Mindful Minute: What is it?

Do you experience feeling overwhelmed as work piles up throughout your workday, making focus a real challenge? Try this brief audio-guided script at the bottom to re-centre yourself so you can continue to produce your best work!

If unmitigated, stress can manifest as tension, cause racing minds, a heightened level of arousal that puts our mind and body in a crisis state that interferes with our ability to stay in the present. Mindful minute takes no more than a couple of minutes to practise but when done multiple times throughout the workday, can go a long way in alleviating stress build-up, allowing us to stay on task and work more effectively.  

How is it helpful?

Mindful minute is a simple technique that offers a wide range of benefits including:

• Releasing tension in key muscle groups
• Regulating respiration to activate the parasympathetic ‘rest, digest, renew’ branch of the autonomic nervous system
• Enhance blood flow
• Sharpening of one’s focus by being grounded in the present