Arie de Geus said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Show
Facing a tough time at work? A challenge in your marriage? What got you there is not going to get you out of there. This isn’t just about changing your mind. This is about a change of consciousness. If you do a Google search for mind you’ll find: “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world.” Be aware.I love that. It’s not just accept this random thought that comes to me. My mind is precious, and I can gear it to be “aware of the world.” That means being attuned to what is happening in my relationships, the interchanges, the dynamics. It’s not just going through the motions to be a great coworker, wife or neighbor. It’s about being aware of the world around you, and giving accordingly. Equally, mind can mean to:
Wow. All of a sudden our mind becomes our enemy. We let it get us worried. We react or come from fear. And it’s not anything that made it be so, it’s just that our mind can become distressed/annoyed/worried, just because.  Yet consciousness is different. It’s “the state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings.” And then it goes on to say that it’s “especially something within ourself.” Now that’s different! That’s not just being aware, but also being awake. It means be alert to what your mind is telling you. And be awake to what is happening within yourself, or in other words, the still small voice. So our mind can be positive or negative. Consciousness is the state of being awake to ourselves, to our world, and the people we affect. So as Arie de Geus says, “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.” That means in whatever situation we are facing, we need to rise up to a new consciousness. A new way of thinking. A new approach! And sometimes, that problem you think you have — isn’t even a problem! Did you know Arie de Geus loved to sail? Most sailors know how to swim. Not Arie de Geus. Apparently he didn’t swim, and didn’t think it was a problem! So sometimes we need to take on a different consciousness. Don’t let your mind worry you Arie de Geus wasn’t letting his mind be worried about not being able to swim. His consciousness was “I am awake to the world! I want to be on the sea and experience the freedom, joy, mystique of nature! His consciousness ruled, not his mind. So can yours today. Now imagine a world…. where our your mind is positive, and for the good. The dictionary of the public mind says it’s a “group embodying mental qualities,” and consciousness is also “knowledge that is shared by a group of people. In essence your thoughts don’t just affect you. They affect the world. Each thought contributes to a positive group mentality! Adopt a positive consciousness today, and your life, and those are around you, will reflect that positivity. De Geus was born in Rotterdam in 1930. He joined Royal Dutch/Shell in 1951 and remained there until his retirement in 1989. During his tenure as head of Shell’s Strategic Planning Group, the department made important advancements to the ideas of portfolio analysis (i.e. Directional Policy Matrix) and scenario planning. Other key members of the team were Kees van der Heijden, Peter Schwartz, and Pierre Wack.After he retired, Mr. de Geus was a visiting fellow of London Business School and has worked with MIT’s Center for Organizational Learning.A popular quote of his: “The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. The Client-centred BlogThere aren’t that many true bona fide geniuses, past or present, but Albert Einstein was certainly in that category. Apart from his work in the field of physics his insight and clarity into how the human mind works were extraordinary too. My favourite quote attributed to Einstein’s is: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” To me, he is saying that it is inconceivable that we could find the answers we need on the same level of consciousness in which we see something as a problem. Can you think of a recurring challenge, difficulty or problem you encounter where you feel stuck and would like an insight or a new perspective? We can all find examples of these in our lives and it is so easy to expand a great deal of energy looking in the wrong place, or rather, from a state of mind in which we’re highly unlikely to get what we need. The only time we ever truly transcend a problem is when we get new, fresh thinking about it. In other words, we experience a jump in consciousness. Imagine a glass elevator on the side of a very tall building. The view from each floor is different and the higher you go the bigger and broader the view. This is like consciousness. The higher we go the more perspective we have and something that looks like a problem at a lower level doesn’t even look that way any longer. But you cannot force, control or will your way to a more expansive state of mind. This would be like trying to slow your car down by pressing the accelerator. A successful business consultant friend recently shared with me that if he wants an answer to something and it doesn’t come to him in about 30 seconds, he just lets the problem drift out of his mind. His logic is that if he knew the answer then it would have come to him straight away. He knows that it tends to be when we are not thinking about a problem that we’ll get an insight or a new idea. There is a reason for this – the thinking we need comes far more easily to a relaxed mind. Just the other day I was looking for something in our kitchen at home and I spent a good few minutes looking everywhere I could think of but with no success. I left the room to do something else and returned a few minutes later to see what I was looking for in plain view on the work top! It was there all along but in a state of mind in which something doesn’t exist then it simply doesn’t exist. Even when what we are looking for is right in front of our noses. When it comes to producing the results we want, our state of mind can be our greatest asset or our biggest liability. The ability we all have is to be aware of how we feel. Internal feelings of pressure are not information about our circumstances – feelings such as tension, frustration or impatience are telling us that our thinking has become tight and constricted. Seeing this truth allows your mind to clear. Free from extraneous thinking, as Einstein was telling us, our problems will solve themselves because we are not stifling our natural ability to get insights.
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