As you relax your body and calm your mental, you prepare yourself to be alert and present during the meeting. Deep breathing improves the health of the whole body and boosts energy levels.
So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I take one minute before each meeting to take three deep and conscious breaths.
Through presence, kindness, gratitude or simply letting go, we foster the breeding ground for joy to emerge. This intense and powerful emotion lifts happiness level in ourselves as well as in others!
So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I seize every day one opportunity to actively cultivate joy.
Disconnecting incoming emails helps you to stay focused on the task at hand. While minimizing distractions, you are more productive. Working offline gives your immediate world – task or people – your undivided attention and supports your presence.
So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I plan to work offline one hour per day.
Lying on your back, you are your own guide and bring your attention to every part of your body – scanning it from toes to head. Such a simple practice helps to reconnect with your body, release physical tensions and quiet a busy mind. It is also a very effective technique to strengthen attention control.
So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I take a few minutes every day to do a body-scan.
Connecting to Nature has an immediate soothing effect; it creates positive emotions and triggers a feeling of gratitude. As I observe and pay attention to my surrounding, I am fully present. So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I pay special attention to Nature admiring the beauty of its autumnal colors.
We all tend to be overwhelmed with information. It is said that we get in a day as much information as our ancestors used to get in their entire life. “Infobesity” lurks! When I consume and produce information with more awareness, I cultivate presence and focus.
So here is a resilience practice we invite you to cultivate this week:
I watch my info-diet and pay special attention to the information I consume, produce and share.