Mindfulness ‘can make all the difference to our working day’

Tuning in and finding stillness can help us cope with a working day filled with non-stop deadlines, meetings, and instant messages

Mindfulness and meditation practices can be quickly and discreetly incorporated into our working lives, say experts. File picture: iStock

THE pace of the modern workplace is often frenetically fast. Non-stop deadlines, meetings, emails, and instant messages can all too quickly become overwhelming, impacting our productivity, affecting our relationships, and even leading to burnout. Could mindfulness help?

Norma O’Kelly certainly believes so. The Dublin-based systemic coach worked in marketing for 22 years and “experienced corporate burnout.”