Endorsements

“Ms. Russell is bright, experienced and highly motivated in relating to the subject of stress management and alternative health techniques for individuals and large groups. I recommend her to you highly and without reservations.“ Mark. D. Walters, M.D., Cleveland Clinic

“Working for a larger corporation with all the mergers, reorganizations and cost-cutting that are involved in that environment, the stress management techniques I learned from you have helped me to remain calm, positive and productive during difficult periods. I have not eliminated stress from my life, but with your help I have learned to control it. I am convinced that a positive attitude has helped me to retain my position and continue to succeed at work. Your techniques have helped me to integrate diverse elements [personal and professional] into one strong life. Thank you for helping me to achieve that.” Kathy Sobczak, Relationship Manager, Key Bank

“Harriet is extremely knowledgeable and she knows how to encourage people to fulfill their own abilities without pushing beyond their limits.” Caroline Hoepp, President,Western Reserve Rowing Association

“I highly recommend Harriet. She has been instrumental in bringing stress management and wellness techniques to mainstream Cleveland area society. I have seen patients who have benefited from Bhumi’s LESStress programs and I have found that she herself practices what she preaches.” Kenneth J. Klak, D.O.,Garfield Heights Primary Care

Lunch and Learn Programs | Benefits | Program Topics

Lunch and Learn Programs
All seminars are presented by Director, Harriet Russell. Programs are in lecture-workshop format using flip-chart or Power Point presentations along with interactive activities to promote understanding of the concepts. Take home techniques and handouts are included.

Topics fall into 5 major categories, and can be combined and/or expanded into multiple presentations.

• Stress Reduction
• Mind and Health
• Body and Health
• Personal Development
• Holistic Health and Balanced Living

Benefits
These programs provide a great many benefits to both employees and employers.

Benefits for Employees

• Understand stress and how it affects health and wellness
• Learn about the mind’s role in stress
• Understand the body-mind connection in health and disease
• Understand how relaxation improves health and wellness
• Learn relaxation and mind clearing techniques for daily use
• Learn mental and physical techniques to increase energy
• Enhance creativity and thinking “outside the box”
• Develop a positive attitude, especially in challenging times

Benefits for Employers

• Increase physical and mental health of the associates in the company
• Reduce absenteeism, medical leave, and health costs
• Create a more positive attitude and energy in the workplace
• Increase productivity
• Increase creativity
• Enhance healthy teamwork and communication
• Empower associates to make healthy choices
• Inspire associates by encouraging personal development
• Build better business relationships

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Program Topics
Listed below are some of our most popular topics. We have many more available, and can always tailor a program to suit your needs. Just ask!

How the Body-Mind Connection Works with Stress
What the mind thinks, the body creates. What the body feels, the mind reinforces. The body-mind connection is a key element in whether we create illness or wellness. Learn body-mind awareness techniques for stress management and ways to continually self-assess the amount of stress you are under.

How Stress Impacts Your Health
Understand the Cycle of Stress and how it continues to imbed deeper and deeper into all aspects of your life, your health, and your relationships at home and in the workplace. Our health is foundational for a quality of life. Break the cycle of stress with take-home techniques.

The Relaxation Response – Zero Stress Zone
What happens to the body and the mind when we enter the Relaxation Response? When the body relaxes and the mind rests but we are not fully asleep, we enter into the zero stress zone. Learn breathing and relaxation techniques for stress reduction and walk away feeling refreshed, renewed, and re-inspired.

Letting Go – Inside and Out
Being afraid of losing what we have or unhappy about not getting what we want is stressful. Pushing away (aversion to) what we dislike and holding onto (attraction to) what we like, are stressful. Just as we regularly tidy up our workspace and periodically clear out our accumulated unnecessary material possessions, we need to regularly rid our minds of concepts and limitations that keep us from moving forward. Learn techniques to clear the mind and increase your focus, productivity, and overall mental and physical health.

Positive Attitude, Positive Life – Peace of Mind In Spite of It All
Why do some people seem positive and others seem negative? Happiness is a state of mind. A positive attitude gets us on track. Learn how good and bad are relative to our interpretation and how what we feed our mind will ultimately shape our health.

Tune In, Tune Out – Meditation for Stress Management
Tuning in to what matters means tuning out the excess chatter in the mind. Find out what meditation is, how it works, and its positive impact on stress reduction. Learn several easy meditation techniques to continue at home and find more focus, clarity, and relaxation.

Reality Check – Where’s Your Focus? Where’s Your Mind? Be RIght Here, Right Now.
If you are daydreaming, overwhelmed, multi-tasking in your mind when trying to concentrate on one thing, tired and stressed, you could use a reality check. Learn techniques to focus and relax, improving your mental clarity, concentration and creativity.

Keeping Track of your Back Account
Daily stress, poor posture, excess body weight, as well as long term emotional drain can all affect how one’s back feels. Bring awareness to body dynamics in sitting and standing. See how mental stress affects the body and back. Learn ways to ease back tension and pain through body-mind awareness techniques. Make your own Bum Back Diary and watch your Back Account become like a Bank Account.

The Office Chair Stretch – Good for Body and Mind
How many hours a day do you sit in a car and at your desk? Become aware of the benefits of keeping your energy moving and the negative effects on your health when you do not. And, stagnant energy in the body makes for a dull mind. Learn Office Chair Stretches and reach for balance in your day.

Nutrition for Optimal Health and Energy
Looking at the alkaline and acidic model of food, learn about the impact different foods have on the immune system and prevention of disease. Which foods work together for health? Which foods deplete our energy and dull our senses? Look at ways food can give us a natural energy gain and how to avoid the afternoon slump. Understand the effects of sugars, artificial sweeteners and caffeine. Understand why we often go to extremes seeking balance in food choices. This is an interactive experience with take home guide and self reflection.

Inspire or Debilitate – Using Feelings and Emotions Appropriately and Effectively
Emotional awareness and self regulation are keys to high performance and productivity. Communicating effectively, treating people well, and modeling appropriate behavior makes good business sense. The more we increase our own emotional intelligence the better we can recognize and respond to the emotions and feelings of others. Then we can consciously cope with conflict. Learn skills using mind-body awareness, understand non-verbal communication, and use honest self-assessment methods to quickly diffuse stress in the face of challenges. Increase success for yourself, your team and your company.

The Three A’s: Awareness, Acceptance, Adjustment – Changes that Work
Why do we often start an exercise program or project but do not follow through? How many New Year’s resolutions become the same ones year to year? Learn awareness techniques, affirmations for self acceptance, and see the adjustments in your life line up more wholly. Change comes from Love, not Fear.

Energy Gains and Drains
Explore the ways we gain energy and drain our energy. If you are just barely making it through the workday or work week with little energy for much else, you cannot have a quality of life. Our energy is meant for not mere survival or healing illness. It is meant for our evolution, the development of our higher potential. Learn energy increasing techniques that reduce stress and uplift our spirits.

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