According to the National Institute of Mental Health, around 31% of American adults deal with chronic anxiety at some point in their lives. One of the leading causes of chronic anxiety is chronic stress, which is why we at Technalink encourage our teams to stay on top of stress by using mindfulness, self-care, and maintaining a healthy work/life balance. [Read more…]

Self-improvement is a popular New Year’s resolution choice, and like many other New Year’s resolutions, many of those who declare them confidently in January have already lost motivation by the following month. Surveys have found that over 40% of all resolutions are given up on by February, but keeping your self-improvement goals really only takes a bit of savvy motivation. At Technalink, we know how important it can be to healthy ambition to stay motivated, so we encourage our professionals to seek their own individual motivations in all spaces. [Read more…]

The OM Factor, now on audiobook, has within it plenty of tips and strategies for women in business looking to succeed in their spiritual entrepreneurship today. However, there’s no such thing as learning too much. We encourage women entrepreneurs to take in as many experiences and as much advice as they can at Technalink. 5 additional things that women in business today should know are: [Read more…]

Jewelry, meditation stones, or mala prayer beads – rose quartz is a powerful stone. Rose quartz is the stone of compassion and unconditional love, and when used in meditation, it’s an invaluable tool to boost your compassionate leadership. That’s not all, however, and beyond meditative use for women in business, it’s always a great idea to keep rose quartz around. [Read more…]

Self-care is critical to a healthy work/life balance. At Technalink, we encourage our professionals to put just as much effort into themselves as they do their professional skills. For many women in business, taking time for yourself is difficult, and spending this time constructively is even tougher. A few ideas or suggestions for planning a perfect self-care day for today’s women in business are: [Read more…]

While compassionate leadership does focus on others, it focuses equally on the self. At Technalink, we encourage all of our compassionate leaders to show the same compassion inward as they show to their teams. What is self-compassion? A few ways to practice self-compassion in your everyday life are: [Read more…]

A calm mind is a compassionate, empathetic, and powerful mind. Meditation with loose meditation stones or mala prayer beads is one way to calm the mind, but what about in the thick of a stressful situation? There may not be time to effectively meditate during a big meeting or a traffic jam – so what can you do in these situations to practice calm in a safe and effective way? A few ideas for keeping the mind calm in stressful situations are:

• Try breathing exercises – Breathing exercises can be done anywhere, at any time, and with subtlety. Box breathing is one technique that calms the mind, and it involves a simple pattern of breathing four seconds in, holding the breath for four seconds, releasing the breath for four seconds, and waiting four second to start the cycle again. Not only does this give you something to focus on away from a stressful situation, but it can work to control the heart rate so you’re less likely to experience exasperating anxiety and stress symptoms.
• Use your hands – Using your hands can work to distract the mind when anxiety or stress grow tense. Your mind will naturally turn to anxiety or stress cycles during stressful times, and turning this cycle off could be as simple as diverting your attention to another part of your body instead. Small fidget toys, textured fabrics, or objects like meditation stones give you something to feel so you can redirect your attention to calm.
• Progressive muscle relaxation – Progressive muscle relaxation, or PMR, is another subtle way to use physical sensations to ease tension and bring calm. To practice this, tense a certain muscle group in the body, hold that tension, and then release the muscles after a few seconds. Once you’ve done a particular muscle group, move onto another and repeat the process. Not only can this help to calm the mind during a stressful moment, it can even promote better sleep if practiced in bed after a stressful day.

At Technalink, we know the power that a calm mind holds in compassionate leadership and beyond. In the thick of a stressful situation, bringing your mind back to center may seem impossible, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. With a few regular practices incorporated into your routine, you’ll find that you have better control over your mindset than you ever thought possible.

Meditation boasts many physical and mental benefits, most of which only get better when you make meditation a regular habit. Bringing new positive habits into your life can be difficult, however, but there are things you can do to fit meditation seamlessly into your everyday life. At Technalink, we encourage our employees to discover the positive impact of daily meditation, and to take notice of the benefits these practices bring to their well-being and emotional health. [Read more…]