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Thoughtful work can help you become aware of your mental health and bring you the professional success you are looking for
Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash
May is mental health awareness month. One in five people will be affected by mental illness in their lifetime. And some of you who read this article have had anxiety and / or depression issues in their workplace. It is important to address the stigma associated with mental illness, and Mental Health Awareness Month is the perfect time to do so. The so-called Royal Fab Four (William, Kate, Harry and Meghan) took advantage of this month to launch a mental health service for people suffering from this disease, using SMS to offer free help. Princes William and Harry were opened on their own mental struggles after the death of their mother, Princess Diana. I am not a king and I do not have the funds to provide a global service, but in the hope of eliminating the stigma of mental illness, I would like to do my little thing. share by sharing my own hardships at work and the way I overcame them.
My story
After years of defining myself by my accomplishments and letting my career devour me, the buttress of the work stopped supporting me and I collapsed. Mentally exhausted and spiritually dead, I collapsed in my flight seat. When the flight attendant asked me if I needed anything, I signaled him to leave. I had lost so much weight that I looked like a refugee from Dachau. During takeoff, I did not care about the crash of the plane. Nothing mattered. At the lowest point of my life, I had booked a sunny week in Jamaica to escape the pain of emotional stress and burnout. When you live primarily in the outside world as I did – immersing yourself in your career, ignoring your inner self – you are forced to touch the bottom at some point. I call this a "work without intelligence". At the lowest of my life, I had help, fell into yoga and meditation and started my own mindfulness practices. I started the fog out of work in a healthier life. Today, when I'm working, I'm constantly listening to what's going on inside me while I'm in the present moment throughout the working day. Without an internal compass, you rely on external conditions to correct an internal feeling and your mind goes off. Could you be one of the spiritually dead looking for an outdoor cure for your mental health problems?
Work without thinking: the true American idol
In a society based on brainless work, my old unhealthy work habits had a lot of camouflage. Flexible hours, Walmart 24/7, smartphones and Wi-Fi sprayed the line that once prevented the office from swallowing the sacred hours of Shabbat, Sunday and family dinner. In a rapidly changing and turbulent world, you might also struggle to keep this line between quiet and frantic work. Astute and clever work gadgets infiltrate personal time, and a technology-driven work culture has turned our lives into a constant work blur and has overshadowed our ability to be. According to Harvard researchers, if you are an ordinary person, you are lost in your thoughts 47% of the time. And multitasking keeps you from staying there.
If you are an unskilled worker, you run the risk of losing contact with yourself, the present moment and the people around you. You see work as a refuge in a dangerous and emotionally unpredictable world. You are in autopilot and you indulge in professional tasks, eclipsing other areas of life. Commitments to personal care, spiritual life, family responsibilities, friends, partners, and children are often caught and broken to cope with the pressures of work. Chances are, you're looking for an emotional and neurophysiological gain from frantic work and getting an adrenaline rush to meet impossible deadlines. You are concerned about the work, even when you walk hand-in-hand at the seaside, play fishing with a child, or fish with a friend. Any form of inner consciousness is little more than a vague but pleasant backdrop. Work is the central link in your life – the place where "life" really takes place, the secret repository of drama and emotions, as compelling as that of drug addicts with alcohol or cocaine.
Mindful Work And Your Mental Health
The practice of mindfulness brings about change from within – not from outside – whatever the working conditions or the nature of work-related problems. I call this simple solution the mental health problems faced by American workers conscious work– the intentional, instant awareness of what is happening in you and immediately around you, with self-harmonizing compassion as you progress through schedules and daily work routines. It's all about giving your full attention, without judgment, to the bodily sensations, thoughts, and feelings that come up when you work or think about your work. Instead of attacking you when things are deteriorating, a conscious and compassionate harmony eases work stress and burnout, business bankruptcies, job losses or job losses. 39, anxiety and concerns related to career goals.
