Meditation Helps You Be More Productive

Surely at some point you have heard or read that meditation provides many health benefits, both physical and emotional. Now, you may not have heard so much that meditation helps you be more productive, perform better, and makes it easier to achieve your goals.

The current pace of life is polluted by rush, stress and noise, a lot of noise. And in the middle of this chaotic panorama, good results and a great capacity of performance are demanded of us. The problem is that our mind becomes saturated as a result of the circumstances. We have a thousand and one pending tasks, both at work and personal and family level. How to find that key point from which to balance everything that happens to us? Meditation is the answer. Let’s go deeper.

Meditation to calm the mind

Meditation, especially mindfulness or mindfulness, is a practice inspired by Buddhism that tries to focus the mind on the present, in the here and now, on what we are doing in this moment. The objective is to avoid chaining ourselves to expectations, worries and guilt, to savor every moment and in this way, not to waste time between the past and the future.

Today, it is a widely accepted practice for its instrumental benefits, especially in the business world. For example, large companies such as  Apple, Google, and Nike have rooms for their employees where they offer short meditation sessions during the workday. According to their data, sick leave has been reduced by 78%.

Senior executives around the world publicly extol its benefits. And it’s no wonder: The practical payoff of mindfulness is backed by  studies linking it to job satisfaction, rational thinking, and emotional resilience. In addition, it favors a state of calm that allows us to observe what happens to us from another perspective, either at work or personal level.

Meditation helps you be more productive

Meditation helps you be more productive because it frees you from stress and your negative thoughts lower their intensity.  In this way, your mind is able to function without stress, pressure and ties, to work more effectively, concentrated and calm.

On the other hand, the right hemisphere of our brain, responsible for creating new ideas, will work more actively if you meditate regularly and as a result, your performance at work will improve. That is, you will be more focused on work because your mind will not be scattered or lost in other thoughts. In addition, it will also help you feel fresher, less heavy, which will allow you to work with greater agility.

It may seem strange to you that just by closing your eyes, staying silent and focusing your attention on your breathing you can improve your productivity levels, but it is true. You just have to check it out for yourself. In fact, the most surprising thing is that in some way it also positively influences your mood throughout the day. 

Benefits of meditation

Practicing meditation has great calming, relaxing, and stress-relieving effects. Hence, it favors greater productivity. Some of its most important benefits are the following:

• Provides a high recharge capacity.
• It favors large doses of energy throughout the day.
• Increases the blood circulation of the brain.
• Slows aging.
• Facilitates better planning ability.
• Improves the focus of attention and memory.
• Encourage creativity.

According to a study carried out by Gonzalo Hervás, Ausiàs Cebolla and Joaquim Soler affirms that mindfulness provides numerous benefits such as improved attentional control, greater emotional regulation or transformation of self-awareness, among others.

However, despite its positive consequences, there are a large number of people who reject this type of practice or who show disbelief when its benefits are mentioned. One of the problems for which it occurs is that many of them abandon the practice of meditation as soon as they try it because they find it difficult. And it is true that it is. Shakti Gawain says, and rightly so, that anyone who has practiced meditation knows how difficult it is to silence our “mental talk” to connect with our deepest, wiser and intuitive mind.

The good news is that there is nothing wrong with failing. Little by little it gets easier. And as your willpower increases in the effort of meditation, its benefits in other aspects of your life also increase.