August 2012 Employee Wellness Moments!

Physical	Environmental
Identify your unhealthy choices this month.	Establish a calm work environment. Identify stressors and create a group to brainstorm resolution.
Plan to improve or eliminate one at risk behavior.	Gather a group for early morning workouts using outdoor gyms and fitness trails.
Change one sedentary activity.	Create a team to explore land projects for environmental education.
Start tracking your health numbers.	Discuss your team's environmental stewardship.
Research the real cost of  unhealthy health numbers.	Remove heat scorched plants to reduce allergens and decay.
Social	Spiritual
Research why socialization is healthy.	Socialization and spiritual wellness are a great mix to nurture.
Choose one reason to socialize and create an activity based around that dimension of wellness.	Increasing your physical well-being deepens your spiritual journey.
Socialization improves retention, create one social event per month for your work team.	Support groups can often help remove personal barriers to meditation.
Walk to deliver a message face-to-face rather than use email.	Share with a friend how your food choices are beginning to align with your values and beliefs about healthy dining.
Join a social exercise class such as ballroom dancing.	The more your actions align with your values and beliefs, the easier it is to develop your spiritual wellness.
Nutritional	Occupational
Arrange to have dinner with a friend.	Review safety procedures in your area.
Share food preparation tasks with a coworker.	Discuss your sensory deficits with a trusted supervisor to make sure that you have the necessary adaptations for safety.
Separate meal times from stressful events.	Learn how to make sedentary jobs healthier.
Avoid working through your lunch time.	Use recommended safety practices at home too!
Join an online social food network to help make searching for healthy food recipes fun!	Find one more way to strengthen your work team.
Intellectual	Emotional
Socialization improves brain function.	Examine one unhealthy lifestyle choice that you may be harboring and its health and social costs.
Learning a new skill is easier when it is shared with someone else.	Fitness classes and sports can boost emotional wellness as people share victories and defeats.
Find out how at risk behaviors can damage your intellectual well-being.	Engaging in wellness activities together can be relaxing and provide pain relief.
Be creative! Creativity improves in the present of others.	Better moods start with a smile: research finds that a smile is more powerful than chocolate for changing moods!
Join a team! When shared with others, the benefits of exercise, socialization, and intellectual wellness are tremendous!	An energy booster can elevate your mood: being properly hydrated or a quick movement break can do wonders!