What you need to know
Make every day your best day. Instead of just surviving stressful times, learn to thrive. Foster a sense of meaning in your life, learn to let go of stressful emotions, create positive emotional moments, and nurture your relationships. Thriving leads to better health outcomes and work performance as well as higher levels of life satisfaction.
With this Healthy Me 2021 program, you can learn and develop the skills you need to thrive and become your best self.
What’s happening this month
Every month we offer classes and opportunities to learn new thriving skills, including Mindful Mondays, WhilPower Wednesdays, and the Take Some Time to Ease Your Mind series.
Check the HR Events Calendar for details about the classes and events offered this month. Use the filter Preventive Health: Live Well/Stress Management to make your search easier.
Resources and Supporting Activities
- Employee assistance program – Learn more about the Sandia resources available to help you and your family members deal with life stressors, whether it’s a work-related, personal, or family issue.
- Energy Hubs – Our Energy Hub locations are spaces for mindfulness, meditation, stretching, and movement that can help you recharge, restore, and renew your mind and body for increased productivity, health, and safety. Telecommuting? Create your own home hub.
- Schedule a biofeedback or stress appointment with a health coach at 505-284-4700.
- Health on the Go session – bring a health coach to your organization, center, or division meeting for individualized health education on how to thrive, manage stress, and use our tools and resources to live well.
- Fitness classes (try out yoga or tai chi) – Our staff of certified exercise professionals offer a variety of onsite group fitness classes. To participate, you must complete the PAR-Q form.
- Mindful Mondays – Take a 15-minute mindfulness break to practice meditation and deep breathing and to receive tips for coping, and stress management.
- WhilPower Wednesdays – Join this 15-minute guided mindfulness meditation to clear your mind and manage stress.
- Take 10 Initiative – High performance requires recovery, so take a 10-minute restorative break at the end of your meetings.
- Whil – guided stress reduction and mindfulness activities
- Virgin Pulse – track your activity and healthy habits
- Self-guided meditations
- Thriving: Finding Calm (video)
- Thriving: Nature Therapy (video)
- Thriving: Adapt & Change (video)
- Thriving During Times of Stress (video)
- Thriving: Becoming Your Best Self (video)
- Take Some Time to Ease Your Mind
- Managing Stress and Resilience (video)
- DocChat: Relationships (video)
- Excelling with Pressure and Change (video)
- Digital Detox (video)
- Introduction to Mindfulness (video)
- Focus-Centering (video)
- Change Management (video)
- Power of Perception (video)
- Deeper Happiness (video)
- Mountain Visualization (video)
- Breathe to Relax (video)
- Breath Meditation (video)
- Yoga Wisdom at Work (video)
- Mindful Breathing (video)
- The Happy Secret to Better Work (TED Talk)
- Finding Your Life’s Purpose (external video)
- Nine Ways Mindfulness Reduces Stress (article)
Contact Employee Health Services
Preventive Health Services (New Mexico)
505-284-4700, Option 1 (phone lines open at 7 a.m.)
MO307 (behind Buildings 831 and 832)
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT, Monday through Friday
Preventive Health Services (California)
925-294-3500
Building 925 and MO32/Life Design Center
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday
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