Mental stress and chronic pain are leading causes for failure and breakdown in nursing and other health professions. This book contains a series of Yoga exercises for the fatigue-stricken health professional. It details a Yoga practice for managing stress and relieving pain.
How to Manage Your Stress and Achieve Balance in Life
Why use this particular book to beat stress?
Simple. This guide presents a usable and accessible programme of exercises that offer long-term stress solutions. It identifies and explains the most empowering, enjoyable and effective stress-relieving techniques, including:
Lack of time is the chronic complaint of our culture - and the reality of most of our lives. Sabbath as a day of rest has been lost in our to - do lists and organizers, but the sense of Sabbath, as spiritual leisure, is very much needed in our time-starved world. Sabbath Sense offers a refreshing perspective on making the spiritual choice to take ......
Trauma is a wound - one that we often hide from ourselves and others. Philippa Smethurst - a psychotherapist with decades of experience - has written this compassionate and practical guide to help you to understand, process and move beyond trauma. The book explains twenty common ways that trauma can show itself - from dissociation and anger to ......
Evidence-Based Strategies to Heal From Trauma and Adversity
This book provides scientifically proven strategies for reducing guilt and shame associated with trauma and adversity. Automatic reactions help us survive dangerous situations. Whether we are fighting to fend off an attacker, fleeing an explosion, or freezing to maintain attachment with an abusive parent upon whom we are dependent, our ......
Understanding and Overcoming the Mental Habits that Steal Your Joy
Are you feeling overwhelmed? In The Anger Myth, transformational coach and happiness expert Trish Ahjel Roberts offers a step-by-step guide to creating the life you desire by changing negative mental habits. She shares her breakthrough five-step Tame and Reframe method to transform your anger and its 7 Cranky Cousins (disappointment, ......
Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac H
This book fills a critical niche that has long been overlooked. It specifically focuses on somatic practices to decrease stress and improve heart health. It will combine science, time-tested somatic mindfulness techniques, and patient stories to provide hope and help.
Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for the Admissions Process
This work offers a method for minimizing and managing the untenable stress of the competitive college admissions process in the US. Given the current reality of the process, it introduces us to a more mindful approach to college admissions - one that is grounded in emotional intelligence and emphasizes resilience, wellbeing, and compassion.
This book truthfully and compassionately guides students through the obstacle course of graduate school while keeping their mental health and diverse identities intact. Topics addressed include practical academic issues, relationships within and outside of graduate school, and the impact of the socio-political climate on graduate students.
Embrace Authentic Mindfulness for Wellbeing, Wisdom, and Awareness
Written by world leading experts in both Buddhist and Western approaches to mindfulness, The Way of the Mindful Warrior offers a fresh and accessible guide to embracing authentic mindfulness in everyday life. The book cuts through the superficial hype related to mindfulness and provides a distillation of how to practice this ancient technique.
Coping with Everyday and Extraordinary Stress - A Resource for Individua
The new edition of this best-selling manual provides a range of self-soothing techniques that can be used by children and adults to combat everyday and extraordinary stress.
The Proven 8-Week Path to Health, Happiness, and Well-Being
Take a deep breath. Feeling less stressed already? Bestselling author Shamash Alidina shows just how simple it is to master the proven techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in this engaging guide. Whatever the source of stress--work pressures, dealing with difficult people, financial strains, or family demands--mindfulness offers ......
Presents a practical, step-by-step approach for establishing your own mindfulness practice. Brief introductory chapters explain the scientifically proven effects on health, as well as the philosophy behind this ancient practice. The remainder of the book consists of 25 experiential lessons that guide you through various meditative practices.
Containing pictures showing the dire consequences of driving while enraged, this book is suitable for driver education classes. It lists the warning signs of potential road-rage drivers, suggests ways to avoid such dangerous individuals, and also proposes ways to reinvent the cities to make them less stressful, dangerous places.
The book is written in plain language for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of depression, including patients, family members, and professionals. The book explains the neurobiology of depression, but puts it in a developmental perspective by showing how the illness often evolves from psychological and interpersonal stress over a lifetime.
A Comprehensive Handbook of Techniques and Strategies
A comprehensive clinical manual focused on stress management and relaxation. It contains detailed descriptions of tactics for training the user in the methods of relaxation, positive thinking, time management, and more. It is suitable for practitioners, students, practitioners-in-training, and clinicians.
This work makes the daily challenges, joys and frustrations of police work come alive. The realities of "keeping the peace" reveal sources of sustenance and stress that are often contrary to popular wisdom. Also, race and gender issues are shown to be a source of stress.