Happy Waves - Australia's meditation app

1. Australia’smeditationapp

2. Happy Waves helps you focus, deal
with stress, energise and be mindful.
We do this by cultivating awareness
and compassion to better understand
our minds, ourselves and the world
around us. The Australian mindset is
unique and we want to bring it to
everyone, one meditation at a time.
helps your employees to flourish.
Meditation

3. It'ssmart
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careabout
mentalhealth
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2007 National Mental Health
and Well-Being Survey found 45 percent of Australians aged between
16-85 experience a mental health condition at some point in their lives.
In any given calendar year, 22 per cent of Australians suffer from mental
health difficulties.
Mental health affects us all and the impact of untreated mental health
conditions on Australian businesses is significant1
;
PwC (2014) estimates mental health conditions to
cost Australian businesses at least $10.9 billion a year.
This is made up of $4.7 billion in absenteeism,
$6.1 billion in reduced productivity and $146 million
in compensation claims.
Employers can mitigate the risks of mental health problems in the
workplace and the return on investment in mental health strategies is
very strong2
;
The successful creation of a mentally healthy workplace
generates an ROI of 2.3 – for every dollar spent there is
on average $2.30 in benefits gained.

4. 71% of Australian employees cite a mentally
healthy workplace as important to them1

5. Develop Laser Focus
Increased vigilance means you can maintain sustained attention so
you can disregard attention grabbing distractions and concentrate
on the important things.
Mitigate The Impact Of Stress
Stress is not in the situation, it is in our relationship to that situation.
Mindfulness helps you manage your responses to thoughts and
emotions, engendering resilience and making you be better at
handling stress.
Perform Better
Meditation increases alpha and theta wave brain activity making you
more able to concentrate, faster at making decisions and able to
remember and recall more information.
Be Positive
Take charge, make conscious decisions and you’ll
stimulate your own happy chemicals instead of
just hoping the world does it for you.
Control Your Emotions
Mindfulness improves your sense of responsibility,
authenticity, compassion, and self-acceptance,
whilst the acceptance of emotional responses
enhances your emotion regulation, which leads to
improved mental stability.
A mentally healthy workplace enhances social
relationships and decreases role conflicts whilst
fostering an environment of self-learning leading
to increased organisational innovation.
Enter Flow
Having a more flexible attention span makes
it easier to be aware, to more easily navigate
fear-inducing situations and enter the state
of hyper-effective creative awareness known
as ‘flow’.
Build A Better Business
A mentally healthy workplace enhances
social relationships and decreases role
conflicts whilst fostering an environment of
self-learning leading to increased
organisational innovation.
Mindfulness meditation is
proven to have great
impacts on the mental
health of individuals.
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6. Creating
abetter,happier,
moreproductive
workforce
Meditation helps your
employees to flourish
Attract the best staff, and hold
on to those you already have
A mindful workplace is a
productive workplace
Happy Waves is meditation to
help you build a better business
Mindful employees make
conscious decisions and
take responsibility

7. Bottomline
Regardless of whether an individual’s mental health
condition developed outside the workplace,
employees spend a significant proportion of their
time at work and their workplace may contribute to
the development or worsening of depression and
anxiety conditions. The mental health of employees
can be negatively affected by job strain and
dissatisfaction, organisational change or traumatic
events.
Equally, work can be a protective barrier against
depression and anxiety conditions. Work, and the
meaning and satisfaction it provides, can positively
affect a worker’s mental health.
A mentally healthy workplace
benefits your bottom line
Nurturing the mental health of employees saves
businesses money by;
REDUCING ABSENTEEISM through shorter sick
leave periods, reducing days of work missed
under the effects of alcohol or other substances
and lowering incidence of recurrence.
INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY by increasing
hours worked, improving resilience, increasing
goal attainment, reducing early retirement and
reducing the number of days worked under the
effects of alcohol or other substances.
REDUCING COMPENSATION CLAIMS by
reducing the social isolation of people
experiencing mental health conditions and
fostering an environment of early action and
intervention.
FURTHER BENEFITS can be realised through a
reduction in turnover, lower management costs,
reduced incident costs and lower income
insurance costs for the organisation.

8. Attract the best staff...
and hold on to the brilliant
staff that you already have
Bottomline
Mental health policies affect an organisation’s ability to attract
and retain the best staff3
;
Pay issues aside, an employer of choice is one that provides
a workplace where staff know the company takes their and
their colleagues’ mental health interests seriously.
A mentally healthy workplace makes an employee more
committed to their job and is the second most powerful
inhibitor of a worker leaving their job.
Younger workers value an organisation’s commitment to
mental health issues more than their older counterparts
meaning while a mentally healthy workplace is important in
attracting and retaining staff today, it will be even more
important in the future.

9. Amentally
healthy
workplacebenefits your
bottomline
Regardless of whether an individual’s mental
health condition developed outside the
workplace, employees spend a significant
proportion of their time at work and their
workplace may contribute to the development or
worsening of depression and anxiety conditions.
The mental health of employees can be
negatively affected by job strain and
dissatisfaction, organisational change or
traumatic events.
Equally, work can be a protective barrier against
depression and anxiety conditions. Work, and the
meaning and satisfaction it provides, can
positively affect a worker’s mental health.
Nurturing the mental health of employees saves
businesses money by;
Mindfulnessis
apowerfultool
...especially when employers
couple it with support from
managers and colleagues,
role clarity, fostering positive
relationships and effective
change management
“Mindfulness-based training is flexible to any audience and working
environment, and has been shown to significantly reduce stress and anxiety,
lessen distraction and increase attention to task. Mindfulness practice can
also help staff to achieve more and to a higher standard”. Dr Steve Smith,
senior lecturer in mental health and wellbeing at Scotland's Robert Gordon
University, on his work with North Sea oil and gas companies seeking new
ways to protect their workforce from work-related stress.
1 Creating a mentally healthy workplace: Return on investment analysis; 2014; PwC
(https://www.headsup.org.au/docs/default-source/resources/beyondblue_workplaceroi_finalreport_may-2014.pdf)
2 IBID
3 Instinct and Reason Employer of Choice Study; 2014; Heads Up
(https://www.headsup.org.au/docs/default-source/resources/instinct_and_reason_employer_of_choice.pdf?sfvrsn=4)
4 Calculated from data for mental health prevalence for any 12-month mental disorder and the number of people by
industry. Prevalence and population data sourced from: Monash University, Labour Market Costs of Mental Illness in
Australia, 2012; ABS, 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Summary of Results, Table 2, 23 October
2008; ABS, Population by industry division and size 2011-12, Cat no: 8155.0, available: <
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/8155.02011-12?OpenDocument >, accessed 12 August 2013.

10. Australia’smeditationapp
happywaves.com