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Mindfulness has enjoyed its popularity in recent years. Several big companies have used mindfulness to adopted the firms with change of management (Aviles & Dent 2015). Coming from Buddhist psychology as its roots, with the combination from ancient Greek phenomenology, Naturalis’ thought in Western Europe and Humanism’s thought from America (Brown et al., 2007), Mindfulness reflected of how individual response and having awareness about present events (Quaglia, Brown, Lindsay, Creswell, & Goodman cited in Good., et al 2016). Moreover, the research on management also revealed from integrative framework that mindfulness has positive effect to individual hence will affecting positive outcomes to organization. Conventional stigma of how people see process of managing can only be developed by experiences diminished slowly because mindfulness could be learned with training. Nevertheless, Bruce (Cited in David and Hayes 2011) doubt that mindfulness has significant impact to employee’s task, goals and bond in the workplace. The author believes that mindfulness needs measurement to prove it works on the workplace. The reason behind his statement is mindfulness recognized only as self-reported and containing bias. However, having mindful manager will be very useful for organization as mindfulness is regarded as the central element of how individual, teams and organization worked simultaneously.

“At times of change or dealing with uncertainty or in a crisis-- that is when the best leader will shine” (Ellis, 2016). A leader who can work effectively in a complicated, unpredictable situation is a competent leader and he tirelessly works to improve his capabilities (Ledlow & Coppola, 2010). All great leaders are known for communicating effectively what they want to achieve. They are visionaries who have the ability to lead others toward a shared goal (Gibson & Weber, 2015).

Recently, studies on mindfulness have increased, and it has been paid attention to in both clinical and empirical spheres.

In other words, mindfulness also reduce mental thought pattern, improve attention as well as self-regulation (Keune & Forintos, 2010). With all that said, it is evident that we can applied mindfulness in our daily basis as well as embrace every moment and live it at the fullest without worries about the future or past events that only bring unhappiness as sadness. In addition, mindfulness not only brings the opportunity to be aware regarding experiences but also accept them in a positive and equanimity way. It is just about letting go the negatives thoughts, accepting, and paying attention to what we have in front of us because mindfulness is not only about embracing every present moment is more than that because indeed, it contribute to our quality of live and life satisfaction. Surprisingly, mindfulness is an open door to positives emotions, enjoyment and understanding and more importantly is that mindfulness is an important tool for an individual self-change and improved well-being (Baumgardner & Crothers, 2009, p.

Three of the key topics covered in Dees’ first two chapters of Resilient Leaders are selfless service, gaining altitude, and resilience. These three topics are important for any leader to understand in order to properly lead and to build one’s character. In any corporation, communication is very important and the three topics being discussed all deal with proper communication skills. All three concepts offer different attributes to resilient leaders. Gaining altitude makes a positive difference in the lives of others. Leaders that do it consistently over time become selfless in their service, which lies at the heart of effective leadership. This paper will discuss the characteristics of resilient leaders and how leadership makes a difference.

Other studies available discuss the hormones and neurotransmitters involved in the process of mindfulness meditation. For example, through neuroimaging studies Newberg and Iversen (2003) have been able to identify the activation of attention network,

(2015) states, “Stress costs American companies an estimated $200 billion to $300 billion in lost productivity each year, and research suggests that mindfulness could be an effective antidote.” According to Hansen (2012), many researchers have conducted tests with results suggesting that becoming mindful reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, and decreases depression and anxiety levels. Other benefits include the ability to build self-confidence as a leader (Smith, J.A, 2014). “The Benefits of Meditation,” (n.d) suggests that there are many physical and physiological benefits when an individual becomes mindful: the following lists are suggested

I learned by reading this article how much more there was to mindfulness than just being mindful of people’s emotions. It is amount being aware of everything in your life. To not let yourself becoming distracted by all of the technology in the world and to really just live in the moment and be totally locked into everything happening around you. The thing that I found the most surprising was the amount of science they had being mindful and how much they were pushing that part of it. They weren’t just trying to creating a FAD, but an actual science in making people feel better. I would be curious to know the numbers on how it helped the marines with stress disorder because that is really a situation in which it is as high stress as it gets.

Physiological studies have shown researchers that mindfulness positively alters the structure of the brain (Lazar et al., 2005). There are multiple benefits of practicing mindfulness techniques. Mindfulness affects areas of the brain related to perception, body awareness, pain tolerance, emotional regulation, and altruism, kindness to others, complex thinking and sense of self (Wayment, Wiist, Sullivan

Mindfulness effect work, school, and personal life by affecting how you manage behavior, navigate social complexities. We enter the workforce knowing how to read, write, and report on bodies of knowledge, but too often, we lack the skills to manage our emotions in the heat of the challenging problems that we face.

There have been many researchers that look into the influence of mindfulness on cognitive flexibilities and how it can be a huge influence on how we process information. Mindfulness is seen as relaxation and this can help improve cognitive abilities. Current research from Chiesa & Malinowski (2011) has looked at how ancient Buddhist meditation can help reduce stress and help participants with their cognitive abilities as well as their mood. They looked at this by using various types of meditation and therapy sessions and found that there was a huge difference in the way mindfulness helped improve cognition and mood as it had increased their ability to be more aware as well as improving their mood. This is one of the influences for our study

Mindfulness meditation consists of skills and methods to unplug from the busy world around you and from the busy 'monkey brain ' so often experienced in today 's life and particularly in ADHD, anxiety and depression. According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness meditation trains and reinforces the ability to pay attention to the present moment, on purpose which helps to increase concentration, decrease anxiety, improve sleep, improve mood, decrease the stress response, and improve physical and emotional health. The studies are compelling about the health benefits of mindfulness meditation. In fact, studies show that mindfulness meditation actually changes the brain in positive ways. The cortex of the brain is thicker in certain areas of the brain in those who practice mindfulness meditation. And brainwave patterns are changed in healthy ways as well.

Many forms of preservation of thinking such as worry, anticipatory anxiety or rumination are associated with increased sympathetic activation and deregulation of cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, metabolic or autoimmune processes. If mindfulness is related to low levels of concern and rumination, correlations with low somatic symptom levels are expected.

In today's workplace, workers are faced with many different distracters in the all round-the-clock atmosphere. As Bill Crossland (2012) notes, external pressure, information workload, asked to produce more with less, extended work hours and less personal time to renew oneself has detrimental results to productivity in the workplace. Ranging from the self-inflicted attention disorder, lack of focus, exhaustion, ill health and burnouts that lead to lower morale and low job satisfaction and these are hardly the results we want at work. If none of you have heard about mindfulness, this article will focus on what is mindfulness and how one can integrate it at the workplace and its benefits.

The cortical thickness of the area increases. It is an area which controls memory and learning. This part of the brain often gets stressed and is highly susceptible to disorders caused by stress. It can also become the victim of PTSD. Mediation helps in relaxing this part of the brain.