A conscious worker is a happy worker

When giving a conference in a few months on Google use care to help relieve anxiety, depression and other common forms of psychological disorders there, I am impressed by the company's commitment to caring of its employees.  

From the first organic fruit juice measures in all buildings in gyms and yoga and meditation centers scattered around campus, it was clear they think a healthy employee is a productive employee (to say nothing of an employee who needs the least expensive) medical services. In fact, they had a whole team dedicated solely to the teaching of meditation mindfulness, and offered regular training sessions that workers can attend in person or on-line throughout the day.

But mindfulness practice can really help the mental health of employees? Is this something that more companies should invest in, or just another fad for former hippies in Silicon Valley? The results of the best-designed study to date that addresses this issue are fair, and the answer is impressive: mindfulness can really help workers, even those who are far from California.

What the study found 
The new study comes from Taiwan where researchers surveyed 3,270 workers at the plant in order to identify those with high levels of psychological distress. He then invited these particularly unhappy workers to participate in the study. The 144 workers who finally agreed to participate were awarded to a group of active intervention, who finished a training mindfulness consists of eight weeks of classes for two hours a week at work and 45 minutes of meditation daily task or a control group, which regularly reported on their psychological well-being, but received no training in mind.

What did they find? Compared with the control group, workers who took the full class consciousness reported feeling much better. They had less prolonged fatigue - feeling tired wrong, even after having a chance to rest. Also feel less stressed, they reported reduced anxiety and depression, and had fewer sleep disorder, pain and difficulty getting with others.

So what exactly is this formation of the spirit that helped them? Mindfulness is to put our attention on the present moment and accept what is happening here and now. This sounds very simple, but when we started to really try to practice mindfulness - the choice of a sensory experience, like breathing, bringing our attention and work to accept whatever arises in our consciousness - The Most of us are not only our minds wander quickly extinguished in all kinds of thoughts about the past and the future, but also to generate all kinds of negative judgments about what is happening.

The good news is that, like any skill, care can be learned. It just takes a little education, and set aside some time to practice. Many studies have shown that through the practice of mindfulness, we can actually change the structure and functioning of our brain in ways that are consistent with the happier and more engaged in our lives feel. These changes will also help us to be easier to cope with the physical and emotional pain.

How you can reap the benefits of attention 
So how can you start if you wanted to become more aware? One way that requires no additional time is simply choose other activities, such as walking the dog, a shower or a meal in itself, and decide to make the practices of mindfulness. This means that instead of reviewing our smartphone, review our list of things to do, or music, we try to bring our attention to the sights, sounds and sensations that occur during activity physics. The practice of mindfulness is dose-related, the more we try to do this all day, we become more aware.

Although these informal practices that actually help you develop some attention, to develop, it is useful to set aside time to practice meditation, as they do on Google. Most studies documenting the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation regularly involve people. It is easier to start a regular practice of meditation, following the recorded instructions. While there are many sources of these, like to listen to some that I recorded in www.mindfulness-solution.com. You have a lot of conscious moments! 
By: Ronald Siegeld, PsyD