A Movement Of Wholeness

BY NICOLE MIXDORF

supported in being their whole selves.

About the author: Mark is the only stonemason to practice Stonemasonry after two double lung transplants. Throughout his numerous health challenges, he reconnected with his power and strength, taking them to a new level spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. He loves life fully and knows the true meaning of BREATHE: Believe Relentlessly Every time you’re Attempting Tasks of Healing & Enlightenment.

managed independently from one another by different teams and vendors that don’t communicate with one another, which pulls the culture in different directions.

On one hand, Health and Wellbeing programs strive to create a healthy culture that supports employees in feeling their best. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging programs aim to create a more open and inclusive culture where employees feel psychologically safe to show up as their whole selves. Leadership Training programs are designed to shift how leaders connect with and manage their teams, impacting the business’s culture.

And on the other hand, Behavioral am passionate about creating a Movement of Wholeness, both in the corporate world and beyond, where we can inspire people to make sustainable balance in their lives so they can thrive as they heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. It’s time to ignite humanity under an umbrella of healing and wholeness, where we can unite as a community to share our stories and lift one another to become our best selves. periods of stress in my life, including my dad’s recurrence of cancer which happened three times, and then losing him and several other close family members in a short time. also experienced the painful physical, mental, and emotional toll of three miscarriages as my husband and started our family.

Releasing the pain from our past allows us to grow, evolve, and shine our inner light for others to follow. Life is beautiful, challenging, and tragic all at once, and we can simultaneously hold space for all of it as long as someone shows us the way.

It has been said that to make a change, you must push hard, go against all odds, and get back up when you are down. That sounds all good, but what if there was an easier way to get to where we want to go?

We have a “conscious mind” we believe we use all the time during waking hours, but do you know how much of our mind we are consciously using? It is a meager 3%-5%.

Instead, it is the “unconscious mind” or “subconscious mind” that runs the show with 95%-99% control, and its primary function is to run our physical bodies. For example, you never think about breathing, do you? That’s the unconscious mind at work. It also stores our memories and senses, like the smell of food reminds you of your grandmother’s cooking – that’s the unconscious mind bringing up those associations to you.

It also is where we keep our sense of time. This is why we can go “back in time” in our memories and remember things from the past. Did you know the unconscious mind is “recording” everything that we experience?

With the use of hypnosis, NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, and other types of regression work, we can go “back in time” in our memories and remember things from the past, including things that we may have repressed.

This is also why we can get triggered suddenly by a sound, an image, or even a smell. These can all create a chain reaction of where we go at lightning speed into the memory and emotion of whatever is brought up at that moment to our awareness. Our emotions the good ones and those that are not so pleasant - are also stored in the unconscious mind, which is all fascinating when you come to think about it.

Whoever stops to wonder where these vital things were stored in our minds? surely didn’t when was younger.

So now that we are getting to understand this huge area of our lives that are truly running the “software” of our mind’s operating system, we can become eager about how to access it because the key to easily making lasting long-term CHANGE is to manage this “software” by talking directly to the unconscious mind. And if we are going to change this VIP software inside ourselves, we first need to figure out how to access it, then understand how to communicate with it. But do many folks know how to talk to that part of themselves that is running the show of everything in their lives? At most, we CAN talk to our bodies and prompt them to begin doing something at the physical level just by knowing how to talk to them properly. (Remember that part about our unconscious mind is in charge of our physical bodies?)

No, do not mean proper grammar. It is just that our unconscious mind is like a 5-year-old: It responds with direct commands, and it cannot process a negative. This is why when you tell a 5-yearold child at the edge of a street don’t run in the street, guess what happens? Yes, they will do the opposite of what you tell them.

This is why everything must be framed in the positive, so tell the 5-year-old child instead to “Stay at the curb!”

Our unconscious mind also needs clear, direct orders to respond to.

If your 5-year-old nephew needs to pick up his LEGO pieces all over the floor, do you think he will respond when you ask in a sweet soft voice: “Johnny please pick up the LEGOs?”

I will put money down that Johnny will likely continue playing with these LEGOS and ignore you. This is not because he is an inconsiderate child; it’s because he is not “hearing” your plea to do something. The unconscious mind and a 5-year-old child respond best to a direct command, so you must tell Johnny, “Pick up your LEGOS now!” in a very firm voice.

