How To Be Calmer 1 - Simple Ways To Reduce Stress


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In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life. This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger. In this Book Number 1, Zen Michael explains these 5 creative and simple ways to reduce stress: 1. Be Calmer - Walking at Different Rhythms 2. Be Calmer - Count From 10 to 1, Not 1 to 10 3. Be Calmer - Drink a Glass of Water Mindfully 4. Be Calmer - Using Mindful Passwords 5. Be Calmer - It Takes Nothing In a society where so many are always running late for something, you feel the need to manage your time to reduce your stress, you need to discover ways to a calmer you. That is the objective of this Zen Michael book that, because of its practical aspects, can be considered a mindfulness and acceptance workbook for anxiety. It shows you how to reduce stress, how to use the simple calm down activities in your daily life, and discover new ways to find peace of mind. From 5 minute mindfulness fast breaks to excercises of mindfulness on the go or more formal ways of practicing mindfulness, you will discover that everyone can learn how to calm down and cheer up and create calm down times in you daily routines Use this how-to-be-calm book as a starting point for a better life, as a tool for anxiety and stress relief, as a tool for a more calm and joyful life. Remember you can always find peace and joy - just look inside yourself. Zen Michael




The Relaxation Response


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In this time of quarantine and global uncertainty, it can be difficult to deal with the increased stress and anxiety. Using ancient self-care techniques rediscovered by Herbert Benson, M.D., a pioneer in mind/body medicine for health and wellness, you can relieve your stress, anxiety, and depression at home with just ten minutes a day. Herbert Benson, M.D., first wrote about a simple, effective mind/body approach to lowering blood pressure in The Relaxation Response. When Dr. Benson introduced this approach to relieving stress over forty years ago, his book became an instant national bestseller, which has sold over six million copies. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret—without high-priced lectures or prescription medicines. The Relaxation Response has become the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress, anxiety, depression, and high blood pressure. Rediscovered by Dr. Benson and his colleagues in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals, this revitalizing, therapeutic tack is now routinely recommended to treat patients suffering from stress and anxiety, including heart conditions, high blood pressure, chronic pain, insomnia, and many other physical and psychological ailments. It requires only minutes to learn, and just ten minutes of practice a day.




365 Ways to Beat Stress


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No other book offers so many easy-to-use and diverse stress-relief techniques in a uniquely attractive gift package. With a different technique or tip for each day of the year, no other book offers such a wide range of ways to release stress and anxiety, all set in an attractive illustrated design that will make dipping in for inspiration a joy. All the practices are effective yet also easy to follow, even if you have never tried them before, and range from energy techniques such as simple shiatsu, to quick stress fixes such as visualizing a blue bubble, to methods of life simplification such as avoiding a news overload and rationing your evenings out, to inspiring visualizations such as imagining yourself as the sky or as a lotus floating on water. This is one of the first two publications in a new 365 series from Watkins, showcasing easy, accessible and effective approaches to dealing with our demanding modern lives. Readers are free to work through the book in any order they like, either using the chapter headings to deal with aspects that they feel need particular attention (for example, home, work, relationships, mind and spirit, or stress and emotions), flicking through at random or selecting ideas in chronological order. There is no need to subscribe to any particular belief, lifestyle or long-term practice; this is simply a collection of brilliantly effective ideas that together have the potential to transform lives.




Essentials of Managing Stress


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The fourth edition of Essentials of Managing Stress teaches readers practical skills and techniques on how to best handle daily stressors and empowers them with the tools needed to live a balanced life. The Fourth Edition is a highly accessible and student-friendly text that is designed to promote personal growth along with content retention. Students are guided through a series of more than 80 exercises and questionnaires that encourage them to adopt effective stress management practices into their personal health behaviors. A new chapter on Ecotherapy rounds out the text and provides insight into the healing powers of nature.




10 Simple Solutions to Worry


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We all worry about things from time to time, but some of us just can’t seem to stop expecting the worst—even when our expectations are very unlikely to occur. This condition, chronic worry, is disruptive all by itself, and it can lead to other, more serious anxiety problems. This little book—the fifth in New Harbinger’s Ten Simple Solution series—offers a handful of easy and effective techniques for getting rid of worry once and for all. Drawing on powerful psychotherapeutic techniques, 10 Simple Solutions to Worry is a succinct resource of cognitive-behavioral techniques for controlling worry and reducing stress. Exercises include self-assessments, motivation builders, relaxation training, and cognitive restructuring. After identifying and changing the negative thoughts that result in worry, you’ll learn to replace worry behaviors with other, more positive and constructive activities.




