Crew Health Advice: Mindfulness

The Crew Health team are delighted to have launched a collaboration with Andrew Johnson, to offer UK Club Members exclusive access to mindfulness recordings.

For over 24 years, Andrew Johnson has been helping people relax, change and create the lives they want through his range of self-care MP3 downloads, Apps and workshops. Exploring mindfulness and relaxation can help you look after yourself when you’re feeling stressed or worried, and can be used once in a while or as part of an everyday routine – whatever feels right for you.

What are the benefits of mindfulness?

Source: https://www.helpguide.org/harvard/benefits-of-mindfulness.htm

Mindfulness can improve well-being. Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life. Being mindful may make it easier to savour the pleasures in life as they occur, help you become fully engaged in activities, and create a greater capacity to deal with adverse events. By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.

Mindfulness can improve physical health. Scientists have discovered that mindfulness techniques may help improve physical health in a number of ways. Mindfulness can: help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, improve sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.

Mindfulness can improve mental health. In recent years, psychotherapists have turned to mindfulness meditation as an important element in the treatment of a number of problems, including: depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, couples’ conflicts, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

For any queries or further information on the physical and mental wellbeing of crew, please contact the team on peme.ukclub@thomasmiller.com

For more resources on mental wellbeing, see here.