Deepal Sooriyaarachchi to lead day of mindfulness at PIM on 1 Dec.

Responding to the increasing interest in the topic of mindfulness at the workplace, leading management development consultant, corporate personality and author of the book ‘Inward Bound for Mindful Living’, Deepal Sooriyaarachchi will be conducting a full-day program on mindfulness at the Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) auditorium on 1 December. 

During this full-day practical program, participants will be able to gain a firm understanding of the basic principles of mindfulness, how to start and develop the practice, how to integrate it into their daily lives and how to bring mindfulness into the workplace. 

The program will provide opportunities for participants to experiment with different techniques that can be used to develop the basic skills required to develop the practice of mindfulness.

Although a core teaching in Buddhism, the practice of mindfulness has gained universal appreciation because of its ability to help users in many ways such as to calm the mind, reduce and manage stress, develop inner clarity, improve physical health conditions, enhance emotional intelligence and improve overall performance. 

These have been scientifically proven with a very high level of confidence. 

It is this scientific confirmation that gave mindfulness such wide acceptance in the Western world. Now hundreds of scientific research papers are being published annually on various studies connected to mindfulness. 

The positive impact mindfulness has on brain function is now well-established.

From the meditation centres in the forests of the East, the practice of mindfulness has now entered classrooms, boardrooms, workplaces, high security prisons, health institutions and even some governments. 

The practice of mindfulness has been effectively used to manage stress and even in acute pain management as an accepted medical procedure. Certain Western nations are now seriously experimenting with the ability to reduce certain medical costs by instead introducing mindfulness.  In promoting mindfulness, Sooriyaarachchi emphasises the importance of leveraging its ability to help participants gain deeper self-realisation and insight that is far more important than the soothing effect it has on the practitioner and the need to couple mindfulness with kindness.

 It is a way of life and its benefits are far greater than what science has discovered. Increasingly competitive and complex corporate lives can truly benefit from this simple practice of becoming aware of what happens in the here and now.

The 1 December program is organised by Compset Lanka and participants can register by emailing [email protected] or calling 0771494704. Profits from the program will be donated to the Cancer Society.