Who's Looking After You?

Stress, pain and poor lifestyle can directly impact on your performance at work – so making sure you are in optimal health makes business sense.

Have you ever wondered how you come across to your clients during interactions such as phone calls, face to face meetings, presentations or social events? Does it cross your mind that that stress levels affect your ability to focus on the person you’re are speaking to, to appear fully engaged, reflective on the conversation and showing an interest on the subject in hand? When you experience pain does it affect your decision to meet with a client face to face, rather than get in a car to meet them in a venue where the seating may or may not be optimal for your condition?

Everyone from sales personnel through to directors and line managers in between will express their inherent stress levels – whether that’s through targets, work-life balance, poor sleep or not enough hours in the day. Our discussion today comes from myself and Nicky’s recent experiences with healthcare providers who are working on extremely tight schedules, working much more than their contracted hours and feeling the loss and breakdown of their organisation which has been depleted over the more recent years. We are talking about the bedside manner, the personable practitioner, the ‘feeling listened to’ – the side of what they do which can directly impact on the outcome of the care which will follow.

This translates to all business, not just the NHS. How can you deliver expertise to your clients when you are feeling sub-optimal either physical or mentally? Perhaps this feeds into the cycle of poorer performance which then leads to higher stress levels or increasing physical health problems. When do you decide to seek professional help to get your life back in balance and put a stop to the negative impact that stress and pain has on you? We can certainly tell you – it is never too early to seek help. Your chances of improving your wellbeing are always better by preventing it rather than treating it once it has become a problem. By then you may have lost the contract or client which may then have other consequences.

Obtaining balance in your work and home life is so important, but we do as a nation tend to fight on stoically almost in denial of the impact of the pressures we put ourselves under. Imagine spending an hour a week dedicated to creating calm in your mind, where your brain can rest and recharge – meaning afterwards you are more creative, less frustrated and more engaging to your clients.

Mindfulness is definitely a buzz word at the moment, and we can offer this at Back to Balance. Imagine having a course of treatment for your back which would mean you are no longer worried about attending meetings or jumping in the car – osteopathy and massage therapy can certainly help get you back on to track, with a course of Pilates to help you along in no time. Imagine sorting out your diet so that you no longer felt guilty about those mid-afternoon brownies which were messing with your diabetes – how about breaking that cycle with an innovative approach looking at the mind-body link to eating problems. And as for emotional and mental health – with more traditional psychological therapies as well as our spiritual and energetic wellness therapies, our message to you is clear – it makes sense to your business for you to look after yourself, and if you need a hand, then we can certainly help. Our corporate packages offer a variety of ways to help you and your team either onsite or inhouse.