Neuroscience and “8D Audio” – the key to stressbusting your business?
Stress is dominating the workplace, costing employers huge sums in absenteeism and reduced productivity, never mind the longer-term mental health implications on management teams and their staff. A 2020 ONS survey reported that mental health issues represented the fourth largest contributor to work absences at 11.6% with 57% of total employee absence due to stress, anxiety and depression.
But what can already struggling organisations do to help resolve the situation quickly and cost effectively and get their businesses back on track in these challenging times?
According to Nikki J Owen, founder of community-based counselling and well-being platform The Healing Hub, business leaders need to adopt and implement a much bolder, powerful process to allow employees to manage and take greater responsibility for their own mental health and emotional wellbeing.
“Short-term fixes that help ease people’s emotional issues for a moment rarely have impact over the longer term,” says Nikki J. “The majority of mental health issues stem from the dysregulation of our nervous system caused by the inability to rebalance and release stress from our bodies. We work with organisations that are committed to making a difference to employee wellbeing without being faced with the repeated financial burden of multiple solutions that fail to make any real impact.”
So, how is this different?
Nikki has taken her 30 years’ experience counselling and mentoring thousands of people using ground-breaking techniques inspired from quantum mechanics, cellular biology, energy management and neuroscience and blended these tools into a stressbusting practice called Breathing Space. Accessed through the Healing Hub app, it combines a powerful four-step process that creates a deep change in stress levels within just 5 minutes.
She explains,” Sustainable stress management needs to change the body’s chemistry by ensuring that we are not constantly operating in survival mode. Breathing Space is completely unique to The Healing Hub and helps individuals to comfortably release pent-up negative emotions and deep-rooted fears so that the natural day-to-day challenges of life become easier to navigate. We do this by using soundwave therapy tracks (8D Audio), combined with breathwork and primal releasing, all working at a deep level to regulate the nervous system away from the stress response of fight, flight and freeze to homeostasis or balance and calm.”
Alongside this, the app provides The Meditations and Sleep Journeys.
“Stress changes the neural circuitry in the brain so when the causes of stress are removed, neural circuits remain ‘negative’. It’s vital that the neural circuits are positively rewired. These journeys are inspired from neuroscience and optimise the sleep cycle using hypnotic scripting which rewires the brain’s neural pathways to positively change the belief patterns that hold people back from their full potential.”
She continues, “Our emotions live on a continuum so effective stress management solutions need to recognise this and provide personalised content and approaches based on each individual’s mood in the current moment. It takes an average of 66-days to create a new automated healthy habit, so availability of the stress managing exercises through the app allows users to access help at any time over this period.”
In terms of the success of The Healing Hub app among businesses, Nikki J is upbeat.
“Since we launched the app in 2020, we’ve worked with a wide range of business and individuals internationally and the feedback has been amazing. Clients have said that it has an immediate impact and vitally, hasn’t added to the burden of busy and stressed employees,” says Nikki J. “We’re delighted with the sustainable positive results many have had over the longer term in improving morale, motivation and working relationships, plus they are all finding it very affordable as it is easily rolled out to all employees or integrated with their existing learning and development programmes.”
The app is available in three levels: The Starter which is free, Professional which costs £50 + Vat per employee (annual) and the customised 66 Day Self Development Programme.
More information on The Healing Hub can be found at https://www.thehealinghub.uk