Innovative Program Promises Solution to High Cost of Employee Stress

Post Falls, ID, February 2007— Post Falls Registered Nurse and hypnotherapist, John Lundholm, announced that he is now offering easy to learn and use techniques for stress management, in an innovative program entitled “Better Health in One Hour: Rapid Stress Reduction.” In a one-hour workshop, Lundholm teaches workshop participants to reduce the harmful physical and emotional affects of stress. The approach is based on the latest research on how people respond to stress.

As a hypnotherapist and registered nurse Lundholm specializes in health related matters, such as smoking cessation, weight control and stress reduction. He states, however, that Better Health in One Hour is not hypnosis. “ I do use some of the principles from this program to make my hypnosis more effective, and I incorporate some of the same techniques when I teach self hypnosis, but the program itself teaches techniques that take less than five minutes that anyone can use.”

Better Health in One Hour was developed as a means of addressing the enormous costs of employee stress. As cited in the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review the cost of employee stress is between 635 and 1045 dollars per employee per year. These and other sources report that:

· 60 to 80 percent of worksite accidents are stress related
· Up to 70 percent of Workers Compensation claims are due to “job pressures.”
· Costs associated with stress may reduce U.S. industry profits by 10 percent.
· 60 to 90 percent of visits to physicians are stress related.
· Cost to US industry of stress-related illness is over $200 billion a year.
· 20-45 percent of the total number of health care claims is stress related.
· 19 percent of absenteeism is stress related
· Each dollar spent on employee wellness program yield 2-3 dollar in reduced costs.

The techniques are taught in a one-hour workshop at an employer’s worksite to 5-25 persons at a time. These techniques were recently taught to groups of employees at Kootenai Medical Center, and the North Idaho Cancer Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. As one participant stated, “This was wonderful, and so easy; this is something I can use right away.” Lundholm can be reached at (208) 691-4468, or information is available on his website: www.ChangeDynamics.net.