Ep 30: Mindful leader Nitesh Batra: The mind is clear & knowing
Apr 23, 2024 ·
1h 13m 30s
Living with a negative thought is like chasing a rodent in the house, according to https://www.linkedin.com/in/niteshbatra/, Mindfulness teacher and Certified Compassion Cultivation Trainer (CCT). He is founder of https://themindfulinitiative.com/ and...
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Living with a negative thought is like chasing a rodent in the house, according to Nitesh Batra, Mindfulness teacher and Certified Compassion Cultivation Trainer (CCT). He is founder of The Mindful Initiative and also runs the Ashtanga Yoga Program in Bengaluru.
Mindfulness, he explains, is focussing on the task at hand, cherishing what you are doing and practising non-judgement. “When you are washing the dishes, wash the dishes,” he remarks. The mind, he says, is clear and knowing. If you sit in stillness, it’ll become calm and you can look through it.
For leaders, he recommends practising to be calm in the eye of the storm to give out the right energy. He also talks about practising compassion on the go, “Be kinder, more loving, more compassionate and it will reflect in the world around you; something subtle shifts in our mind and life is a lot more joyous.”
He emphasises, “We need to put in the effort; without it, nothing will happen.” Simply start by sitting still for a minute in a day, setting a gentle intention.
Follow and share to grow the conversation.
Chapters:
01:00 Guided meditation
05:40 Explaining the concept of mindfulness
11:10 Accepting negative emotions in mindfulness – good stress vs bad stress
26:58 The Bhagavad Gita and the power of Om
29:02 We need to put in the effort
32:34: The neuroscience of mindfulness; prefrontal cortex vs the fear centre
36:30 Response vs reaction
38:40 Does mindfulness make us live in denial of problems?
44:45 On his mindfulness for effective leadership workshop with Prof Dinesh Kumar at IIM Bangalore
52:14 Compassion cultivation training and the Stanford course; how compassion works
58:16 Compassion vs empathy
01:04:54 Lojong teachings and the Tibetan Tonglen practice
01:10:35 We are lost in “maya”, we forget there is something beyond ourselves
Reading references:
* The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
* Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
* Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras by Swami Vivekananda
* Start Where Your Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others by Pema Chodron
* The Great Path of Awakening: The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion by Jamgon Kongtrul, translated by Ken McLeod
* Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa (wrongly credited in the audio)
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Email: swishingmindsets@gmail.com
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are personal. Listener discretion is advised.
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Mindfulness, he explains, is focussing on the task at hand, cherishing what you are doing and practising non-judgement. “When you are washing the dishes, wash the dishes,” he remarks. The mind, he says, is clear and knowing. If you sit in stillness, it’ll become calm and you can look through it.
For leaders, he recommends practising to be calm in the eye of the storm to give out the right energy. He also talks about practising compassion on the go, “Be kinder, more loving, more compassionate and it will reflect in the world around you; something subtle shifts in our mind and life is a lot more joyous.”
He emphasises, “We need to put in the effort; without it, nothing will happen.” Simply start by sitting still for a minute in a day, setting a gentle intention.
Follow and share to grow the conversation.
Chapters:
01:00 Guided meditation
05:40 Explaining the concept of mindfulness
11:10 Accepting negative emotions in mindfulness – good stress vs bad stress
26:58 The Bhagavad Gita and the power of Om
29:02 We need to put in the effort
32:34: The neuroscience of mindfulness; prefrontal cortex vs the fear centre
36:30 Response vs reaction
38:40 Does mindfulness make us live in denial of problems?
44:45 On his mindfulness for effective leadership workshop with Prof Dinesh Kumar at IIM Bangalore
52:14 Compassion cultivation training and the Stanford course; how compassion works
58:16 Compassion vs empathy
01:04:54 Lojong teachings and the Tibetan Tonglen practice
01:10:35 We are lost in “maya”, we forget there is something beyond ourselves
Reading references:
* The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
* Mindfulness for Beginners by Jon Kabat-Zinn
* Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras by Swami Vivekananda
* Start Where Your Are: How to Accept Yourself and Others by Pema Chodron
* The Great Path of Awakening: The Classic Guide to Lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Cultivating the Heart of Compassion by Jamgon Kongtrul, translated by Ken McLeod
* Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa (wrongly credited in the audio)
Follow Anuradha on LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram
Email: swishingmindsets@gmail.com
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are personal. Listener discretion is advised.
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