Synopses & Reviews
Have you ever driven several miles without noticing anything on the road, or read a page in a book without registering any of it? Do the day's worries and disappointments crowd your mind as you're trying to fall asleep at night? Do you feel stressed much of the time and arent sure how to find peace? In this book, Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress and resiliency, reveals how the minds instinctive restlessness and shortsightedness generate stress and anxiety and presents strategies for living a more peaceful life. The book is based on the highly popular stress management program offered at Mayo Clinic that Dr. Sood developed after two decades of work with tens of thousands of people.
Drawing on groundbreaking brain research, Dr. Sood helps you understand the brain's two modes and how an imbalance between them produces unwanted stress. From this basis, you learn skills that will help you:
Develop deep and sustained attention
Practice gratitude, compassion and acceptance
Live a meaningful life
Cultivate nurturing relationships
Achieve your highest potential
All of these concepts are weaved into a practical and fun journey that has been tested in numerous scientific studies, with consistently positive results. Take the first step to discover greater peace and joy for you and your loved ones.
"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life."--Dr. Andrew Weil
"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about."--Dr. Daniel Goleman
Review
"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life."--Dr. Andrew Weil
"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about."--Dr. Daniel Goleman
Booklist, 1/1/2014
This practical, can-do guide, written by a positive-energy medical doctor at the Mayo Clinic, offers clear steps to take to decrease the bad kind of stress
Just reading Soods lucid, commonsensical recommendations is a start to eliminating negative stress.”
Taste for Life, February 2014
Offers an innovative approach to mindfulness and well-being.”
Chatelaine.com 10 Best Health Books of 2014,” 2/3/14
Spirituality and Practice, 3/1/2014
Dr. Sood has come up with a rather amazing affirmation of a contented life.”
Taste for Life, May 2014
Dr. Sood offers simple solutions to relieving stress in our day-to-day problems
This 10-part guide can help readers find peace and achieve their goals toward creating a healthier and happier life.”
Synopsis
Here is the Mayo Clinic’s first book focusing on the timely, urgent health issue of stress-free living. The author, Dr. Amit Sood, is a Mayo specialist in stress relief and resiliency training and this book represents captures the essence of his successful stress management and resiliency training program.
Synopsis
In this book, Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress and resiliency, reveals how the mind's instinctive restlessness and shortsightedness generate stress and anxiety and presents strategies for living a more peaceful life.
Have you ever driven several miles without noticing anything on the road, or read a page in a book without registering any of it? Do the day's worries and disappointments crowd your mind as you're trying to fall asleep at night? Do you feel stressed much of the time and aren't sure how to find peace?
This book is based on the highly popular stress management program offered at Mayo Clinic that Dr. Sood developed after two decades of work with tens of thousands of people. Drawing on groundbreaking brain research, Dr. Sood helps you understand the brain's two modes and how an imbalance between them produces unwanted stress. From this basis, you learn skills that will help you:
Develop deep and sustained attentionPractice gratitude, compassion and acceptanceLive a meaningful lifeCultivate nurturing relationshipsAchieve your highest potential
All of these concepts are weaved into a practical and fun journey that has been tested in numerous scientific studies, with consistently positive results. Take the first step to discover greater peace and joy for you and your loved ones.
"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life." -- Dr. Andrew Weil
"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about." -- Dr. Daniel Goleman
Synopsis
Mayo clinics popular health books cover topics from pregnancy and diabetes to cancer and alternative medicine. This is the Mayo Clinics first book focusing on the urgent health issue of stress. Dr. Amit Sood is a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress relief and resiliency training, and this book captures the successful stress-management program he developed after two decades of work with tens of thousands of patients. The program treats approximately 15,000 people each year.
Dr. Soods program has two essential steps: the Basics and the Skills. In the Basics, readers come to understand the workings of the brain and what generates stress. Dr. Sood reveals insights about the minds instinctive restlessness and short-sightedness that further increase stress and anxiety. The next step is the Skills, where readers learn how to enhance awareness, develop focus, and experience the present moment with greater joy. The result is lower stress. The concepts are integrated into a practical approach tested in numerous scientific studies at Mayo Clinic and elsewhere, with consistently positive results.
About the Author
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit MayoClinic.com
Amit Sood, M.D, M.Sc., is a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and chair of the Mind Body Medicine Initiative at Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic and Dr. Sood are based in Rochester, Minnesota.