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This is the noise around us that can sometimes become very distracting and downright annoying. It could be people having a not too quiet staff meeting in the next office. A jackhammer down the street (progress must happen), the kids at home fighting, just when you need to look over an important presentation or simply busy traffic noise right outside your office window. Whatever it is, you may as well get used to it or learn a technique to control your frustration about it, because its life and its the noise that helps to make up our very existence.
OK, first of all listen to each noise for what it is, then think about how you perceive this noise, is it grating, irritating or just plain infuriating. Then allow the noise to be there. Look to see how the noise is serving you. Are the children happy, laughing and giggling so you dont have to stop what youre doing? Is the construction work down the street going to make it easier for you to get to your office when its finished? Are the people in the office next door discussing major plans, which ultimately are going to be beneficial to you?
So firstly, try to have different perception about the noise and if possible link it to your value system and it will have a whole new meaning. Dont try and block it out, because if you do it will only set up a counter reaction of irritation. Then the noise will be controlling you instead of you having control of the way you view the noise. You see the noise has a place in our life; the challenge is for us to not let it have such an effect to the point that it is distracting us.
"Remember it is only your perception, which stops you from having the control you want..."
Heres the technique. Sit quietly, preferably with your eyes shut so you dont have any anything to distract your attention. However if you are in a meeting situation or somewhere where it is not suitable to close your eyes then (with practice) successful results can be achieved through this technique with your eyes open.
Now bring your attention to your immediate surroundings, listen carefully to all the noises that are close to you. These will be things like the ticking of your watch, maybe a creak in the walls, the buzz of machinery, a window rattling, your breathing. After 10 seconds of really focusing on these sounds and allowing them to be there, then take your attention outside to the far away noise. This will be sounds like traffic, birds, water if you are by the seaside, wind rustling in the trees, people talking, (maybe even jackhammers) or road works. Now concentrate on these sounds for 10 seconds allowing them to be there. Then switch your attention back to the sounds that are in your immediate surroundings and keep your attention here for 10 seconds, then switch back outside for 10 seconds and do this switching a few more times until you can see and feel a definite differentiation between the two. With practice you can build this technique up until the sounds in either area do not worry you at all.
OK, now lets go back and further look at the way we perceive the sounds. If they are really annoying you then you are probably thinking that they are the cause of you not being able to concentrate and sooner or later you are going to be blaming those sounds for you not achieving your goals. So wouldnt it be nice to have more control over life, your life.
Remember it is only your perception, which stops you from having the control you want. If you can master the art of thinking about the noise in a more positive way, its going to benefit you. The trick is to find what the value is to you, and then your perception will automatically change. You may even learn to love that external noise and welcome it upon rising every day
Changing your perception is certainly worth the effort if its going to give you back piece of mind, control over your life and make you more effective in the work place or a nicer person on the home front
By JenniferAngel.com
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