Mindfulness is the mental variant of a start-to-run training. Just like you train your muscles, lung capacity and stamina in such a running programme by jogging at regular intervals, you can develop some kind of ‘mental muscle’ during a daily mindfulness training. The attention training helps you to deal better with stress, but also to be more alert in…
Why do we sleep? To recover? To optimize our memory? To feel good? Well, all previous reasons are partially correct. However, there’s only one explanation that’s known by researchers with certainty: we sleep because we can’t stay awake. On top of that you have to consider sleep as behaviour. Something you can (partially) influence. If you…
Are your employees stressed? Follow these steps to make sure that as a manager you aren’t part of the problem but of the solution. Focus on awareness. Inform and sensitize team leaders on stress issues. Not only will you teach them how to detect stress signals for themselves, but also how to spot them for their team…