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日常办公初级09:07mindfulness at work

All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

每天十分钟,给心智留白

正念专家安迪·帕迪科姆的十分钟演讲。他从自己退学出家修行的经历讲起,说明冥想不是「停止思考」,而是退后一步,看着念头和情绪来了又走却不加评判。他现场用抛球演示专注与放松的平衡,并给出一条极易执行的建议:每天只要十分钟。英式发音清晰、语速平缓,适合初学者练听力,也适合职场人学压力管理表达。

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台词(76 句)

00:03
We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something.

我们生活在一个无比忙碌的世界。生活节奏常常快得近乎疯狂,我们的头脑一刻不停,总在做着什么事。

00:12
So with that in mind, I'd like you just to take a moment to think, when did you last take any time to do nothing?

带着这个念头,我想请你花一点时间想一想:你上一次什么都不做,是什么时候?

00:20
Just 10 minutes, undisturbed? And when I say nothing, I do mean nothing.

哪怕只是十分钟,不受任何打扰?而我说「什么都不做」,是真的什么都不做。

00:25
So that's no emailing, texting, no Internet, no TV, no chatting, no eating, no reading.

也就是不收发邮件、不发短信、不上网、不看电视、不聊天、不吃东西、不看书。

00:31
Not even sitting there reminiscing about the past or planning for the future.

甚至不能坐在那儿回味过去,或者盘算未来。

00:36
Simply doing nothing. I see a lot of very blank faces.

就是单纯地什么都不做。我看到很多张茫然的脸。

00:41
(Laughter) You probably have to go a long way back. And this is an extraordinary thing, right?

(笑声)你大概得往前回想很久很久。这实在是件不可思议的事,对吧?

00:46
We're talking about our mind. The mind, our most valuable and precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of our life.

我们说的可是我们的心智啊。心智是我们最宝贵、最珍贵的资源,我们生命中的每一个瞬间,都要通过它来体验。

00:55
The mind that we rely upon to be happy, content, emotionally stable as individuals,

作为个体,我们靠它才能感到快乐、满足、情绪稳定,

01:01
and at the same time, to be kind and thoughtful and considerate in our relationships with others.

同时,也靠它才能在与他人的关系里做到善良、体贴与周到。

01:08
This is the same mind that we depend upon to be focused, creative, spontaneous, and to perform at our very best in everything that we do.

还是这同一颗心智,让我们能够专注、有创造力、自然随性,并在做每件事时都发挥出最好的水平。

01:18
And yet, we don't take any time out to look after it.

然而,我们却从不抽出一点时间来照料它。

01:22
In fact, we spend more time looking after our cars, our clothes and our hair than we -- okay, maybe not our hair, (Laughter) but you see where I'm going.

事实上,我们花在保养汽车、打理衣服和头发上的时间都比这多——好吧,头发也许不算,(笑声)但你们明白我要说的意思。

01:31
The result, of course, is that we get stressed.

结果当然就是:我们被压力压垮。

01:34
You know, the mind whizzes away like a washing machine going round and round, lots of difficult, confusing emotions, and we don't really know how to deal with that.

你知道的,心智就像洗衣机一样呼呼地转个不停,里面翻搅着许多难受、混乱的情绪,而我们并不真的知道该怎么应对。

01:45
And the sad fact is that we are so distracted that we're no longer present in the world in which we live.

可悲的事实是,我们太容易分心,以至于不再真正身处自己所生活的这个世界里。

01:53
We miss out on the things that are most important to us, and the crazy thing is that everybody just assumes, that's the way life is, so we've just kind of got to get on with it.

我们错过了对自己最重要的东西。而荒唐的是,所有人都想当然地认为:生活本来就是这样,我们只能这么将就着过。

02:02
That's really not how it has to be. So I was about 11 when I went along to my first meditation class.

但生活其实不必如此。我第一次去上冥想课时,大约十一岁。

02:09
And trust me, it had all the stereotypes that you can imagine, the sitting cross-legged on the floor, the incense,

相信我,那里集齐了你能想到的一切刻板印象:盘腿坐在地板上、焚香、

02:15
the herbal tea, the vegetarians, the whole deal, but my mom was going and I was intrigued, so I went along with her.

花草茶、素食者,全套都有。但我妈妈要去,我又很好奇,于是就跟着她一起去了。

02:22
I'd also seen a few kung fu movies, and secretly I kind of thought I might be able to learn how to fly, but I was very young at the time.

我当时还看过几部功夫片,心里偷偷想着说不定能学会飞,不过那会儿我实在太小了。

02:30
Now as I was there, I guess, like a lot of people, I assumed that it was just an aspirin for the mind.

