Recently, like yesterday, I was turned on to the idea of thinking expansively. Not that I have never thought expansively or ‘large’ before but my atypical, life-long, conditioned modus-operandi is to hyper focus much like a meerkat. The meerkat is always hyper vigilant and looking for what may lurk on the horizon. The meerkat is always ‘tuned-in’ to what is off in the distance, be it friend or foe. Their focus is always very tight and narrow.
I am not saying that being hyper-focused, and hyper-vigilant is a bad thing. It can be a very beneficial way of being given the right situation, like if you were a meerkat. It just that when either one or both of these “hyper” modes are practiced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week it can, and will, grind your down like a well used pencil. Your sharpness is totally gone and you feel fried.
The key is to balance the narrow, hyper-focused way of thinking with expansive thinking and non-thinking. A widening, or expanse, of input and perspective will help keep one ‘wider’ in their perspective. I find that looking out at the horizon or up towards the sky actually helps in this endeavor. Ironically the meerkats are looking to the horizon as they engage in the hyper-focus–go figure. I was experimenting this morning in terms of ‘expanding’ my thinking about my business–it really does help and work. I now find myself operating in a more relaxed and calm state of mind. Or better yet, operating in a non-thinking mode as I work at by meditation.
Do you find yourself caught in hyper-focused, narrow thinking? Do you find it tiring? Or do you find it something else?
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