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Having one of those days when you’re buried in paperwork while your boss piles on a list of unrealistic demands and a difficult co-worker manages to get on your very last nerve? If so, then it may be time for you to step away from your desk and take some time to meditate.
We’ve all had tough days like this while working on the clock. However, we don’t always deal with the stress of challenging situations and people at work in a healthy way. That’s why Black Enterprise invited entrepreneur, wellness expert, and author Quentin Vennie to stop by our office in New York City to share advice on how and why we must meditate.
Stay Calm at Work
Vennie explained why it’s imperative for everyone, especially working professionals, to give themselves a mental break and practice mindfulness.
“So often throughout the day we’re faced with so much adversity, so many things, so much stress, [and] we’re trying to multitask,” he said. “Sometimes I think it’s important to just take yourself outside of that. Focus your attention on one thing and move forward from that point.”
In a nutshell, here is why Vennie says mindfulness is crucial for success:
- We are what we think
- You can’t be faithful and fearful at the same time
- Focus on what you want to accomplish
- Gratitude is the best mechanism to defeat depression
Vennie also talked about using meditation as a tool to overcome affliction. Watch the full interview below.
Overcoming It All
Vennie, who says meditation has personally helped him overcome drug addiction and severe depression, was also recognized as a 2017 BE Modern Man of Distinction, where he shared his story. Here’s an excerpt:
I was born and raised in a single-parent household on the west side of Baltimore. My father was a heroin addict, and by the time I was 12 I had been shot at and spent more time visiting prisons than most of the people I was close to. Despite spending a lot of time in my old neighborhood in West Baltimore, I went to predominantly white schools in the suburbs of Baltimore County. I experienced racism, discrimination, prejudice, you name it. I was diagnosed with acute anxiety and mild depression when I was 14, and then diagnosed with severe generalized anxiety and panic disorder, and mild to severe major depressive disorder, at 26. I endured a two-year addiction to my anxiety medication, survived an accidental overdose and two failed suicide attempts, but was fortunate to discover a wellness system that saved my life (yoga, meditation, and fruit/vegetable juicing). Not only did it help me get off all medications, but it also made my anxiety and depression easier to manage.
I started telling my story of my battles with anxiety, depression, and addiction in 2012 when I first started my journey into sobriety, and on May 30th of this year, my first book, Strong in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Addiction and Redemption Through Wellness was published in the U.S. and Canada, and published in Australia and the U.K. on July 1st. I was able to successfully turn my trial into a triumph that has positively impacted people worldwide.
Now, it’s time for you to meditate with us! Follow along with this 14-minute meditation session guided by Quentin below.
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The late Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris Jackson, has been hospitalized after a reported suicide attempt. Police and EMS arrived at her Los Angeles home around 7:30 a.m this morning and found that she had slit her wrists, TMZ reports. However, now that she has been released she is denying these allegations.
She quickly fired back at TMZ for their report and said it was false.
“F–k you you f—ing liars,” she wrote on Twitter.
Since the airing of HBO’s Leaving Neverland, Michael Jackson’s children have been witnessing the backlash against their late father and have been denying the molestation allegations against him. Dealing with the aftermath has been hard for Jackson and she and her brothers Prince and Prince Michael II are deciding whether they should file a lawsuit against the accusers from the doc, Wade Robson and James Safechuck. The Jackson estate has already filed a lawsuit against HBO for airing the documentary.
Jackson attempted suicide in 2013 when she was only 15-years-old. Similarly to this report, she had slit her wrists and took 20 Motrin pills. After the loss of her father she suffered from depression, was self-harming herself and even battled a drug addiction as a teenage.
“It was just self-hatred, low self-esteem, thinking that I couldn’t do anything right, not thinking I was worthy of living anymore,” she told Rolling Stone back in 2017.