Your Guide to Health: Stress Management
Practical Ways to Relax and Be Healthy
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2011
224 pages
978-1-60550-593-0 (ISBN)
Description
Discover practical ways to relax and eliminate stress with this comprehensive guide on stress management.
Stress has become a national epidemic?but there is hope. With Your Guide to Health: Stress Managment, you'll learn how to manage stress and finally relax. With a little guidance, inspiration, and a commitment to help, stress doesn't stand a chance.
A little stress isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly isn't good when it builds up and overwhelms your life. Stress can lead to health complications if it goes on for too long. It can present itself as pain, headaches, digestive issues, and more. This guide will help identify your stress, provide techniques for stress relief, and create new skills that will ultimately lead to a healthier and happier life.
Stress has become a national epidemic?but there is hope. With Your Guide to Health: Stress Managment, you'll learn how to manage stress and finally relax. With a little guidance, inspiration, and a commitment to help, stress doesn't stand a chance.
A little stress isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly isn't good when it builds up and overwhelms your life. Stress can lead to health complications if it goes on for too long. It can present itself as pain, headaches, digestive issues, and more. This guide will help identify your stress, provide techniques for stress relief, and create new skills that will ultimately lead to a healthier and happier life.
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Person
Eve Adamson is a six-time New York Times bestselling author and award-winning freelance writer who has written or cowritten over sixty-five books.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Stress Unmasked
- What Is Stress?
- When Life Changes: Acute Stress
- When Life Is a Roller Coaster: Episodic Stress
- When Life Stinks: Chronic Stress
- Stress on Your Body
- Chapter 2: Breaking Down Stress
- Who Has It?
- Where Does It Come From?
- When Do You Get It?
- Why, Why, Why?
- So, How Do You Get Rid of It?
- Chapter 3: Building a Stress-Proof Body
- Stress Management Strategies: Sleep
- Stress Management Strategies: Hydration
- Get a Handle on Bad Habits
- Stress Management Strategies:Reshaping Bad Habits
- Chapter 4: Get Strong, Get Healthy
- Move It or Lose It!
- The Whole-Body Effects of Exercise
- Finding a Movement Plan You Can Live With
- Chapter 5: Diet and Nutrition
- Fueling Up: The Stress Connection
- Vitamins, Minerals, and More
- Herbal Stress Remedies
- Diets
- General Nutrition Tips
- Rethinking the "Treat"
- Chapter 6: Meditiation for Peace of Mind
- What Meditation Does
- Why Meditation Really Works
- How to Start
- Tips for Sticking with It
- Chapter 7: Types of Meditation
- Zazen Meditation
- Walking Meditation
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Prayer
- Chapter 8: Relaxation: Biofeedback and Hypnosis
- Biofeedback: Know Thyself
- Hypnosis: Hype or Help?
- What Is Hypnosis?
- Hypnotherapy
- Self-Hypnosis
- Chapter 9: More Stress Management Tools
- Attitude Adjustment
- Creativity Therapy
- Friend Therapy
- Chapter 10: De-Stressing
- Your Money
- Time Keeps on Slippin' .
- Stress Proofing Your Work Life
- Stress Management Forever
- Chapter 11: De-Stressing for Women Only
- A Woman's World of Stress
- Female Stress Mismanagement Syndrome
- The Estrogen Connection
- Which Came First, Stress or PMS?
- Stress and Menopause
- Stress and the Senior Woman
- Chapter 12: For Men Only
- Male Stress Mismanagement Syndrome
- Real Men Do Feel Stress
- Testosterone Connection
- Your Stress, Your Reproductive Fitness
- Anger, Depression, and Other Unmentionables
- The Midlife Crisis: Myth, Reality, or Stress in Disguise?
- Stress and the Senior Man
- Appendix A: Resources
- Appendix B: Stress Management
- Index
- Copyright
