“Transforming Stress” Workshop To Be Offered By Healthy Visions Wellness Center on Thursday February 23, 2006

Ron Eslinger, owner and director of the Healthy Visions Wellness Center in Oak Ridge, TN will be offering his Transforming Stress workshop on January 26th, 2006. This workshop which is open to anyone interested in learning how to better manage the stress in their lives will be taught at his center’s educational facility located at 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite A-208.

Job stress costs Americans in excess of $300 Billion annually. That’s $300 Billion with a capital “B”. Stress is a known trigger for health maladies such as Stress Induced Headaches, Migraine Headaches, Chronic Post Surgical Pain, Cancer Pain, Fibromyalgia, Back and Neck Pain, Temporomandibular Disorder, Tic Douloureux, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and ED as well as being a prime suspect in igniting many other disorders. That is a lot of pain and aggravation.

A recent study commissioned by the United States Navy found that the top most stressful occupations were 1. Teaching, 2. Nursing, 3. Management, 4. Other Professionals, 5. Social Workers, 6. Road Transport, & Police and Prison Officers. Many who do not work in these fields directly, certainly work around these stress filled individuals and are affected accordingly. It really affects everyone to some degree. On an average workday in the U.S., an estimated one million workers do not make it to work due to stress and an average of $26 Billion are paid out each year in disability claims related to stress.

Participants in this workshop will learn not only just what stress is along with its sources but will begin to understand how to use coping skills, what may block those coping skills and how to avoid those roadblocks to wellness. They will learn how to develop personal stress coping plans which allow them to look at the problem objectively, focus, utilize available resources to aid in stress reduction and begin to understand the role that nutrition plays stress and stress management. Besides the Personal Stress Coping Plan, attendees will take away a work place Conflict Checklist, Keys to Team Building, a stress Management Workbook and a 2 CD program to enhance sleep and relaxation.

Here is what some have said of Mr. Eslinger’s workshops and seminars. “… Unquestionably, this has been the most comfortably intense practical and implementable seminar I have attended.” Says Walter Laesch, CRNA. P. O’Kelley wrote “ Wonderful! Ron was humorous, fun and very easy to listen to! Exceptional!” "Many thanks… you are a terrific mentor and educator." says S. Johnston of Chesapeake, VA.

This workshop will be conducted at the Healthy Visions Wellness Center Classroom located at 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite A-208 in the Jackson Plaza tower and will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Registration is $75.00 and taken on a first come, cirst served basis. Be sure you register early to decrease your stress.

All interested parties may register online at http://www.eslinger.net or call 865.220.077.

For more on this event or to interview Ron Eslinger for broadcast or print contact: Karen Brooks at 865.220.0777 or kbrooks@eslinger.net

About Ron Eslinger: Healthy Visions Wellness Center Director, Ron Eslinger, is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Advanced Practice Nurse, Master of Arts, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Instructor of Hypnosis and Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists.

A retired Captain in the US Navy, Ron developed the Complementary Care Clinic and introduced HypnoBirthing to the field of obstetrics at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. At the Navy’s Beaufort, SC facility he developed a hypnosis program for Health Promotions. He was a member of the Editorial Board for CRNA and The Clinical Forum for Nurse Anesthetists. He published four articles, three on medical hypnosis. He is past President of the Virginia Association of Nurse Anesthetists and he served as the Program Chairman of the South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists. He is currently Vice President, Region 2 of the Tennessee Nurses Association.

Ron lectures extensively to medical and nursing organizations on Hypnosis, Stress Management, Anesthesia, HIV/AIDS, and Bioterrorism. He is frequent faculty to Clemson University’s Annual Continuing Nurse Education Conferences, Gatlinburg, the Nurse Anesthesiology Faculty Association, Frank Moya, CRNA Annual Review Course, and the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing.

He is recognized by many in the media as a “source” for expert opinion in the field of hypnotherapy and issues concerning non-pharmacological pain management, and he regularly meets with medical and wellness professionals to enhance their knowledge and awareness of hypnosis and its dynamic potential. He has done five Radio and two TV Interviews, and recently interviewed by Harpers Magazine and Advanced Nursing.

Ron is the recipient of many awards including instructor of the month, Researcher of the Year and the prestigious NGH Presenter of the Year Ormond McGill Chair. He was also nominated by the US Navy to represent the Department of Defense on the National Institutes of Health’s committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Mr. Eslinger has accepted the invitation to be the Keynote Speaker at Great Britain’s National Council for Hypnotherapy annual meeting and will be delivering his address to their members there in June of 2006.