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Meditation in the workplace

The Benefits of Meditation in the Workplace

The workplace can be extremely stressful, and action-packed, although many businesses have adopted meditation in the workplace to improve performance, relationships and employee health. Through meditating, many employees have been able to reduce personal levels of stress and focus on their own individual core health and wellbeing.

Likewise, many human resources managers have realised the need to continually communicate a need for employees to schedule time for meditation into their daily calendars to effectively improve overall organisational health. Likewise, HR professionals have begun to create many useful meditation programs that can aim to provide employees with powerful self and workplace benefits.

Many studies have proven that even as low as 5 minutes of reflection, breathing and tension-reducing meditation has the ability to reduce individual stress and provide a wide range of benefits to employees. In turn, the following blog will go into detail, highlighting the benefits of meditation in the workplace.

Improved Focus

Practising meditation has proven to be extremely beneficial to employees in the workplace as it effectively improves overall focus whilst at work. Meditation and mindfulness aim to effectively improve individual employee abilities to have longer attention spans and improve an employee’s ability to block out surrounding distractions.

Likewise, an increase in focus whilst at work has the corresponding benefit of improving overall employee productivity. This means that regular meditation to realign employees’ thoughts may increase the ability to stay focused and on track to effective task completion. This is very crucial as an increased level of focus through meditation is an important benefit almost every employee will wish to acquire.

Increases Creativity

Through extremely great meditation practices in the workplace, employees can achieve an increase in their own overall creativity level. This can be seen whereby an individual’s mind is constantly being stimulated through meditation, causing an employee’s imagination, thoughts and positive cognitive thinking to run wild.

In turn, employees become increasingly more adept at problem-solving through an increase in creative thinking. Further, if individuals continue to keep up a consistent action in constantly meditating greater levels of creativity may be achieved as employees become more thought oriented and make more bold and unique ideas to the activities and tasks they complete in the workplace.

Improves Emotions

Meditation in the workplace has been found to lead employees to effectively improve their overall emotions. Specifically, this means that due to employees having increased focus and creativity, they are more likely to be satisfied with themselves leading to a positive outlook on personal mood, emotions and behaviours.

Moreover, with an improvement in personal satisfaction and emotions, employees may effectively reduce levels of personal anxiety and depression. This is seen through the ability to keep personal emotions in check and handle very difficult situations more easily. Likewise, meditation does a lot for individual employees to ensure employee mood and emotions are kept to an all-time positive high.

Reduces Stress

With the increase in employees taking a break from work and reflecting through meditation a corresponding reduction in employee stress levels may be achieved. Stress in the workplace has been largely associated with employee burnout, anxiety, depression and fear. Likewise, when employees meditate, they are able to take back a sense of control in their lives which in turn reduces employee stress levels.

Furthermore, many studies have proven that through effective meditation employees may experience significant improvements to personal stress reductions and likely improve positive behaviours at work. In turn, it is extremely important for employees to consider workplace meditation to help support their personal wellbeing by reducing individual stress levels.

Strengthens Memory

An extremely amazing benefit that may be achieved through meditation in the workplace is that meditation effectively strengthens memory. Research conducted has proven that meditation has great positive impacts on one’s memory. In the research, it was seen that two groups had been tested one who meditated and one who did not, the group that meditated were able to effectively achieve greater recollection results than the other.

Likewise, in the workplace memory recollection is extremely important. Recalling various thoughts has the power for employees to make extremely great and critical decisions, come up with informed ideas and further assess situations based upon past experiences. In turn, it is important for HR managers to push employees to conduct meditation in the workplace.

Improved Collaboration

A final great benefit that is associated with meditation in the workplace is that it can effectively improve employee collaboration. Specifically, this may be seen whereby employees may get involved in group meditations in the workplace to improve their overall level of team unison, innovation and collaboration.

Moreover, with the impact of COVID-19, these group meditation sessions have been transformed into online and digital meditations sessions, which has accelerated into common practice. Likewise, teams that meditate together gain a better sense of each other and understand well how to collaborate and interact with one another in the best possible way, improving team performance.

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Jake Amodeo
Jake.amodeo@employeeconnect.com