Dr. WellbeingSM
Jodi Peister, MD
Jodi Peister, MD
GJ Peister, MD
Well-being is our innate nature. It is not a matter of faith. It is a matter of practice. Well-being can be created by practicing the exercises which generate well-being. Dr. WellbeingSM's programs are designed to access our true nature, well-being. As a physician, healer, and Master of Wellbeing, Dr. Peister uses the simplest, most powerful, and most effective tools for improving well-being.
Dr. Peister, (aka Dr. Wellbeing), teaches us how we can create well-being for ourselves everyday simply and easily. She reminds us that like the muscles of the body which require exercise for optimal health there are inner muscles which also need exercise. Dr. Peister teaches simple universal practices that exercise these inner muscles. Her adages are "You Matter", "Self-Care Matters", and "It Only Takes a Moment" to care for yourself.
Dr. Peister is honored to design a program specifically for your group or business.
An essential part of improving well-being is stress management. Dr. Wellbeing teaches simple techniques to manage and reduce stress.
The benefits of Dr. WellbeingSM's programs include:
* Improved Morale
* Reduced Stress and Tension
* Enhanced Productivity & Creativity
* Improved Coping Skills
* Uplifted Mood
* Remarkable Sense of Connection and Community which Enhances Teamwork.
Dr. WellbeingSM's programs play powerful roles in healing, staying healthy, managing stress and reactions, maintaining emotional balance, and creating perspective. Programs acts as a mood regulator: easing stress, releasing tension, lifting mood, relieving anxiety, raising energy, improving confidence &
social relations; instilling attitudes of optimism, tolerance, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
As a master of well-being, Dr. Peister provides simple education about the inner workings of the human being and how we can use this knowledge to create well-being. By creating perspective shifts of who we really are, Dr. Peister shows us how we can uplift ourselves.
Dr. WellbeingSM's programs range from an uplifting 20 minute experiential workshop to a one day retreat. Each program is designed specifically to meet the needs of your business.
You may hire Dr. WellbeingSM for a one time event, a continuing program, or a training for your staff to run programs at your business.
Strong emotions build strong memory. Laughter creates strong positive emotions including joy, optimism, compassion, and enthusiasm. "Emotion drives attention and attention drives learning." Our brain cannot learn if it not attending. Laughing brings people powerfully into the present moment.
The marketing industry knows the power of laughter and uses humor to create laughter. An analysis of the retention rate for TV commercials found that the highest rate of recall of the commercial content occurred when humor was used.
The Dalai Lama has said that laughter is good for thinking because "when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds."
Laughter is a release, a moment of joy and pleasure which brings people powerfully present into the moment. Laughter releases stress and tension so we can be present in the moment. We leave our worries and tensions behind.
* Creates an optimal learning environment
* Plants information into the long term memory
* Reduces Stress
* Invigorates
* Brings attention and focus into the present moment
* Maximizes the capacity of individuals for effective communication
* Defines the ability of a leader to build a culture of trust
Dr. Peister starts your training with a 20 -30 minute program. Later in the day when attention is waning and fatigue is setting in, Dr. Wellbeing gives another 20 minutes program to re-vitalize the group and improve focus and attention.
Dr. Peister, (aka Dr. Wellbeing), teaches us how we can create well-being for ourselves everyday simply and easily. She reminds us that like the muscles of the body which require exercise for optimal health there are inner muscles which also need exercise. Dr. Peister teaches simple universal practices that exercise these inner muscles. Her adages are "You Matter", "Self-Care Matters", and "It Only Takes a Moment" to care for yourself.
Dr. Peister is honored to design a program specifically for your group or business.
Services for Businesses
Improving Wellbeing
Creating well-being for your employees is a "win-win" situation: you thrive, your employees thrive, your clients are happy, and your business prospers. All of Dr. WellbeingSM's programs are simple, practical, and remarkably effective at improving well-being. Creating wellbeing makes good business sense. An essential part of improving well-being is stress management. Dr. Wellbeing teaches simple techniques to manage and reduce stress.
The benefits of Dr. WellbeingSM's programs include:
* Improved Morale
* Reduced Stress and Tension
* Enhanced Productivity & Creativity
* Improved Coping Skills
* Uplifted Mood
* Remarkable Sense of Connection and Community which Enhances Teamwork.
