Article Directory :: Self-Improvement/Motivation Articles Meditation Techniques at Work By Dr Russell Razzaque Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 07Feb2010 Word count: 411 Viewed: 561 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site There are many techniques to improve productivity in the work place utilised by corporations and human resource professionals these days. A lot of them involve team work, motivation and improving psychological traits like emotional intelligence. Many exercises and techniques have evolved over the years in this hotly studied field with dozens of new courses, workshops and evaluations springing up all the time, but the one that is particularly coming to the fore currently is perhaps the most ancient and least predicted of all; mediation. There are many images people carry in their mind about meditation techniques in action. One imagines sitting alone in a dedicated room at home or in a temple, class or centre. Meditating with your work colleagues as part of your usual working routine is not, however, an image that springs to mind for most people. Yet, this is exactly what happens at Idea Village - a company in Jersey, USA. Like a growing number of firms around the world, twice a week they leave their desks, sit in a group and meditate together. The most interesting part is that after doing this for a year they discovered that their productivity has soared. "Sales have increased by about 50 percent over last year, and we seem to get about four or five times the number of products presented to us that we did last year," says President and CEO, Andy Khubani. "I don't know if this can all be attributed to meditation, but I definitely think it has helped." There is no doubt, as anyone who has spent time practising one of any number of meditation techniques will attest, that meditation helps focus the mind. There is a lot of chatter going on in the brain all the time, so much so, that it is easy for a lot of it to get in the way of clear and focused thinking. The value of meditation is that it provides this chatter with a space. That does not mean that it helps to silence thought - far from it - good meditation is not about fighting against thought, but about observing it. Whatever meditation techniques are used, it will enable you to create a small space between yourself and your thoughts as you gain a gradually deepening realisation that you are not your thoughts alone. The true power of meditation is that it effectively unlocks the mind from its self created cycles. Now, what could be more productive than that? Dr Russell Razzaque is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the British National Health Service. He earned his medical degree from the University of London, he is a member of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and in 2009, after several years of development, he launched Sileotherapy - a stillness based online self help program teaching people to go beyond thought and realise their true potential: http://www.meditation-therapy.net EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Dr Russell Razzaque

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