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The CWS Whole Ecosystem Approach
Fact 1: The people in your team are the cells, and your work environment is the body. If one bad apple can infect the basket, one unhealthy employee can infect the whole work environment.
Fact 2: Human health and wellbeing have four dimensions: Physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. If one dimension is neglected, homeostasis could not be achieved. The neglected dimension will impact the health of the others.
We experience human life, interact with one another, and influence one another and our environment through our four bodies: the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body, and the spiritual body. Each has their needs.
The physical body needs healthy living and work conditions. Natural daylight and outdoors time during the day. Healthy food, good hydration, good sleep. Periods of work and periods of rest aligned with the individual needs. Everybody has different circadian rhythms. Those in tune with the natural rhythms of nature have intense bursts of energy early in the morning, which peak around 11am and end around 3 – 3:30pm. Those out of tune with nature will have a broken pattern of sleep with evening and nocturnal bursts of energy and depletion during the day.
The problem with the industrial model of work is that it forced the human to adopt an artificial pattern against its natural rhythms and needs. To act as a machine, on a continuum, without respecting the natural circadian rhythms and needs of the individual. This led to a chronic ‘jetlag syndrome’. People are constantly out of touch with their meridian times, but they’ve got so used to functioning ‘on red’, on an empty energy tank that it became part of their daily life. That’s why the entire working population suffers from chronic fatigue.
The human body also needs loving human touch. Is how we recharge one another. Whole heartfelt hugs not just handshakes. In our deviant society, this fundamental need for health and wellbeing has been interdicted to prevent lawsuits of inappropriate touching.
To resume: if the individual spending more time at work than with their family and kids doesn’t have at the end of the month enough money to subvene to their most fundamental human safety needs: decent home, healthy food, quality family time, good sleep, quality self-development time and money – do not expect them to be healthy, and on top, to come happy to work and be more productive.
No ’magic CBT’ created in the lab for the sole purpose of reframing the perception of the ruled, and no ‘resilience training’ will do the trick!
The emotional body needs love and belonging. Appreciation and care for who we are as an individual with our talents and attributes – as a whole person – with our moral, cultural, and spiritual values and experiences, not just as an employee.
Unfortunately, the artificial industrial model of work has bleached the human of what makes them human, imposing a uniform, sterilised ‘work bee Avatar’, who must leave outside the door of the workplace their personal attributes, and outside their home door their attributes of a working bee. And we wonder why we have a rampant number of personality disorders!
In this bleached of humanness society, we no longer know which part of us to deliver where, how much of us is ‘allowed’ to show up at work or home, what are we allowed to say, do, or think…
This ‘political correctness’ is the death of us all. It’s an insidious levelling of the masses through a prescriptive human behaviour model employed by tyrants and communism, imported in the workforce to control the work bees’ behaviour towards the desired aims: ‘productivity’. ‘Productivity the way we see it, not how you, the employee sees it.’ Irrespective of how you feel, irrespective of the work conditions, irrespective if the pay does not match the effort required after you’ve signed the contract. Once you are in, you must do as you are told. And if you have something to say, you are ‘a difficult employee’. You’ll be scapegoated, gaslighted, isolated to the point you either fall in line, or ill with a work-related “mental health condition”, when you’ll be offered some EAP CBT (costing from 0.30 cents to £5 – £6 per employee per year (imagine the quality). Or you will be replaced with younger, fresher blood, with no compensation to restore your destroyed health, adding you to the NHS waiting list of ‘mental health disabilities’, paid from your and others’ taxes.
The political correctness dictatorship – because this is what it is – is carefully crafted to give the work bee, the ruled class, the impression that is there to protect them. That is for their benefit. This is what the communism made us believe, turning us against one another, making us turn on our family members, friends, neighbours, and colleagues if we held ‘unsanctioned’ views and beliefs.
Is hidden behind cleverly coated corporate euphemism and doublespeak such as “our company’s culture”, “our values”, etc. All sounding impressive. None being upheld and demonstrated in practice by the communist party’s secretaries – sorry, Freudian slip, – by the management team.
To resume: If your emotional body’s needs of love, trust, support, belongingness, and appreciation of who you are in your entirety, not just as a sterilised work bee Avatar, are not met, you’ll eventually fall ill.
First, your masked emotional unmet needs will manifest through an unconscious ‘I give what I receive’ behaviour. You’ll become angry and biter, resentful and manipulative to meet your needs through the same way they were denied: stealth. That will cause conflicts, because your fellows, already starved of their emotional needs, will perceive your attempt to meet yours as ‘selfishness’ and as a personal attack to their already depleted selfhood. This is how narcissism was created in our society. It then becomes a matter of who can shut their sliver of humanity left better to survive on this vampiric interaction mode, and from whom can you borrow, steal, or cheat some attention, love and care to fill your empty emotional energy tank… to survive another day.
