Meditation Benefits: Improved Work Performance

Taking a Break for Meditation Benefits Your Productivity

According to a study on high stress work environments, workers who learned meditation not only felt less stress while doing the same work tasks, they also performed better. Their memory improved. They were less distracted. They stayed on task longer. Meditation benefits not only how you feel, but also how well you perform.

The paradox is that nowadays everyone feels so busy, so stressed, so overwhelmed, that most people don’t feel like they have the luxury to stop and do nothing. But what if the consequence of working nonstop is actually getting less done? You may think you’re getting more done because you’re constantly busy doing something, but in actuality your brain is not functioning at its best.

Working Nonstop Only Gives You the Illusion of Greater Productivity

Have you ever had the experience of reading something, and then realizing that you missed the last two paragraphs and have to reread what you just read? That’s your brain’s way of telling you to stop and take a break. If you won’t take the break, your brain will just check out and take the break regardless. You lose focus. You have to repeat tasks or recheck your work.

There’s a reason movies used to be limited to 90 minutes. That’s about the max that the brain can focus in one stretch of time. Have you noticed now that movies have stretched out to 2 and 3 hours long, that there are moments in the movie where your mind will wander briefly and you’ll realize you weren’t paying attention and missed a line of dialogue? Again, your brain is checking out and taking a break.

Hypnosis Provides the Same Meditation Benefits

But what if a little meditation or hypnosis each day could extend the amount of time you could focus? How much more could you accomplish? Meditation and hypnosis are really the same state of mind. As I explain to clients, with meditation your goal is simply to be in that state of mind (a relaxed theta brainwave state), whereas with hypnosis your goal is to use that same state of mind to achieve success (like weight loss or improved memory or increased confidence).

At Nashua Hypnosis, we can teach you the tools to gain the meditation benefits of better memory, less stress, and staying on task longer. Call to schedule your free screening now, and discover if hypnosis is the solution you’ve been searching for: (603) 321-1779.

Another Obesity Risk: Faster Mental Decline

Extra Weight Leads to Lower Mental Functioning

In case you needed another reason to lose weight now, research indicates another obesity risk: being overweight speeds mental decline and increases your risk of developing dementia later in life. One study spanning over 10 years showed that people who were overweight tested as cognitively 7 years older than their normal weight peers. Over the 10 year period in which they were tested, the overweight group’s mental functioning declined faster than the normal weight group. Even people who were overweight and otherwise healthy showed greater mental decline than the normal weight people. This means that truly there is no such thing as being both overweight and healthy.

Taking care of your body also takes care of your mind

The study didn’t answer why being overweight affected mental functioning, but the answer seems commonsense to me. Your mind is part of your body. The overall state of your body affects the state of your mind. When you eat healthy, nutritious food regularly, your body has the building blocks to repair and replace the cells of your body and brain effectively. When you exercise, increased oxygen flows to all parts of your body, including your brain. When your body is in a state of optimum health, your mind reaps the benefits as well.

Stop making excuses. Take action now.

Too many times people procrastinate taking care of their bodies because they’re too busy, have too much work to do, just don’t have the time. You probably have made many of those same excuses yourself. But maybe if you knew that investing a small amount of time each day in yourself would pay dividends in increased energy, increased mental capacity, and increased productivity, it would be worth it to you.

Now all you need is the motivation to follow through with your plan. That’s where Nashua Hypnosis can help you. Call today for your free hypnosis screening and discover if you’re a candidate: (603) 321-1779. Or you could continue to suffer with an ever increasing list of obesity risks, the choice is yours.

“She forgot she was a smoker.”

If you want to stop smoking, focusing on physical addiction is a recipe for failure.

Most people who want to stop smoking wrongly believe that their desire for a cigarette is a physical addiction. And yet, most smokers find that nicotine replacements (like the patch, gum, or e-cigarettes) or nicotine blockers (like Chantix, Wellbutrin, or Zyban) fail to help them stop smoking. In clinical trials, many of these therapies have lower success rates than quitting cold turkey. (According to a 2000 report by the US Department of Health and Human Services: 11.53% six-month success rate when you stop smoking cold turkey vs. 7% six-month success rate for patch or gum users.)

If smoking was truly a physical addiction, then replacing or blocking the nicotine should work almost universally. And yet, smokers will often sneak a cigarette while wearing a nicotine patch. They’re already getting the nicotine through the patch, so why would they crave a cigarette?

“She forgot she was a smoker.”

Not too long ago, I met with a smoker who already knew that smoking was mental and not physical. Knowing that, he was certain that hypnosis was what he needed to stop smoking. (Spoiler alert: he was right, it worked, and he quit). How did he know? He watched his grandmother, who had smoked 3 packs a day for 70+ years, spontaneously stop smoking with no cravings, no withdrawal, and no irritability. Sadly, she had dementia and one day she just stopped smoking. He said that “She forgot she was a smoker.” In fact, if anyone tried to remind her that she had smoked 3 packs a day for most of her life, she denied that she had ever smoked.

He told me that was a light bulb moment for him. He realized that if smoking was truly physical, then her body would still want those 3 packs a day even if her mind couldn’t remember smoking. And so he decided that hypnosis was the obvious solution for him to stop smoking just as easily as his grandmother had.

Over the years, I’ve occasionally heard similar anecdotes about elderly smokers who forgot about their habit and easily quit. Online resources like alzheimers.org and wikiversity.org confirm that Alzheimers and dementia patients do sometimes spontaneously stop smoking. Each time that happens, it only proves that smoking is a mental habit, not a physical one.

You have to stop smoking in the mind first.

Hypnosis helps you break the metal habit of smoking. And breaking the mental habit is the secret to quitting easily. So if you really want to stop smoking, call Nashua Hypnosis to schedule your free hypnosis screening and discover if you’re a candidate for hypnosis: (603) 321-1779.