在那里,我想我和很多人一样,以为冥想不过是给心智吃的一片阿司匹林。

02:37
You get stressed, you do some meditation.

压力大了,就去冥想一会儿。

02:39
I hadn't really thought that it could be sort of preventative in nature, until I was about 20, when a number of things happened in my life in quite quick succession,

我从没想过它本质上还可以是一种预防手段,直到我二十岁左右,生活中接连发生了好几件事,

02:48
really serious things which just flipped my life upside down and all of a sudden I was inundated with thoughts, inundated with difficult emotions that I didn't know how to cope with.

都是些把我的人生彻底翻转过来的大事。突然之间,我被纷乱的念头淹没,被自己不知如何招架的痛苦情绪淹没。

02:59
Every time I sort of pushed one down, another one would pop back up again. It was a really very stressful time.

每当我把一个念头按下去,另一个又会冒出来。那真是一段压力极大的日子。

03:05
I guess we all deal with stress in different ways.

我想,我们每个人应对压力的方式都不一样。

03:09
Some people will bury themselves in work, grateful for the distraction.

有人会把自己埋进工作里,庆幸有事可以分心。

03:14
Others will turn to their friends, their family, looking for support. Some people hit the bottle, start taking medication.

有人会转向朋友和家人,寻求支持。还有人开始借酒消愁、吃药度日。

03:21
My own way of dealing with it was to become a monk. So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

而我自己的应对方式,是去当僧侣。于是我退了学,动身前往喜马拉雅山,出家为僧,开始修习冥想。

03:31
People often ask me what I learned from that time.

人们常问我,那段日子让我学到了什么。

03:35
Well, obviously it changed things. Let's face it, becoming a celibate monk is going to change a number of things.

显然,它改变了很多东西。说实话,成为一个禁欲的僧侣,总归会改变不少事情。

03:41
But it was more than that. It taught me -- it gave me a greater appreciation, an understanding for the present moment.

但远不止如此。它教会我——它让我对「当下」这一刻有了更深的体会与理解。

03:51
By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions,

我指的是:不迷失在思绪里,不被分心,不被难受的情绪压垮,

04:00
but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.

而是学会如何身处此时此地,如何保持觉察,如何活在当下。

04:07
I think the present moment is so underrated. It sounds so ordinary, and yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

我认为「当下」被严重低估了。它听上去平平无奇,可我们待在当下的时间实在太少,以至于它一点也不平常。

04:19
There was a research paper that came out of Harvard, just recently, that said on average, our minds are lost in thought almost 47 percent of the time.

最近哈佛发表了一篇研究论文,说我们的心智平均有将近 47% 的时间迷失在思绪之中。

04:28
47 percent. At the same time, this sort of constant mind-wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness.

47%。与此同时,这种持续不断的走神,也是不快乐的直接原因。

04:36
Now we're not here for that long anyway, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, it just kind of seems tragic, actually,

反正我们在世上的时间本来就不长,却要把将近一半的人生耗在走神里、而且多半并不快乐——我不知道,这实在有点可悲,

04:49
especially when there's something we can do about it, when there's a positive, practical, achievable, scientifically proven technique which allows our mind to be more healthy, to be more mindful and less distracted.

尤其是当我们其实能对此做点什么的时候,当存在一种积极、实用、做得到、且经过科学验证的方法,能让我们的心智更健康、更有觉察、更少分心的时候。

05:06
And the beauty of it is that even though it need only take about 10 minutes a day, it impacts our entire life.

它妙就妙在:每天只需要大约十分钟,却能影响我们的一生。

05:14
But we need to know how to do it. We need an exercise. We need a framework to learn how to be more mindful.

但我们得知道该怎么做。我们需要一套练习,需要一个框架,来学习如何变得更有觉察力。

05:20
That's essentially what meditation is. It's familiarizing ourselves with the present moment.

这本质上就是冥想。它让我们慢慢熟悉「当下」这一刻。

05:25
But we also need to know how to approach it in the right way to get the best from it.

但我们同样需要知道,用怎样正确的方式去接近它,才能从中获益最多。

05:30
And that's what these are for, in case you've been wondering, because most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts,

如果你一直在纳闷,这几个球就是用来说明这一点的。因为大多数人以为,冥想就是要停止思考、

05:38
getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that.

摆脱情绪、以某种方式控制心智,可实际上完全不是这么回事。

05:43
It's more about stepping back, sort of seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going,

它更像是退后一步,清楚地看见念头,看着它来了又走,

05:51
emotions coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind.

看着情绪来了又走,不加评判,只是保持一颗放松而专注的心。

05:56
So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls, then there's no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time.

比如说现在,如果我太专注于这几个球,我就没办法同时放松地跟你们说话。

06:04
Equally, if I relax too much talking to you, there's no way I can focus on the balls.

