Health and Wellbeing

Acupuncture can be used by women who are receiving hormone therapy treatments for breast cancer. It may helpby reducing hot flashes something that a lot of breast cancer survivors experience, increasing sex drive and over all contributing to a better sense of wellbeing and increased clarity of thought according to a new study in the US. The study was published in the Journal of Oncology, and is the first randomly-controlled trial to compare acupuncture and drug therapy.

 The results from these tests showed that acupuncture when compared with drug therapy may have longer lasting results for reducing night sweats and hot flashes for those women recieving hormone therapy treatment. 

A large part of the Wellbeing Clinic work is helping business and organisations deal with stress in the workplace. At the clinic we deal with many organisations who offer services to their employees to help deal with stress.

These can range from:

• Counselling
• Mediation
• Stress awareness training for employees~managers
• Mini sessions of massage and reflexology
• Chiropractic assessments for muscular skeletal problems
• Nutritional sessions

The overall aim of these services is to enable employers to help employees deal with what is causing them stress in their lives whether the stress is coming from work or home. All the services on offer are designed to help the individual gain a deeper understanding of what stress is and how it is effecting them in there lives, then giving them the tools to deal with these situations in a more productive way. 

The sort of issues that people may need help with may be a dispute with a colleague about new working arrangements, or being over worked by a manger/supervisor and not being able to express these concerns in an appropriate way due to poor self esteem, a stressful period at work due to a heavy work load or colleagues being off sick meaning there are less staff available to do the same job. Although stress affects a persons performance at work it may be nothing to do with work but what is going on at home such as a change in family circumstances, a bereavment or illness.   

In our experience an employer often wants to help but is not sure how to do this or were there responsibility begins and ends or what stress really is.

Employers often feel that although they are sympathetic to issues an employee is experiencing at home it is not there responsibilty to pay to sort out these issues.  

Or they may say I don't have anyone off with stress.

I want to do something but I don't have the budget it's going to cost me a lot of money.

I am always reluctant to pay for something that is not going to make me money.

My business is not very big I cant' afford to pay for something like this.

These are all valid statements but the reality is that there are solutions to all of them.

Although as an employer you may feel reluctant to pay for an employees home troubles but they are often unable to leave those troubles at home when they come into work. Although there may not be many people away from work, who have been labeled by there doctor as having "stress" there will be people who are taking more than the average amount of sick days, with colds, IBS, or just feeling under the weather, these people may be suffering with stress. Not many people will admit to feeling truly stressed. (95% of the people we see a the Wellbeing Clinic are still in work). We work hard to keep people in the work place and functioning to the best of their ability.

As a business owner myself I am always aware of my budgets and laying out money for something that is not in theory going to generate income. But the reality is that if an employee is taking more than the average amount of sick days they are costing you money, if they are not functioning as well as they should they are costing you money. If you have to take on agency staff to cover sick days they are costing you money. Employers are often surprised when they are told of the cost to themselves, there are no retainer fees you only pay when you use Wellbeing Clinic services and as a employer you would only be reasonably expected to pay for six sessions in the vast majority of cases this will fix the problem. Were ever possible an an employer you will be given feed back on how you can assist the employee at work. (This won't include any personal details as that is all confidential between counsellor and employee)

As an organisation we have a huge variety of services to offer to business to fit any size and industry, the question of employee Health and Wellbeing is one that is here to stay stress is a subject that we are not going to be able to keep sweeping under the carpet.

 www.wellbeing-clinic.co.uk

Love this quote found it on another site

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Marianne Williamson ~ A Return to Love

Today with so many people getting back to basics and going green you are starting to hear a lot about holistic medicine.  But have you ever wondered what that means and what it can mean to the health and well being of you and your family?

The term holistic simply means to take a ‘whole′ approach.  In medicine today your doctor tends to only focus on one small area of your health and only tries to relieve the symptoms, very often completely overlooking the cause. 

For example, if you’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure your doctor will no doubt prescribe a blood pressure lowering prescription drug.  More often than not this medicine will have moderate to severe side effects.

Since the medicine only treats the symptoms, and not the cause, you will have to continue to take it for an extended period of time.  Sometimes taking a medication for a long period of time can make the side effects worse, which will often lead to the need to take medication to cure the side effects!

Holistic methods, on the other hand, will not just focus on your high blood pressure.  Instead it will look at all aspects of your lifestyle: nutrition, physical, emotional, spiritual, environmental, etc.  It will try to solve the root cause of your problem instead of just help you deal with the symptoms.

The holistic approach doesn’t rule out the use of prescription drugs but it does encourage trying natural methods first.  Harsh drugs are only used as a last resort.

Those who practice holistic methods of health care, also encourage full participation and responsibility for their own health care by their patients.  They don’t condone a bad lifestyle by their patient and then just giving the patient a drug to help alleviate the symptoms of an ailment directly related to those poor lifestyle choices.

Usually a holistic practitioner will try to help their patients achieve more balance between their physical, emotional, environmental, and spiritual lives to promote better overall health.  It’s about integrating the mind and body and how they can become balanced for better overall health.

Many different approaches are grouped together under the holistic name, you’ve no doubt heard of many of them: acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation, and aromatherapy are some of the most well known.

Many people use these methods even when they don′t have an illness.  The idea is to prevent illness and not just cure one.  That is another aspect of holistic methods of treatment that sets it apart from ‘mainstream’ medicine which only worries about curing a problem and not nearly as much about prevention.

If you are concerned about the health and well being of you and your family you owe it to yourself to consider implementing holistic medicine practices into your life today.  Don’t wait until there is a problem, by starting now you may very well be able to prevent any illnesses from occurring in the first place.

Author Sites: Old Home Remedies , Herbal Medicine Ebooks and Natural Remedy Ebook

Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/what-is-holistic-medicine-1387580.html

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