What are the benefits of mindfulness?
YOUR Wellbeing and Health status: Mindfulness…
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Can lower anxiety, depression, worry, stress and negative affect[2]
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Increase hope of achieving goals, overall well-being, positive emotions and life satisfaction, social connectedness [3]
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Improves sleep quality[4]
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Dampens stress reactions[5]
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Improves attention, memory, self and emotion regulation[6]
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Increases positive judgements and reduces negativity bias[7]
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Improves perceptions of stress and pain[8]
YOUR Functioning and Performance: Mindfulness…
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Improves three qualities of attention: stability, control and efficiency[9]
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Helps overcome habitual behaviours such as addiction[10]
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Contributes to better job performance[11]
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Is associated to empathy[12]
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As a leader’s trait is positively associated with employees’ work-life balance, job satisfaction, citizenship behaviours, and job performance and negatively related to employee exhaustion and deviance[13]
In the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Professor Ellen Langer [14] points out that mindfulness leads to
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Increased charisma, productivity, creativity, memory, attention, positive affect, health and even longevity
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Decreased burnout and accidents
Leaders as well as change agents are catalysts for change. A mindful way of leading change asks for mindful leaders. Who is a mindful leader? 
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[2](Delgado et al., 2010; Sears & Kraus, 2009); [3] (Falkenstrom, 2010; Sears & Kraus, 2009); [4] (Hulsheger et al., 2014); [5] (Brown et al., 2012); [6] (Fox et al., 2014); [7] (Kiken & Shook, 2011); [8] (Kabat-Zinn, 2003, as cited in Good et al., 2016); [9] (Mrazek et al., 2013); [10] (Westbrook et al., 2013); [11] (Dane & Brummel, 2013); [12] (Dkezser, Raes, Leijssen, Leysen, & Dewulf, 2008); [13] (Reb et al. 2014); [14] (Langer, 2010)