Remember This One Trick To Improve Working Relationships

Your headspace is 70% of the battle in working relationships.

TLDR: Meditate. Create imagery that a particular person likes and enjoys working with you in your mind.

The human imagination is one of the most underutilized tools we have when making our lives better. Yet, don’t underestimate its power.

Very often, people tell me they can’t meditate. I generally make such a suggestion only after they have spent hours ruminating on something negative.

If you think about something negative for any period, you are meditating. You are teaching yourself that this negative thing has an important place in your life. You are giving validation to this negative emotion. You are training yourself to think this way and approach the entity in real life with fear, anxiety, and whatever other energy-drowning feelings you can conjure.

But you can’t meditate? Is that right? Are you sure?

If you insist that you cannot meditate on this line, go ahead and leave the page. I get no claps. No read time. Nothing for me.

But if you are ready to challenge yourself and pretend something is great when it may be anything less, please keep reading.

The meditative technique is straightforward.

Here is a meditation technique to help you work through trust issues.

If you have a hard time working with or interacting with someone because you inherently don’t trust new or strange people, imagine that they like and enjoy working with you.

If you can, sit quietly, focus on your breathing, then imagine you are with this person in your chosen space. Preferably somewhere lovely and pleasant. If you envision the gates of hell, you are doing it wrong.

Imagine they see you, and they feel warmth and appreciation for you. Imagine that person emanating a caring and loving emotion towards and for you.

You have just learned the Receiving Loving-Kindness meditation technique.

How Receiving Loving-Kindness meditation technique works.

Training yourself to feel like someone else likes and trusts you allows you to approach them in real life with the kind of emotions you would like to receive.

Generally, people expect to earn trust, but this doesn’t work. This attitude puts everyone in a dull tug-of-war, resulting in a potentially permanently spoiled working/interacting relationship.

Somebody must first lose willingly, be vulnerable, or make a sacrifice.

Teaching yourself that someone likes you gives you the power and willingness to show your belly first. In addition, it puts you in a position to offer friendship instead of a challenge.

Meditating that someone likes you overrides your fear of not being liked, wanted, or trusted. Your newly found belief that this person means goodwill towards you will encourage you to treat them how you’ve imagined they will treat you. That person will hopefully feel and experience your positive behavior and energy.

To give up your inherent fears is hard. However, to override and retrain your brain with emotional redirecting tools is fun, engaging, and seriously feels like magic.

Key Message: By using imagery style of meditation, you can imagine another person’s positive emotions for you. This will positively alter how you interact with someone you are afraid to trust in a working relationship. It will also positively affect how they treat you, therefore starting a building relationship on the right foot!