If you sway chugging along like a tightrope walker work constraints and family outings. On a daily basis, the inability to fully cope with both can generate frustration, dissatisfaction and guilt. For example when the promise to attend your last dance performance is thwarted by a last minute meeting.
This tension between professional life and private life sometimes erodes and leads to a spiral of negative thoughts harmful to physical and mental health. The Oregon State University in the United States points out the dangers of these mental ruminations in people in the grip of this perpetual internal conflict between work and family. Their work published in the Stress and health journal were conducted on a panel of 203 adults aged 24 to 76, all of whom were in a relationship and two-thirds had at least one child. The results show that this mental “clash” generates stress that plagues overall health. This private-professional life dilemma gives rise to mental ruminations that affect mood, self-esteem and lead to fatigue, worry and stress. The body is more weakened and more vulnerable to certain disorders: risk of depression, heart risk, etc …
Corporate meditation to better manage this family-work “conflict”
The authors suggest that those affected by this exhausting gymnastics between work and private life to turn to gentle therapies such as mindfulness meditation or yoga for learn to relax and focus on the present moment and those emotions. These letting go strategies could be offered in some companies. “It can be a good return on investment for companies to know how to manage the stress related to the family-work dilemma, because the positive experiences and feelings at home can reflect on the work and vice versa,” the study concludes.
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