The Role of Mindfulness in Creating Positive Institutions

Abstract

Background: Workplace environment consists of several inter-knitted processes of communication and working abilities. Sometimes it leads to internal chaos resulting in discomfort, stress and uncooperative work environment. Positive psychology is a scientific and applied approach, which enables an individual to thrive as it helps them believe in themselves and cultivate the best within to have a successful and fulfilling life. The application of positive psychology in workplace along with implementation of Employee Assistance Programming is a new concept is a budding stream that orbits the core ideology of positive psychology in an organization. Methodology: A small study was conducted on 16 participants who are full time employee of a private organization from 27 to 37 years of age irrespective of their gender, using Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. After collecting the data for the first set, mindfulness meditation practice was given to each and every participant for 5 days after which second set of data was collected. Results: It was found that the data collected after the meditation showed a higher mean value of mindfulness than the data collected before. Also, a significant relationship was found after doing paired sample t-test. Conclusion: Hence it can be said that mindfulness has a positive impact on the well-being of the employees’ mental health which leads to increased resilience.