The mental body needs constant upgrading of knowledge aligned with your natural gifts, your professional calling, your age, family and social obligations.
The industrial work model has created an equally artificial educational system to meet its unnatural, industrial needs. On the same hierarchical top-down model, the few got to learn more than the many. Top quality education was reserved for the elites, and the low quality, strictly necessary to perform their predetermined work bee functions, was reserved for the many.
Education for the many was made on purpose ‘hard’ to put off the masses from aspiring to higher social positions. Those who got through, by the time they left their studies were so depressed and so indoctrinated that have developed a natural hate and aversion of the ‘uneducated commoners’ who didn’t suffer the same mind ordeals they’ve suffered to get their degrees and accreditations. And so, the right arm of the dictatorship was created: ‘the intellectual class’.
As such, we have a society of people hating study and research due to their traumatic experience in school, kept on purpose ignorant by the intellectuals who speak a different language escaping to ‘the lay person’. I.e., ‘to the commoner’, to the ruled: The scientific, legal, corporate management, and political jargons.
In our covert dystopian world, between firefighting the home environment problems – caused by all the above, the travel to work, and the work itself, there is no time in the day and no energy left in the individual to even have the wish to want to know more. By the time you get home, all you want is to shut down and distract yourself with whatever gets your mind off the onslaught you were submitted to until then.
Ongoing personal development is a natural requirement for human health and wellbeing, but who has the time, the energy, and the money to tend to their inner garden, to their mind?
To resume: If our mental body’s needs are not met, if your self-knowledge is not updated and developed, you will stagnate, fall behind evolution, lose self-confidence and self-esteem in your intellectual faculties and you as a person, and will fall ill with anxiety, panic attacks, constant ruminations, sleep problems, and a deep sense of failure – all leading ultimately to depression, physical illness, and dependence of unhealthy coping mechanisms to mask that mental pain of inferiority.
The spiritual body – the crown jewel on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs. The needs of the spiritual body are self-realisation, transcendence, finding one’s meaning and purpose in life, and contribution to the greater good with one’s gifts, abilities, and experience. Contribution as a sense of moral and spiritual duty, not to gain a personal advantage.
In a nutshell, those are the core principles of mental health and wellbeing.
When people don’t have their safety needs met first, there is no therapy in the world that would ‘heal’ their condition: poverty.
Then, as a preventive measure, the entire team needs to go through the same personal development and therapeutic programme like our Competent Self® to detox and heal from our unhealthy patterns developed in response to our traumas and unmet needs.
This is the only way we eradicate childhood abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and the mental health crisis.
Employers must take seriously their duty of care
Employers must become aware and must be held accountable for the effects of their work conditions on their employees, their family, their children’s quality of life and education, the social health and wellbeing in general, and on the environment.
Yearly over £ 300 million are wasted on psychiatric mismanaged prescriptions. This industrial work model has wreaked havoc in employees’ health, leading to 86 million antidepressants prescribed to an estimated 8.6 million identified patients in 2022/23, with an increase of 200,000 more identified patients than 2021/22. In 2023, just between April and June, there were 22 million antidepressants prescribed.
These drugs now are found in our tap water, in our rivers, in our food, posing a significant ecological threat: from fish changing sex and behaviour to cancers, autoimmune human conditions, and other dangers we are yet to discover.
As you could see, the problem is systemic and it requires systemic change, not just some plasters like CBT to reframe people’s perception from cause to their ‘maladaptive thinking’, and carry on business as usual. Mindset techniques and meditation won’t do the trick either. You can’t meditate away your astronomic rent and electricity bills, and can’t sell more products and services to an already bankrupt population.
Something’s gonna give. And we all know who needs to do the giving.
***As a side note, employees poor mental health costs employers around £1600 per year per employee. Instead of deciding at their place what ‘mental health support’ employers offer their employees, allocate outright that sum to pay directly their therapist, healer, or coach of their choice. You are more likely to gain their trust and loyalty than if you force-feed them your factory-style EAP programmes nobody wants.
I’ll happily be part of that list of choice. Just get in touch.
To learn more about the stages of human consciousness development for health and wellbeing, I recommend you take this Masterclass.
© 2024 – Gratiela Rosu – Mental Health & Wellbeing Specialist, Bestselling Author, Founder of the CWS Method®
