Archive for September, 2015

Mindfulness in the Workplace

September 3, 2015

If mindfulness is being fully present in the moment, how can it help you at work?

Professor Ellen Langer of Harvard University has shown that if you’re in a mindful state, it’s easier to pay attention and to remember more of what you’ve done. You’ll find creative solutions more readily, and take advantage of opportunities that arise. As a plus, people will like you better as they sense that when you are with them, you are fully engaged.

Google, eBay, General Mills and Harvard Business School all offer mindfulness meditation classes to their employees, and workplaces everywhere are seeing the benefits for stressed, multi-tasking employees.

Worth a try?