Business owners want to help employees improve productivity and boost focus in the workplace. While providing energizing coffee and snacks offers a short-term solution, creating a corporate wellness program including hypnotherapy will have more lasting effects. Here is an introduction to these programs and why offering access to a hypnotist can add further benefits.

Understanding Corporate Wellness Programs

What is a Corporate Wellness Program?

Today, businesses are constantly looking for ways to improve their employee's health and well-being to better the quality of their work while making them happier and more productive. Creating a corporate wellness program plays a crucial role in encouraging healthy habits and mitigating stress. These offerings often include providing healthy in-office snacks, discounted rates at local fitness centers, telephone access to counseling and potentially lowering health insurance rates for those who don’t smoke. One study found that employees who use these wellness programs can save the business around $353 annually in potentially lost productivity. 

A study found that wellness programs also lower health care costs, which can save companies money because they encourage better preventative care and positive lifestyle changes like eating better, exercising, and quitting smoking. Using these programs can reduce the risk of lifestyle-related diseases that can affect workplace productivity and increase sick days. They can also improve performance by encouraging better overall health and good sleep habits. Plus, by creating plans like these, you’ll likely improve employee retention and engagement while enticing new employees who care about maintaining their personal health. 

Why is Hypnotherapy an Important Aspect?

Hypnotherapy uses guided trances to create awareness and encourage certain behaviors. For example, in a corporate wellness program, hypnotists may use suggestive thinking to encourage the staff to stop smoking by limiting stress. This change can reduce the loss of productivity spent on smoke breaks while helping people live longer, healthier lives with reduced risks of lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases. A study found that individuals who underwent hypnosis for smoking cessation were more likely to quit than those who use only nicotine patches.

Hypnotherapy can also assist people in losing weight to improve stamina and energy while mitigating the risks of diabetes and high blood pressure. Psychology Today noted that hypnosis often successfully combines visualization, confidence building, and mental rehearsal to improve chances of losing weight and keeping it off. Offering access to hypnotherapy in the workplace provides support to people looking to lose weight who may not gain access to it otherwise.

If you’re interested in having a hypnotist speak at your corporate wellness program, contact Hypnotic Solutions in Cincinnati, OH. Margaret Arthur – resident hypnotherapist – has 31 years of nursing experience and stresses improving and maintaining positive mental and physical health. Call (513) 205-5669 or visit the website for information on her preferred techniques, like EFT and hypnotherapy, to help people quit smoking, lose weight, and mitigate stress and anger.