How Meditation Boosts Productivity

Meditation has become so popular in recent years, you'll have no trouble finding a plethora of information on it. You likely already use it to relax your mind and reduce stress.

But did you know that meditation also makes you more productive?

When you meditate daily, you bring clarity and focus to your life and as a result, you can work on your hobbies, job tasks, and your own business better.

Let’s look at how meditation boosts productivity.

Meditation creates more time

Meditation allows you to reclaim time, which is why it makes you more productive. Chris Bailey, author of How to Train Your Mind states that each minute you spend meditating will net you about nine minutes back.

He also compares the impact of meditation to a stonecutter that tries to break a large stone. The stonecutter strikes a rock over and over again a hundred times and sees no changes in the shape or state of the rock. But at the 101st blow, the rock breaks open.

Is it the 101st strike alone that broke the rock? Of course not! It's the cumulative effect of the 100 previous blows that made it possible.

In the same way, you need to keep practicing meditation on a daily basis for it to create a powerful impact. Daily meditation is the key to creating more time for your work, hobbies, and everything else.

Meditation boosts your focus

Meditation helps you sharpen your focus and sustain it. It makes you more attentive to what's happening around you and this gives you the ability to choose how to react based on your level of awareness. You become less impulsive and more discerning or selective about reacting.

You can also prevent yourself from reacting impulsively by observing your thoughts and feelings without judgment. Just notice them as they come and go instead of identifying with them or trying to change them. Meditation helps you do this better over time.

You’ll soon develop a better frame of mind and this helps you channel your energy into things that matter: growing your skills, building your community, or starting your own business.

Meditation boosts your creativity

Meditation enhances creative thinking because it improves your clarity of thought. It's easier to come up with new ideas and solutions when your thinking is clear.

If you're a creative individual, you know that there are times when your creativity comes to a halt because of anxiety or fear. Meditation gives you the space needed to work past this roadblock so that you can continue doing what you love.

Very often, your creative work itself can work as a meditative practice. Painting, drawing, writing, and other acts can help you enter a calmer state where thoughts aren’t running you.

You can both meditate to become creative or practice calming creative tasks to enter a state of relaxation and meditation.

Meditation helps you deal with clutter

One of the obstacles to productivity is mental and physical clutter. Having too many jobs to do and too much on your mind will make you move around in circles.

Using breathing techniques and listening to meditative music is a great way to feel centered again.

From a more relaxed state, you can start tackling your jobs in a step-by-step way. Don’t worry about the long list of things you have to do. Instead, do the smallest jobs you have to do first. And once you see your list of tasks go down, you immediately start to feel relieved and productive.

Interestingly, David Allen says that creativity comes from having time and freedom from thinking and work.

Using meditation can be a great way to tap into your creative thinking and to find new ways to become more productive.

Conclusion

The moment you start meditating, you'll find more time in your day and become more productive. You'll be calmer and more focused on what needs to be done as well as how it should be done. Your creativity will also flow again because you're no longer weighed down by anxiety or fear.

Meditation is one of the best ways to make yourself more productive.

And best of all, meditation is free. You can easily use YouTube videos, free online audio tracks, and blog posts to help you meditate.

So, give it a try. And you’ll see your productivity grow in leaps and bounds.