How Meditation Helps In Boosting The Productivity Of Employees

Colin Carter
Being Productive
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3 min readJan 27, 2017

Meditation has several health benefits backed by science. As we all know the benefits of meditation are numerous. Meditation benefits vary from effects on the mind to effects on health. Meditation is beneficial for one and all. Interestingly, meditation also helps in boosting the productivity of your employees by a huge percent when practiced regularly.

You may be curious to ask that how is it possible, for which we have listed the below-mentioned points –

1. Effects on Brain

- Decrease in depression levels

- Helps in regulating mood swings

- Controls anxiety disorders

- Reduces stress

- Increases gray matter concentration in that area of the brain involved in memory, learning, emotional sensing, etc.

- Helps in proper sleep, keeping an employee fresh during work hours.

Thus, when your employee becomes less stressed and depressed, his happiness towards work space will increase; resulting in a positive work environment.

2. Effects on Performance

- Improves focus and attention

- Improves work ability

- Improves decision-making abilities

- Improves information processing

- Increases emotional intelligence and mental strength

- Increases creativity

Good performance goes a long way. Imagine getting great performance outputs from most of your employees. This may directly increase the productivity of the organization on an overall basis.

3. Effects on Health

- Reduces the risk of stroke and heart diseases

- Reduces blood pressure

- Helps prevent asthma, arthritis and other diseases

- Helps control mood swings during menopause phase

- Reduces risk of Alzheimer’s

- Increase in longevity

Healthy employees = Asset to the organization. Fewer health problems will directly lessen the number of sick leaves and an increase in the productive hours of your employees. Healthy employees will also create a healthy and positive work environment.

4. Effects on Relationships

- Brings positivity

- Increases the feelings of empathy and compassion

- Decreases loneliness emotions

- Reduces worry

A positive and happy change in your employees’ personal and professional relationships can bring great outputs to your company. Happy personal relationships will directly make your employees’ positives and stress-free at work resulting in a positive work environment. While, positive professional relationships will strengthen bonds between employees, lessen miscommunications, increase empathy towards each other and will have many more benefits increasing the productivity.

• HELPFUL TIP

- There are many apps available on play store that you can download for free and enjoy your meditation sessions. You can indulge into sessions that vary from 5 minutes to an hour. Some apps also provide guided meditation sessions. Some of the useful meditation apps that you can try are:

1. Calm — Meditate, Sleep, Relax

2. Headspace — meditation

3. Guided Meditation Free App

4. Meditation Music — Relax, Yoga

5. Buddhist Meditation Trainer

CONCLUSION

There are countless benefits of mediation out of which we have listed some in this article that help in increasing the productivity of your employees. Investing in good meditation practices is a direct investment in the growth of the organization.

To actually experience these benefits, you can provide meditation classes twice or thrice a week to your workers, you can provide a meditation room in your organization, you can help in providing membership of some meditation classes or you can invite them to various meditation seminars. Doing this also increases the employee engagement in your organization. You can increase the ratio of employee by various other activities also.

Below are some interesting Article that I am sure you would love to read;

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Colin Carter
Being Productive

Human Resources Consultant with a diverse background and strong communication, management and organizational skills.