Meditation For MBAs: Train Your Mind, Improve Your Game — Part II

I’ll be really curious to see what you discover this week as you try on these practices. Please let us know below. And join me next week as I wrap up this series, discussing how meditation can help you boost your EQ (emotional intelligence).

Recommended Reading:

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, Rick Hanson, PhD

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr

Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, Sharon Begley

Turning the Mind into an Ally, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, David Rock

“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.” — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Deborah Knox is a Stanford MBA and CEO of Insight Admissions. Having meditated for the past 20 years, she has become intimately familiar with the benefits and challenges of practice, particularly for Type-A personalities. Devoted to the study of leadership excellence, Deborah has also served as a researcher and editor on numerous book projects for best-selling management author Jim Collins. Recognizing the immense benefits contemplative practices such as meditation could have in the field of leadership development, Deborah has studied numerous practices from the wisdom traditions, and has participated in the secularly oriented Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher Training taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. Visit her website  Cultivating Conscious Leaders here.

DON’T MISS: PART I — TRAIN YOUR MIND, IMPROVE YOUR GAME: MEDITATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY LEADER