Incorporating Mindfulness at Work
We live in a fast-paced, digitally enabled work environment, and many things that are supposed to simplify our lives leave us feeling stressed and overwhelmed.
Discover the secrets to achieving a more balanced state at work – everyone from Oprah to Google employees is doing it! Oprah claims it makes her 1000% better.
It’s mindfulness!
So, what exactly is mindfulness? Mindfulness is a state of active attention to what you’re sensing and feeling right here, right now, without interpretation or judgment.
You may not be overly familiar with the concept of mindfulness, but I can guarantee you’re well acquainted with its flip side: distractedness, inattention, and lack of engagement.
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The technique I’m gifting you can be practiced anywhere, anytime. But because mindfulness is about being present, let’s practice briefly now.
- Take a deep breath with me, close your eyes if you can safely, and at this very moment, what are you sensing and feeling?
- What do you feel on your skin?
- What’s your mood like?
- Is your breathing shallow and quick or relaxed?
- Are you feeling overwhelmed, peaceful, tired, or happy?
- What can you hear nearby and outside?
- Take a deep breath. Can you smell anything?
- Now, open your eyes.
Welcome to conscious mindfulness. It’s the opposite of what we experience each day.
Why is being present so overwhelming, and what’s with the ‘monkey mind’?
According to neuroscience, the scientific study of our nervous system, our brain is not only in charge of managing our physicality, such as breathing, muscle movement, and heart pumping… it also processes 400 billion bits of information per minute, while we can only process 2000 bits of it.
No wonder I can’t remember what I ate for lunch yesterday!!
And we’re only consciously aware of about .00001 percent, less than one-ten-thousandth of what’s available to use – otherwise, we’d be so overloaded that we literally could not compute.
The benefit of mindfulness at work and in life is that it allows us to zone into the succulence of life to “stop and smell the roses.”
The practice isn’t just some “ohm” chanting that should be relegated to Buddhist monks. On average, we spend 90,000 hours of our lives at work! So, incorporating this habit into our work life to reduce stress and heighten satisfaction offers fantastic benefits!
Google ran a ‘search inside yourself’ mindfulness program with over 13,000 participants who reported:
- 34 percent less emotional drain after the program.
- 32 percent greater ability to focus and be more effective.
- 29 percent improvement in their ability to maintain calm and poise during challenges.
- Productivity increases by 62 minutes per week, adding up to USD$3000 per employee per annum.
Their experience isn’t isolated; several companies are experiencing the same benefits regarding stress management, engagement, focus, and productivity. If you’d like to discover how to introduce mindfulness practice to your team or company, get in contact.
