspiring
Thanks sam!
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thanks solbergcenter. great gravatar. whoever designed that logo must be a cool guy! lol.