Let Mindfulness Heighten Your Leadership Ability

For every leader, an important goal is to create a positive and productive workplace. Using Mindfulness and meditation as a backdrop, you can attain this goal in your work life.   

Mindfulness allows you to be present in the moment with total awareness and authenticity. It raises your level of consciousness and connects you to your true, benevolent self. You’re able to show up in all the moments of your life as present and as genuine as you can be. Mindfulness helps you to know yourself better and uncover your true authentic spirit. Through this point of view, you’re able to bring your best self to your pursuits as a leader.  

Begin by starting each day practicing Mindfulness through meditation or focused breathing. Take several deep, concentrated breaths to help you clear your mind and connect to your inner calm. Making it a habit to mindfully mediate on your breath at the start of each day moves you into your workday with decreased stress, increased focus, and the ability to navigate your interactions with others with calm neutrality.  

As a leader, how you conduct yourself throughout the day will affect the mindset of everyone around you. Let people see you as someone who is awake, focused, and perceptive of what’s really going on, and let that ignite awareness in others.   

Practicing Mindfulness helps you become completely clear about what it is you want to manifest, and why. In addition, you show others around you how to be their best selves and create a better reality for everyone throughout the organization.  

Use these Mindfulness tips to enhance your effectiveness as a leader.   

1. Stay in the present moment.
   When you’re unaware of yourself in a moment, it’s easy to respond or react to what’s going on unconsciously. That’s when you may say and do things impulsively — and later wish you hadn’t. When you bypass observing and go into reacting, you’re unable to think clearly because your awareness is fuzzy and unfocused. Any mindless impulse is easily triggered. By bringing your awareness into the present moment, you’re cognizant of whatever is occurring, be it pleasant or difficult, and your awareness of it tells you exactly what to do. This is consciousness working. 
2. Focus on your breath.
   When you find yourself feeling that you’re not fully present, or that you’re beginning to react unthinkingly to whatever you’re experiencing, put your focus and awareness on your breath. Your breath is always available to you as your calming, connecting feature. With consistency, you’ll find that you will catch yourself more quickly when you’re about to slip out of present moment awareness, and you can bring your awareness right back with ease. 
3. Find balance.
   Balance your day with present moment intervals to pause among the never-ending demands and busy-ness. When you step back, you realize that you’ve been on autopilot and may be missing so much of what’s happening around you. Become aware of the present moment, noticing how you feel and what you see, hear, and feel. Take a few deep, conscious breaths and connect with your inner calm. You’ll immediately feel less stressed. 
4. Broaden your awareness.
   If you find yourself falling into that “me-centric” bubble that keeps you in your own head, pause and recenter. If you allow the flurry of oppressive thoughts to take over, there’s much you miss. Mindfulness stretches your bandwidth to include an awareness of others, even when you’re in the turmoil of a busy day. It reminds you again and again to get out of your bubble and take a more expansive view. 
5. Connect with your authentic self.
   Mindfulness and authenticity are inexorably linked. You can’t be effectively mindful without being authentic. And Mindfulness helps you to honor your true nature. If you feel an impulse to be inauthentic, it reminds you immediately with every fiber of your being that falseness of any kind feels wrong. Finding time to stop the “doing” and connect more to your true being will always bring you back to the inner dwelling of your wholeness, which, in essence, is the authentic self.

These Mindfulness practices will help you discover who you are at your core level of integrity and authenticity. By staying true to them, you’ll find you are able to more effectively lead others. 

Written by Ora Nadrich.

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