Stress Relief & Relaxation Techniques

Stress Relief & Relaxation Techniques

Author: Judith Lazarus

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780658003851

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This guide helps readers dissolve stress, gain clarity and cultivate a more peaceful existence with relaxation and stress relief therapies. From meditation to massage, biofeedback and journal-writing, it offers proven easy-to-use techniques for calming the body, mind and spirit.


The Relaxation Response

The Relaxation Response

Author: Herbert Benson, M.D.

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0061966002

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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.


Massage Therapy Research

Massage Therapy Research

Author: Tiffany Field

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2006-05-10

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0702032506

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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.


Essentials of Managing Stress

Essentials of Managing Stress

Author: Brian Luke Seaward

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2016-01-07

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1284101509

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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.


A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Author: Bob Stahl

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1684033578

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The ultimate practical guide to MBSR—with more than 115,000 copies sold—is now available in a fully revised and updated second edition. Stress and pain are nearly unavoidable in our daily lives; they are part of the human condition. This stress can often leave us feeling irritable, tense, overwhelmed, and burned-out. The key to maintaining balance is responding to stress not with frustration and self-criticism, but with mindful, nonjudgmental awareness of our bodies and minds. Impossible? Actually, it's easier than it seems. In just weeks, you can learn mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living. MBSR is effective in alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Taught in classes and clinics worldwide, this powerful approach shows you how to focus on the present moment and permanently change the way you handle stress. As you work through A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, you'll learn how to replace stress-promoting habits with mindful ones—a skill that will last a lifetime. This groundbreaking, proven-effective program will help you relieve the symptoms of stress and identify its causes. This fully revised and updated second edition includes new audio downloads, new meditations, and extensive chapter revisions to help you manage stress and start living a healthier, happier life.


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

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

Author: Brian Luke Seaward

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1449675654

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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.


5-Minute Stress Relief

5-Minute Stress Relief

Author: Elena Welsh

Publisher: Rockridge Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781641526340

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Stop stressing--fast! Five-minute stress relief solutions Relieve stress in a matter of minutes with these handy exercises. 5-Minute Stress Relief delivers simple and effective solutions that will help you feel calm in a snap. Whether you're at home, in the office, or traveling, 5-Minute Stress Relief has an exercise to help ease your stressful situation. Discover how you can recenter and recompose yourself by watering your plants, practicing yoga, or making a gratitude list. Breathe deeply and get ready to relax. In 5-Minute Stress Relief you'll find: 75 Fast solutions--Find stress relief when you need it most with visualization, breathing exercises, acupressure, coloring, a walking meditation, and more. Easy-to-use advice--Each strategy is simple to learn so you can start putting it to use right away. Exercises for all kinds of stress--Whether it's personal, professional, or otherwise, these exercises can help you make it through whatever kind of stress you face, wherever it shows up in your life. It only takes a few minutes to find a sense of peace inside the pages of 5-Minute Stress Relief.


The Restless Compendium

The Restless Compendium

Author: Felicity Callard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3319452649

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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering, through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new connections across apparently distinct phenomena. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.