Synopses & Reviews
In less time than it takes to get another gray hair, you can identify the causes of your stress, learn how to relax, and ease your anxiety and anger. Stress bt itself can't hurt you--it's how you respond to stress that counts. That's where Stress Management for Busy People comes in. Filled with practical advice, it helps you identify your problem--fast!--and gives you stress-busting tips and techniques you can use--now! This fun, concise, interesting handbook teaches you effective, quick and simple ways for reducing stress at work, home, or at school. From identifying the causes of stress, to discovering how mediation, visualization, and other relaxation methods can ease stress, Stress Management for Busy people is filled with practical lessons to help you stay calm, cool, collected, and in control. Fast forwards: A concise, illustrated overview of each chapter's key points. Habits and strategies: time-saving tips and techniques to help you see the big picture and plan ahead. Instant stress releasers: tips designed to help you ease stress--fast. Cautions: special alerts--because, as with everything else in life, there's a right way and a wrong way to relieve stress. Step-by-step tutorials: highlighted boxes instruct you on special techniques. What's next? At the end of each chapter, you get a preview of what's coming.
Table of Contents
How Stress Affects you.
Identifying Your Stress.
Attacking Stress in General.
Attaking Stressful Thoughts and Behavior.
Stress on the Job.
Stress Management at Home.
Relax Your Stress Away.
Breathing and Stretching Away Stress.
Diet and Stress.
Exercise.
Wrapping Up.
Handy-Stress-Related Web Sites.
Stress and Coping Test.
Organizations.
Index.