July 6, 2009
Next time your struggling to cope with your workload and feeling stressed out by the pressure you're under, don't go whining to your employer - just start breathing properly.
An "inability to breathe correctly" is directly contributing to the stresses crippling the UK workforce, according to neuro-psychologist Dr David Lewis, who has been, somewhat inexplicably, researching the link between performance and breathing for more than 20 years.
Lewis says that when stressed, people's breathing changes and becomes faster, altering the chemical composition of the blood - reducing the amount of carbon dioxide present.
This can lead to a racing heart, chest pains, faintness, anxiety, panic, an inability to concentrate, increased sweating, a feeling of unreality, and visual disturbances. Sounds like the morning after a heavy night for Guru.
Lewis reckons bosses should look at how their employees are breathing as a way of boosting productivity. I can just imagine the HR director trying to sell that to the board...
Predictably, Lewis has devised (here comes the sell) a new technique called Bo-Tau which stands for Breath Optimised Transformational Unblocking. He says this will put employees in the zone and let them perform under stressful conditions.
Disciples should watch this short video and judge for themselves whether this would work in their organisation.
An "inability to breathe correctly" is directly contributing to the stresses crippling the UK workforce, according to neuro-psychologist Dr David Lewis, who has been, somewhat inexplicably, researching the link between performance and breathing for more than 20 years.
Lewis says that when stressed, people's breathing changes and becomes faster, altering the chemical composition of the blood - reducing the amount of carbon dioxide present.
This can lead to a racing heart, chest pains, faintness, anxiety, panic, an inability to concentrate, increased sweating, a feeling of unreality, and visual disturbances. Sounds like the morning after a heavy night for Guru.
Lewis reckons bosses should look at how their employees are breathing as a way of boosting productivity. I can just imagine the HR director trying to sell that to the board...
Predictably, Lewis has devised (here comes the sell) a new technique called Bo-Tau which stands for Breath Optimised Transformational Unblocking. He says this will put employees in the zone and let them perform under stressful conditions.
Disciples should watch this short video and judge for themselves whether this would work in their organisation.
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Comments (1)
From a stress management point of view this is pretty standard - where's the joke Guru - this isn't the 80's?
Breathing techniques are regarded as a crucial elements in relaxation and peak performance by athletes and Zen Monks alike.
All the best from Brighton (where people breathe all sorts of things :-)
Mark
Posted by Stress Management Training Mark | July 7, 2009 4:58 PM
Posted on July 7, 2009 16:58