Yugen Wellness Center

12/08/2020

We’re looking for some more health & wellness therapists (particularly mental health practitioners) to join our group.

$175.00 Healing Space available at a beautiful, centrally located Wellness Center for sale in Salt Lake City, UT on KSL Classifieds. View a wide selection of Office Space and other great items on KSL Classifieds.

11/23/2020

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$175.00 Healing Space available at a beautiful, centrally located Wellness Center for sale in Salt Lake City, UT on KSL Classifieds. View a wide selection of Office Space and other great items on KSL Classifieds.

11/18/2020

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We’re looking for some more health & wellness therapists, esp mental health practitioners, to join our team at Yugen Wellness Center.

$175.00 Healing Space available at a beautiful, centrally located Wellness Center for sale in Salt Lake City, UT on KSL Classifieds. View a wide selection of Office Space and other great items on KSL Classifieds.

11/11/2020

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We’re looking for some new health & wellness practitioners to join our co-op at Yugen Wellness Center.

$175.00 Healing Space available at a beautiful, centrally located Wellness Center for sale in Salt Lake City, UT on KSL Classifieds. View a wide selection of Office Space and other great items on KSL Classifieds.

03/15/2020

In response to concerns about coronavirus, earlier this week Yugen Wellness Center intensified cleaning protocols and posted cancellation instructions for those experiencing any symptoms indicative of communicable diseases. ⁣
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After careful consideration, deliberation, and research, I have decided to follow the recommendations of the CDC, WHO, and close Yugen Massage through March to help better protect the wellness of my clients as well as our community. ⁣

**Other practitioners at YWC may still be working at this time, and should be contacted directly**
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- If you have an appt already on the books, I will be reaching out today to reschedule - with the assumption of an April 1 start date. ⁣
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- If you don’t have an appointment but would like to make one for April or May, please let me know and I’ll get you in as soon as possible.

01/01/2020

The New Year is upon us, which means it’s time to make a resolution or two. So what will it be this year: lose weight, again; promise yourself a change of job, again; earn more money, perhaps?

The truth is, most of us will do the same thing we always do: set some goals that will be forgotten about by the 7th January, or thereabouts. So this year, I’m proposing something different. And the goal-setting gurus will hate me for it.

The reason we don’t stick to our resolutions and don’t fulfill our goals is that they’re not SMART–specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.

And while there is a lot of truth in that–for me–it’s only half the story.

So this year, I’m throwing the rulebook out the window and offering you an alternative pathway.

Do nothing. Don’t set any resolutions or goals.

And if you must set a resolution, then make it this: Give up wanting anything to happen in the New Year. If you have to set a goal, set a goal to set no goals.

If you don’t want to find yourself in precisely the same position this time next year, thinking the same thoughts and feeling the same feelings, do this instead:

Don’t rush forward in a panic to set resolutions or a list of goals you can start on New Year’s Day. Forget all that and enter the New Year in a mode of being absolutely present and absolutely positive about how great it’s going to be.
If you do this and endeavor to maintain this approach, you’ll end up doing everything you’re supposed to as and when it’s supposed to be done.

Stop the “I must” thought mill turning over all the things you should have done this year that you’ll “definitely do next year.”

Enter the New Year with zero pressure on your back to do anything other than remain open to the possibility of your potential, receptive to change, and ready to show compassion to yourself for your shortcomings.

12/30/2019

How many times this past week have you used the word “busy?”

”I’m too busy...I’m so busy...I’ve been busy.”

People seem to love using the word and carry it around like a badge of honor. I know I do at times. The truth is, though, who isn’t?

Busy carries a specific connotation, almost a mindset. And, for the most part, I don’t think it’s positive. In fact, not only have I used it as a badge of honor, it has been used as an excuse—an excuse not to be excellent in all aspects of my life.

Why did I not follow through on that thing for my coworker? ”Things got busy.”

Why can I not spend that much time with a close friend who happened to visit? ”Well, I’m busy.”

Why did it take me so long to complete that project for my business? ”I’m just so busy.”

I’m rather tired of being busy.

What would I rather be? I’d rather be productive, and my focus is on that.

Busy means the focus is on how much time I’m spending on something—productive means making the results the priority.

No longer do I say I’m going to spend the next hour working on something. I now say I’m going to get these things done now.

Have you noticed that if you have to devote a specific time to something, it typically takes that entire time? Why? Because you’ll get distracted in the middle, you’ll focus more on how much time you have versus what needs to get done.

