Next Meeting: Nicky Hewitt - Yoga Marlborough
Date: Friday 12th July
Time: 10am -11am
Venue: Marlborough District Library
Yoga Marlborough - “Focus + Concentration + Attention Span = Success. How can we use the way we breathe to develop focus in a world full of distractions?”.
To be successful in life we need a calm mind that can focus on one thing and hold our focus there for a sufficient length of time. Yet it seems to be getting increasingly hard to do this. Many of us experience racing minds, find ourselves easily distracted, always busy, and we can feel overwhelmed by all we need to get done at work and in our personal lives.
Stress has become a chronic state for many and affects our ability to think clearly and to sleep well. Stress is also recognised as an underlying factor contributing to many health conditions and can disrupt our interpersonal relationships at work and at home and impair critical bodily functions such as our higher cognitive capacity, sexual function, digestive function, immune system, cardiovascular health, and ability to rest and heal.
Sleep problems such as insomnia, waking up at night to use the bathroom, snoring, and sleep apnoea (where our breathing is restricted or stops altogether during sleep) are relatively commonplace (recent medical studies indicate up to 1 billion people worldwide now experience episodes of sleep apnoea.
We wake up tired and struggle to focus or enjoy our days. Productivity, safety, and creativity are negatively impacted.
When we are stressed, our breathing rate increases. When we breathe more quickly, we send a stress signal to our body. This causes a negative feedback loop, and our breathing pattern gets stuck on high, breathing too much air, too often, and too high (shallow or upper chest breathing). Our brain gets set in this unconscious habitual pattern and now this is how we are always breathing. Our body cannot go into deep restorative sleep as it feels unsafe to do so.
This is extremely common in the modern world and yet most of us are unaware of the issue.
In this talk Nicky will discuss the relationship between our unconscious breathing pattern and our ability to manage stress, stay focussed in the day, and sleep more deeply at night.
And most importantly, she will share how we can go about changing this unconscious pattern, so we are breathing better 24 hours a day. Without even having to think about it.
To be successful in life we need a calm mind that can focus on one thing and hold our focus there for a sufficient length of time. Yet it seems to be getting increasingly hard to do this. Many of us experience racing minds, find ourselves easily distracted, always busy, and we can feel overwhelmed by all we need to get done at work and in our personal lives.
Stress has become a chronic state for many and affects our ability to think clearly and to sleep well. Stress is also recognised as an underlying factor contributing to many health conditions and can disrupt our interpersonal relationships at work and at home and impair critical bodily functions such as our higher cognitive capacity, sexual function, digestive function, immune system, cardiovascular health, and ability to rest and heal.
Sleep problems such as insomnia, waking up at night to use the bathroom, snoring, and sleep apnoea (where our breathing is restricted or stops altogether during sleep) are relatively commonplace (recent medical studies indicate up to 1 billion people worldwide now experience episodes of sleep apnoea.
We wake up tired and struggle to focus or enjoy our days. Productivity, safety, and creativity are negatively impacted.
When we are stressed, our breathing rate increases. When we breathe more quickly, we send a stress signal to our body. This causes a negative feedback loop, and our breathing pattern gets stuck on high, breathing too much air, too often, and too high (shallow or upper chest breathing). Our brain gets set in this unconscious habitual pattern and now this is how we are always breathing. Our body cannot go into deep restorative sleep as it feels unsafe to do so.
This is extremely common in the modern world and yet most of us are unaware of the issue.
In this talk Nicky will discuss the relationship between our unconscious breathing pattern and our ability to manage stress, stay focussed in the day, and sleep more deeply at night.
And most importantly, she will share how we can go about changing this unconscious pattern, so we are breathing better 24 hours a day. Without even having to think about it.
Session with Rebecca Lowe - Work Well Program
Presentation to Marlborough H&S Forum April 2024
Presentation to Marlborough H&S Forum April 2024
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Session with Kristi Palmer, Worksafe - Human centered Intervention design
Presentation to Marlborough H&S Forum October 2023
Presentation to Marlborough H&S Forum October 2023
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Who are we?
Marlborough Health and Safety Forum is a collection of people who are involved in Health & Safety and want to help each other. Some of us are passionate safety professionals, others are people who've inherited safety along with another role. We meet at 10am on the second Friday of each month & also have an e-mail network. Our focus is to keep Marlborough employees safe & healthy by networking and sharing solutions.
The forum includes representatives from organisations such as ACC and Labour Group. Meetings may involve presentations about up coming changes, or projects that individual members are working on. We also benefit from any members that have attended conferences & bring back information for us all.