{"id":661,"date":"2006-09-25T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/09\/do-you-toil-in-unconscious-workplace.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T13:35:00","slug":"do-you-toil-in-unconscious-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/09\/do-you-toil-in-unconscious-workplace.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Toil in an &#8216;Unconscious&#8217; Workplace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you work in a place where deadlines aren&#8217;t respected and coworkers complain about management behind closed doors? Does every morning pep talk get ridiculed at lunch? Do you ever feel as though there&#8217;s a sameness to everything and that your work life is oddly reminiscent of your days at home as a kid? Even if you&#8217;ve worked like crazy to get into a &#8220;conscious,&#8221; passionate <em>romantic<\/em> relationship (thanks in part to the many great books on love and sex), do you still spend your office hours lapsing into unconscious, neurotic resentments?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conscious-Business-Ken-Wilber\/dp\/1591795176\/sr=1-1\/qid=1159206051\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-1698738-6858424?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Conscious Business&#8221;<\/a> author <a href=\"http:\/\/in.integralinstitute.org\/contributor.aspx?id=27\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Kofman <\/a>can help you align your career with your highest aspirations&#8211;even if your workplace functions decently and you are already spiritually alert. Raised in politically troubled Argentina in the 1960s, Kofman credits his peoples&#8217; cheery refusal to acknowledge governmental corruption with giving him a keen understanding of duplicitious business settings. Kofman believes that too much emotional pain is triggered by failed projects, missed communications, and bad relationships at the office stemming from &#8220;unconscious,&#8221; unanalyzed patterns you can break through with the practice of mindfulness. <\/p>\n<p>Kofman teaches how to meld Eastern philosophy and business relationship skills. And fear not&#8211;if you get pangs of that oh-I-can&#8217;t-change-my-workplace-by-myself feeling, the newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conscious-Business-Ken-Wilber\/dp\/1591795389\/sr=8-3\/qid=1159157780\/ref=pd_bbs_3\/104-7638272-0731123?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values&#8221; CD set<\/a> is a wonderful thing to share with your coworkers. You&#8217;ll find your new mindset wonderfully infectious. Kofman&#8217;s lectures contain really thrilling material, impressive in that it could help huge numbers of people embrace fulfillment through meaningful work. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/soundstruestore.stores.yahoo.net\/interview-kofman.html\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with Kofman <\/a>I think you&#8217;ll enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you work in a place where deadlines aren&#8217;t respected and coworkers complain about management behind closed doors? Does every morning pep talk get ridiculed at lunch? Do you ever feel as though there&#8217;s a sameness to everything and that your work life is oddly reminiscent of your days at home as a kid? 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