Ep. 152: How to Calm Your Mind
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Eat Move Think harnesses Medcan’s team of wellness experts to help high performers be at their best. So what happens when you fixate too much on productivity and goal-chasing? Focus can fizzle, and burnout results. In productivity expert Chris Bailey’s new book, How to Calm Your Mind, he writes that “in an anxious world, the path to productivity runs through calm.” Here, Medcan consulting psychologist Amanda Beaman (above, left) talks to Bailey (above, right) about his own journey to calm, how our brains are affected by high levels of stress and anxiety, and how the rest of us can use calm to become more engaged, more present, and more productive in everything we do.
LINKS
Seeking to collaborate with an expert to boost calm in your own life? Arrange a consult with a Medcan team member by emailing bookingteam@medcan.com.
Follow Medcan consulting psychologist Amanda Beaman on LinkedIn.
Read Beaman’s article on “How to Calm Your Mind” for more helpful tips.
Buy How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by productivity expert Chris Bailey
Check out Chris Bailey’s website and watch his TEDtalk, “The Productivity Project.”
Learn more about Dr. Christina Maslach and her research on burnout: Understanding the burnout experience: recent research and its implications for psychiatry in the June 2016 issue of World Psychiatry.
Read some research cited by Bailey in How to Calm Your Mind:
Burnout and the Brain by Alexandra Michel, in the January 2016 issue of The Observer
Stress-induced obesity and the emotional nervous system in the March 2010 issue of Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism
Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review in vol. 10, issue 2 of Perspectives of Psychological Science
INSIGHTS
Meet Chris Bailey, and learn about the defining moment that started his journey to finding calm. [2:41]
What is an “accomplishment mindset”? How does it affect our overall productivity, or our ability to be present? [6:32]
What exactly is calm, and how is it defined in scientific literature? [11:52]
What’s the difference between acute and chronic stress? How do they affect us differently, and why is stress sometimes good? [16:11]
How can too much of a focus on productivity actually make us less productive? [18:12]
What exactly is burnout? What are the six factors that lead to it, and how can it affect us? [22:55]
What did Bailey do when he realized he was burned out? What are his tips to combat burnout? [25:41]
What is a savour list? Why should you make one, and how can savouring lead to being more engaged and present? [30:22]
Hear Bailey’s advice on when to connect to the digital world, and when it’s best to stay in the analog world. [34:13]
Get Bailey’s three biggest tips when it comes to using calm to achieve more engagement and productivity. [40:53]
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