Rituals for Better Remote Work
How to prime your mind and body to form a habit of high performance
In the late 1990s, Alyxandra Savage was counseling heroin misuse clients when she discovered that as soon as they started applying the tourniquet and heating the spoon to dissolve the heroin powder to self-administer the drug, their bodies would already start to prime themselves to receive it, by altering their brain chemistry. She understood then that the ‘natural’ surge of neurochemicals triggered by the pre-injection ritual made it an integral part of a substance dependent client’s habit.
Armed with the skills she acquired helping her clients to kick their pernicious habits and rituals, and replacing them with new, healthful ones, Alyxandra has now found success advising companies on how to improve teamwork and productivity, by focusing on the mental health of individual employees.
As companies introduce policies promoting remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, there has also been an increase in social distancing-related mental health issues among their employees, and in the relevance of the application of experiences such as Alyxandra’s in the workplace.
