Mindfulness, Meditation and Stress Management


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Mindfulness, Meditation and Stress Management

Reset and reset your team, engaging Eddy for a half day to share stress relief tips:


Stress to Resilience keynote + half day workshop trialling AtOne virtual reality meditation.

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Mindfulness & Stress Management Support

Mindfulness is the process of bringing your attention to experiences occurring in the present moment and can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training of the mind and awareness techniques.

Mindfulness has been around for 2,500 years and has been practised in psychology since the 1970s. Mindfulness has its roots in Buddhist meditation principles however it does not require any religion to follow mindfulness practices. Mindfulness provides an anchor to focus energies on the present moment rather than living in the past memories or future thoughts.

Mindfulness and meditation can reduce stress, boost productivity, focus and strengthen relationships. It can also assist with managing depression, anxiety, addiction recovery and relapse prevention.

Experts are advising businesses to encourage staff to practise mindfulness and meditation to reduce stress and enable greater self-awareness. Learn More

The statistic that the average person’s mind wanders 49.6% of the time suggests the challenges in holding focused meetings and engaging staff. Mindfulness promotes self-awareness which is seen as the most important quality for leaders.

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Mindfulness Tips in Everyday Life

Mindfulness Tips in Everyday Life
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What Is Stress?

Stress is defined in the dictionary as either tension or pressure exerted on a material object or a state of mental or emotional stress or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances.

The mind-body connection is highly relevant when looking at the causes of stress. What stresses one person maybe be easy for another as its our reaction to an event more than the event itself that determines the level of stress for an individual. Our past experiences, values and belief systems influence the meaning we put on people, objects and events.


Stress & Performance

The Human Function Curve shows the stress response and demonstrates that some levels of stress can be good for performance, however at a certain critical point, the response from the stimulus or stressor shifts from a positive to a negative outcome. We all aim to be operated in the Creative Calm Zone at our peak level however many high achievers end up with too much stress, tipping into exhaustion and reduced performance.

Stress & Health

A 2012 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 60 to 80 percent of illnesses reported to doctors may have a stress component. The Harvard Business Review published research by Perkins ( 1994) which also showed 60% to 90% of doctor visits were stress-related and only 3% of doctors spoke to patients on how to reduce stress.

Bruce Mc Ewen, PhD and director of the neuro-endocrinology lab at Rockefeller University in New York says stress “wears down the brain leading to cell atrophy and memory loss.” It also raises blood pressure and blood sugar, hardening arteries and leading to heart disease: ( Ref: Church, 2007)

Hans Selye originally defined stress as “The non-specific response of the body to any demand for change” He identified many experiments where laboratory animals who were subjected to various physical and emotional stimuli (e.g. deafening noises, extremes in heat or cold etc..) all exhibited the same pathological changes such as enlarged adrenal glands, stomach ulcerations and shrinking of lymphoid tissue. He also demonstrated that stress could cause these animals to develop various diseases similar to rheumatoid arthritis, kidney disease and stroke in humans.

Stress has been linked to emotional and physical health issues such as stomach and digestive problems, muscle and joint pain, back problems, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, mood problems such as depression, irritability and anger. Headaches, low energy, reduced libido and a weakened immune system are also symptoms of stress.

A study Linked Here into stress and wellbeing run by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in 2014 found thirty five percent of Australians reporting a significant level of stress and anxiety. “Almost two in five Australians reported experiencing at least some depression symptoms, with 13% of these Australians reporting depression symptoms in the severe to extremely severe range [and] more than one quarter of Australians reported experiencing at least some anxiety symptoms, with 13% of these Australians reporting severe to extremely severe levels of anxiety.”

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Edwina Griffin is a health and high performance expert with extensive experience working in health and human performance. Edwina specialises in the interconnection and balance of body, mind and soul for the benefit of the individual and for the culture and performance of an organisation.

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