青海路桥集团董事长:在分分秒秒进步

我一直倡导放慢生活的步调，一切从简，能少做就少做，让自己闲一点，但是假如你做不到这些呢？

What if your life can’t be made less busy — are you doomed to a life of anxiety and unhappiness?

假如你不能让你的生活少些忙碌，这是否意味这你注定要过一种焦虑和不安的生活？

No. I’m going to share with you a very simple tool that might just transform your life. It’s something I’ve been trying in the last few months, and I can attest that it works brilliantly.

答案是否定的，我想在这分享一些简单的方法来转变你的生活状态。在过去的几个月里我一直在尝试这些方法，我可以保证它们非常有效。

This one little method will help you to:

这个小方法可以帮助你：

Be more present, so life doesn’t rush past you without you noticing. 

更注重现在，这样的话，生活就不会在不知不觉中成为过去。

Enjoy every activity you do more, so life is better all the time. 

享受你参加的每一种活动，让生活在这些活动中变得更好。

Feel more relaxed, so every day is as good as a vacation. 

感觉更放松，把每一天都过成假期。

Be ready to handle anything that comes your way. 

时刻准备好处理任何的困难。

Not bad for a very tiny method, no? Let’s dive in.

对于一个小方法来说，效果还不错，是吧？就让我们一探究竟吧。

Busy vs. relaxed

忙绿Vs放松

Normally we have two different modes in life. There’s the busy of our everyday lives, and then there’s the relaxed mode, which happens when we have some unstructured time: vacation, a day at the beach, a spa getaway, some time in the park with the kids.

一般来说，我们的生活可分为两种模式。一种是日常生活中的忙碌模式，还有一种叫放松模式，这种模式通常发生在我们享受非结构化时光的时候：假期，海滩上的一天，做spa的时候，以及和孩子们在公园玩耍的时候。

Relaxed mode is one where we perhaps think less and feel more. We just soak in the sun, the sounds, the sensations. This is a child-like time, because it’s the mode that young children are in the most. We do our best to train kids not to be like this, so they can be good workers when they grow up and serve our corporate masters.

在放松模式里，我们可能想得更少，感受得更多。我们只是沉浸在阳光，声音，和感觉中。这是一种类似童年的时光，因为在大部分的小孩都处在这种模式中。然而我们在竭尽全力训练小孩摆脱这种状态，已让他们长大后可以成为一个好员工，更好地服务我们的公司老板们。

And so we grow up to be in busy mode most of the week, and if we’re lucky we get a day or two, maybe only an hour or two of relaxed mode. When the Internet sucks us in, we have less relaxed mode because the Internet keeps us in our minds, and we forget about the physical world around us.

所以当我们长大的时候，我们会在一周的大部分时间里处于忙碌的状态，如果我们够幸运的话，或许会有一两天，或者一两个小时的放松时间。当我们上网时，相对会不那么放松，因为会有满脑子的网络，一直与让我们忘掉周遭真实的世界。

How can we change this? How can we bring the child-like relaxed, sensory mode back into our everyday lives, not just during breaks and meditation/yoga time and vacations?

我们应该如何改变这种状况呢？如何将这种童年般放松的状态和感性的模式带回到我们的日常生活中，而不仅仅只局限在工作间的休息，冥想时间，做瑜伽的时候，和放假的时候？

It’s not that difficult, if you practice.

实际上要做到这点并不难， 只要你勤加练习。

The Zen State

禅的状态

When we are in relaxed mode, we notice the sensations of the wind and sun, the sounds of water and laughter, the brilliant colors of nature, the smiles around us, the grass or sand between our toes. We are feeling instead of thinking. The sensations of our bodies flow into our minds, and it makes us relaxed, happy.

当我们处于放松模式的时候，我们可以用心去感受清风和阳光的触感，感受水流的声音和人们的欢笑，感受自然界绚丽的色彩，感受周围人们的笑脸，以及趾间的青草和流沙。这些感观通过我们的身体流入脑中，让我们变得轻松，愉悦。

We can re-learn this mode of being with practice. Do it now. You’re reading a computer or mobile device screen, so your mind is in the world of the Internet … but your body is in the physical world. If you’re sitting, your butt can feel the chair. Your back might be a bit hunched. Your fingers are on a keyboard or mouse. Is the air around you cold or warm? Are there sounds you can notice? Is your jaw clenched? Notice your breathing.

我们可以通过实践重新学习这种模式的状态。你现在就可以做到。假如你正在注视一台电脑或者移动设备的屏幕，你的思想正处在网络的世界中，但是你的身体却是在现实环境中的。如果你正坐着，你的臀部可以感受到椅子。你的背部可能有些蜷着。你的手指正放在键盘或者鼠标上。你周围的空气是冷还是热？你有没有注意到旁边的声音？你的下巴是不是闭得很紧？注意你的呼吸。

When you put your focus into physcial sensations, you are entering relaxed mode instead of thinking mode. It’s not that you’re completely relaxed, but you’re in the same state of mind as the times you are relaxed, like yoga or the beach or lazing away a Sunday in bed.

当你把你的注意力转移到现实感观中来的时候，你正从思考的模式进入放松的模式。这不是说你已经完全的放松，而是你的思维已经处于一种和放松时候一样的状态中，像是做瑜伽，在海滩漫步，或者周末赖在床上的状态。

Once you learn to do this, you can do it any time. In fact, all the time.

只要你学会去做这件事，你就可以在任何时候去做。实际上，每时每刻你都能做。

If you’re taking a shower, feel the water running down you, soak in the temperature and the sound of running water. If you’re eating, taste every little nuance of the food, smell the food, feel the texture in your mouth, feel the movement of your hand going to your mouth.

假如你正在淋浴，感受水流沿着身体往下流的感觉，体会水带来的温度和声音。假如你正在吃饭，品尝食物间细微的差别，享受食物的芬芳，感觉食物在口腔中质感，感受你用手往嘴巴递送食物时候的运动。

Do this as you work, as you talk on the phone or respond to emails or walk to a meeting or drive to an appointment, noticing the sensations on your skin, the colors around you, the sounds of humanity, your breath coming in and leaving you. Do this at home, as you do chores or prepare food or clean up or get ready for work. Do this throughout your day, and you will be in a constant state of relaxation and enjoyment.

当你工作的时候，你可以这么去做，不管是讲电话的时候，回电子邮件，走路去开会的时候，以及开车赴约的时候，注意你皮肤受到的感触，身边的颜色，人们的声音，呼吸的起伏。当你在家的时候，你也可以这么做，不管你是在做家务，准备晚餐，打扫，或者准备上班。将这件事贯穿到你一天的生活中，那你将会处在放松和享受的恒定状态中。

It will transform everything you do, if you do it. It will turn busy-ness into being present, harriedness into enjoyment.

假如你照着做的话，它将会转变你所做的所有事情。它会把忙碌变成处在当下的一种状态，把匆忙变成一种享受。

Life will be lived, instead of ignored.

不要忽视生活，让生活充满生机。