September 2012 Employee Wellness Moments!

Physical	Environmental
What is your preventative health plan?	Organize your day for easy entry and exit of work tasks.
What are your healthy mind-body approaches to improve your well-being?	Analyze workstation stress and manage one stress element or decide to eliminate the problem.
Do art, science, and morals impact your integrative health care decisions?	Build in time for assessment of daily interruptions.
Explore how sports massage enhances athletic performance and increases the rate of recovery.	Evaluate technology spaces and social connections for hording and clutter. Delete unnecessary or obsolete information.
Explore movement therapies such as Tai Chi and dance.	Re-evaluate your learning needs and skill development and create learning stations.
Social	Spiritual
Socialization includes mutual obligations ...follow up on a promise to spend time with someone else.	Your spiritual wellness enhances your other wellness initiatives.
Satisfying relationships may buffer the impact of stress.	Some spiritual pursuits can reduce pain and some disease processes.
Empathy is an important component of caring and it is a teachable skill.	Meditation promotes relaxation.
Socialization improves self-worth, which increases life expectancy by 1.5 years.	Spirituality can promote a sense of well-being even in the presence of disease.
Friendships tend to boost self-efficacy.	Spirituality is a key components of integrative medicine.
Nutritional	Occupational
Monitor you dietary fat intake for one week, and discuss your findings with a nutritional professional.	List your department's skills and competencies to capture recent learning events.
Talk to a dietitian about your food sensitivities.	Schedule holiday events for your staff early so that they can arrange their seasonal activities.
When adjusting your diet, consult with your health care professional.	Evaluate those job functions that create boredom and talk to your manager.
Your diet can change your health status and ability to integrate other therapies.	Take time away from sedentary job functions for get up and go exercises.
The right diet can enhance treatment and pain management.	Add into your fitness schedule your work-related activity and miles walked while on the job.
Intellectual	Emotional
Meditative breathing can enhance brain function.	Identify those somatic markers that create uncomfortable emotional responses.
Emotional events have a privileged status in memory, remembering the emotion is a quicker way to recall hidden facts.	Developing and /or improving self-regulation skills can help to regulate chronic and stress related illnesses.
Quick naps have recuperative powers concerning brain function.	Troubling emotional memories can trigger phobias and hoarding behaviors.
Addiction involves several areas of the brain and may require a combination of therapies in order to resolve the issue.	Mind-body therapies help to reduce the strain of long-term stress.
Stress is a learned response and cognitive behavioral therapy is a possible approach to unlearn this process.	Workplace stress and conflict can be reduced by discussing the situation with your manager or EAP representative.