Multitasking is defined as the performance of multiple jobs at one time. Breathing and walking at the same time are multiple tasks that don’t require a high level of focus and are not part of this definition. We are taking about doing more than one task simultaneously, where each one demands a certain level of focus. There is a task we are all good at, and that is delusion (tee hee).
“People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they’re deluding themselves,” says neuroscientist Earl Miller. “The brain is very good at deluding itself.” Miller, a professor of neuroscience at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, says that for the most part, we simply can’t focus on more than one thing at a time. What we can do, he said, is shift our focus from one thing to the next with astonishing speed.
With the world as it is these days, most of us are compelled to multitask out of sheer time management and a drive to get things done. Like a short-order cook working on many orders simultaneously, we may be simply shifting the focus very quickly instead of doing two tasks at the same time. Let’s shift the focus to listening and writing at the same time, as we receive the whispers from spirit on the subject of multitasking:
When someone is multitasking, one of the duties is sure to degrade or suffer in some way. A loss of discipline and focus occurs when performing multiple duties. The inability to remain focused on a task interrupts the energy, resulting in a loss of momentum or creative flow. One can think they are getting more accomplished, but at the cost of energy leaking and a loss of the ability to remain fully present.
Excellence and value are rarely delivered when switching is occurring with focus. Precious elements of the task at hand can be overlooked when the focus is constantly being interrupted. When a person is trying to do too much, they become scattered with their thinking and depleted of the energy vibration that is streaming, leading to mental fatigue, burnout, and loss of creative inspiration. New ideas and energy are not able to enter the mind/body space.
Each person has the power to discern their best use of time, and to see the truth regarding their actions. Delusional thoughts will feed the ego to justify the engagement with multiple tasks, and to act with little or no awareness to the quality of the work. Only the most spiritually evolved person will be able to move beyond the ego mind in order to act with integrity, purpose, and alignment with the core values regarding full commitment to the task at hand.
Nature provides the best demonstration of focus without ego. Those in the animal kingdom rely on intuition to be present and focus on one thing at a time, whether it is to eat, to play, to rest, or to simply exist in the moment. Use your intuition and natural abilities to hone the skill of awareness. Put your heart and soul into everything you do, so you can do it well. The satisfaction is the reward that will follow the highest level of performance that delivers full value and heartfelt excellence.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“Multitasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday.”
Joanne Tombrakos
