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Today’s corporate life is full of high speed and challenges. Deadline pressure, long meetings, frequent work on screen and office competition, the mind gets tired quickly and life becomes stressed. Due to which problems like irritability, sleeplessness, reduction in concentration, mental imbalance starts. In such Vice Chairperson of Vishwa Jagriti Mission, Dr. Archika Telling how small mindfulness practice can relieve the stress of the office.

Why is meditation and mindfulness in the office?

Workload, stress affects the work capacity of every employee. When the mind is not calm, the work performance also falls. In such a situation, meditation and mindfulness practice is an easy tool to maintain balance in the office environment.

What meditation in the office?

• Breathing attention: Sit upright on your seat, close your eyes lightly, put one hand on the stomach and focus on the movement of breath for 5 minutes and on the flowering of flatulence and coming back to the old state. During this time, experience the entry of positivity with every coming breath and the release of negativity with the moving breath. This practice immediately calms the mind and reduces stress.
• Mini Meditation Break: Empty the mind by closing your eyes for 2 to 3 minutes between long work, imagine that you are energetic, your stress is slowly ending. This mountfulness brakes keep balanced throughout the day.
• Trataka Meditation: Take a short break from the computer screen, place an object or pen on the desk, look at it for 2 to 3 minutes without blinking an eye, then close the eyes and feel its image inside. This practice eradicates fatigue and increases concentration.
• Mindful Visualization: Sit comfortably in your place and see every development in the mind, every thought in the mind only with evidence. That is, let every event around, every idea that arises in the mind, only let it happen. Do not connect with that feeling at all, not affected by it.
• Walking Meditation: Get up from your place, walk slowly, pay attention to every step, repeat in your mind- “I am calm, I am stable.” During the break, this attention from 2 to 3 minutes reduces stress and works to change the mood.

The real essence of mindfulness is that you are present in the present moment with full heart, whether it is breathing or walking, eating or talking to someone. This type of practice makes your office life easier. These mindfulfulness exercises carried out with small brakes not only relieves stress but also bring proficiency in work. This exercise releases endorphin hormones that immediately make you positive, this makes you energetic again and your creativity also improves.