One Well World

We are excited to invite our spa partners, team members and all interested spa professionals to our open house and celebration of our move to our new corporate offices and distribution center in Englewood, CO. Please join us for a keynote with the incomparable Jennifer Walsh! Jennifer shares her expertise on the connection between neuroscience, nature and wellness. Discover the importance of biophilic design when contemplating your next spa service, product or program. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/t85xwNap5vsFUdKC9!

We are delighted to launch One Well World’s Enlightened Workplaces Conversation project in conjunction with Well Defined. Action Project Co-Chairs, Julie Keller Callaghan and Tiffany Grimes - Coach & Trainer are developing best practices for migrating from a "well" to an "enlightened" workplace over the coming months. Thank you Denise Bober of The Breakers Palm Beach for being our first guest in the series, as we explore the architecture, social fabric, policies and procedures, work design, leadership competencies and presence required to create the democratized and enlightened workplace of the future. In a tight labor market, there is no better way to improve retention and attract top talent.

https://welldefined.com/spotlight-on-enlightened-workplaces-the-breakers-palm-beach/

Spotlight on Enlightened Workplaces—The Breakers Palm Beach - Well Defined 2022 The Breakers HR guru Denise Bober shares the story of how The Breakers Palm Beach is the ultimate enlightened workplace.

Very excited to share some incredible news. Please join me in congratulating our esteemed colleague and One Well World Advisory Board member, Dr. Doris Day!

We would like to congratulate Dr. Doris Day, on being selected as one of Castle Connolly's Exceptional Women in Medicine for 2021! Dr. Day is a clinical associate professor of dermatology at the New York University Langone Medical Center.

Ever wonder how you can legitimately strengthen your immune system and lead a healthier life given all the hype on "immune system boosting?" Madelyn Hirsch Fernstrom, PhD, CNS, NBC News Health Editor and One Well World Advisory Board member provides practical "wellness in action" tips that can immediately impact your personal well-being.

https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/can-you-eat-sleep-your-way-stronger-immune-system-n1287926

Can you eat and sleep your way to a stronger immune system? Amid Covid-19, there are a lot of exaggerated and false claims out there. Here are the evidenced-based ways to optimize your immune response.

During Mental Health Month we have focused on simple practices for being effective as individuals, team members, leaders and in our families. Here is today's emotional well-being tip.

It is said that resentment is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die. There are three poisons that many of us ingest regularly that prevent happiness, success in life, and peace in the world: greed, hatred and delusion. When we are hooked or in "fixed mind," one of the three poisons is often at play. Synonyms might be attachment, aversion and ignorance. All three imprison and make our world small. All three have an antidote and yet at times, every cell in our body resists.

Antidotes:

Greed (attachment) - learning to cultivate selflessness, generosity, detachment, and peace of mind.

Hatred (aversion) - cultivating loving-kindness, compassion, patience, and forgiveness.

Delusion (ignorance) - developing wisdom, insight, discernment and clear seeing.

Easier said than done. Recognition is step 1! Step 2 is not making yourself wrong or bad for engaging but rather bringing the boil down to a simmer and being with the feeling of attachment, aversion or ignorance. Trying to obliterate it from your life only pushes the behavior into our shadow giving it more power than less. ❤️

Whether aggression, hate and sorrow...or peace, love and harmony proliferate in the world depends on how we walk this planet.

At birth we each possess “basic goodness.” It is like the sun — warm, bright, loving, beautiful. As we grow up, karma and life start to obscure our sun like passing clouds. The sun (basic goodness), however, is always there above the darkest blanket of gloom and heaviness.

We cannot expect the world to change if the individuals living within it are stuck in fixed minds and habitual patterns. We see this in polarized views of the world today.

Therefore, the first step in making a difference starts by working with ourselves, remembering and embracing our natural basic goodness even in the most difficult moments. In this way we, can see the potential in ourselves and others, versus seeing something broken or messed up.

