If You're the Boss

If You’re the Boss:

How Reiki Adds to Your Bottom Line

Whether you know it or not (and you probably do) some of your employees are too stressed to function at their best.

Here’s the Good News: There is a simple, effective way to dramatically lessen the negative effects of both on and off the job stress and still keep your employees functioning at the top of their game:

Stress relief is just the beginning of the benefits your employees, and your bottom line* can experience through a simple, gentle Japanese stress-reduction and relaxation method that can easily fit into a 20 minute work break.

Over the last two decades, Reiki, a non-sectarian form of “laying on of hands,” has gained widespread acceptance as a complementary therapy – not replacing, but working with conventional medicine and therapies. Why? For one very good reason: it’s effective. Major hospitals, from Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centers to Pittsburgh’s Allegheny General Hospital have Reiki practitioners available to a range of patients, including those with cancer or recovering from surgery.

Reiki is effectively being used in combination with other therapies - both conventional and alternative – and has been shown to:

· effectively stimulate the relaxation response

· facilitate stress-reduction

· alleviate pain

· support effective immune system function

Reiki is proving helpful in the resolving of physical disorders, nervous conditions and emotional issues, and in helping to nurture a greater sense of balance, well-being and wholeness. At Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire, surgical patients decreased their use of pain medications, stayed for shorter periods, and reported increased satisfaction with pre and post-surgical Reiki sessions.

Now if Reiki can do all this, imagine what it can do for your employees’ overall sense of well-being, productivity, and reduced employee health-care costs.**

Wouldn't it be smart to add Reiki therapy to the benefits you make available to your employees? Having a full-time Reiki therapist on staff or available on a contract basis for a limited number of hours a week is a cost-effective strategy to combat the muscle tension and pain associated with long hours sitting at a workstation and stress-related loss of productivity. And while you can control the work environment to minimize stress, many employees bring stress from home to the job with them.

While a typical Reiki session at a therapist’s office can last up to an hour, very effective mini-sessions can be given in as little as 20 minutes, with minimal disruption to the day’s work flow, and with maximum impact on stress reduction and worker satisfaction.

Reiki is performed with the employee fully clothed, either sitting or lying comfortably.
There is no expensive equipment to purchase, the therapist brings everything needed.
Reiki requires minimal floor space. All that is required is a room where the employee can relax in privacy, and be shielded from bright light and excessive noise.
Reiki involves at most only a very light touch, or no touch at all, and has no negative side effects.
Your employees will know that you are concerned as much for their minds and spirits as you are for their productivity.***
Making Reiki available to your employees just makes good business sense.

* The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health finds that stress-related ailments cost companies about $200 billion a year in increased absenteeism, tardiness, and the loss of talented workers. Between 70% to 90% of employee hospital visits are linked to stress. And job tension is directly tied to a lack of productivity and loss of competitive edge. (Source: Business Week)

** Workers who report they are stressed incur health care costs that are 46 percent higher, or $600 more per person, than other employees. (Source: NIOSH)

*** 62 percent of workers don't think their employer tries to minimize unnecessary stress. Half of employees don't think their employer has an interest in their well-being. (Source: LLuminari® Landmark Study)

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