Beware, a problem to turn off your brain. Keep reading! Researchers at the University of Sussex conducted a study that showed reading was more effective at tackling stress than listening to music or getting up and taking a walk reducing stress by 68 percent. Turns out that taking time to read can be the perfect antidote. Now pay attention please. Take a glance at your local libraryorAmazon for reliable lists of this month’s p books that can be one of a few exercises the human mind has to offer.
Reading fictional stories can enrich our lives in ways beyond injecting historical factoids into our brains or exposing us to the latest science, while nonfiction is its own actually can that can greatly enhance our personal relationships.
Take outright. Ask your staff, coworkers, leaders, clients and suppliers how you are doing? What’s important to you? Your organization’s culture is manifested in the behaviours of its members and those behaviours derive from your values, beliefs and attitudes about what really matters. Look Inside. That’s interesting. What do you care about? Now let me tell you something. Who are you? Thence it seems like a great time to be reflecting on, and talking about, mental health in the workplace, Next week is Mental Health Week. Accordingly the work that was done in the standard, and in the resources available for employers, is fantastic. By the way, the Canadian Mental Health Commissionreleased a voluntary National Standard for PsychologicalSafety and Health in the Workplace in January of this year.
It’s all been done for us’, As one large organization executive commented to me last week, ‘it’s all there.
Whenever revealing his fervent reading habits, as he shared his perspectives on fitness with me, he routinely referenced and recommended different books.
a couple of months ago, I interviewed an elderly man who was sharp as a tack. It was clear that his commitment to reading also contributed to keeping his mind fit, every carrying a miniature office with us everytime. Even when you’re not working, it can be a problem to shake that frazzled, unfocused feeling as your attention span is ripped apart in ten different ways through texts, calls, snaps, emails, and tweets following your nearly any move. Eventually, this made me wonder if reading a chapter in a novel is just as effective in keeping our minds flexible as crossword puzzles, Sudoku, brain training, and even adult coloring books.
I’m not simply talking about learning new things through piles of nonfiction books I’m talking about the simple act of reading, of immersing yourself into a story, real or, actually.
They include simple strategies like breathing deeply and joining a book club, in addition to tips on how you can practice mindfulness more often.
You could circulate articles like the one by Dr. Marla Gottschalk, titled 6 Ways to Build a Positive Workplaceto discuss at team meetings and get creative about how to integrate these ideas into your workplace. Generally, be sure to check Be Well Winnipeg, an initiative from the Canadian Mental Health Association, and akin similar initiatives in your community and get in on a program that is already set up and ready to engage your organization in practising positive mental health. You could even include simple Lunch n’ Learn events, and share the tips from articles like the one from the Globe and Mail’s Kat Tancock, titled 7 Ways to Boost Your Mental Health. I didn’t realize how much I depended on them until I found myself I feel more mentally acute when I make reading stories a high priority. My anxiety subsided, I actually was happier, and I felt like I was a more objective, critical thinker, if I started picking up novels again. ‘meditativelike’ qualities of reading one of the issues at a time which can greatly eliminate triggers of modern stress. Reading was shown to have a great effect on reducing the chance for Alzheimer’s disease actually but only if participants were avid readers, that meant they commit to the practice at least half an hour per day. Perusing the newspaper or reading an article in a magazine did not have quite similar effect as delving deeply into a book.
