The Challenge — Stress and Your Bottom Line
The Solution — Ah-Chi-Yo and Moving into "Essential Well-BE-ing"

The Challenge — Stress and Your Bottom Line

Our Stress Fact Sheet points to an unhappy picture of, and dangerous trend in, everyday life in the corporate world. American businesses are quickly being sabotaged, not by external threats and forms of terrorism, but an internal form — stress. Simply, the effects of accumulated stress directly impact both employee performance and bottom line profits.

Not sure how? Increased absenteeism, lack of enthusiasm for the job, poor performance, and bad attitudes. The result? The Institute for Management Excellence reports that American industry spends more than $26 billion each year for medical bills and disability payments with another $10 billion for executive's lost workdays, hospitalization, and early death.

Constant stress at work — staring at a computer screen, making deals, breaking deals, meeting demanding deadlines and negotiating challenging office politics take a toll on the mental, physical, and emotional well-being of your employees. What are some of the workplace residuals of stress?

• back pain, neck pain and headaches
• reduced productivity and morale
• increasing numbers of sick days and mental health days
• increased degrees of presenteeism (being at work, but unengaged)
• increased feelings of overwhelm
• being distracted
• injuries and accidents
• increased turnover
• rising benefits expenses

Moreover, according to CNN-Money.com, employees of America's corporations spent more than $17 billion for anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs in 2005, up 10% from the year before and nearly 30% over a two year period. These numbers are increasing every year. Overwhelm, frustration, isolation and confusion are the hallmark characteristics of stress.

Today's smart companies are taking proactive steps to tackle stress and thereby improve people's lives in their workplace performance, enhance morale and productivity, increase retention and realize increased profits.

How? Stress-reduction and wellness strategies. Growing well-being is a "best-practice" in today's forward-looking companies.

The Solution — Ah-Chi-Yo and Moving into “Essential Well-BE-ing”

Ah-Chi-Yo™ is an innovative, cutting-edge approach to stress relief and enhanced well-being that includes Yoga, Tai-chi, Stretching, Guided Meditation, Visualization, Breathing Practices and Sounding — seven elements, which combined, can greatly reduce the effects of stress and enhance an individual’s overall experience of well-being.

Drs. Catherine and Peter Vajda of SpiritHeart are dedicated to reducing workplace stress, and enhancing the health, well-being and performance of both the individual and the company. No company today can afford the further erosion of morale or profitability. Healthy workers are your greatest resource and benefit your bottom line!

A harmony of body, mind, and spirit support an individual’s well-being. On a collective level, a group of people who share a harmony of well-being can engage in a dynamic, mindful productive exchange to meet the challenges of their organization with energy, vitality, enthusiasm and the full spectrum of intelligence, creativity and wisdom that can only come from an individual’s inner resources.

Supporting employees’ well-being and creating a healthy life at work improves morale, commitment and satisfaction and increases your organization’s ability to maintain and encourage a productive workforce.

Your employees can learn and experience proven techniques that have immediate and lasting effects. Ah-Chi-Yo™ supports employees to melt their tension and fatigue and exhibit greater alertness, stamina, creativity and productivity. Ah-Chi-Yo™ leads to greater physical and mental health, well-being and personal growth. Employees will leave each Ah-Chi-Yo™ class feeling refreshed, relaxed and renewed.

In addition to the overall benefits of Ah-Chi-Yo™, specific workplace benefits include:

• Increased morale, efficiency, and satisfaction with life at work
• Reduced stress & anxiety
• Improved memory, focus & concentration
• Less sick time & fewer absences
• Overall healthier staff
• More effective team building
• Employees’ added ability to self-manage stress
• Increased productivity
• Improved focus and control
• Improved mental clarity
• Greater creativity and synergy
• Increased energy, vitality and positivity
• Improved employee productivity and creativity
• Enhanced employee decision-making skills
• Increased positivity to interpersonal challenges
• Greater employee job satisfaction and morale
• Improved teamwork, communication and cooperativeness
• Reduced employee turn-over numbers
  

SpiritHeart is available to discuss bringing Ah-Chi-Yo™ and/or one-time wellness workshops into your company. Perhaps you might like to offer a one-time Stress Management Workshop or a series of Ah-Chi-Yo™ classes — we are committed to providing you a superior program, specifically tailored to your organization.

Many visionary and progressive businesses are offering wellness programs to their employees. As an employee benefit and preventative health measure, Ah-Chi-Yo™, a proven stress reliever is a great resource for employee support that serves to balance, harmonize, energize and keep your employees on a healthy even keel when it comes to their life at work.

To find out more about how Ah-Chi-Yo™ and Moving into “Essential Well-BE-ing” can enhance and support your employees and your efforts for enhanced wellness and stress management, please contact us . We will be delighted to explore best strategies for meeting your challenges and provide you with solutions that will benefit both your employees and your bottom line (Stress Fact Sheet)

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