Australia’s meditation app

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.

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It's smart business to care about mental healthThe 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 su�er from mental health di�iculties. 

Mental health a�ects 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.

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

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-e�ective 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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Meditation helps your employees to flourish

Attract the best sta�, 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

Bottom line

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 a�ected  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 a�ect 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 e�ects 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 e�ects 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.

Attract the best sta�...and hold on to the brilliant sta� that you already have

Bottom line

Mental health policies a�ect an organisation’s ability to attract and retain the best sta�3;

Pay issues aside, an employer of choice is one that provides a workplace where sta� 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 sta� today, it will be even more important in the future.

A mentallyhealthyworkplace benefits your bottom line

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 a�ected  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 a�ect a worker’s mental health.

Nurturing the mental health of employees saves businesses money by;

Mindfulness is a powerful tool...especially when employers couple it with support from managers and colleagues, role clarity, fostering positive relationships and e�ective 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 sta� 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 IBID3 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.

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