My home is three things: my sanctuary, my office, and my yoga studio.
Yes, I work from home, but, before you go into the standard response I always get of, “You're SO lucky!” please know this: working from home requires serious discipline—discipline that I didn't always have.
True, I don't have to punch a time card, sit in rush hour traffic, or even put on pants if I don't want to, but I do have to show up and motivate myself every. single. day. And truth be told, that can be hard to do.
I've always been a yogi, but when I started working from home this year I found my dedication to my practice slipping. I wasn't heading to my mat regularly, my days were without structure, and while I didn't immediately realize it, this was effecting me
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But, rather than roll my mat up and throw it into my closet I came back, day after day. Sometimes for just a 15 minute practice, and sometimes for an hour. By the end of the month my crow pose was no longer a near face-plant into the mat—proof that patience and perseverance prevail.
It's Ok To Take a Break
For some reason, as soon as I sat down with my computer to work, I wouldn't get up from it—all day. I no longer took the 1-hour long lunch breaks I used to get, and I no longer had coworkers to have brief chats with, or brainstorms with. Somedays really had me feeling a bit stir crazy, and staring at a screen for hours on end became torturous.
So, like on my mat when I would come back to my breath, or stay an extra five minutes in Savasana, I allowed myself to take breaks here, too. Not only did I deserve them—I still work a full 8 hour day—I needed them, too. So, I let go of the guilt of disconnecting. I turned off my phone and shut down my computer for an hour and took some much needed time
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Doing yoga for the first week of my challenge in the basement wasn't ideal, but moving up to the bright and sunny living room made it much more enjoyable.
Similarly, most mornings, before I had a home office I worked from either the kitchen table, or the couch. Aside from feeling ache-y from sinking into the couch cushions all day, I felt a serious lack of motivation. This is where I used to come to relax and unwind when I'd get home from an actual office, it wasn't an environment that was conducive to good work (or good posture).
My home office was a long work in progress. I demoed it myself, which made it take even longer. When it was finally finished, I realized that much like how the dark basement affected my headspace for practice, my lack-of-office environment had effected my headspace for work.
I filled my new office with creativity and color. I added crystals to my desk, paintings and photos to my walls, and candles all throughout. These things made me happy. They made me feel inspired, ready to work, and they made my office a place I wanted to
work seems to be a little out of the ordinary, I still find it very
Proper ergonomic conditions prevent injuries to workers and allow them to work efficiently. Ergonomics reduces costs. Workers that do not have a good ergonomic workspace can suffer from pain and uncomfortable posture which is dealt with money spent on treatment. In Canada $800 000 000 per year goes to ergonomic related injuries. Appropriate ergonomic workspaces create an anti-injury space for workers. Ergonomics also increases worker’s productivity by designing a work place with good posture, good heights, fewer motions, and less exertion. Thus making the workspace more efficient for the worker. Ergonomics also
Robert Probst, a designer who worked as the Director of research for office of furniture manufacturer, Herman Miller Inc., developed the “Action Office”, it was a proposition for an altogether new kind of space, a design which had plenty of work surfaces and display shelves; partitions were a part of it, intended to provide privacy and places to pin up works in process. This is how the office cubicle came into being. Today, it is estimated that more than 40 million North Americans spend their working lives in cubicles, with many of them passing more waking hours in the closed-office environment than in any other—even their own living rooms.
Quieter places, with moderate talking, are places that I feel happiest, as I can work best in these areas. Environments with some music generate a feeling of more success, as music is a strong passion of mine, and it helps
This qualitative case study is an approach to research how yoga can affect the human mind in a positive way and lead to a healthy lifestyle using 2 sources one being a book called The Science Of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards by William J. Broad 2012. And the other being a private interview with a 22 year old male Yogi. This ensures that the issue is not getting explored through one side, but rather a variety of sides which allows for different inputs to be reveled and understood. There are two key approaches that help determine if yoga helps affect the human mind in a positive way. One flourished by William J. Broad (2012) which explores different factors on how yoga contributes to a healthy lifestyle and interviews fellow yogis who give there insight on the matter. And the second being a personal webcam interview conducted by the researcher ...
The company that you work for plays an important role in adding to their employees feeling of fulfillment. Companies should strive to build
just having one for personal recreation. Office work in general is full of potential stress, from
On February, 2016 I am planning to buy a new house, and converting one of the rooms into an office. Having an office for my own will allow me to better concentrate in my studies, due that right now it’s very distracting and uncomfortable doing school work on a stool bar chair in my dining room.
I am not here to discourage you from going to the gym but telling the wider perspectives that yoga can deliver compared to the former.
In the year 1949 the term ergonomics was coined from the Greek words “ergo” meaning work and “nomos” meaning law in a meeting attended by distinguished psychologist and physiologist. The same group later formed the ergonomic research society (ERS) which was the first body in the world to study on ergonomics. ERS then evolved to the ergonomics society (ES) and then to the current Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (IEHF) (Omerley, 2103). Office ergonomics is part of this generalized evolution of ergonomics with it being a recognized discipline among the domains of ergonomics. Office ergonomics deals mainly in the office setting or environment and helps in averting injuries and adapting the work to the person rather than the person to the work.
Remember that an employee spends on average 8 hours a day in the office, 5 days a week. That’s 8 hours of being glued to the office that, study shows, can cause major health problems over time. If the office desk you choose forces you to crane your neck or bend it, you’ll feel the pain at some point.
We believed there is still more to learn about the impact of the built-environment on people creativity, productivity and on involvement into physical activities. Regardless of the occupations, new research must look into how groups of related professions could benefit from a suitable and adapted workspace that could enhance their well-being and reduce the level of stress associated with spending considerable time at work. Other research lead could investigate further the use of flextime for workers, which is been known to allow people to work from home. However, it is not always possible given the variance of work settings and professions.
The goal of this study was to identify the ways in which engaging in yoga practices would alter psychological well being, and allow people to engage more fully in their lives and flourish in health and happiness. The pre and post test set up of this study allowed the researchers to see the ways in which students had been affected by their participation in the yoga teacher training. Yoga training students were engaged in a four week program. They were administered tests and the beginning of the study, prior to engaging in the program, at the end of the program, after completion, and then again at a 3 month follow up. Multiple factors were assessed, however the significant and important ones which relate directly to our understanding of healthy, happiness and wellness and the course content are extremely
Banishing my phone from my room has shown me many things spiritually and mentally. At a successful standpoint, I did fail one day during the evening by habit with my alarm. Otherwise, I felt I did better than I thought I was going to. The biggest challenges in this discipline was not watching netflix, going to bed earlier, and not just going on my phone to past time out of boredom. These challenges really mad it tough for me not to give in and take my phone into my room. Overall with my phone not being in my room helped me be more successful with my other disciplines by printing out Psalm 23, and not using as much technology. When I first picked this discipline, I felt I was going to struggle and give into not being able to follow through with it. I also wrote down not to use my phone as an alarm and an excuse for staying up later. I surprised myself with the results of this discipline. I felt this one by far helped me with spiritual discipline and spiritual/physical rest. I questioned myself the day of banishing my phone, “How often do I go on my phone while I am in my room? Will this be change for the better?” This has molded me into a different way of thinking and discipline. This brings me to my title, talking about the process. Getting up earlier, having no phone in my room, and lastly ending my day with the Lord in a good way. This has showed me the process of completing things and how it has slightly changed my two weeks in new ways. Going into this project, I
When you break away from your routine, it forces your brain to rewire and work