31st May 05
Welcome To This Commuting Issue
In This Month's Newsletter
Thought For The Day
Did You Know?
30-Second Stress Buster
News And Offers
Thought For The Day
“Deadlines are not worth dying for.”
Did You Know? - According to a recent survey in the US, traffic jams are costing Americans US $63 billion a year in ‘wasted time’ and fuel?
- That LA had the worst jams and that the average commuter there spent 136 hours a year in slowed or stopped traffic?
- It is estimated that the slow or stopped traffic consumes over 2.3 billon gallons of wasted fuel a year in the US.
- In Australia the main causes of road traffic congestion include: accidents, drivers slowing to view accidents, merging lanes, cross roads, slowing to pay tolls.
30-Second Stress Buster Exercises For Commuting
Do you often find yourself stuck in queues unable to move? Traffic jams, crowds on train station platforms, lines of people waiting at bus stops…?
In this day and age, as we are conditioned to keep moving and not stand still, we can find these delays during our day frustrating. We may churn thoughts over in our heads about the things we could be doing, if only we could get to where we are heading.
Often there is nothing we can do to get moving except to wait. Why not use these moments as opportunities to practice 30-second stress busters?
One of the keys to managing stress to live in the moment, and not let thoughts or worries about future events continually nag at you.
Next time you are stuck in a jam, try acknowledging thoughts that are circulating in your head and then letting them go for 30-seconds while you give this exercise a go… - Use your mind’s eye to visualise yourself floating above the car/bus/train/platform.
- Then look down at the queue of traffic or people below you.
- Floating further up, image how the surrounding streets look from up high.
- Fly higher still and see the whole town or city.
- Go thousands of feet up and imagine what the land would seem like from there.
- Up in the atmosphere now, visualise how the whole country would appear.
- Deep in outer space, look down on the planet.
- Finally return to your place on the earth, and know that what is really important is simply that you are here, now.
- For more 30-second stress buster exercises that you can do at your desk, see our archived newsletters on our website.
News And Offers- Complimentary Massage Voucher Winners: Congratulations to the winners of our 2-hour complimentary massage vouchers at the recent IT Help Desk conference in the Gold Coast. One of the winners is based in New Zealand, and just to confirm for our Kiwi friends, we will be recruiting practitioners in Auckland at the beginning of July, so our stress relief services will be available there soon too.
- Healthe Promotion: We are proud to announce that we have just formed a partnership with Healthe: an internet based organization promoting health and well being. They have an online shop, a health related database where you can search for information on almost any topic, a credit card / financial plan with discounts on various programmes including health insurance. For more information on their offerings and the promotional arrangement with have with their members please visit their www.healthe.com.au
- Stress In Call Centres: Did you know that a survey conducted by ASU has shown that 88% of call centre staff report work related stress problems? We have been doing more and more work with call centres. Anne wants to say a big thank to the team at BT Finance who recently shared some of their ideas and stories on stress management with her. Readers based in the Telecommunications industry in New Zealand will shortly be seeing Anne present on “How to manage stress in the workplace” at the TUANZ Contact Centre Conference on 23rd to 24th June. For more details visit the website www.tuanz.org.nz.
- Cellular Heath Analysis Offer: As our regular readers will know we provide stress management education programmes (workshops, seminars, courses and coaching) and stress relief services (yoga, pilates, martial arts, meditation classes and massage). An exciting new edition to our stress relief services is cellular health analysis. We can provide practitioners at your worksite to give staff a simple 5 minute scientific test which measures fat mass, muscle mass, biological age, cellular toxicity, and cellular vitality. By analysing these biological markers an accurate state of health can be recorded and our practitioners can give advice on areas that need attention. As an opening offer: during June, any clients booking this service will also receive 2 hours of complimentary head, neck and shoulder massages for their staff.
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