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Spiritual wellness is about bolstering the sense of purpose and meaning in life. The crux of an individual’s health and well-being lies in preserving the mind, body, and spirit balance. Spirit indicates the soul or psyche, and looking after your spirit is spiritual wellness.
Life becomes more meaningful when people can find a balance between their actions and thoughts. People often fail to pay attention to their inner voice, which inadvertently affects their values, morals, and beliefs. That is why we must practice spiritual wellness to live a life full of meaning, virtue, and purpose.
Today, corporate wellness programs are backed by science that plans to create a healthy workplace to foster employee well-being and enhance productivity and organizational performance. But, spiritual well-being and holistic wellness is the new science and it must be encouraged to change the dynamics of employees health and wellness.
Key Takeaways
- Work-life balance is threefold, not twofold. Hema reframes it as work, play, and inner work — reflection and self-knowledge — and says companies that ignore the third pillar are fuelling burnout.
- The digital era erased work boundaries. Before email, work ended when paperwork ended; now employees habitually work round-the-clock and call it normal, which she flags as the root cause of mass burnout.
- Spiritual wellness is the productivity play leaders miss. She argues a four-day week is possible when employees are aligned, on purpose, and meditating — not when they're grinding harder.
- Western organisations are "quite backwards" on this. Boardrooms still require convincing that heart intelligence and Eastern practices like meditation and yoga deliver business outcomes — and keep missing a win-win-win.
- COVID trauma still sits in employees' bodies. Organisations that help staff process what they went through free up the headspace that drives creativity and decision quality.
- SQ beats IQ for the information age. Constant information bombardment disconnects employees from themselves; mindfulness is how they come back to their own signal and stop trying to be all things to all people.
- Heart wisdom is practiced, not inherited. On-site practices she prescribes — journaling, reflection, meditation, working with a mentor — are what turn spirituality from an idea into an employee capability.
In Hema's Words
On the corporate gap
Organisations are still really quite backwards, especially in the Western world. A lot of people at the top still don't understand the significance of spiritual wellbeing, heart intelligence, or how practices like yoga, meditation, and retreats work. Once they experience it, they're on board 100%. But they have to be convinced first.
Companies need to recognise that their greatest asset are the people. If the people are happy and healthy, they're going to get so much more out of them — and vice versa. It's a win-win.
On the three-part balance
Work-life balance isn't just enough time to work and enough time to play. It's threefold — enough time to work, enough time to play, and enough time to do the inner work.
Our real purpose isn't to work like crazy, save up, buy nice things. Our purpose is to evolve. And that's where real productivity actually lies.
On the burnout loop
With the advent of email, all of a sudden there were no boundaries. Work became a habit. Working long hours became a habit. Everybody's just working all the time and not stopping to think, feel, and reflect.
Why do people experience stress and disease and burnout? Because they're not living from that deep place within themselves. They're trying to be all things to all people and all situations — and we can't.
On spiritual wellness as a productivity lever
One of my things in life is that I want to do very little, do nothing, and achieve everything. When we have a spiritual life, we get more done, we're more creative, we're more in tune. We don't have to work so hard as much as work smarter.
A four-day week is absolutely possible — but only if people are aligned, on purpose, love what they're doing, feel valued, and can bring their best selves to the table each day.
About The Speaker
Hema Vyas has been practicing as a life leadership mentor and human capital strategist and has been one of the UK’s most prestigious therapists for the last thirty years. As an Omnipreneurial Psychologist, speaker, and mentor, Hema provides the course to commercial success, promotes inclusive and evolutionary leadership, enhances wellbeing, and generates a positive impact for independents, startups, corporates, and diverse global audiences.
Hema is a renowned speaker on heart wisdom, human consciousness, spirituality, health, energy medicine, and the science of Ayurveda.
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Show Notes
(01:45) Tell us about your journey.
(13:00) Why do you think employees should focus on their spiritual health as much as physical and mental?
(17:24) Don’t you think life is an act of balancing and spiritual wellness helps maintain that balance between employee's personal and professional life?
(21:20) What do you have to say about 21st-century holistic corporate wellness practices today? What are the major change that you have noticed?
(23:23) How important is it for employees to lead a meaningful or eccentric life in today's world?
(25:30) Don't you think spiritual wellness helps unlocks creative potential and enhances resourcefulness in employees?
(26:13) What is the role of spiritual wellness in creating or promoting a positive work culture?
(29:36) Can you suggest some on-site spiritual wellness activities for the workplaces?
(30:10) How will our listeners reach out to you?
(30:36) Do you have any valuable suggestions to share with our listeners?
