Prince Harry, 37, was mocked on Friday after he complained of suffering “burnout” in an online lecture and told everyone to take time out of their jobs to do “inner work” on themselves, according to the Page Six.
“Mental fitness is the pinnacle, it’s what you’re after,” the British prince said in an online lecture as part of his new job as director of impact for mental health training service BetterUp.
Harry admitted that he had “experienced burnout”, saying, “I was burning the candle at both ends”.
The prince said it now takes about 45 minutes every morning “for exercise, taking the dog for a walk, going out in nature and meditating. “I know I need to meditate every day,” he continued, saying that “self-care is the first thing that disappears” when life gets tough.
Harry, who has stepped back from his role as senior royal, put the onus on business, suggesting that bosses tell their employees, “You know, everyone’s going to have to focus on themselves today.”
“If everybody were doing that, the shift in global consciousness, consciousness and self-awareness would be huge, it would be vast,” he said, calling it a “cycle of connectivity.”
He said that even those without understanding bosses should also meditate and do inner work. “The good thing is, you can make time, and if you don’t have time, then you probably need to make time even more.”
“The world is getting hotter and more complicated,” he said, adding that controlling your emotions “almost feels like a superpower.”
He said his own coaches helped him “wash the windshield and clean those filters so you could see your own life and the reality of it more clearly.”
“It’s a work in progress. Some days are great, some days are really hard,” he said, saying he was also being “educated by the universe.”
Part of the chat was alongside tennis legend Serena Williams, best friend of Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle. She said the prince was “actually one of my trainers”. “Whenever I see him, he’s always solving all the problems in my life,” Serena said.
But Williams’ praise was not shared by everyone and many scoffed at the prince. “Prince Harry looks increasingly like a candidate for the much-missed Transcendental Meditation Party, whose main policy involved healing traffic jams, encouraging everyone to levitate through the power of thought,” tweeted GB News presenter Colin Brazier.
London politician Susan Hall suggested this proves that the prince “lives in his very privileged bubble with no understanding of the real world”.
Source: Folha
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