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The Alchemy of Peace & Love: Magical Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Lift Your Spirit (Audio 2-CD Set) |
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Beyond the Relaxation Response: How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Personal Beliefs Herbert Benson In this sequel to The Relaxation Response Benson concludes that combining meditation with faith in a healing power, either inside or outside the self, is even more powerful in combating stress. This highly rated book clearly conveys the power of mental strategies in influencing health and the healing process. 1994, Berkley Publishing Group |
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The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work Donna Farhi A practical guide for using the breath to relax the body during stressful situations, to develop better concentration, improve athletic performance, enhance sexual pleasure and to cultivate inner peace. 1996, Henry Holt |
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Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing (Audio CD)
Andrew Weil, M.D. In this two CD guide, Dr. Weil teaches eight fundamental breathing exercises. He considers proper breathing the single most important practice for healthy living. In plain language, Dr. Weil explains the secret of breathwork’s power over our health and its remarkable ability to influence and even reprogram the nervous system. 1999, Sounds True |
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Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal Mastery Gay Hendricks “In your life-time you will breathe in and out more than a hundred million times . . . What if you made a tiny improvement in something you did that many times?” Hendricks offers guided breathing exercises, most done lying down and in combination with gentle movements which are designed to free the movement of the diaphragm, increase oxygenation and relax the body. Benefits can include stress reduction, pain management, improved health and spiritual growth. 1995, Bantam |
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Exercising Your Way to Better Mental Health: Combat Stress, Fight Depression and Improve Your Overall Mood and Self-Concept with these Simple Exercises
Larry Leith Revealing the link between physical fitness and psychological well-being, the book includes many practical strategies designed to improve the reader’s enjoyment of and adherence to an exercise program. Useful self-monitoring forms are included in the book. 1998, Fitness Information Technology |
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Full-Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness Jon Kabat-Zinn The program of the stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center invites the reader to embark upon a journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning and healing. Originally developed to help persons with life-threatening illness, the program has been thoroughly researched and found to be useful in reducing stress and increasing health and wellbeing. 1990, Dell Publishing |
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The Journey to Wild Divine is an innovative computer adventure game which combines the power of biofeedback with an enchanting multimedia experience. Learn mindfulness and meditation skills, stress management and relaxation - while having fun on a Hero's Journey. For ages 7-70. This is a splendid resource to enhance well-being and develop health-giving relaxation skills. The Journey to Wild Divine is an adventure for mind, body and spirit!
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Minding the Body, Mending the Mind Joan Borysenko Borysenko, director of the mind/body clinic at Harvard Medical School, describes the clinic’s ten-week program for learning to care for the body through a medical synthesis of neurology, immunology and psychology. The approach combines meditation, breath control and stretching exercises and mindfulness to ease the stress of illness and exploit the body’s natural capacity for healing. 1992, Vintage |
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The Relaxation Response Herbert Benson This groundbreaking book is based on studies at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Benson shows that relaxation techniques such as meditation provide immense physical benefits from lowered blood pressure to a reduction in heart disease. The book teaches a simple meditation technique to help the reader attain the relaxation response. 2000, Harper |
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Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga For Stressful Times Judith Lasater Experience the best rest of your life with restorative yoga. Relax and Renew contains a general sequence of supported yoga postures and breathing techniques to heal the effects of chronic stress, as well as programs for back pain, headaches, insomnia, jet lag, and breathing problems. There is a special section for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause as well as a guide to using props and a section on resources. 1995, Rodmell Press |
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The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook Martha Davis, et.al. This fifth edition self-help classic offers many self-assessment tools and calming techniques to help overcome anxiety and promote physical and emotional wellbeing. It presents a comprehensive look at stress, its physical manifestations and the multiple ways it can be managed. Chapters on breathing, relaxation, meditation, thought stopping, stress management, time management, assertiveness training, and body awareness offer the reader focused approaches to dealing with the many varieties of stress. 2008, New Harbinger |
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Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal and Delight in our Busy Lives Wayne Muller We have lost the necessary rhythm of life: the balance between work and rest. Consequently, we may feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. Muller talks in the book about how the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor and shows us how in these harried times to create a special time of rest, delight and renewal. 2000, Bantam |
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Science of Breath: A Practical Guide Swami Rama, et.al. Swami Rama demonstrated to scientists what a yogi with control over his respiration can actually do. Before astonished researchers he demonstrated perfect control over his heart rate and brain waves. In this landmark book, Swami Rama and two noted American physicians explore the science of breath as the missing key to both physical health and the attainment of higher states of consciousness. Basic yogic breathing techniques are clearly explained. 1998, Himalayan Institute Press |
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The Wellness Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Maintaining Health and Treating Stress Related Illness Herbert Benson and Eileen Stuart This comprehensive book introduces the reader to the essentials of healthy lifestyle including the relaxation response, nutrition, exercise and stress management. An accessible and complete guide for enhancing health and dealing with most illnesses. 1992, Fireside |
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Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life Jon Kabat-Zinn Dr. Kabat-Zinn has trained a generation of professionals in his approach to stress reduction. In this book he offers a simple path for cultivating present moment awareness in one’s life. 2005, Hyperion |
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Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases and Coping Robert Sapolsky This book is a primer about stress, stress related disease and the mechanisms of coping with stress. Sapolsky sites studies of different animals as well as of people of different cultures to highlight his points. The book concludes with a hopeful chapter titled “Managing Stress.” 1998, W. H. Freeman |
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