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Headsets For Comfort – Part 4 – What Increases The Effectiveness of Headset Use
If you are using your headset regularly throughout the day and do not take some time for yourself and your body, the effectiveness of your headset is going to be limited.
Stretch and Rest
Push away from your computer from time to time. Really, it’s ok! Massage your neck, arms and hands. Then stretch. If your muscles feel tight then massage them again or place a warm towel over them before stretching. Close and cup your eyes. Then open them and look at something in the distance to relax the muscles you have been using.
You will notice an increased energy almost immediately.
You are not a machine and your body needs the rest. Get up from your chair. Walk down the hall or around the building. If it is a nice day go outside and be with nature for a few minutes. It will do wonders for you.
You will probably begin to notice that you are infused with new ideas with increased rest. Yes?
Move Your Body
Our bodies were designed to move. Move your legs right now as if you were walking in place. Yes. Go ahead and try it right now…..!
Did you do it?
If you did, what did you notice? You may have noticed that your breathing automatically changed. Our legs act like peripheral hearts. When you move your legs your circulation increases sending blood and oxygen throughout your body and increasing your energy. Change positions frequently throughout the day and whenever you can, get up and move around.
Relax and Breathe
So many people tend to feel a sense of obligation to sit and sit (and sit!) to finish a project. Like they think the answer is going to come from thinking more. Sometimes they try so hard to just think of what it is that they are missing when faced with a project deadline and they are increasing their stress level instead. This causes shallow breathing from the chest instead of from the diaphragm.
The lungs must fill to capacity in order to be at our best. The best advice is to rest and take some deep breaths. It is amazing how inspiration seems to flow and the problem we are in the middle of miraculously finds the solution.
Deep breathing helps the relaxation process and relaxing helps the breathing process. So try one and see what happens!
It has been a pleasure sending you this 4-Part Mini e-Course on increasing comfort with the use of headsets.
Let me know if you have any questions about additional ways of being comfortable.
Wendy
Headsets For Comfort – Part 3 – Physical, Psychological and Financial Benefits
There are many physiological and psychological and even financial benefits when you take care of your body with regular headset use.
Circulation Increases
Imagine bending a hose that has water running through it. The bend causes the flow of water to stop or just trickle out the end. This is what is happening in your body when your body is out of natural posture. If your neck is bent the circulation decreases.
Headset use helps you begin to feel better because it is allowing your neck to begin to move back to it’s natural posture. As mentioned previously there may be some additional steps you can do.
Oxygen and nutrients from your food can now help to heal and nourish this area through the bloodstream. When the neck is in alignment with the rest of the body the blood to carries these nutrients to this area more effectively.
Overall Wellness Increases and Stress Decreases
Regular use of a headset eliminates “negative stress energy.” There is an overall feeling of wellness when your neck is in a relaxed position.
Using your headset will allow all your neck muscles and tendons to be relaxed. Your mind is also at rest because it is not thinking about your bent neck and what pain might be developing long term.
You will notice how the mind is less frantic and rushed. Yeah! The stress is considerably reduced and you now are able to focus on the work without the physical influences.
Efficiency, Productivity and Income Increases
There is an inherent stress that comes with multi-tasking and cradling the phone in your neck. Headset use increases efficiency and reduces physical and mental stress. Now that you more relaxed and comfortable you feel better in every way. It is like a weight has been lifted!
Now your hands are completely free and you can easily perform other tasks while talking to the person at the other end of the line.
You can also fully focus on the conversation! You are fully present and new creative ideas and inspirations will be much more forthcoming now.
Your work will be of a higher quality and completed quicker and this is directly related to the bottom line.
Positive Mental Attitude
The increased efficiency and productivity discussed above helps to create an increased feeling of accomplishment. This goes a long way to create a positive mental attitude and this breeds more creativity and a positive outlook on each and everyday. The more the mind focuses on what is good the more good will come.
Can it get any better?
Tune in for Part 4 of this Headset Mini e-Course to find out how to increase the effectiveness of headset use.
See you then,
Wendy
Headsets For Comfort – Part 2 – Increase Comfort, Energy, Time, Productivity and Bottom Line
Using a headset brings back the natural curvature of the neck and increased comfort will most often be immediate. There are some additional things to pay attention to.
Be Aware
Continue to be aware of how you feel and take care of yourself appropriately to increase your comfort even more. If you are tired, then rest. If something hurts, stop immediately and investigate the pain source.
Get Some Bodywork Done
A bodyworker may help relax the muscles of the neck that have been sore. There are many modalities: massage, chiropractic, and physical therapy.
Seek out specialized practitioners to ease chronic pain. Some natural approaches are Hellerwork and Rolfing which have been known to help many people release the tension from their body and increase range of motion.
Visit with your doctor or holistic practitioner and make decisions based upon their advice and what feels right for you and your beliefs about healing.
Eat, Drink and Be Healthy
The tissues and cells of your neck and the rest of your body require hydration and proper nutrition to heal and maintain proper balance and function. Even the microscopic particles of food you eat travel to your neck, so make sure you eat wholesome foods and drink plenty of water for your weight!
Eat balanced meals always and organic foods when possible as well as raw fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and happy fats (raw nuts and seeds, avocados and olive oil). Avoid animal fats and trans fats (the hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils).
Take digestive enzymes when you eat cooked food to increase the digestion of the nutrients in your food. Take acidophilus to increase the good bacteria in your gut…especially if you have been taking antibiotics. This helps with digestion also. Antibiotics kill the good bacteria as well as the bad.
Drink water throughout the day to give it time to be absorbed and flush your body of toxins. An easy way to accomplish this is to fill your glass every hour!
If you are exercising (especially outside in the heat) you will probably want to drink extra water before you begin or take some with you depending on how long you will out.
Go Out To Lunch
How often do you eat your lunch at your desk especially when you have skipped breakfast? You are not saving time and are creating stress instead.
When you are eating while working, digestion slows. Taking bites between typing is like “eating your stress”.
When you are relaxed during meals breathing is fuller, digestion is easier and you have more energy. Spending time with friends adds more joy to your day and you are probably breathing deeper because you are having fun. That is even better!
What else can you expect?
Tune in for Part 3 for additional physiological, psychological and financial benefits of headset use.
See you then,
Wendy
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