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Why meditation in business?

 

" Companies that offer better quality of life, by giving workers a high level of flexibility and permission to unplug, have employees who are more engaged, more satisfied with their jobs, less likely to leave, and in better physical and mental health”

- Society for Human Resource Management  

 

 

Imagine that your team members feel better about themselves, can work with more focus, have more and better ideas and can deal with adversity better? The power of meditation for business is huge. Gone are the days when it was a vague part of a vitality day. Organizations that offer mindfulness meditation programs can drastically reduce employee stress and increase well-being.

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Much research has been done over the past 10 years on the effects of meditation on performance and well-being and the results are astounding. Employees are not only better able to deal with stress, but also become more creative. Meditation can even change the structures in our brains, it can make employees permanently more resilient.  

 

Meditation improves emotion regulation and concentration and reduces stress. It contributes to greater self-awareness and thus the possibilities for better self-care. ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3916 )

 

Harvard recently published an article on what meditation means for leadership. Jim Collins wrote, "One of the things that stands in the way of many leaders' success — and therefore the success of their companies — is their ego." And that is something that meditation produces: "meditating leaders realized that they are not separate from others, but are part of a whole. That may sound vague, but turns out to have a major impact for leaders: they could look at things more objectively and make better decisions." building relationships.” ( https://hbr.org/2019/12/what-meditation-can-do-for-your-leadership)

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Meditation also contributes to innovation and visioning. In a survey by the Institute of Mindful Leadership, 93% of leaders reported that mindfulness training helped them create space for innovation, and nearly 70% said it helped them think strategically ( Institute for Mindful Leadership Survey ).

 

Steve Jobs was a propagator of the power of meditation, it gave him space in his head for new connections and big ideas. 

“If you just sit down and observe, you'll see how restless your mind is,” Jobs told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. "If you try to calm it down, it only gets worse, but over time it calms down, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to bloom and you see things clearer. and see more clearly. You are in the now. Your mind slows down and you see a vast expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It takes discipline; you have to practice it."

 

Tune out from work is necessary for sustainable performance and contributes to professional self-care: it brings you closer to yourself so that you can make choices that fit your interests and values.