Busy means not having time for anything. Productivity means having time for things that are a priority.

When it’s a priority, and you’re focused on being productive, you’ll find the time, energy, and effort needed to do something.

But is there a way to pursue all the things you want to do and not be busy?

As someone who is working on this now, I figure it’s a matter of using my time more wisely so I can be more efficient.

What helps you to be more productive?

12/28/2019

Researchers at Stanford University have spent decades studying the effects of hiking on the psyche.

They conclude that time spent in nature has a measurable positive impact on mental health and can even diminish the destructive effects associated with depression and anxiety.

The best part? Exposure to nature doesn’t have to equate to an intensive multi-day trek through the middle of untouched wilderness.

On the contrary, a simple stroll through any natural area—even if it’s in the center of a concrete jungle such as New York City—has a relaxing effect on parts of the brain linked to mental illness.

The beneficial recipe? Nature and vigorous movement—you need both elements.

Anxiety is an unease related to an uncertain outcome, while depression is a persistent feeling of loss of interest. What’s the common denominator? Lack, malaise, and loss.

In a nutshell—Hiking is good for the head, not to mention the body, heart, and soul.

Similar to how medications can synthetically fill neurotransmitters in the brain with substances they’re lacking, such as serotonin or dopamine, hiking delivers the same benefits—in a two-for-one package.

The tranquility of being out in nature has long been associated with raising serotonin levels—and the same can be said of exercise. When you combine the two, you’re left with a pretty effective mental health regulator.

Furthermore, getting out in nature doesn’t just improve your mental state. The benefits reach beyond your head into your heart and body as well, helping to heal both emotional trauma and pesky physical ailments.

Haunting memories seem much less daunting when surrounded by the sound of tweeting birds, branches swaying in the wind, and having your physical body rooted in the present.

When was the last time you got out in nature?

12/23/2019

We all have things that haunt us from our past. It can be a very uncomfortable feeling that leaves you more devastated when a new problem occurs because you blame yourself for some event or action in your past. Unfortunately, self-defeating logic may dictate that if you are the common denominator of your life, then it all has to be your fault, even though it’s not.

It is much more productive to think of yourself as a product of your entire self, not just the past. If you only look at negative things, then those negative things can become a part of your personality, and that may keep you in an emotional bind where life becomes more complicated than it needs to be.

Holding on to pain is normal, but it is also reasonable to let it go after an appropriate period of time. Unfortunately, some things, if they continued for years, can become part of you, and you then look at the world as a scary place, which isn’t much fun.

The first thing to do is to get honest with yourself and decide who you want to be. Even though you may have been victimized, you don’t have to remain a victim. It’s one of those internal decisions that is confounding. Yes, what you went through changed you and made your life different from other people, but you do have a choice here. You don’t have to live in victim consciousness; you can move through it if you’re ready to do the mental work that’s needed.

Imagine how life would look if you didn’t see yourself as a victim or inadequate in some way. Now sit with these thoughts for several minutes. These thoughts will reveal that you are okay, and it was never your fault: you are good enough and lovable enough, and you don’t have to jump through hoops to get people to like you.

Make sense?

12/21/2019

Many of us suffer not from a lack of things, but from a sense that we lack things. It is not the lack of a particular thing that brings us unhappiness. Instead, it is our attachment to the things we don’t have that causes much of our suffering.

If we are at all objective about it, most of us will realize that we live better than 95%—in many cases, 99%—of the world’s population. Yet, somehow, we feel otherwise. Sometimes the people with the most things most tend to think that they lack things. That’s because we often focus on what we lack, or on what others have that we don’t, or on what we hope to acquire someday that we don’t have now, rather than on appreciating what we’ve got.

If we each spent just a few minutes a day being grateful for what we have, most of us would discover that we already have what we need. We’d also realize that it’s impossible to feel grateful and impoverished at the same time. And we might also discover serenity and, yes, even happiness.

If you want to increase your feeling of gratitude, a well-known (but effective!) exercise is to write down ten things you are grateful for, and then just a sentence or two on why you are thankful. Write each one down mindfully in longhand and complete this exercise every day for a week.

You’ll quickly discover that if you do this regularly, it will completely reorient your approach to life. Over time, it will change how you see the world and the attitude you bring to life’s events. As your perspective changes, so too will your experience of life, without changing life’s external events at all.