Identify the topic for your formal report. Explain how this topic could address a problem or situation in your organization. Who would be the audience for this report? What benefits might they receive from the research and report?
How do I introduce alternative health and wellness at work? That is the big question for me because for the last four years of my life I have seen a huge transformation take place and I am at a point where I feel that I want to share what I have learned. People go to the doctor and have a 15 minute appointment and a prescription is written for the patient with little knowledge of who that person is, what they have experienced in the past, or how they feel and think about themselves. Some people go to a doctor and explain what their symptom is and when someone goes to a traditional MD the doctor will work on treating that symptom, but with energy work practitioners the person will get treated on a holistic basis.
When visiting an energy work practitioner you may feel a little nervous, but that is normal because you are trying something new and usually people get recommended by a friend or some people who are very sick will seek something other than the traditional route. When seeking out an energy work practitioner you will most likely come into an office where you feel a sense of peace, calm and open mindedness that usually is not found in traditional medical practice. The first thing that will happen is that an intake will take place and depending on what type of practitioner you are seeing the intake could last more than an hour. These special practitioners care about the person who they are meeting with and want to know what is happening to this person and their feelings, thoughts and questions are opened up for both and notes will be made because each session will build off of each other.
Many people ask themselves how do I achieve balance in my life when I am stressed out and overwhelmed with what is happening in my life right now? People assume that they have to accept what is going on in their lives or their bodies because it is normal for them and if it is normal why should it change? In doing years of energy work with several different practitioners I have learned how to work through the old stuff and make room for new energy and I have dropped old patterns and behaviors off the top of the cliff.
That is just a little background information because this may be new to some of you and it is a good idea to start off with the basics and energy work practitioners will help their practice member learn how to build new strategies to help them heal themselves. This is a huge idea because most people think that they need to have whatever hurts taken out and removed, but little does that person know that the pain could go away by dealing with what happened in the past. Our bodies remember our past experiences even if they happened when we were little, our bodies remembers how we felt, what we thought about what happened and those memories can become “stuck” in our bodies and show up as pain later.
My goal is to introduce to my co-workers and hopefully do a little marketing for my friends businesses while spreading interest in health and wellness. I started to think what would I be like if I did not know what I have learned from energy work? Would I feel disconnected and unbalanced? Some people are walking around at work in a haze because of all the stress that is happening to them in their daily lives, job loss is huge, money stress for some never ends and dealing with family and other responsibilities on top of that can really send a person off balance.
While researching online I found so many great articles, and for me my issue is going to be narrowing my topic because my goal is to be an introduction to energy work not some mass movement to change the way my co-workers think. In my search for a really inspiring quote or two I found a health care practitioner who was speaking to business leaders, and advising them on health and wellness and how to introduce it among other different mind-body and soul modalities to their employees. It was nice to see someone from the alternative healthcare field advising company owners and top management that there are other ways to become more productive other than working late nights and long hours.
In Ryan Diener’s article Renew Connection to Ourself –Making a Commitment to Self Care he asks business leaders, “Is efficiency not the hallmark of any good business? Too often, I have seen business leaders break down in the face of rising work hours and increased stress. Working efficiently means maintaining a healthy level of balance, which is often easier, said than done. We all know that we can maintain a healthy level of balance by following the three cardinal rules of health – eat well, exercise and get enough sleep?" (Diener, 2010). Just think what an influence this acupuncturist who is the co-founder of Holistic Health Associates can have on powerful business leaders and the positive effect it will have on those who follow his advice.
My next goal is to introduce research to Human Resources and show them what results I got from the survey and explain to them the benefits that have been proven by other companies who have started a health and wellness program. There is so much information on the web about the benefits that people can receive from doing energy work and three of those things are a sense of balance to their life, better productivity, less time away from work and lower cost for claims than the cost of traditional medicine, energy work is effective and not very expensive, and heals the person from head to toe and does not focus on just on the symptom.
Employer’s health care costs and productivity losses are related to employee lifestyle choices (Desmond, 2009). I found a great article that gave me this surprising information and I believe that if people were more aware of their options that they would choose the less expensive route and take the holistic approach to healing instead. Instead of spending money on insurance for unhealthy lifestyle habits for employees after starting a wellness program the money would be put to better use for education of alternative health and hiring more people instead of cutting jobs to save money.
I think there is still much to learn and I am excited to jump into this topic.
Desmond, S. (2009, August 7). Using wellness programs to reduce health care costs. Retrieved from http://hrhero.com/hl/articles/2009/08/07/using-wellness-programs-to-reduce-health-care-costs/
Diener, R. (2010, November 1). Renewing connection to. ourselves—making a. commitment to self care . Retrieved from http://www.hhamd.com/pdf/ryan_self_care.pdf
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