Wellness and Healthy Choices for the Overwhelmed Leader

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Overview

Our world is facing unprecedented challenges that are altering every dimension of our culture. Since “9/11,” stress-related illnesses have sky-rocketed. The political, economic, and financial climates have created unpredictability, lack of personal control, and rapid change for many individuals. This accelerated level of stress in our culture is seen by the AMA as the leading cause of addictions and illness, as well as premature aging and death. It is clear that the individual must find an internal balance to skillfully negotiate the ever-changing terrain with optimism and purpose.

The relationship between mind and body is obvious to anyone willing to inquire. As the body grows, so does it uniquely armor itself against the demands and fears of the world, the expectations of parents, the requirements of school, and the wounds and hurts, perceived or real, acquired in meeting those demands. Wellness of the body is a by-product of wellness of the mind. Wellness of the mind is the ability to identify, manage, and minimize your negative patterns and as a result, choose positive states of being.

The body is the somatic container of all our life experiences and the expression of all the fixed perceptions of those experiences. The body is the mind manifest. The body is the first line of defense in dealing with the world. The body is a visible roadmap to where you have been.

There is a story to your wellness. It resides in those significant emotional experiences that were embedded in the very fiber and sinew of the musculature of your body. Many of them have been relegated to your subconscious, to the days and years of forgotten memories. But alive they are. The long-term habits of movement as dictated by the central nervous system that have held your body together have bolstered an elaborate and vast defensive system of beliefs, perceptions, positions, fears, and responses that have allowed you to survive. Your wellness is the result of those decisions.

Wellness and Healthy Choices teaches leaders who are inundated with daily responsibilities how to trigger natural relaxation processes in the body and to develop an effective personal response to stress and conflict. Unchecked tension, anger, frustration, and insecurity are all negative triggers into stress that can easily erode your well-being. Discovering repetitive patterns that keep you stuck in these negative emotional states is highlighted. Increasing awareness of your inner resources to deal productively with stress is also emphasized. That is why each day you will begin with yoga, followed by focused relaxation, in order to begin training your mind to deal with stress more effectively.

Objectives

• Identify precisely the habitual triggers that cause you to upload and live in predictable, stressful conditions.
• Plot your habitual stress processes through the mind, body, emotion, and outcome stages to create new templates of behavior and responses to daily stress.
• Design and implement healthy mental, physical, emotional, and dietary strategies as response mechanisms to leadership demands.
• Increase awareness of your inner resources to deal productively with stress.
• Increase the leader’s ability to respond effectively to change, pressure, conflict, and uncertainty, especially in tough economic times.
• Improve the leader’s behavior modeling for others in the organization.
• Increase clarity and intentionality of the whole group through the leader’s improved clarity and intentionality.

 

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