Health and Wellness in the Workplace
Finding Health and Wellness at Work
There isn’t always time in your everyday life to focus on health. Around kids, schedules, family commitments, and everything else you have to do, there never seems to be enough time for you to accomplish everything you want to do. If you want to lead a healthy lifestyle, how do you fit it all in? There are actually things you can do in your workplace—somewhere you spend more time than almost anywhere else—to help with your health and wellness. Here are just a few things to consider:
Mindfulness
This is something you can practice anywhere at any time and it can really help within the workplace. It’s simply the approach of being aware. You want to pay attention purposefully to everything around you, including things you don’t normally think about or at all. When you use this approach, you might find yourself with new control and wisdom over your life based on an inner capability. You might gain insight into a job or to your co-workers. Mindfulness is known to reduce stress, improve memory, alleviate depression, and lower blood pressure.
Ergonomics
The way you work and how you sit, and process things can have a huge impact on the way you feel during the workday and in the rest of your life. With poor ergonomics, for example, you could have extreme back pain, arm issues, and plenty of other medical conditions. When you practice correct ergonomics, you can alleviate those pains and give yourself more comfort, furthering your productivity. One of the keys is taking breaks, but you also have to have correct computer and keyboard placement, the right support in a chair, and more. Once you fix issues you may not have realized you had, you can sink into a healthier workplace overall.
Nutritional Needs
You know you have to eat, but what you decide to eat is a choice made on a daily basis. Paying attention to your nutritional needs and learning how food impacts your body can help you make better choices. It’s easy enough to grab a candy bar from the vending machine on a break, but if you have a healthier relationship with food and know what really fuels both your mind and body, you can feed yourself in a whole new way. Becoming a healthier version of yourself has to stem throughout your daily life, but you will need to plan ahead to get the right kind of meals in at the workplace, snacks and all.
Health and Wellness Consulting Can Help
If you have healthy goals, it’s quite possible others in your workplace do as well. The E3 Consulting professionals can help with various consulting tasks to help everyone in the office get on track and stay there. Whether there are ergonomic issues, corporate fitness needs, nutritional detriments, or other things going on that pull back on health and wellness, we can help you figure out what is necessary and consult with you to train everyone in the company in the right manner to get a healthier lifestyle going all the way around.
