Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Stephanie West Allan, over at Brains on Purpose used research to support meditation as an asset to conflict resolution. Check out Stephanie’s three resolution abilities – all increased by meditation. 1). Prioritize and manage tasks and goals; 2). Focus on specific information; 3). Stay alert to the environment. 

Would they become tools ... if you encountered a pushy manager, fell into an unreasonable project deadline, or simply couldn’t get along with another colleague assigned to your team at work?

How would these abilities assist your conflict resolution?

Meditation as I see it, provides mental space to bank serotonin. According to researchers at Yale University – it’s associated with increased grey matter in the brain. It can even improve mental health, which tends to be the reason for some conflict in the first place.

In the business world, meditation provides the stage from which we can learn from deity or humans we respect. See Bill gates in a chair opposite you – and ask for instance  … How did you move from being an ordinary worker to the founder of Microsoft? Or imagine Mahatma Ghandi’s role in calming people through peaceful resolutions and ask this hero… How would your philosophy of peace work in my conflict today?

Those who mediate for larger then life answers often tell you they find solutions larger than conflicts. It makes sense if you consider they are tapping deeper into these answers to conflicts through activating their intrapersonal intelligence – which is designed to lead them to Stephanie’s assets through mediation.  

What links connect meditation to conflict resolutions in your workplace?