PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Five tips for using mindfulness to calm your day
Mindfulness is the new black. It is an effective mental technique, borrowed from the two-thousand-year- old Buddhist contemplative practice and adapted to suit non-religious contexts, including boardrooms, corporations, hospitals, schools and sports teams.
By Dr Elise Bialylew
MINDFULNESS IS A PRACTICE which supports the capacity to stay focussed on what you are doing as you are doing it, a powerful antidote to the distractible nature of the mind and the information-overload in our digital world. When practised regularly, it can bring more calm and effectiveness into everyday life, reducing stress and enhancing mental capacity. Google has now trained over 1000 of its
employees in mindfulness, recognising its significance in improving well-being and innovation in the work place. It is initially practised through
meditation, but can also be applied to daily activities such as eating, walking or working. Mindfulness is the simple, yet challenging, discipline of noticing what you are doing when you are doing it and becoming master, rather than slave, to the impulses of your mind.
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