Himalayan Salt Cave The Perry Family took a trip to Riga, Latvia a few years ago. Ostensibly it was for the World Choir Games in which daughter Emily was a participant (and her choir did win the Children’s category!). However, Dad had a plan to leverage the trip and check out a spa on the […]
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Becoming Happier Honestly, happiness seems to be a relatively new phenomenon in the US workplace. Finding an article like this in Forbes gives hope that businesses see the value for employees becoming happier. Where anything other than a medical procedure or pharmaceutical was often derided, there is now growing interest in non-clinical health determinants. Forbes
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Well-being Programs Leave Employees Unsatisfied In an economy with nearly full employment employers are realizing the workplace must become more holistic. Most current employer well-being programs leave employees unsatisfied, according to a recent Wills Towers Watson survey. Wellness programs that provide a watered-down annual physical are no longer enough for today’s workforce. Employees look for
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Workplace Wellbeing For so long too many people have associated the workplace with drudgery. A place to work. However, work is part of our lives! It should be vibrant and energizing. More organizations see this and want to enhance workplace wellbeing… for business motives if nothing else. Cold mornings and dark nights can take their
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Sauna Bathing Reduces Blood Pressure More research has arrived highlighting the benefits of saunas. In this article sauna bathing reduces blood pressure as well as elevates the heart rate. This relaxing therapy has a history of benefits, according to the article, that include reducing stress and relieving joint discomfort. The ancient Finnish tradition has stuck
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Benefits of Cupping Therapy When discussing benefits we must be careful not to separate a therapy like Cupping from a medical system like Traditional Chinese Medicine. There may well be benefits of cupping therapy (like breaking up Qi stagnation) that do not fit with another system. That said, the article’s author gives a quick overview
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Minneapolis YMCA Wellbeing Center The YMCA has a history of holistic thinking around health. Their offerings range from social services to physical education to spiritual. It is no surprise to find the Minneapolis YMCA Wellbeing Center open to a partnership to promote wellbeing. When Penny George was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, she said
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Lifestyle Over Annual Exam People are not machines. An annual checkup is not necessarily beneficial and may even be counter-productive for health. We need to move to a Lifestyle Over Annual Exam approach where providers engage people on Lifestyle, not a battery of costly tests that provide suspect value. Many physicians continue to perform annual
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Employee Wellness Education It great to have a benefit… but it is really only a benefit if you know about it and can use it. Enter employee wellness education and accountability. “Another problem that stops employees from making really important changes is a lack of accountability,” the authors write. “Start employee resource groups so
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Wellness Evidence Quite often we come across someone who is interested in a more holistic approach to health. Unfortunately, they hesitate because there is no wellness evidence. Without “evidence” so many therapeutic modalities are dismissed as placebo effect or even just “woo woo” (we’ve actually heard that term). Some systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine or
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