Conscious work is based on personal care in the best and worst times. If you are worried, if you are stressed or if you are depressed by a slowdown in the economy, the loss of a promotion, a failing relationship with a boss or colleague or the fear of 39, a professional challenge ahead, it compromises your mental health. When the mind ruminates, worry and stress overshadow the problematic situation. Your internal sufferings distract you and magnify the initial situation. In these cases, your mind uses you. But when you do thoughtful work, you use your mind to overcome the difficulties of working with clarity, compassion, courage and creativity. My research team from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte found that mindless workers had statistically higher statistical exhaustion rates, were more out of touch with their personality and less insightful than conscious workers, who were more aware of the present moment, such as clarity, calmness, compassion and trust.
If you are a conscious worker, you are more attentive to your work and consider your work as a necessary and sometimes satisfactory obligation. You have an instant awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and how you feel in your body as you navigate the workday. You know when to close the briefcase, mentally change speed and be fully present in the present moment – at your daughter's football match or at your own wedding anniversary celebration. Your inner harmonization gives you a sense of calm and confidence that brings a sense of satisfaction and joy to your career. You can turn off your professional appetite, pay attention to your surroundings and you are also emotionally active outside of work than during working hours.
And mindfulness practices also have physical benefits. Scientists report that mindfulness meditation slows heart rate and brain waves, strengthens the immune system and heart function, and people who meditate have less stressful lives, fewer health problems, improved relationships, and a lifetime of life. longer. Mindfulness allows you to appreciate the deep mystery of being alive without the need to work at highs or numb with multitasking and busy activities.
Work in the present
Staying in the moment while working helps you rediscover your workplace and see the world of work with new light and clarity. If you could see your life with the fresh eyes of a stranger, what would you see? Unpaid bills and tedious work of another day of the pressure cooker? Or the freshness and richness of being alive with the exciting challenges that await us? Do you want to get through the workday with your head stuck in a smartphone, laptop or a pile of reports? Or would you look at colleagues with intrigue, engaging them in a conversation with a renewed appreciation of what they have to say? Do you want to break your head to your loved ones or are you trying to better tolerate their human fallibility without trying to change them? Conscious work protects and maintains your mental health on a daily basis. Try this conscious exercise.
The next time you go to the office, put the curiosity before the judgment and imagine that you are entering your workplace for the first time. Notice the entrance, architecture of the exterior and interior of the building and the people present on their workstation. Look at your colleagues with renewed interest as if you had never seen them. Notice what is hanging on the walls, textures and colors of the ceiling and the floor. Feel the flowers on someone's desk. Be aware of how your colleagues are dressed and blouse or jacket colors. Pay attention to who conforms and who walks at the rate of his own drum. What sounds do you hear and what odors get into the air? Be aware of as many sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures as you can. Look in the eyes of an associate, a subordinate or a boss. Then look deeper into facial expressions and hearts, where true humanity resides. Notice what you see printed here. Do people look happy or sad? Ready to get ready for the day or wish to be at home in bed? Do they smile or frown? Who has lines of worry and whose face is stress free? With curiosity and without judgment, simply become aware of what you think and feel and pay attention to the sensations of your body. Do not be surprised if your heart rate and breathing slow down and your muscles are loosened.
When you live every day through attentive eyes, as if it was a first experience, something magical happens. You discover another world always available to you. Life automatically takes on a new glow. You get a deeper appreciation for the people and things that have escaped you around you. You find a renewed interest in your colleagues, your loved ones and others you might have taken for granted. You slow down and tackle the challenges with more calm and ease. You can see the beauty in the ordinary, the elegance in the simple and the excitement in the banal. It is possible for you to rediscover yourself and your workplace by looking at each new day in a new way. As you begin to see your work differently through conscious eyes, change your perspective again and you will continue to have good mental health and a renewed perspective of your career.
According to the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, the joy with which you follow this line between your work and your personal life determines your happiness: "When we are able to make a step of peace and happiness, we work for the cause of peace and happiness the whole of humanity. . . We can only do this if we do not think of the future or the past, if we know that life can only be found in the present moment. "
Here is your sanity!