Dr. WellbeingSM's programs play powerful roles in healing, staying healthy, managing stress and reactions, maintaining emotional balance, and creating perspective. Programs acts as a mood regulator: easing stress, releasing tension, lifting mood, relieving anxiety, raising energy, improving confidence &
social relations; instilling attitudes of optimism, tolerance, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
As a master of well-being, Dr. Peister provides simple education about the inner workings of the human being and how we can use this knowledge to create well-being. By creating perspective shifts of who we really are, Dr. Peister shows us how we can uplift ourselves.
Dr. WellbeingSM's programs range from an uplifting 20 minute experiential workshop to a one day retreat. Each program is designed specifically to meet the needs of your business.
You may hire Dr. WellbeingSM for a one time event, a continuing program, or a training for your staff to run programs at your business.
Enhancing your Trainings
Dr. WellbeingSM creates programs to enhance your trainings. All programs include laughter as laughter enhances learning. Laughter does this by creating positive emotions, bringing attention to the present, and releasing stress. Strong emotions build strong memory. Laughter creates strong positive emotions including joy, optimism, compassion, and enthusiasm. "Emotion drives attention and attention drives learning." Our brain cannot learn if it not attending. Laughing brings people powerfully into the present moment.
The marketing industry knows the power of laughter and uses humor to create laughter. An analysis of the retention rate for TV commercials found that the highest rate of recall of the commercial content occurred when humor was used.
The Dalai Lama has said that laughter is good for thinking because "when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds."
Laughter is a release, a moment of joy and pleasure which brings people powerfully present into the moment. Laughter releases stress and tension so we can be present in the moment. We leave our worries and tensions behind.
Laughter in a training:
* Creates an optimal learning environment
* Plants information into the long term memory
* Reduces Stress
* Invigorates
* Brings attention and focus into the present moment
* Maximizes the capacity of individuals for effective communication
* Defines the ability of a leader to build a culture of trust
Dr. Peister starts your training with a 20 -30 minute program. Later in the day when attention is waning and fatigue is setting in, Dr. Wellbeing gives another 20 minutes program to re-vitalize the group and improve focus and attention.
Therapeutic Recreation
"Muscles Work"
As a former psychiatrist, Dr. Peister realized that Wellbeing can be created by practicing the exercises which generate wellbeing. Like building big bicep mucles from pushups or lifting weights, you can improve wellbeing by practicing wellbeing exercises. This concept is called "muscles work". "Plasticity"
The
Human system is quite changeable and adaptable at any age. Our actions
actually determine what we create within our system. If we mope around
and act sad, then the chemistry within our body and the chemistry and
connections within our brain are “sad”. If we act happy and play then
the chemistry and connections within us are “happy”. The brain’s capacity to change shape and connections with use is known as neuroplasticity. Negative brain-use leads to negative neuroplasticity. Positive actions lead to positive neuroplasticity. Positive brain changes are enhanced by positive emotions and stress reduction.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club
Laughter is the simplest and most powerful exercise we can do to improve Wellbeing. Laughing is innate. Everyone can laugh regardless of age, illness, or ability. The Wellbeing Laughter Club makes genuine roaring sustained laughter possible for everyone. As a unique group recreation activity, it combines laughter, simple movement, and play.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club is interactive entertainment in which everyone can participate because the laughter is generated with minimal use of cognition. No jokes or humor are used.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club is interactive entertainment in which everyone can participate because the laughter is generated with minimal use of cognition. No jokes or humor are used.
Participating in the Wellbeing Laughter Club is like attending a
fun party. Everyone is involved and everyone feels good.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club powerfully uplifts mood and improves wellbeing. The Wellbeing Laughter Club seems to create positive neuroplasticity as it involves making playful happy movements and gestures. By using the two-way body-mind link we have seen laughter club participates experience a change in their state of mind. They literally uplift themselves and become happy. The reason the Wellbeing Laughter Club appears to be so effective at creating positive neuroplasticity is because it produces positive emotions and reduces stress.The Wellbeing Laughter Club provides excellent, low-impact, physical exercise as well.
Creating the Wellbeing Laughter Club
Dr. Peister’s goal is for everyone, especially clients in "care" setting to regularly attend the Wellbeing Laughter Club.The Wellbeing Laughter Club can be easily created by inviting Dr. Peister to run it or by training one or more staff members to lead it. No props or materials are required. Dr. Peister recommends that you train one or more staff members to be Laughter Leaders in your facility. They can then regularly lead the Wellbeing Laughter Club for both clients and staff.
