What To Tell Your Boss - Work Blues & A 1400 Year Old Prediction. Dear Friend,
Does returning to your place of work feel a bit like an anti-climax? Then you're not alone. Last week, the London Evening Standard featured this story : 'Has The Pandemic Killed Ambition', about how the taster we've all had of an alternative way of living, means that, beyond paying the bills, work is no longer the front and centre of our lives.
If you're a freelance digital native who is able to work on a laptop from a beach in the Bahamas, then you're probably an 'early adopter' of a work-life/leisure balance advertised by Tim Ferriss in his 2007 bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek.
But before Ferriss, the British Economist , John Maynard Keynes, wrote in 1930, Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren, in which he speculated that technological advancement would mean that we'd be working 15-hour weeks, with the rest of the time spent on leisure or other activities that made as feel like whole human beings. [see: It's time to put the 15-hour workweek back on the agenda].
And way, way before Keynes; 1,400 years before, a yogi/ astrologer called Sri Kaagapujandar in Southern India, scribbling on palm leaves , predicted a kind of Utopia, not exactly of people whiling away their time strumming guitars in a field and being fed grapes, but close.
So if you are feeling the work blues, historical trend as well as prophecy is on your side, just tell your boss you'd like to spend more time working from/ at home.
Below are the seven predictions from 1,400 years ago, about a coming Utopia, by Kaagapujandar in which 'yoga' plays an key part.
Also below: Building a better life by stealing office supplies (yes, you read that right, but it's the title of a book :o)); and, the power of a photo to raise your kundalini.
Best wishesP. PS. Photo collage of Sahaja yoga around the world, further down. |
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