Mindfulness as the key to success - the new trend in business

Mindfulness - The New Trend in Business!

What is the secret behind all this mindfulness hype that can be observed everywhere in the media, in companies, and even in the English Parliament? ("Mindful Nation UK," report by English parliamentarians on the positive effects of mindfulness practice, October 2015). SAP and Google are implementing mindfulness trainings in their offices worldwide, and more and more global players are following their example. Christina Figueres, the successful United Nations negotiator at the groundbreaking Paris Climate Summit in December 2015, attributes her performance to her practice of mindfulness meditation, see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thich-nhat-hanh-paris-climate-agreement_us_56a24b7ae4b076aadcc64321 These practices are not just a passing trend, but an increasingly essential survival necessity in an increasingly pronounced VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous). So, what is the secret of these practices? 1) They qualify the highest leadership level in the psychophysiological system of humans, namely their consciousness. 2) Neuroscience impressively demonstrates their effectiveness on the brain, mental state, and performance. 3) Mindfulness is a contact function, enabling us to be more deeply in contact and in resonance with the core dimensions of our existence, namely: In contact with ourselves: With our body and its sensations, postures, movements, needs, tension and relaxation states, stress signals; with our thoughts and feelings, ambitions and goals, what drives us and what brings us peace; with our center. In short: It makes us more integrated, coherent, and centered. In contact with our fellow human beings: With what they communicate directly and indirectly, their different perspectives and situations, their uniqueness and special abilities, their needs, what connects us, the atmosphere in a group or team, the cultural influences on myself and others. In short: We are more in touch with the movements and moods of the interpersonal field. In contact with everyday things and processes: By being mindfully engaged with the things we handle, we make fewer mistakes, accidents, disruptions, and costs. We address problems while they are still small and in the early stages, before they become major, time-consuming, and costly. We keep our material and natural world in order and observe its laws. In short: We are in touch with the material reality. In contact with the higher structures and units, with the context, with the "field": Even larger structural units, such as a company, the market, or society, "live," move, and change. We understand how our company "ticks" because we are in contact with its structures and "atmospheres." With a sense of larger contexts and their dynamics (company, market, society), we can experience the present as fluid and live and shape it from the unfolding future. We flow with it. In short: We are in touch with the surrounding systems and their forces. In contact with time: In contact with time, we do not "manage" it, but we observe it. That is, we have a sense of periods, cycles, rhythms, processes in time. We organize our activities as a "dance with time." We do not overcrowd our time with tasks, so we still have "breathing room" and do not lose contact with ourselves (see the first point). We do not let ourselves be mindlessly chased and rushed. In short: We dance with time. Clarity and Serenity This "being well in touch" also has a gently organizing and clarifying effect on the areas described above: It contributes to order and clarity in the mind and spirit of the mindfulness practitioner, to an "inner tidiness." It helps minimize misunderstandings and injuries in private and professional interpersonal relationships, cultivate an atmosphere of mutual appreciation, and contributes to "clarified interpersonal spaces." It helps maintain or create order in the things around us and act well-coordinated in the flow of time. We recognize and understand various forms of disorder and fractures in the overarching structures and systems in which we live and work and contribute - within our means - to their harmonization and development. We are less likely to easily expose ourselves to "infectious" tensions and disorders from the environment, not letting them in and "poison" us. We are more capable of being part of the solution rather than part of the problem. For more information on mindfulness and Gerd Metz, please visit: http://www.trainers-excellence.de/redner/dipl-psych-gerd-metz.html