同样,如果我说话说得太放松,我就没办法专注在球上。

06:08
I'm going to drop them. Now in life, and in meditation, there'll be times when the focus becomes a little bit too intense, and life starts to feel a bit like this.

球就会掉下来。而在生活里、在冥想中,有时候专注会绷得太紧,生活开始变得有点像这样。

06:20
It's a very uncomfortable way to live life, when you get this tight and stressed.

当你绷得这么紧、这么有压力时,日子过得非常难受。

06:24
At other times, we might take our foot off the gas a little bit too much, and things just become a sort of little bit like this.

另一些时候,我们可能把油门松得太开了一点,事情就变成了这个样子。

06:30
Of course in meditation -- (Snores) we're going to end up falling asleep.

当然,在冥想中——(鼾声)——最后我们就睡着了。

06:34
So we're looking for a balance, a focused relaxation where we can allow thoughts to come and go without all the usual involvement.

所以我们要找的是一种平衡:一种专注的放松,让念头自由来去,而不必像平常那样被卷进去。

06:43
Now, what usually happens when we're learning to be mindful is that we get distracted by a thought.

在学习保持觉察时,通常会发生的是:我们被某个念头带跑了。

06:49
Let's say this is an anxious thought. Everything's going fine, and we see the anxious thought.

比如说这是一个焦虑的念头。本来一切都好好的,然后我们看见了这个焦虑的念头。

06:54
"Oh, I didn't realize I was worried about that." You go back to it, repeat it.

「哦,我都没意识到自己在担心这件事。」于是你又回过头去想它,一遍遍重复。

06:58
"Oh, I am worried. I really am worried. Wow, there's so much anxiety." And before we know it, right, we're anxious about feeling anxious.

「哦,我确实在担心。我真的很担心。哇,怎么这么多焦虑。」不知不觉间,对吧,我们开始为自己的焦虑而焦虑。

07:06
(Laughter) You know, this is crazy. We do this all the time, even on an everyday level.

(笑声)你看,这很荒唐。可我们一直在这么干,连日常小事上也是如此。

07:12
If you think about the last time you had a wobbly tooth.

想想你上一次有颗牙松动的时候。

07:17
You know it's wobbly, and you know that it hurts. But what do you do every 20, 30 seconds?

你知道它松了,也知道它疼。可你每隔二三十秒会做什么?

07:24
(Mumbling) It does hurt. And we reinforce the storyline, right?

(含混嘟囔)真的很疼。我们就这样一遍遍强化着这个故事,对吧?

07:29
And we just keep telling ourselves, and we do it all the time. And it's only in learning to watch the mind in this way that we can start to let go of those storylines and patterns of mind.

我们不停地对自己重复,而且一直如此。只有学会用这种方式观察自己的心,我们才能开始放下那些故事和思维模式。

07:40
But when you sit down and you watch the mind in this way, you might see many different patterns.

而当你坐下来,用这种方式观察自己的心,你可能会看到许多不同的模式。

07:44
You might find a mind that's really restless and -- the whole time.

你可能会发现一颗始终躁动不安的心——一刻不停。

07:49
Don't be surprised if you feel a bit agitated in your body when you sit down to do nothing and your mind feels like that.

如果你坐下来什么都不做时,身体感到有些烦躁不安,心里也是那种感觉,不必觉得奇怪。

07:56
You might find a mind that's very dull and boring, and it's just, almost mechanical, it just seems it's as if you're getting up, going to work, eat, sleep, get up, work.

你也可能发现一颗迟钝乏味的心,几乎是机械的:仿佛只是起床、上班、吃饭、睡觉、起床、上班。

08:06
Or it might just be that one little nagging thought that just goes round and round your mind.

又或者只是某个恼人的小念头,在你脑子里绕来绕去。

08:14
Well, whatever it is, meditation offers the opportunity,

不管是哪一种,冥想都提供了一个机会,

08:18
the potential to step back and to get a different perspective, to see that things aren't always as they appear.

提供了退后一步、换个角度去看的可能,让你发现事情并不总是它们表面看上去的样子。

08:28
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

我们无法改变生活中发生在自己身上的每一件小事,但我们可以改变体验它的方式。

08:37
That's the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don't have to burn any incense, and you definitely don't have to sit on the floor.

这就是冥想、也是正念的潜力所在。你不必焚香,更绝对不必盘腿坐在地板上。

08:46
All you need to do is to take 10 minutes out a day to step back,

你需要做的,只是每天抽出十分钟退后一步,

08:51
to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.

去熟悉当下这一刻,好让自己在生活中体验到更强的专注、平静与清明。

09:00
Thank you very much. (Applause)

非常感谢。(掌声)