Six Benefits of Meditation

Posted by Healthy Life on Sep.19, 2008, under Health and Fitness

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  1. Dr Beverly Potter
    September 19th, 2008 on 11:00 pm

    Meditation is very helpful in reducing stress. But stress and burnout are not the same. Burnout is a kind of job depression and is caused by feeling of powerlessness; it is not caused by stress – tho it is stressful. Stress is a taxing of the body.

    Burnout is a motivational problem. A person struggling with burnout is demotivated, dispirited, depressed – down. Whereas a highly stressed person may be highly enthusiastic – tho driving their body.

    Stress is the “fever” of burnout. As with pneumonia. A high fever must be reduced or there is a risk of brain damage – BUT once reduced the pneumonia is still there. Similarly with burnout – the stress must be reduced but reducing stress does not deal with the job situations rendering the person helpless. The person must develop a feeling of controllability.

    Burnout is caused by feelings of uncontrollability. Powerlessness, damned-if-you-do damned-if-you-don’t situations. It is prevented by developing feelings of control over the job – which is an on-going process. Meditation may be helpful in dealing with burnout ifit gives the meditator a great sense of control over one’s work situations. For example, by soothing the stress and focusing a kind of dispassionate attention on the problem, the meditator may uncover a different approach and this can be empowering.

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