once gave the Zen meditation, Japanese samurai power and clarity. Meanwhile, more and more executives draw strength from the silence
The alarm clock rings. Actually could Corinna Steinauer lie, but she pulls himself together, pushed back the blanket and sits on a mat that is rolled on the floor. She breathes in and out, is entirely focused on herself and her breath.
The 47-year-old has worked for many years as personnel manager of a large company. For the next three-quarters of an hour but it is lost in their Zen meditation. This is no exception. More and more executives are looking for in the silence of a power source for everyday life. Since the economic crisis experienced by the Zen master and former management consultant Hinnerk Polenski a boom. "I run every year, 20 Zen seminars for top managers and are regularly booked out," he says. More and more German companies offer employees Zen courses or set up a relaxation room.
stress, stress and burnout costs the German economy each year some 260 billion euros. "The number of physical and psychosomatic disorders among managers at management level is increasing significantly," says Polenski. The meditation offer guidance and help just in everyday life to focus on the essentials. For him it is important to note that not some Zen Exercise, which is implemented in the general New Age trend now for managers, but that this "at a 2500 years is ancient form of exercise that has always stood in the context of leadership and elite. Even the Japanese samurai have the meditation clarity and strength won. " The
shaped by Buddhism Zen meditation was founded more than 2500 years ago in India. In the 6th Century it came to China and later spilled over to Japan. As of 12 Century, it influenced the Japanese culture and philosophy greatly. Only hundreds of years later, the West began to interested in Zen, it is the sitting meditation (zazen) in this country the most popular form of Zen. It sits the meditator upright on a Holzbänkchen or a pillow and focuses entirely on its interior.
Steinauer learned about a friend of Zen. The idea to reflect fully on himself liked her. "I liked my professional life very much, but everyday life was determined by very strange," she says. In the winter two years ago she attended a seminar for managers, therefore, the Zen master Polenski initiated. The weekend in full tranquility and Zen meditation in a group and alone they taught to unwind and let go. While she sat on the Holzbänkchen flowing breath, let it describes "I was up to me himself." On Sunday afternoon, when the seminar was over, went sie wieder zurück nach Hause in Richtung Hamburg. Schon am nächsten Tag begann sie mit der Meditation am Morgen und zog das konsequent eineinhalb Jahre lang durch - jeden Tag. "Nach dem Aufwachen stand ich vom Bett auf und setzte mich sofort auf die Matte. Der Wecker klingelte also eine halbe oder dreiviertel Stunde früher als sonst. Eigentlich bin ich nicht so der Morgenmensch, kann spät abends gut arbeiten, aber ich gewöhnte mich daran. Schließlich freute ich mich sogar am frühen Morgen darauf, meine Meditation zu machen." Inzwischen praktiziert Steinauer Zen nicht mehr so streng wie zu Anfang, zwar noch ein paar Mal pro Woche, aber immer nur dann, wenn ihr der Sinn danach steht.
Anzeige"Ich hatte meinen Mitarbeitern nicht erzählt, I meditate every morning. But she noticed it anyway. Colleagues said to me and said I was lately a total looser and more relaxed. I liked that. In a work world where stress, deadlines and stress are commonplace, relaxation and openness to do well. Offer "
" Zen-courses in business, I think, is a good idea, very important, "said Steinauer enthusiastic. But they just could not offer a way such as back fitness or other health courses. They should make even in the context of stress and strain. could then well create a win-win situation, says Steinauer, "as the company promotes the personal responsibility of employees. This study . By Zen better be careful on themselves and the company may deliver responsibility "Without sounding pretentious, Steinauer describes what the meditation was made of her:" I am a competent business woman who is balanced and relaxed. That's a nice combination. "
In Germany there are about twelve Zen schools offering meditation not only for managers but also traditional and advanced students of Zen or Zen special for women in the program. The weekend seminars by Zen Master Polenski get his information principally from business decision makers, doctors and sometimes in recent years more and more journalists. Most participants had a real suffering. "Some work and work and work, never come to rest and then suffer from insomnia." There would be not an exercise that any help. One must first find out what was wrong. Some needed to learn to economize with their energy. "Someone has too much power in the morning and the evening is completely killed, you get a breathing exercise that helps him to save energy when he has too much of it, and they bring out again when he is tired." Steinauer felt their work but "never as pure stress, but I won by Zen at ease and inner peace." It was probably the Zen meditation, which they in their decision influence has to take a break. Since September, she works as an independent consultant.
Whether they will ever return to their companies back? The spokesman responded to a request in any case very buttoned up, "She does not work for a long time with us."
From: Welt.de
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