Do you want to reduce stress in the workplace?

What’s your biggest issue in the office today?

I bet a high percentage of people would come back and say stress.

Stress is a big challenge to employers. Wellbeing and performance are directly linked. If the degree of stress means prolonged pressure, tension, and strain, the individual will be under-performing as the mind will be diverted from being able to concentrate on tasks to be performed.

Apart from under-performance, degrees of stress cause accidents, errors, and frequently require people to repeat tasks, and, often, tasks take longer to complete.

When you have an adaptive and resilient workforce, the sky is your limit as everyone is performing at their peak.

However, organisations like to wait until people become ill, which then costs more, after the event.

Prevention is better than waiting for failure. The costs of waiting for people to become psychologically sick far exceed the costs of helping people to stay psychologically healthy.

The return on helping people to stay well far exceed the return on getting people better once they are sick.

The bottom line - preventing people from becoming psychologically unwell will save large amounts of money and will turn your organisation into one that is corporately resilient, and achieving peak performance.

So, what can help to combat stress?

Yoga really can help in all elements of stress.

When you are stressed, tension is stored in the body making you feel tight and often causing pain, yoga stretches out the body releasing tension.

Yoga also increases your awareness of the breath as a tool for relaxing the body, meaning you can practice this off the mat when you feel anxious or stressed.

Our minds are constantly active, racing from one thought to another, spinning possible scenarios for the future, dwelling on incidents from the past. All this mind work is tiring and stressful. Yoga offers several techniques for taming the monkey mind – it gives our brain a much needed break.

Each of my yoga sessions end with five to ten minutes spent relaxing in corpse pose - savasana. While this enforced relaxation can be difficult at first, eventually it serves the purpose of a total release for both body and mind. Savasana transitions you back into the world feeling refreshed and equipped with the tools to combat stress in your daily life.

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