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🌿 Transforming the Workday: How Energy Tools Support Mental Health in the Workplace

• Dr Michelle Greenwell
• Oct 13, 2025

Celebrating World Mental Health Day 2025 with the New CanBeWell & IASK e-Book

In celebration of World Mental Health Day 2025, CanBeWell.org and IASK.org are proud to release the World Mental Health Day 2025 Journal – Mental Health in the Workplace, a global collaboration featuring 12 presenters across three time zones. This beautifully curated e-book explores how simple, practical tools from bioenergetic wellness and specialized kinesiology can transform the way we experience our workday, improving focus, communication, creativity, and resilience.

This year’s theme, Mental Health in the Workplace, shines a light on one of today’s most pressing challenges: how to stay balanced, engaged, and emotionally healthy in the environments where we spend much of our time. From busy offices to home workspaces, from parents juggling family and professional commitments to entrepreneurs managing multiple roles, mental well-being has become a cornerstone of both productivity and fulfillment.

🌸 From Stress to Flow: Energy Tools That Shift Our State

Energy-based self-care tools are gentle yet powerful methods for restoring balance in the body and mind. They draw from principles of biophysics, biochemistry, movement, acupressure, breathwork, and mindfulness—approaches that help the body communicate clearly and release tension before it builds into fatigue or frustration.

When integrated into the workday, these tools can have profound effects:

Before meetings, simple grounding exercises or cross-lateral movements can calm nerves and enhance focus.

During long projects, energy-balancing techniques can help sustain motivation and reduce mental overload.

After stressful interactions, breathing or self-holding points can quickly shift emotional energy, allowing for recovery and clarity.

These aren’t complex rituals—they are micro-moments of care that can be woven naturally into the rhythm of the day. Each one brings the nervous system back into balance, enhances brain integration, and helps us connect more meaningfully with our work and one another.

💼 Supporting Teams, Parents, and Professionals on the Go

The 2025 event and e-book highlight how these practices apply to the many faces of today’s workforce.

For parents, balancing professional life with home responsibilities often feels like a marathon without rest. Energy tools can create moments of reconnection—helping parents ground themselves before picking up children, reset after a busy morning, or calm racing thoughts before bed.

For colleagues who travel, these tools become portable wellness companions. Gentle movement sequences or hand points can reduce travel fatigue, ease jet lag, and maintain emotional steadiness even across time zones.

For leaders and teams, integrating short self-care activities into meetings or project planning can transform group dynamics. Taking two minutes to breathe together, do a Brain Gym® activity, or reflect on an affirmation creates cohesion, trust, and creativity. What was once a high-pressure environment can become a space of collaboration and support.

🧠 The Science of Brain and Body Integration

Research in neuroscience continues to confirm what practitioners of bioenergetic wellness have long observed: movement, breath, and body awareness directly influence brain function and emotional regulation. Activities that cross the body’s midline, such as those used in Brain Gym® and other movement programs, help integrate the two hemispheres of the brain. This leads to clearer thinking, improved coordination, and better emotional balance.

When we take a few moments to align the body’s energy flow, we not only feel calmer—we also think more effectively. This is the power of self-care rooted in energy awareness: it unites physiology and psychology into a single, flowing system.

💬 Voices from Around the World

The presenters in this year’s event bring a rich diversity of experience—from educators and facilitators to business coaches and wellness program developers. Together, they illustrate how energy tools can meet us exactly where we are, whether in a busy office, a classroom, a home workspace, or while traveling between commitments.

Each presentation in the e-book is designed to be both inspiring and actionable, inviting readers to try new techniques immediately. Many participants from the 2024 event shared that even one small change—like adding a brief breathing sequence or hydration check-in—transformed their daily rhythm and improved team morale.

💚 Breaking the Stigma: From “Suffering in Silence” to “Engaging in Self-Care Together”

Mental health at work has too often been an unspoken topic, one shrouded in the belief that struggle is something to hide. This initiative seeks to change that narrative. Instead of “suffering in silence,” we are building a culture of connection, where “together, we engage in self-care throughout the day.”

When workplaces prioritize wellness, everyone benefits—employees feel valued, leaders foster trust, and organizations thrive with renewed creativity and purpose.

🌱 Affirmations to Inspire Daily Practice

Try using these affirmations throughout your day as gentle reminders to stay present and empowered:

✨ I am calm, centered, and capable in every situation.
✨ Each breath I take restores clarity and focus.
✨ My well-being supports my success and the success of those around me.
✨ Together, we create a culture of care and compassion.
✨ Balance begins with me.

📘 The World Mental Health Day 2025 Journal – Mental Health in the Workplace is now available to download. It includes presenter insights, affirmations, reflection pages, and links to recordings and handouts from the global event. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18q5sNO001FhvKdx_oNObeJFScQBOQLZ7/view?usp=drive_link

Be sure to check out our YouTube channel for the recordings from the event, so you can see the activities in action. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDoqRrESB-06JRt-H32yGA
📺 Watch highlights and related programs on YouTube:
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🌟 Together, We Thrive

When we take care of our energy, we take care of our lives. By integrating small, meaningful self-care practices into our daily routine, we shift not only how we feel—but also how we connect, communicate, and create together. This World Mental Health Day, let’s make self-care a shared value in every workplace, reminding ourselves that wellness begins with awareness, and grows through community.

• Source: CanBeWell Announcement
• Author: Dr Michelle Greenwell