Flowers To Plant In Window Box

Chiropractic care supports the innate healing power of the human body. It's a natural science. But, is your office environment congruent with your natural healing art? Take inventory. How many artificial flowers or plants do you have in the office? Do you have Formica or natural granite for countertops. Plastic or natural fabric seating. Do you have a water feature to promote nature and calmness. Is your lighting "daylight" spectrum rated or harsh and uninviting tubes?

Real, live plants can enhance the environment of any office. The larger the better. Not only will it improve the "air" in your office, but, it will create a stress-less experience for your patients and visitors. Place some "trees" in the hospitality area, in your consultation room, in the physical therapy bay. Smaller plants with nice pots can be placed throughout the office to continue the theme.

Get rid of all your phony plants and flowers! Replace with natural, live plants. You can contact a plant service that will provide the plants, pots, and care for a small monthly fee. They will even replace any plants that die, so that your office is always growing and healthy! Floral arrangements are great for the reception desk and in the rest rooms... aroma therapy! Much better than Lysol.

Next, place a water feature in your hospitality area. This can be a stand along waterfall, built-in waterfall or a significant aquarium. Waterfall installation kits are widely available, and you can even have your logo etched into the "metal" so that your waterfall features your logo! Now, that's marketing.

Water is great for reliving stress. It creates calmness in the office and with your patients and visitors. With any water feature system, you must have a scheduled maintenance program to avoid unpleasant odor from recirculating water. You can have this tended to by your regular maintenance crew or local firm that offers water feature systems or aquariums.

Incorporate natural woods into the office to extend the nature look and feel. Wood floors, cabinets, display shelves, seating, poster frames and of course your office furniture should be of the highest quality wood. Marble is great for flooring, as is granite. Natural fiber wool carpeting is better than commercial grade poly carpeting. And, naturally, you complete the unstated message, when you offer high-quality natural herb and supplements to your patients.

Live Plants. Water Feature. Wood Floors. Wool Carpeting. Granite Countertops. Wood Furniture. Daylight Spectrum Lighting. Now, that's how you incorporate a congruent atmosphere into your office to match your chiropractic healing art.

Peak your practice with nature.

Lawton Howell is founder and chief executive officer of WellnessOne Corporation, a national alliance of chiropractic offices. The WellnessOne System includes marketing, leadership, human resources, legal, financial, architectural, protocols and systems for growing a practice using turnkey resources. You can contact the author toll free at 877 WELNES1 or 877.935.6371 x201 or email to: . For more information on WellnessOne visit: . Subscribe to the author's weekly eLetter, CEObrief, at . It's your future... be there healthy with WellnessOne.