The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

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Summary: Here's what you need to do to de-stress....
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This is an easy to use book that gives you many, many different tools to help you relax. If one doesn't work, simply try another. Laid out pretty well, I give it 5 stars easy. Other self-help books I liked include "The No-Beach, No-Zone, No-Nonsense Weight Loss Plan, A Pocket Guide To What Works."


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Summary: Please read this before buying.
Review: A great book that offers many different techniques to manage stress. Most anyone should be able to find at least 1 or 2 ways that work for them. Laid out well and easy to follow. Also liked "Treat Your Own Knees" and "The Multifidus Back Pain Solution."

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Summary: Please read this before buying.
Review: A great book that offers many different techniques to manage stress. Most anyone should be able to find at least 1 or 2 ways that work for them. Laid out well and easy to follow. Also liked "Treat Your Own Knees" and "The Multifidus Back Pain Solution."

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Summary: The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
Review: A great book with something for everyone. Like to take tests or rating scales? This book is for you! Like simple, easy to understand text to make real changes that will help with stress? It's in this book. This was required reading for a class, but I'm also using it as a personal guide.

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Summary: A very good guide to lowering stress
Review: A well-written and easy to understand tool for lowering your stress levels. This book is a positive step in the effort to maintain a calm and orderly life. I reccommend it.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "Stress Management for Over-Achievers" [e-mail]

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Summary: Cowabunga!!
Review: An easy to use book that gives you many different tools to use to help you relax. If one doesn't work, simply try another. Laid out pretty well, I give it 5 stars easy. Other self- help books I liked include "The Multifidus Back Pain Solution."

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Summary: An excellent resource!
Review: As a therapist, I have found this book to be an excellent resource for use with clients since I first came across it about 8 or 10 yrs ago. The authors provide detailed information for learning clinically proven self-help techniques.

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Summary: A Cornucopia Of Coping Strategies
Review: Brew yourself a cup of your favorite herbal tea and curl up in a quiet corner because you're in for a treat. This book is exactly what the title says it is - a workbook for relaxation and stress reduction - and its user-friendly style enables the reader to dip into any chapter at will and derive something useful and informative from it. The book's orientation is very much a holistic approach and the authors' emphasis on mental coping methods dovetails nicely with the chapters on reducing physical stress symptoms. I found the progressive relaxation guidance (including instructions for creating your own tape) particulary well done and helpful. As the authors make so clear, many of us are unaware of how and where we store our tension and how our breathing impacts our ability to move from a stress response to relaxation. Methods such as progressive relaxation - systematically tensing and relaxing all the large muscle groups in the body - aid in gaining awareness of what we are experiencing physically both during stress and in relaxation. The book also discusses goals, time management, nutrition and exercise, with copious worksheets for the reader to dissect which area(s) he or she most needs to focus on to achieve more individual balance, and therefore less stress. The end of each chapter includes suggestions for further reading, providing the reader a jumping off point for deeper work in a particular area, if needed. Each chapter is a module for bringing about psyche/soma homeostasis. The book's one drawback in my view is the length of the personal stress analysis worksheets. One is of course free to skip over them or complete only a portion of each one. Overall though, the book provides a palatable plethora of nurturing and nourishing ideas and methods for bringing mind, body and spirit to a place of respite and repose, whatever one's outer circumstances may be.

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Summary: Borring Book
Review: Did not get past the first few chapters, exercises did not work. Waste of money. I use it to hold up my window.

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Summary: Borring Book
Review: Did not get past the first few chapters, exercises did not work. Waste of money. I use it to hold up my window.