Positive debate

Question 1

relevant in work

Answer 1

Mindful Nation UK report 2015
mental health issues leading cause of sick leave, 70m of total 130m. Eg, depression effecting 1 in 5 people in their lifetime. Google and Yahoo some of first to use meditation for employees

Question 2

irrelevant in work

Answer 2

Will Davies, author of ‘Happiness Industry’ stated ‘rather than removing the source of stress, whether it be unfeasible workloads, poor management, or low morale, instead employers encourage their staff to meditate’

Question 3

relevant in education

Answer 3

journal of management review of 4000 scientific papers on mindfulness, showed just 6 hours mindfulness training led to big improvements in standardised graduate school entrance exam scored.

Question 4

irrelevant in education

Answer 4

an article suggests mindfulness has the ability to place sole burdens on students for their mental health disorder, which could be damaging, especially for young people. ‘positive psychology needs to begin taking seriously the balance between circumstance and individual responsibility’.

Question 5

relevant in sport

Answer 5

University of kent used mindfuless as a part of a sport rehab process to improve pain tolerance. Tested 20 athletes, 14 male and 6 female, aged 21-36 with severe injury that has prevented activity for 3+ months, Results showed improved pain tolerance and mindful awareness.

Question 6

irrelevant in sport

Answer 6

negative emotion can be needed to increase performance. An article suggests negative emotion is just as important as positive eg, emotion is vital to trigger fight or flights adrenaline response for runners to push past opponents.