Mind Your Mind With heART

Most of us spend a sizable portion of our day at work amidst meetings, phone calls and deadlines to be met. This not only creates stress and anxiety but also allows fatigue and the feeling of overwhelm to enter our lives unnoticed. With the advancement of technology, unknowingly though, we bring this stress home which drastically affects the traditional work-life balance.

Mindfulness is an ancient practice that allows us to become aware of our environment and emotions at the same time, bringing focus back to the present moment. It doesn’t decrease the workload in any way, instead improves the overall happiness, well-being and productivity of the employees by reducing stress and anxiety while improving their cognitive abilities. This in turn reduces healthcare costs.

Mindfulness at work allows for a greater level of attention and engagement by clearing the mind and relaxing the body. Inviting mindfulness practice in an office space can be as easy as designing an atmosphere that inculcates the principles of mindfulness in all the employees.

Mindful Intuitions offers Mindful Art Workshops specifically designed for your employees to learn how to inculcate mindfulness in their daily routine. At Mindful Intuitions, we truly believe that mindfulness is a skill that must be practiced, developed and honed over time. Mindful Art Workshops are carefully designed so as to calm the mind of the employees attending by allowing them to  express their emotions through colours, in turn bringing the focus back to the current moment. While creating mindful art we focus on our breathing and enjoy the benefits of meditation through art.

How ‘Mind Your Mind With heART’ program works?

There are four aspects of this enriched mindfulness program offered by Mindful Intuitions.

1. Mindfulness Teachings

These teaching include but are not limited to

• Acceptance
  Focusing on the present rather than dwelling on the mistakes of the past or worrying about the hypothetical outcomes of the future invites acceptance in our lives. When we accept whatever good or bad that has happened to us without any judgement, realizing that those adversities were not stumbling blocks but stepping stones that helped us grow and be where we are today, we invite peace and calm in our lives.
• Awareness
  Becoming aware of our environment as well as events, possibilities and potentialities within our environment helps us tune ourselves to better understand how to channelize our energy. Awareness opens many doors of possibilities of enhanced growth.
• Releasing Stress
  Focusing on breath has innumerable benefits. Pausing, quieting the mind and focusing on breathing for a couple minutes brings the focus back to the present moment enhancing our ability to perform our tasks better. This releases stress and directly affects our overall performance.

• Releasing Fear
  Putting things in perspective and looking at our obstacles as stepping stones releases the fear of uncertainty allowing us to manage our tasks in hand much more efficiently and effectively. Setting smaller manageable goals can actually be motivating and help alleviate fear.

• Setting Intentions
  Mindfulness helps us embrace who we are in the present moment and this leads us to set intentions about the work we do. Embracing the present moment helps us accept and fall in love with the change as the change inspires new ideas to implement in a work environment, in turn boosting our performance at work.

2. Guided Meditation
   Guided meditation promotes relaxation, reduces stress and related problems, helps manage pains while promoting mental, emotional and physical healing. Meditation is a great tool to manage stress and enhance self-awareness as it helps gain a new perspective on a stressful situation while reducing negative emotions.

3. Exploring Inner Landscape
   When we turn inwards, we begin to explore who we are as a person. This helps us discover areas that need our focus and attention. We choose colours that speak to us in that particular moment and for each one of us, the choice of colours is different and so is the focus of our painting which when created reflects our inner landscape. The practice of exploring mindfully inner landscapes actually allows us to return grounded and renewed to the outer landscapes of our lives.

4. Expressing and Releasing Emotions
   Pretending, avoiding, and denying uncomfortable emotions in an effort of self-preservation as a defense mechanism is normal human behaviour. When we use colours, textures, symbols and mark making to express the depths of our soul, we bring what’s hidden inside out on the canvas. This helps us process our emotions and move the energy of emotion through and out the body so we can let it go and promote healing.

Want to introduce ‘Mind Your Mind With heART’ program in your office/workspace?

Create a calming workspace by offering Mindful Art Workshops as team building activity in your office. Such activities foster awareness of the team spirit, increase communication between the team members and help develop a high performance team by developing strong interpersonal relationships which bonds the team together.