Meditating at Work?

A new study finds that becoming more focused, productive and less stressed at work may involve nothing more than learning to meditate.

Here’s an excerpt from the story as recently reported:

David Levy, a computer scientist and professor with the Information School at the University of Washington, found that those who had meditation training were able to stay on task longer and were less distracted. Levy and his co-authors discovered that meditation also improved test subjects’ memory while easing their stress.

Levy, who has used meditation for many years in his own life, decided to do the experiment involving the workplace after reading Darlene Cohen’s book, "The One Who Is Not Busy: Connecting to Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way."

"In the book she was talking about how she’s adapted some Zen training to the workplace," he says. "For 20 years I’ve been looking about how to add balance to the workplace, and that gave me the idea for the experiment."

You can read the rest of the story as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune on-line.

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