Mindfulness is the main topic of discussion for Mental Health Awareness Week 2015.
The first Mental Health Awareness Week took place in 2000 and in the 15 years since then, the Mental Health Foundation has helped to generate public debates around the impact of anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation on how mental health.
This year’s focus is on mindfulness.
The Mental Health Foundation describes mindfulness as: “paying attention to the present moment, without getting stuck in past or worrying about the future. Mindfulness can be practiced standing, sitting and walking. It can be practiced both indoors and out; at home, in schools, at work or simply out and about.”
Mindfulness is not about ‘zoning out’ of a situation, but being able to manage your reactions to stressful situations.
This can be particularly useful to people already managing mental and physical health problems, including stress, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, as well as boosting productivity at work.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2015 is campaigning for mindfulness to be practiced and widely available in the workplace as well as in prisons, schools, and hospitals.
To promote mindfulness, the Mental Health Foundation has released a series of podcasts to promote wellbeing.
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
