5 ways meditation makes your employees better
If your team is struggling with stress, distraction, or burnout, you’re certainly not alone – but you may be unsure how to address these challenges. Enter the meditation practice.
A meditation practice provides an incredible set of benefits and enhanced qualities we hope to see in great employees and teams.
In this article, we’ll explore 5 qualities meditation helps cultivate that make your employees better.
1.Reduced Stress
One of the main reasons most folks begin to meditate is to reduce the unwanted experience of stress. Meditation effectively reduces both mental stress and the resulting physical tension and agitation.
In fact, in one workplace study, participants in a mindfulness program reported feeling 28% less stressed!
When employees are less stressed they are kinder to each other, more optimistic and energetic and overall HAPPIER.
2.Increased energy
Studies show 35% of Canadians have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep.
Meditation can help our nervous system relax (aka calm our body), making sleep easier.
This one’s pretty simple — when we sleep better, we have more energy to give!
3.better focus (and productivity!)
Meditation trains our mind to focus better and be less distracted. It’s like training your dog to walk beside you and be less distracted and enticed by the scents on a trail. The more you (or the dog) practice - the easier the skill gets!
In one study practicing meditation, employees gained 69 minutes/week in productivity.
Imagine what results your team could create with an extra hour of focused work each week!
4.Increased optimism
One of the common challenges I hear from my clients, especially during COVID and even as things continue to move toward “normal” is that their staff are depleted and in a negative response cycle. Sound like the members of your team? Irritable, reactive, annoyed, angry…
One of the often forgotten benefits of meditation is its ability to shift us into a more optimistic point of view.
Long-term meditation (all good things take time!) can quiet the amygdala, which is the part of the brain that is responsible for sensing threat and worry, resulting in a more positive attitude.
5.enhanced creativity
Most jobs require some creativity, at the very least - problem solving, or coming up with your next great product or marketing campaign.
When do you come up with your best ideas? Stressed out at your desk OR on a walk in nature, or in the shower?
Meditation can free up our mental resources (we spend less brain resources in survival mode and emotional regulation) so we can have our next brilliant stroke of insight!
USING MINDFULNESS TO FOSTER great employees and teams
Providing learning and development opportunities to your team is essential to keep them enhancing their skills and qualities.
Incorporating carefully designed mindfulness-based workplace wellness programs can give your employees powerful tools to not just be good at their job, but be great people at work and in the world.
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