The entire environment of any facility benefits from the Wellbeing Laughter Club, as it powerfully reduces stress, and creates a remarkable sense of connection within the community. Morale and productivity also improve. Bringing the Wellbeing Laughter Club to facilities uplifts everyone. Laughter is the best medicine!
Dr. Peister gives the trainings at your facility. She is in the process of setting up trainings at facilities near you, which your staff can attend. When your facility hosts a training in which staff from other facilities are welcome, your cost is reduced and you receive $for each outside attendee. If you are interested in hosting a training contact Dr. Peister.
Please note that Dr. WellbeingSM continues to serve health related facilities including assisted living facilities, nursing homes, senior centers, psychiatric hospitals, mental health centers, facilities for the developmentally disabled, and groups with medical illness such as heart disease.
Benefits of the Wellbeing Laughter Club
Laughter clearly plays a role in healing, staying healthy, managing stress reactions, and maintaining emotional balance. True-mirthful laughter shifts perspective and contributes to mind-body balance. The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates a socially acceptable and safe place for laughter. Laughter is a built in mechanism for relieving stress and tension. Laughter creates the opposite of what stress creates in the body. The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates remarkable stress reduction. Ongoing attendance is excellent stress management and teaches us how to manage stress.
Laughter Releases “happy hormones” (endorphins) and reduces stress hormone levels (cortisol and epinephrine).
The Wellbeing Laughter Club creates relaxation and inner calm in the short and long term.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club quiets the mind.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club improves mood: laughter is an innate mechanism for uplifting mood. The Wellbeing Laughter Club cultivates positive emotions while boosting feelings of self worth, self esteem, and self confidence.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club builds coping skills. People who laugh regularly seem to cope better with life challenges. They develop an inner resiliency to stress.
Laughter invigorates. The Wellbeing Laughter Club invigorates or boosts energy, which makes it excellent for starting the day or revitalizing during the middle of the day. This benefit can be used to enhance educational trainings.
Laughter is an instant vacation. When we laugh we are present in the moment and not caught up in the past or worried about the future. The present is the only time we can experience joy. Laughter Club attendees can leave their worries behind during the club. “...nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole and healed." -Osho
The Wellbeing Laughter Club appears to enhance attention span and focus. This benefit can also be used to enhance educational trainings.
The act of laughing out loud vigorously has benefits similar to a workout. It increases heart rate and stimulates deep breathing. The Wellbeing Laughter Club includes simple movement and is excellent low impact aerobic exercise.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club is a natural mechanism for bringing people together. When people laugh together they get along better. “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people”. -Victor Borge
The Wellbeing Laughter Club improves immune system functioning.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club improves blood circulation and oxygenation.
Probably the best research on laughter is on pain tolerance. “With deep heartfelt laughter, tolerance to pain appears to go up.”
Laughter accesses the right brain the seat of creativity. The Wellbeing Laughter Club enhances creativity and thus productivity.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club enhances self expression. It appears to do so by clearing the layers of inhibitions, programming, and mental roadblocks to laughter that we created through social conditioning.
People who regularly attend Laughter Clubs claim that they physically feel better. They state that regular laughter has: reduced blood pressure, relieved depression and anxiety, improved constipation, and is anti-aging.
Ultimately, laughter can be viewed as an innate healing mechanism. We can gain insight into how laughter truly heals from old Yiddish Proverb, "Laughter is to the Soul, what soap is to the Body". This suggests that laughter is an inner cleansing mechanism. How laughter cleanses can be understood by viewing the human being from the forefront of medicine, the Human Energy Field. The human being, like everything else in the Universe is fundamentally made of energy. Our thoughts and emotions are also energy. We often store negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, and fear; (rather than expressing them). This impairs the immune system, creates illness, and eventually leads to disease. Eighty-five percent of illness is created by unresolved emotional issues. Laughter appears to provide a way for these emotions to be harmlessly released. Laughter is cathartic; literally we laugh the negative emotions out. Laughter is then a built in mechanism for regulating our energy. Laughing can prevent illness.
The Wellbeing Laughter Club bypasses the intellectual systems that normally act as a brake on natural laughter. This allows joyful natural laughter to re-emerge.
We can reconnect with that inner place of joy and wellbeing that we had as a child through Wellbeing Laughter Club. Wellbeing is our birth rite.
The Mystics, Saints, and Sages teach that laughter opens up the heart. When the heart is open, a life is open. We feel love. We express love. We love ourselves. We love others.
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