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Thoughtful work can help you become aware of your mental health and bring you the professional success you are looking for
Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash
May is mental health awareness month. One in five people will be affected by mental illness in their lifetime. And some of you who read this article have had anxiety and / or depression issues in their workplace. It is important to address the stigma associated with mental illness, and Mental Health Awareness Month is the perfect time to do so. The so-called Royal Fab Four (William, Kate, Harry and Meghan) took advantage of this month to launch a mental health service for people suffering from this disease, using SMS to offer free help. Princes William and Harry were opened on their own mental struggles after the death of their mother, Princess Diana. I am not a king and I do not have the funds to provide a global service, but in the hope of eliminating the stigma of mental illness, I would like to do my little thing. share by sharing my own hardships at work and the way I overcame them.
My story
After years of defining myself by my accomplishments and letting my career devour me, the buttress of the work stopped supporting me and I collapsed. Mentally exhausted and spiritually dead, I collapsed in my flight seat. When the flight attendant asked me if I needed anything, I beckoned to leave. I had lost so much weight that I looked like a refugee from Dachau. During takeoff, I did not care about the crash of the plane. Nothing mattered. At the lowest point of my life, I had booked a sunny week in Jamaica to escape the pain of emotional stress and burnout. When you live primarily in the outside world as I did – immersing yourself in your career, ignoring your inner self – you are forced to touch the bottom at some point. I call this a "work without intelligence". At the lowest of my life, I had help, fell into yoga and meditation and started my own mindfulness practices. I started the fog out of work in a healthier life. Today, when I'm working, I'm constantly listening to what's going on inside me while I'm in the present moment throughout the working day. Without an internal compass, you rely on external conditions to correct an internal feeling and your mind goes off. Could you be one of the spiritually dead looking for an outdoor cure for your mental health problems?
Work without thinking: the true American idol
In a society based on brainless work, my old unhealthy work habits had a lot of camouflage. Flexible hours, Walmart 24/7, smartphones and Wi-Fi sprayed the line that once prevented the office from swallowing the sacred hours of Shabbat, Sunday and family dinner. In a rapidly changing and turbulent world, you might also struggle to keep this line between quiet and frantic work. Astute and clever work gadgets infiltrate personal time, and a technology-driven work culture has turned our lives into a constant work blur and has overshadowed our ability to be. According to Harvard researchers, if you are an ordinary person, you are lost in your thoughts 47% of the time. And multitasking keeps you from staying there.
If you are an unskilled worker, you run the risk of losing contact with yourself, the present moment and the people around you. You see work as a refuge in a dangerous and emotionally unpredictable world. You are in autopilot and you indulge in professional tasks, eclipsing other areas of life. Commitments to personal care, spiritual life, family responsibilities, friends, partners, and children are often caught and broken to cope with the pressures of work. Chances are, you're looking for an emotional and neurophysiological gain from frantic work and getting an adrenaline rush to meet impossible deadlines. You are concerned about the work, even when you walk hand-in-hand at the seaside, play fishing with a child, or fish with a friend. Any form of inner consciousness is little more than a vague but pleasant backdrop. Work is the central link in your life – the place where "life" really takes place, the secret repository of drama and emotions, as compelling as that of drug addicts with alcohol or cocaine.
Mindful Work And Your Mental Health
The practice of mindfulness brings about change from within – not from outside – whatever the working conditions or the nature of work-related problems. I call this simple solution the mental health problems faced by American workers conscious work– the intentional, instant awareness of what is happening in you and immediately around you, with self-harmonizing compassion as you progress through schedules and daily work routines. It's all about giving your full attention, without judgment, to the bodily sensations, thoughts, and feelings that come up when you work or think about your work. Instead of attacking you when things are deteriorating, a conscious and compassionate harmony eases work stress and burnout, business bankruptcies, job losses or job losses. 39, anxiety and concerns related to career goals.
