Mindfulness: Principles and applications for work and life balance

Abstract

Mindfulness is a vogue topic that has attracted the interest of many scholar people in fields of study such as medicine, psychology, business, education, among others; this has led to an increase in researches and the empirical investigations in the latest years. This paper will show literature review along with some research conclusions that can support the history of mindfulness, its roots, why it started being a trending topic and what more concerns this study: how mindfulness can intervene in the balance between work and life. Besides this, the paper explains many concepts that different authors and scholars had given to the term mindfulness in general scopes and organizations as well. Moreover, it tries to explain the importance and uses that many authors and scholars have founded for mindfulness related with the increasing of stress reduction while using mindfulness-based training and the link between the mindfulness practices and life-work balance. To develop the principal goal of this paper that explains what is mindfulness and its applications for a life-work balance, we pursue an analysis of different interviews to experts and scholars that have specific knowledge of this topic using a qualitative model: interviews with an inductive approach in re-explore of a research topic and using descriptive coding for the analysis. At the end of this dissertation, the goal is to be closer to an explanation of why is important the mindfulness and its applications looking for a work-life balance.