The Seishindo Stress Management Program – Calm in the Center of the Storm
Do you know how expensive stress is for you and your organization?
- Statistics from government agencies show that up to 50% of all sick days are stress related.
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently reported that 70% of all illnesses, physical and mental, are linked to stress.
- The Centers for Disease Control puts the number even higher, stating that 90% of all illnesses are stress related.
- The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimates that worker stress costs American businesses up to $300 billion annually in healthcare and lost productivity.
- Other studies show that stress triples errors on operational procedures, and more than doubles time taken to complete routine tasks.
- Every employee who quits because of stress costs you between 150% and 200% of his or her annual salary to replace.
As an organization, stress wreaks havoc on your bottom line. It’s a huge hidden cost to your organization. Low productivity, increased errors, elevated turnover of employees and customers, and high health-insurance claims and costs are all direct impacts on profitability.
As an individual, stress wreaks havoc on you physically and emotionally. High blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes, reduced immune-system function, depression, and loss of confidence, creativity, and compassion are only a few of the direct effects of stress. With all of this tending to add further pressure to your personal life.
Stress and anxiety, just like the flu, are contagious.
The good news is, the ability to remain calm and confident is even more contagious, and acts as a potent antidote for burnout.
Studies show that even brief workplace stress-management interventions can produce significant improvements in employee stress – and therefore significant improvements in your bottom line.
When people meld the mind’s intelligence with the age-old wisdom of the body, they discover the calm place in the eye of the storm.
And when leaders and individuals are able to maintain their composure in high-pressure situations, they and those around them invariably discover the resources they need to solve the problems they face.
The Seishindo Stress Management Program teaches tools and techniques that help people remain calm in a world that’s often hectic.
Melding the practices and perspectives of both Western and Eastern models of health and well-being, the Seishindo Stress Management program weaves together theory, biofeedback, music, breathing, and body awareness in a unique and effective approach.
In this workshop participants learn to …
- Recognize the physical and emotional symptoms that signal the onset of stress – and learn the necessary responses to remain calm.
- Experience how slowing down gives more time to reach one’s goals.
- Learn to turn down internal heat by ventilating the physical system with breath and movement.
- Use biofeedback to create a calm yet energized state of embodied mindfulness, becoming better able to respond to challenges while remaining calm.
- Learn simple practices that promote awareness of stress-reaction habits, allowing the experience of embodied mindfulness to continue deepening long after the workshop is over.
Staying calm in the center of the storm is one of the greatest life skills anyone can possess!
For more information about Seishindo’s Stress Management program, including opportunities to present it for your group or organization, please contact Charlie Badenhop. We offer the program in several languages and multiple locations around the world.
Our offer
Sign up to receive our complimentary Seishindo Stress Management for Beginners course. It will be ready in late October or early November 2010. If you like the course as much as we’re hoping you will, we’ll be happy to arrange giving it away to the various organizations, companies, and communities you are a part of.
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From time to time we run telecourses on stress management. If you’d like to be notified of our next course, please send us an email, letting us know.
