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Meditation at Work
There are many techniques to improve productivity in the workplace used by enterprises and human resource professionals nowadays. Many of them involve teamwork, motivation and improvement of psychological traits such as emotional intelligence. Dozens of new courses, workshops and assessments regularly arise in this study strongly and constantly evolving arena, but it is particularly to the fore at present is perhaps the oldest and least expected of all mediation.
There are many images of people carry in their mind about meditation techniques in action. One imagines sitting alone in a room specially prepared at home or in a temple, or middle class. Meditate with coworkers as part of the normal routine of work is not, however, the typical image that comes to mind for most people. However, this is exactly what happens in the village idea – a company in Jersey, USA. Like a growing number of companies around the world twice a week leave their desks, sit and meditate in a group together.
The most interesting part is that after doing this for a little less this year found that their productivity actually increased. "Sales have grown 50 percent over last year, and we seem to get about four or five times the number of products presented to us that we did last year," says company CEO, Mr. Andy Khubani. "I do not know if this can be attributed to meditation, but I think it helped."
No doubt, as anyone who has spent time practicing one of any number of meditation techniques and will be noted, that meditation helps focus the mind. There is a lot of talk going on in the brain all the time, to the extent that you can easily get in the way of clear thinking and focused. The value of meditation is that it creates a space around the talk. That does not mean that silence helps them to think – far from it – is not good meditation on the fight against thought, but from observation. What techniques are used for meditation, which allows you to create a little distance between you and your thoughts and facilitate the progressive deepening is not on your own thoughts. The real power of meditation is that it effectively opens the mind of his own creation cycles. Now, what could be more productive than that?