Massage Therapy Research


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Written by the Director of the world-renowned Touch Research Institutes, this book examines the practical applications of important massage therapy research findings. Each chapter of this comprehensive resource provides a clear and authoritative review of what is reliably known about the effects of touch for a variety of clinical conditions such as depression, pain management, movement problems, and functioning of the immune system. Coverage also includes the benefits of massage to specific populations such as pregnant women, neonates, infants, and adolescents. This book is suitable for massage therapists (including Shiatsu practitioners), aromatherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists, and nurses. - Provides a thorough yet concise review of recent research related to the importance of touch. - Offers practical guidance to healthcare professionals whose work involves physical contact with patients.•Becomes a new book as new studies will be incorporated. •Research techniques, not previously included.




Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being


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Managing Stress, Seventh Edition, provides a comprehensive approach to stress management honoring the integration, balance, and harmony of mind, body, spirit, and emotions. The holistic approach taken by internationally acclaimed lecturer and author Brian Luke Seaward gently guides the reader to greater levels of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being by emphasizing the importance of mind-body-spirit unity. Referred to as the “authority on stress management” by students and professionals, this book gives students the tools needed to identify and manage stress while teaching them how to strive for health and balance.




How To Be Calmer 3 - Simple Ways To Reduce Stress


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In this series, you will learn simple ways to be more present every day, ways to reduce and manage stress in your daily life. This book brings you simple and creative mindfulness activities that will help you calm down and work through anger. In this Book Number 3, Zen Michael explains these 5 new simple ways to reduce stress: 11. Be Calmer - Practice the 2:1 Breathing Technique 12. Be Calmer - Meditate With a Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound 13. Be Calmer - Try a Daily 5 Minutes Guided Meditation 14. Be Calmer - Try a Calm 10 Minutes Meditation to Connect With the Present Moment 15. Be Calmer - Try listening to a Calm River In a society where so many are always running late for something, you feel the need to manage your time to reduce your stress, you need to discover ways to a calmer you. That is the objective of this Zen Michael book that, because of its practical aspects, can be considered a mindfulness and acceptance workbook for anxiety. It shows you how to reduce stress, how to use the simple calm down activities in your daily life, and discover new ways to find peace of mind. From 5 minute mindfulness fast breaks to excercises of mindfulness on the go or more formal ways of practicing mindfulness, you will discover that everyone can learn how to calm down and cheer up and create calm down times in you daily routines Use this how-to-be-calm book as a starting point for a better life, as a tool for anxiety and stress relief, as a tool for a more calm and joyful life. Remember you can always find peace and joy - just look inside yourself. Zen Michael




The Upside of Stress


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Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits. You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; stress causes insomnia; stress is bad for you! But what if changing how you think about stress could make you happier, healthier, and better able to reach your goals? Combining exciting new research on resilience and mindset, Kelly McGonigal, PhD, proves that undergoing stress is not bad for you; it is undergoing stress while believing that stress is bad for you that makes it harmful. In fact, stress has many benefits, from giving us greater focus and energy, to strengthening our personal relationships. McGonigal shows readers how to cultivate a mindset that embraces stress, and activate the brain's natural ability to learn from challenging experiences. Both practical and life-changing, The Upside of Stress is not a guide to getting rid of stress, but a toolkit for getting better at it—by understanding, accepting, and leveraging it to your advantage.




Born Anxious


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Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a quick temper or to shake anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel P. Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new DNA science points to a third factor that allows us to inherit both the nature and the nurture of previous generations—with significant consequences. Born Anxious introduces a new word into our lexicon: “methylated.” It’s short for “epigenetic methylation,” and it offers insight into behaviors we have all observed but never understood—the boss who goes ballistic at the slightest error; the infant who can’t be calmed; the husband who can’t fall asleep at night. In each case, because of an exposure to environmental adversity in utero or during the first year of life, a key stress system has been welded into the “on” position by the methylation process, predisposing the child’s body to excessive levels of the stress hormone cortisol. The effect: lifelong, unrelenting stress and its consequences–from school failure to nerve-wracking relationships to early death. Early adversity happens in all levels of society but as income gaps widen, social inequality and fear of the future have become the new predators; in Born Anxious, Daniel P. Keating demonstrates how we can finally break the cycle.