Recently the Harvard Business Review reported that a study conducted in France showed that just 15 minutes of meditation helps reduce “cost-sunk bias” and make better business decisions. This study shows one of the biggest benefits of meditation as a business practice. Meditation can help foster a clear mind you so can make smart business decisions. Here are six other ways meditation supports decision-making in business:
1. Meditation Reduces Choice Stress: Meditation helps calm your mind, so you can objectively think through all sides of an issue without becoming overwhelmed by choice stress.
2. Meditation Clears Emotional Barriers: Meditation will free your mind of all the negative emotions that can lead to bad decision making. It helps reduce fear, worry, guilt, and regret, so you can make a rational decision for the best outcome.
3. Meditation Helps You See The Larger Picture: No decision exists in a bubble, with a free mind you can think your decisions through all the way to the outcome. It will help you weigh all the potential factors that can impact your decision and how it will support the larger company goals.
4. Meditation Taps Into Your Intuition: Insecurity and self-doubt can impact your ability to tap into your intuitive strengths as a leader. Meditation helps free your mind of these barriers and unlocks your natural decision-making capabilities.
5. Meditation Gives You Energy: Entrepreneurs and business leaders have to make many choices every day, thus decision fatigue is very common. Meditation gives you a timeout to replenish your energy so you can continue making all your daily decisions without taxing your mind.
6. Meditation Helps You Think Outside Of The Box: When faced with a difficult decision, sometimes there’s another solution on the table that you simply can’t see. Meditation helps you unlock your creativity and helps you find innovative alternatives to solving problems.
How To Meditate Before Making A Decision
One of the best ways to meditate before making any important decision is with a Mala necklace made with fluorite. Fluorite helps block external factors trying to influence you and strengthens your own internal intuition and wisdom, making it the perfect gemstone for decision making. Start by finding a quiet space and take a few deep breaths to calm your body and open your mind. Then take your fluorite Mala necklace in your hand draped between your middle and index finger. Starting at the guru bead, count each smaller bead of your mala necklace pulling it toward you. If you have a mantra recite it as you count through the beads. Then when you’ve counted off all the beads, check in with yourself to see if your decision is clear, if not take a few more breaths and continue the meditation practice this time in reverse.
This meditative practice will help you achieve all of the benefits of meditation, so you can ensure you are always making the right decision for your company.
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