Conscious work is based on personal care in the best and worst times. If you are worried, if you are stressed or if you are depressed by a slowdown in the economy, the loss of a promotion, a failing relationship with a boss or colleague or the fear of 39, a professional challenge ahead, it compromises your mental health. When the mind ruminates, worry and stress overshadow the problematic situation. Your internal sufferings distract you and magnify the initial situation. In these cases, your mind uses you. But when you do thoughtful work, you use your mind to overcome the difficulties of working with clarity, compassion, courage and creativity. My research team from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte found that mindless workers had statistically higher statistical exhaustion rates, were more out of touch with their personality and less insightful than conscious workers, who were more aware of the present moment, such as clarity, calmness, compassion and trust.
If you are a conscious worker, you are more attentive to your work and consider your work as a necessary and sometimes satisfactory obligation. You have an instant awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and how you feel in your body as you navigate the workday. You know when to close the briefcase, mentally change speed and be fully present in the present moment – at your daughter's football match or at your own wedding anniversary celebration. Your inner harmonization gives you a sense of calm and confidence that brings a sense of satisfaction and joy to your career. You can turn off your professional appetite, pay attention to your surroundings and you are also emotionally active outside of work than during working hours.
And mindfulness practices also have physical benefits. Scientists report that mindfulness meditation slows heart rate and brain waves, strengthens the immune system and heart function, and people who meditate have less stressful lives, fewer health problems, improved relationships, and a lifetime of life. longer. Mindfulness allows you to appreciate the deep mystery of being alive without the need to work at highs or numb with multitasking and busy activities.
Work in the present
Staying in the moment while working helps you rediscover your workplace and see the world of work with new light and clarity. If you could see your life with the fresh eyes of a stranger, what would you see? Unpaid bills and tedious work of another day of the pressure cooker? Or the freshness and richness of being alive with the exciting challenges that await us? Do you want to get through the workday with your head stuck in a smartphone, laptop or a pile of reports? Or would you look at colleagues with intrigue, engaging them in a conversation with a renewed appreciation of what they have to say? Do you want to break your head to your loved ones or are you trying to better tolerate their human fallibility without trying to change them? Conscious work protects and maintains your mental health on a daily basis. Try this conscious exercise.
The next time you go to the office, put the curiosity before the judgment and imagine that you are entering your workplace for the first time. Notice the entrance, architecture of the exterior and interior of the building and the people present on their workstation. Look at your colleagues with renewed interest as if you had never seen them. Notice what is hanging on the walls, textures and colors of the ceiling and the floor. Feel the flowers on someone's desk. Be aware of how your colleagues are dressed and blouse or jacket colors. Pay attention to who conforms and who walks at the rate of his own drum. What sounds do you hear and what odors get into the air? Be aware of as many sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures as you can. Look in the eyes of an associate, a subordinate or a boss. Then look deeper into facial expressions and hearts, where true humanity resides. Notice what you see printed here. Do people look happy or sad? Ready to get ready for the day or wish to be at home in bed? Do they smile or frown? Who has lines of worry and whose face is stress free? With curiosity and without judgment, simply become aware of what you think and feel and pay attention to the sensations of your body. Do not be surprised if your heart rate and breathing slow down and your muscles are loosened.
When you live every day through attentive eyes, as if it was a first experience, something magical happens. You discover another world always available to you. Life automatically takes on a new glow. You get a deeper appreciation for the people and things that have escaped you around you. You find a renewed interest in your colleagues, your loved ones and others you might have taken for granted. You slow down and tackle the challenges with more calm and ease. You can see the beauty in the ordinary, the elegance in the simple and the excitement in the banal. It is possible for you to rediscover yourself and your workplace by looking at each new day in a new way. As you begin to see your work differently through conscious eyes, change your perspective again and you will continue to have good mental health and a renewed perspective of your career.
According to the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, the joy with which you follow this line between your work and your private life determines your happiness: the whole of humanity. . . We can only do this if we do not think of the future or the past, if we know that life can only be found in the present moment. "
Here is your sanity!