{"id":164,"date":"2015-05-20T04:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-05-20T04:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:49:26","slug":"work-related-stress-can-be-helped-by-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Work related stress can be helped by meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stress is inevitable, and at times desirable.\u00a0 Psychologists have distinguished between good stress and bad stress calling the former “Eustress”, and the latter “Distress”.\u00a0\u00a0 In their article <\/a>on the subject, Psycholgists Harry Mills, Ph.D., Natalie Reiss, Ph.D. and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. define stress as “body\u2019s response to changes that create taxing demands”.<\/p>\n

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According to a report from the American Institute of Stress, a non-profit dedicated to research and education on the subject, 35 percent of Americans say their jobs are harming their physical or emotional health.<\/p><\/div>\n

But when stress gets to the point where it is harming your health, it is time to intervene.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in the United States, more than one out of three of us report that stress from work is hurting us.\u00a0 “According to a report from the American Institute of Stress, a non-profit dedicated to research and education on the subject, 35 percent of Americans say their jobs are harming their physical or emotional health.”\u00a0 –cbsnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

As the number of workers who report this problem rises, fortunately, the number of companies that are responding is rising as well.\u00a0 Many Fortune 500 companies like Proctor and Gamble, General Mills, and Google are now offering free mindfulness meditation training in an effort to help their staff with this growing problem.\u00a0 Mindfulness is fundamentally an attitude of remembering to be in the present moment.\u00a0 Being pulled away by worry about the future, or guilt about the past are the triggers that cause the stress response.<\/p>\n

By cultivating a mindset that returns to the present moment, people can mitigate much of the unnecessary punishment their own minds are causing them.\u00a0 In this article by CBS news<\/a>, the authors say mindfulness meditation “melts away” work related stress.\u00a0 Perhaps by addressing stress first, many of the other illnesses we encounter can be stopped in their tracks before they, too, become another source of stress.\u00a0 We can trigger an upward spiral of health just by being here, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stress is inevitable, and at times desirable.\u00a0 Psychologists have distinguished between good stress and bad stress calling the former “Eustress”, and the latter “Distress”.\u00a0\u00a0 In their article on the subject, Psycholgists Harry Mills, Ph.D., Natalie Reiss, Ph.D. and Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. define stress as “body\u2019s response to changes that create \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-right-here","category-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mindfulsilence.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}