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In today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world, it's all about finding ways to sustainably boost productivity, keep stress at bay, and ensure that your employees are riding high on the well-being wave. A healthy employee is a productive employee (or at least stands a fair chance at being so!).

Enter mindfulness, the buzzword that's got everyone talking. It's not just a fad; it's a scientifically backed approach that's gaining major traction. So, why should businesses...

There are a few things that happen to me when I’m in the grips of a stressful situation. In my youth I was vaguely aware of these sensations in my body, but never gave them much thought. Even as an emotional Mt. Vesuvius was erupting on the outside, it didn’t occur to me that those sensations had been trying to draw attention to something in advance of my outburst. Had I been paying attention; I would have understood that my body was trying to tell me something!

By clues I...

One of the first obstacles we bump into as we begin a mindfulness practice is that we see just how distracted our minds actually are.

As we work towards developing the ‘focused awareness’ that is the goal of most mindfulness practices, we have no choice but to come face to face with all of the distractions running through our minds at any given time. The work of the practice is to learn how to observe these distractions with curiosity and compassion, rather than frustration and...