Thursday, May 19, 2011

Developing And Training Yourself To Be A Wellness Consultant

By Delia Floyd


Sometimes interest points us toward a career path. If nutrition, health, and fitness interest you, perhaps you can unleash the wellness consultant within by continuing to follow that which interests you. If blood pressure, weight, blood glucose, and heart-rate are words that jump out and speak to you each time you hear them, chances are that you are very in-tuned with the skills of a trained health specialist and might be able to help others with your skills as a consultant in the health field.

With a childhood obesity epidemic on the rise, growing cancer rates, and countless other diseases and environmental hazards swirling around us, health is on everyone's mind. Many organizations are offering well-being discounts and incentives to employees for meeting health goals. Many health insurances are increasingly interested in monitoring and prevention practices. Everyone's eyes are on the journey toward health.

Collectively there is a growing desire to master health and fitness and gain well-being in such an environment of increasing unhealthy lifestyles. Nearly everyone has known someone with adverse affects from unhealthy choices. One avenue to improve health is to harness the healer within, and become a wellness consultant.

As many are turning to focus on more healthful ways of living, many are also turning to develop skills and train to become wellness consultants. Numbers of health consultants increased exponentially over the last few years. As western medicine has adopted eastern medicine practices many doctors are also interested in holistic certifications so they can share this approach with patients.

There are two main ways to sharpen your skills with training and development. The first is to begin in the center, starting with yourself. As a consultant, the first person to represent your advice is yourself. Clients will always judge you as a picture of the effects of your advice. If you then focus on family, colleagues, and friends, you will quickly gather experience while you learn. The second way to harness your interest and turn it into a career is to enter into a formal education program in nutrition and health.

When your list of clients has grown, make sure to track progress. By taking before and after pictures of your success stories, and developing case studies, you'll be able to build your portfolio quickly, and be ready with proof to lend your consulting credibility. You'll then be ready to speak about health issues anytime, anywhere.

You will quickly be ready for additional clients. That next corporate client will allow you to help greater numbers of people achieve health and wellness. You will soon see the effects of your healthy choices and be proud of your work.

Balancing modern life and health are quite difficult in today's society. The wellness consultant understands this well. Most people today are unaware of how their personal choices undermine or support health and with a few quick changes they can easily be back living the healthy lifestyle. One concrete way to battle the unhealthy epidemic of today is to unleash the wellness consultant within.

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