Unfortunately, judgement, labeling and seeing ourselves and each other as somehow deficient is prevalent in our culture and leads to great human suffering.

The antidote is to remember clouds and sun coexist in the natural world. Clouds are transitory and will always appear. The practice is to embrace both and learn to see the beauty in the dance between them. To work with your clouds try the following practice.

PRACTICE

1. The next time a feeling of deficiency comes up, imagine holding it in your hand to observe it.

2. Examining every aspect of the feeling, ask: “does this feeling depend on an internal dialogue or storyline?

3. Then ask, “what would it mean for me to accept this feeling as it is with loving kindness?”

If we can get out of the mental storyline and fixed mind, we discover the basic energy of the deficient feeling is still there. That is the good news! By removing the story, we dispel some of the charge. Now place this fear-based deficit in the cradle of loving kindness and be friendly to yourself.

By embracing both the sun and clouds we are far more capable of contributing more love and kindness to the world versus fear and aggression.

Remembering and being in my state of basic goodness with all the passing clouds that inevitably evaporate, makes all the difference! 💖

Everything in life has a beginning, a middle and an end. This is known in Newtonian physics as the “Arrow of Time.” Impermanence is all around us. The beautiful bouquet of flowers you received on Mother’s Day eventually faded. We understand and accept impermanence on this level, but often resist when this transitory nature of things applies to human life, especially, in western culture. If life were fixed it would soon become boring and dull.

A simple way to learn to embrace impermanence is to:

(1) Recollect a moment or event from today.
(2) View it as a passing vignette on a screen in which you are the central actor.
(3) Contemplate how it is now gone forever.

Do this over and over and begin to embrace the endless moments in life, each with their own birth and death. As we do this practice we come to know:

- There are continuous opportunities to start anew.
- We are never stuck.
- Words and choices in each moment matter.
- Our identity is not fixed.
- The ultimate impermanence is not to be feared.

As humans, we continually dissolve and reassemble moment to moment. There are 86,400 seconds in 24 hours. That is the least number of births and deaths available to us to each day.

At One Well World, we believe random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time. Please post your act of kindness today in support.

The unconscious mind processes an estimated 11M bits of information per second and the rational mind, 40! Assumptions are deeply embedded in the unconscious. Our thinking, lives, stories and person we have become are based on assumptions, as are our organization structures, systems and jobs at work. The reason assumptions are so difficult to see, is because they are based on, reinforced and ultimately obscured by life experience, history, successes and failures.

Innovation, creativity and reframing, whether personal or professional...requires “assumption busting” prowess.

Tip: Next time you catch yourself or others saying, “that’s not possible,” reply with an “unless it is." Or perhaps you hear, “we’ve always done it this way,” say “unless we didn’t.," followed by a conversation opener. What if...

Assumptions die a slow death. To reinvent anything, we must first dislodge outdated assumptions before ushering in the new. Try it in your next team meeting or on your own thinking to release creativity and tap the limitless potential of the universe.

Welcome to Monday’s Intellectual | Emotional wellness tip! We love our Comfort Zones. They are safe, easy and offer a sense of protection.

The Learning Zone is where we challenge ourselves to expand our capabilities. It isn’t always comfortable, but it is the route to personal and professional development and enlightenment. It is permeable. Some days the boundary is expansive and other days, not so much.

The Panic Zone is the area where we have moved too far away from home (our Comfort and Learning Zones) to be effective. It is the place of shut down, feeling overwhelmed or having taken on too much.

All evolution in life comes from managing the ebb and flow of our Learning Zone. As we venture out and explore, challenge ourselves and develop, eventually the Learning Zone's breathable boundary solidifies into our new Comfort Zone, and the once Panic Zone is now manageable and becomes the new playground for learning. Become aware of your movement between these three zones. It will change your trajectory.

What is one thing you will do today to challenge your growth and play in the Learning Zone?