Have you ever heard about mindfulness and wondered how you can integrate it
into work? Hi I'm Adriana Girdler, I'm a Productivity Specialists and
president of CornerStone Dynamics and my VisualVision.com, and today's video I'm
gonna explain to you a little bit about mindfulness. What it is, why even think of
it, and how it can bring some benefits into your working environment. As well, at
the end of this video I have a download bonus for you which you'll find
interesting as to top 10 things you can do to bring mindfulness into work.
Today we're hearing more and more about mindfulness and it being brought into
the workforce so I'd like to give you some information so you can make a
decision as to whether or not you want to bring it into the workforce. Well, what
exactly is mindfulness? So let's understand that first as per my earlier
video actually in my introduction video I give a definition of mindfulness which
is a definition by Jon Kabat-Zinn. And that definition is paying attention
to the present moment, non-judgmentally, to look at a situation in a different
light. It really is powerful stuff when you're able to be in a mindful moment.
You have the ability not to allow things to take over and really look at things
from a very rational and calm perspective. Allowing you to make better
decisions and in today's stressful environments at work, that is really
really important. Which is why we're seeing more and more of it introduced
into the workforce. So why even think about mindfulness at work? Yes, I know I
talked earlier on about stress and that's definitely a big part of it, and
mindfulness is an amazing technique to help reduce stress but more importantly,
when you actually think about it, and you actually do the numbers, we spent over
50% of our time during the week at work. And if those stress levels are really
high, guess what we live life 24/7 and we don't just turn off automatically when
we leave the office. We bring it with us and we're actually seeing this trickle
effect of stress in the work force trickling into our private lives. And so
bringing mindfulness at work is not only a benefit for the organization, it's a
benefit for the individuals, and something that really should be looked
at deeply to bringing the organization and the people within it to the next
level. So how can mindfulness help at work? Well
there's tons of research actually out there on mindfulness and if you go down
below below this video I actually have some links for you regarding the
research and I think that's really important for you to understand is that
this is not just a fly-by-night concept. This is not something that you know,
those who are more on the emotional side of things go do
mindfulness. It's not that at all it's really about being able to look inward,
being centered, and grounded so that we can look at situations in a different
way. Non non-judgmentally and actually look at more opportunities that
have presented themselves, because we're not blinded by stress. Because what
happens with stress? Guess what, we're not truly focused and looking at all
opportunities, were more in the fight and flight syndrome when it comes to stress.
Therefore trying to survive. And that is not going to help any organization or
any individual so what is it exactly that mindfulness can do? Well number one,
it reduces stress, and I think that's really important because it gives the
techniques to the individuals to teach them how to do that, how they can reduce
their own stress. Another benefit which is a really great benefit is a cohesion
and the bonding it can have between teams. If you have teams that are not
really working together, it's because they're so focused on themselves. Stress
levels are probably a little bit high as well, and as a result they can't deal
with other people around them. But when you're mindful, and as an organization
you embrace those mindful techniques, it really can take away the aspect of me -
ego, and bring us back into the aspect of "we" a team, and actually have a more
cohesive team. It also brings more compassion into the workplace which is
something that is really important because guess what we're not machines.
We're human beings, and when we can be compassionate not only for ourselves, by
forgiving ourselves if we make mistakes, but also compassionate for those around
us, then that leads for a better working environment. Actually a safer working
environment. Psychologically safe where we feel it's okay to be ourselves in
order to bring out the best in us. Another aspect is it also improves the
focus on tasks that we need to have nowadays with so much going on. If we're
too stressed, we don't have the ability to truly focus on it and mindfulness and
the techniques it brings can help connect that. We live in a world more and
more of where quick fixes is something that we're always looking for, but what
I'm finding is quick fixes aren't the answer. They're
a very temporary solution to a much larger problem and it's really a
band-aid. So mindfulness what's really cool about mindfulness, is its taking
away the layers of band-aids. It's stripping it away to the actual, I guess
you can say the womb, the problem, so you can actually truly heal it, and fix it
and move on. And that's the beauty of mindfulness, is that every single one of
us have the power to do it and if work organizations started bringing it more
and more into their organization, helping their employees
with their stress levels you would see a huge shift in organizations. So as you
know, this channel is all about MVP: mindfulness, visioning and
productivity. And I wanted to give you this little snippet of mindfulness so
you can understand what it is, why bring it in, and some of those benefits. As I
said earlier on I do have a bonus, and that bonus is a download on how to bring
mindfulness, as an individual, it's very small easy techniques, into the workplace.
Because this is just one of the pieces of the puzzle that we need in order to
bridge gaps and allow us to become better at what we do and connect to our
purpose in a particular organization and the work that we do. If you like this
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next video. THANK YOU