It’s no secret that mediation has the power to reduce stress, create happiness, promote cardiovascular and good immune health.

It also sharpens your attention span, improves concentration and helps combat stress.

This practice can be applied to our everyday lives and seeing as we spend approximately 8 hours a day or possibly more in the workplace the benefits of meditation in the your office “work life” are priceless. Meditation is hard and yes our minds have the capacity to jump from one thought to another when we are trying to tell it not to, but at the end of the day it’s part of being human and attempting to quieten the monkey mind isn't always that simple.

We can’t all sit in stillness for hours on end honing out attention on a singular point of focus. Because we probably wouldn’t get alot of other stuff done.

There are pitches to make, emails to send, deals to be signed, deadlines to adhere too.

However taming those wild thoughts and practicing mindfulness by slowing things down and communicating with yourself is paramount to living a full, happy and balanced life

Being positive is more than just saying “got to stay positive” it’s a way of thinking, being and reacting. It’s reactive as well as proactive at the same time. The good news is positivity does not discriminate it is available to everyone and the best thing is it’s free.

Some of the most influential companies have applied this approach of meditation and mindfulness programs that have been adopted by the likes of Apple, Intel, and Google to name a few and there would be hundreds more. It has been proven that we have the power to rewire the human brain. Harvard University has conducted a study showcasing how the gray matter can reform in 8 weeks under a regular mediation practice.

Even five or ten minutes a day can have huge benefits. Relieving the have to do this, gotta do that attitude is extremely important. Meditation stimulates cognitive thinking it creates balance and can help creativity in the office and in all environments it offers a solution to stress, and anxiety and depression plus there are a myriad of health benefits.

In Australia we have a nation full of people suffering with disorders, alarmingly a lot of them are stress related. Recent surveys have shown individual’s aged between 18 and 35 are more prone to stress and stress related disorders.

We don’t know the full amount of the repercussions of living with our faces glued to a screen and while the convenience and practicality of a smart phone not to mention instant gratification and social media aren’t things we can or want to live without (let’s be honest) shouldn't we be aiming to keep the balance?

Mediation is a way to focus on the “now” the chance to come back to basics.

Some meditation apps to try to help increase productivity focus and direction for 2018

Insight Timer – https://insighttimer.com/

A free mediation app that allows you to collectively meditate with others around the globe today alone when I signed in 4,063 people were meditating.

It has timed mediations so you can do a quick 5-minute mediation while waiting for your train or getting your morning coffee.

Headspace App – https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app

Designed to help those suffering from anxiety and depression this app is great if you are a newbie to mediation and enjoy a good solid guided medi

Theres no judgment about trying mediation it might work for you or you might need to continue to work at it. However with so much stimuli on a daily basis stripping things back and having that time to focus on the life force running through you, its really a grounding transformative mindful and human experience.

It’s no secret that mediation has the power to reduce stress, create happiness, promote cardiovascular and good immune health.

It also sharpens your attention span, improves concentration and helps combat stress.

This practice can be applied to our everyday lives and seeing as we spend approximately 8 hours a day or possibly more in the workplace the benefits of meditation in the your office “work life” are priceless. Meditation is hard and yes our minds have the capacity to jump from one thought to another when we are trying to tell it not to, but at the end of the day it’s part of being human and attempting to quieten the monkey mind isn't always that simple.

We can’t all sit in stillness for hours on end honing out attention on a singular point of focus. Because we probably wouldn’t get alot of other stuff done.

There are pitches to make, emails to send, deals to be signed, deadlines to adhere too.

However taming those wild thoughts and practicing mindfulness by slowing things down and communicating with yourself is paramount to living a full, happy and balanced life

Being positive is more than just saying “got to stay positive” it’s a way of thinking, being and reacting. It’s reactive as well as proactive at the same time. The good news is positivity does not discriminate it is available to everyone and the best thing is it’s free.

Some of the most influential companies have applied this approach of meditation and mindfulness programs that have been adopted by the likes of Apple, Intel, and Google to name a few and there would be hundreds more. It has been proven that we have the power to rewire the human brain. Harvard University has conducted a study showcasing how the gray matter can reform in 8 weeks under a regular mediation practice.

Even five or ten minutes a day can have huge benefits. Relieving the have to do this, gotta do that attitude is extremely important. Meditation stimulates cognitive thinking it creates balance and can help creativity in the office and in all environments it offers a solution to stress, and anxiety and depression plus there are a myriad of health benefits.

In Australia we have a nation full of people suffering with disorders, alarmingly a lot of them are stress related. Recent surveys have shown individual’s aged between 18 and 35 are more prone to stress and stress related disorders.

We don’t know the full amount of the repercussions of living with our faces glued to a screen and while the convenience and practicality of a smart phone not to mention instant gratification and social media aren’t things we can or want to live without (let’s be honest) shouldn't we be aiming to keep the balance?

Mediation is a way to focus on the “now” the chance to come back to basics.

Some meditation apps to try to help increase productivity focus and direction for 2018

Insight Timer – https://insighttimer.com/

A free mediation app that allows you to collectively meditate with others around the globe today alone when I signed in 4,063 people were meditating.

It has timed mediations so you can do a quick 5-minute mediation while waiting for your train or getting your morning coffee.

Headspace App – https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app

Designed to help those suffering from anxiety and depression this app is great if you are a newbie to mediation and enjoy a good solid guided medi

Theres no judgment about trying mediation it might work for you or you might need to continue to work at it. However with so much stimuli on a daily basis stripping things back and having that time to focus on the life force running through you, its really a grounding transformative mindful and human experience.