The Many benefits of meditation

A communal practice, meditating with one’s workmates, can:

• reduce stress and anxiety at work
• reduce burnout
• provide a short break from the pressures of one’s work
• help to develop more authentic communication, trust, respect and cooperation, through a more gentle and kindly awareness of one’s colleagues
• encourage compassion and empathy for one’s workmates help to improve performance and productivity, through better understanding of one another
• even help develop creativity and innovation, arising out of deeper communication and a less stressful working environment

In a quiet space at work, group meditation may help to encourage

and develop a generally more relaxed and settled workplace, and

also an atmosphere of a joint and shared activity – a communal

sense of purpose.

Many positive and healthy benefits to a regular meditation practice

are now commonly acknowledged. Some of the physical, emotional, and psychological benefits of meditation can include:

• increased focus and concentration
• improved ability to remain focussed and less easily distracted
• improved mood and mental positivity
• heightened perceptual clarity and awareness
• lower blood pressure
•  higher levels of energy
• becoming more equipped to cope with persistent stress
• decreased anxiety and depression
• a higher degree of awareness of others
• increased empathy and loving kindness
• less emotional reactivity
• enhanced ability to enjoy and experience the present moment
• more self-awareness, self-kindness and self-confidence
• a general improvement in happiness and peace of mind