To access and create change in our unconscious mind, we need to understand these two simple mechanics of how it functions. Now that we know all these interesting

Because of the extremely challenging times we have all been going through over the past several years, many people are struggling with their health and well-being now more than ever, individually and collectively. The pandemic turned all of our lives upside down, shifting the way that we live and work. Many people fell ill, lost loved ones, and struggled with financial insecurity. We have also faced political turmoil, financial crisis, racial and gender injustice, and senseless war, on top of the pressures we each experience through our circumstances and daily responsibilities.

Our bodies have been in an active ongoing state of stress response for several years, taking a huge toll on our mental and emotional well-being. A recent Deloitte report on Mental Health in the Workplace shows that one out of three C-Suite executives and employees constantly struggle with fatigue and poor mental health, with 70% of them seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being.

We are in a mental health crisis that can no longer be ignored. It’s time to disrupt the business-as-usual model of overworking our people, overlooking that their lives are so far out of balance that they are left feeling exhausted and disengaged, leading to burnout, illness, and record levels of turnover.

Businesses have a unique opportunity to step up as leaders to support and retain their staff by cultivating a culture of wholeness. Employees need the tools and skill sets to regulate their nervous systems and heal their bodies physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and energetically to function and thrive. When we bring all areas of our lives into balance: our careers, finances, health, relationships, family, mindset, and fun – we can achieve a state of wholeness where we feel complete and at peace and able to show up as our whole selves to do our best work.

In my ten years of running Balance by Nature, an award-winning corporate wellbeing company that has worked with major national and global brands, have seen how many organizations need help to unify their people under a solid organizational culture. The pandemic intensified this through the shift into remote work, and now with the attempt at bringing employees back into the office, which has been met with resistance. This has left many executives and human resources teams wondering how to support mental health and increase engagement and a sense of belonging so they retain their #1 asset – their employees.

From a business perspective, several initiatives affect company culture, including Core Values, Health & well-being, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Learning & Development, Leadership Training, Employee Experience, and Behavioral Coaching. Each of these initiatives is often

Coaching provides employees with insights into how they and their colleagues are wired so they can improve their emotional intelligence, communication, and performance personally and collectively, which impacts the culture. Employee

Experience initiatives are designed to create a welcoming environment that fosters engagement, productivity, and performance. Learning and Development initiatives aim to upskill staff members so they can be more inspired and creative in their projects, driving new plans that impact the culture. Doesn’t it make more sense to unify and manage these initiatives together to facilitate a culture of wholeness?

At Balance by Nature, we are taking an integrative approach to culture development by bringing together a team of culture experts in the fields of Health & Wellbeing, Learning & Development, Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging, Behavioral Coaching, Employee Experience, and Leadership Training who collaborate under a strategic culture plan for the business which ensures that each of the initiatives is moving in the same direction for maximum impact.

This collaboration sparks greater creativity and the sharing of resources and insights, which allows for cross-content delivery and cross-promotion for impactful engagement. Through this, we move the needle forward to create environments where employees feel appreciated and launched Balance by Nature 10 years ago after experiencing a debilitating illness brought on by the intense stress of my corporate career and my dad’s 7-year battle with cancer. The pressure hitting me from all sides caused me to develop bleeding ulcers, eventually impacting my ability to do my job and function. When took time off work to remove a significant source of stress from my life and focus on self-care, the most amazing thing happened my symptoms disappeared!

As a thought leader, have created Balance by Nature Wholeness program delivered via a mobile app that incorporates work-life balance, mindful leadership, personal development, fitness, nutrition, and holistic healing to provide people with the tools they need to live their best lives. Much of the motivational content is inspired by my own healing journey.

This was an awakening moment where realized that a ‘healthy lifestyle’ of fitness and nutrition wasn’t enough in the face of intense chronic stress. It was also then that got inspired to launch Balance by Nature because wanted to encourage people to create sustainable balance and heal. realized that busy professionals everywhere were buckling under the stress of their lives, affecting their health in many ways: migraines, digestive issues, anxiety, depression, insomnia, autoimmune conditions, and many others. The sad truth is that most of them didn’t even realize that stress was the underlying culprit that triggers these symptoms in their lives.

