Stress has gotten to be fairly commonplace in many employees' lives. More EAP programs offer stress management as a part of their work-life balance menu, and that may include meditation.
When people meditate regularly, some clinically proven benefits include physiological changes that promote stress reduction including reduced blood pressure.
A second benefit to regular meditation is increased focus or concentration.
Just like a glass of storm water left to settle so that the sediment separates to the bottom, regular meditation can reduce the agitation employees build up.
That tends to subside, and we're able to see opportunities and avenues that we didn't see, with a far greater degree of detachment and objectivity than when we have an agitated mind.
Clarity and objectivity can be especially important benefits in the corporate environment because stressed employees can lack the objectivity required to make effective decisions.
Regular meditation can promote better overall health, as well, which can reduce absenteeism and improve engagement.
The modern workplace can be a sensitive one, and some talent managers may worry about the suitability of meditation in the workplace and thus be hesitant to promote it.
There's not necessarily a relationship between meditation and religion. There are a lot of people meditate who are not in any way religious, and they get the same benefits from it. For example, some of the most widely practiced forms of meditation are breath-based meditations, which involve counting cycles or inhaling through one nostril and exhaling through the other for three breaths and vice versa. But they don't involve anything to do with Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad. It's the fact that the repetition of a particular phrase has a calming effect on the mind.
Happy meditation to reap the benefits arising out of it!
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