Blocked within yourself

Some of you mentioned that you wanted to be less frustrated in your life and in your work. Much of modern life builds up stress, distraction, lack of clarity, and leads to a growing sense of frustration with oneself – a feeling of being blocked within yourself, or being blocked in your environment or in your working relationships. And although you are creative people and that means you have a kind of a solitary creative imagination, but you are also a team – you are a company, you work together. Being frustrated with oneself means you will be frustrated with your environment as well. That frustration, if it gets out of hand, leads to burnout, it leads to a kind of breakdown. I was talking with a chairman of a big bank in London recently who had started to meditate. A year or two ago he publicly took three months off work, with the approval of his board, because he had become just overwhelmed. He was so frustrated, blocked and stressed out, he was burning out. Fortunately he recognised the signs and took emergency action. And people respected him for that. So that’s something that can be avoided if we deal with those problems of stress and frustration at an early stage. 

( The Work of Selfless Attention Laurence Freeman )