Resumo de Stress Relief,simple Routines For Home, Work, And Travel

Book Review: Stress Relief By Jonathan Hilton
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                 A Gaia Busy Person''s Guide:
STRESS RELIEF
            Simple Routines for home, work, and travel

Author: Jonathan Hilton
ISBN : 1-85675-255-0
Publishers: Gaia Books

Do you suffer from an endlessly restless "monkey mind", anxiousness and worry, poor sleep patterns, and exhaustion mounting day by day, leading to high stress levels, which result in even more sleepless nights.... and so the cycle goes on? Whether you are, for example, working in a high-octane office-based job, caring for family at home, or perhaps juggling both, stress is almost certain to be a feature of your life.

"A Gaia Person''s Guide: Stress Relief" helps you figure out what is causing you stress, and then gives you simple advice and useful techniques that you can use in all sorts of daily situations - whatever suits you and your lifesyle best.

         This Book transorms a new, stress - free you - cool,effective,calm,collected,contented, and a pleasure to be with.
About this book:
According to this book - many of the problems, both psychological and physiological, resulting from the anxeityand tension of prolonged periods of stress can be successfully managed. More than that, you can even turn stressful situations to your own advantage. The key to this is, first, to recognize the situations that cause you the distress- the factors that trigger the stress response - and then, second, to intervene, using the most appropriate of the various therapies deailed in this book, to short-circuit your body''s normal destructive response. The key therapies dealt with in the book include aromatherapy, chi kung, color crystal healing,feng chui, massage, meditation, neuro-linguistic programming, pilates, reflexology ,reiki and yoga. By learning to acheive a balance between tension and relaxation, when to fight your corner and when to go with the flow, you can rapidly bring about a positive change in every aspect of your personal life.
     This book comprises of 5 chapters.
The first chapter looks at what stress is, what the common strssors are, how stress and personality interact, and sets out the basic principles of how, with a heightened understanding of your adversary, you can start to alter your stress responses.
   The next three chapters take you through a "typical" day, explaining how, from first thing in the morning, before you even get out of bed, you can start stress-proofing your life. Throughout the book, the different therapies are explained and isslustrated, showing you how, for instance, to cope with the strains and stress of the daily grind to work -wether by car,public transport, or flying off somewhere on a business trip. And for many of us, it''s only when we get to work that the stress really kicks in. Many examples of work-day situations are covered in this chapter, and the solutions are covered to the problems illustrated can easily be adapted to suit your particular circumstances.
    In the final chapteer, the bedrock that is family life and friendship is emphasized. The nature of stress is that it infiltrates every aspect of your life and care must be taken that the ones you need most are not the ones put more at risk.

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