Kathy Gruver
TEDx Speaker, Motivational Health Speaker, USA
Title: The power of mind/body medicine in your life and your practice
Biography
Biography: Kathy Gruver
Abstract
It's estimated that stress is responsible for 60-90% of doctor's visits and, one million workers miss work each day because of stress, costing companies $602 per employee per year, according the American Institute of Stress.
It is imperative that we recognize that stress is not the problem - it's our reaction to our stress and we can learn to control that with simple mind/body practices. Acquire cutting edge self-care techniques - affirmations, visualization, mindfulness techniques and mini-meditations - that you and your staff can do on their own for better health. Dr. Gruver will share her decades of experience and you will walk away inspired to make positive changes in your life and your practice.
-Recognize the emotional, physical and behavioral signs of stress.
-Examine current research on meditation, positive self-talk and visualization and how it can be incorporated into your workday.
-Learn a simple technique, known as a mini-meditation, to stop the stress response in its tracks.
-Understand how you can use your daydreams to boost immune function and increase relaxation.
-Discover how to incorporate mindfulness into your day even if you think you don’t have time.