Throughout the past decade, I experienced additional flare-ups of bleeding ulcers that coincided with intense

I went through a lot of loss and grief while simultaneously being depleted by my health challenges as I worked to grow the business and raise two beautiful children, but never let those stop me from pursuing my purpose and fulfilling my dreams. My mindset allowed me to create the emotional resilience to hold space for all these experiences and keep my life balanced as I moved forward. The beautiful part is that got to teach others how to do the same thing in their lives. Our circumstances and challenges may differ, but the suffering is the same, and I inspired my clients to move forward through the storms of their lives to find their light and the beautiful rainbow waiting for them at the end of it. In 2019, my health condition hit a critical point where it wouldn’t respond to traditional medications or treatments. The doctors had nothing left to offer me, so I embarked on a remarkable journey to heal my body where I tried 14 different healing modalities, including nutrition, naturopathy, acupuncture, energy healing, light healing, medical intuition, Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, hyperbaric therapy, shamanic healing, Reiki healing, Sai Shakti healing, sound healing, and Reconnective healing.

After experiencing and receiving a true healing miracle from a Chinese Divine Healing Master that defied the laws of physics and what we can comprehend is possible in this life, it inspired me to start incorporating holistic healing modalities into Balance by Nature’s corporate wellbeing programming. My clients needed to be introduced to new ways of healing their bodies that transcend the Western symptom management system, and this is how we move beyond wellness and wellbeing into wholeness.

Balance by Nature’s Wholeness program is available as a Corporate Wellbeing and Learning & Development initiative, but we have also decided to open it up to the public so everyone can access its inspiring content via our mobile app. If

About the author:

Nicole Mixdorf is a #1 International Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, and the Chief Wellness Officer of Balance by Nature. She was awarded the Top 100 Healthcare Leader in the World 2020-2021, Most Influential Woman in Corporate Wellness Services USA 20202023, and a Top 10 Successful Business Leader Revamping the Future 2021. She is a prolific speaker, master teacher, and healer, delivering over 30 masterclasses on inspirational personal development topics. Nicole’s passion, wisdom, and enthusiasm draw her audiences in to uncover deep truths about themselves so they can live their best lives. Her unique brilliance lies in her ability to instantly put people at ease and uplift the energy of everyone around her. She is passionate about teaching busy professionals how to create balance in their lives so they can thrive. you are ready to find balance and heal from within, invite you to download our app and start on one of our self-development or healing journeys. You’ll be supported by a daily schedule of live-streamed holistic healing events (meditation, somatic healing, Reiki, EFT tapping, and more), and a library of on-demand fitness and nutrition classes. You’ll also join a community of peers where you can share stories and cheer each other on as you achieve your health, happiness, stress, and energy goals. Our physical and mental health is our true wealth, and it’s up to each of us to reclaim it and live our best lives. Let’s build a Movement of Wholeness together!

About the author: details, the next question is: what does that mean for the average person just minding his own business and walking down the proverbial street?

Joy Willett has been described as a Beacon of Light uplifting others into their higher Purpose and Vision. As a boardcertified Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis, and Time Line Therapy® and a highly sought-after Intuitive Guide, she guides her clients and students to reconnect to their minds and hearts to break through barriers, unlock their mission, and rocket launch their loftiest accomplishments. The benefits of her intricate neuroscience knowledge of over 25 years provide clarity on how they can make the global impact they truly desire. As someone who has also experienced the tragedy of mental health illness in her family, Joy wants to lead a mission getting people to understand what is going on in their minds and hearts so they can control their lives on so many levels. Her most recently published book: “I Am Joy And So Are You…19 Authentic Ways To Uncover and Elevate Your Natural Happiness!” brings practical and inspirational insights to people. In Joy’s words, it is Time to Bring a New Paradigm to our world, where our children and grandchildren can live with eager anticipation of what is to come, knowing that they, too, have the power to bring these changes for the uplifting of humankind.

What if tell you that you could suddenly learn how to be in touch with that incredible part of yourself that is creating EVERYTHING in your world, whether you like what you are creating or not? What if you knew how to access and talk to, decipher, and make CHANGES in the software program of your unconscious mind quickly and with lasting benefits?

While connecting with this amazingly powerful part of ourselves is not only easy, once you understand the dynamics of how it works, it can be fabulously rewarding. If we can truly access and unlock the gifts of our subconscious consciously, we will be able to harness our unlimited and incredible power. We can use this power going forward to create a healthy lifestyle and live with greater ease in our health, create wealth easier, and experience happiness and true joy. When everything is all said and done, isn’t that truly what we are all looking for in our life and this world?

So maybe it IS time to “lose” your conscious mind more - and unleash your unconscious mind to take you where you want to go truly. There is no time like NOW to begin learning how!