A distinguished primatologist explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including ulcers, colitis, heart disease, depression, and memory loss, and addresses how to combat it. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

One of the most indispensable resources for effective and up-to-date techniques for relaxing the body, calming the mind, and refreshing the spirit. Therapists recommend the book to their clients, readers pass it on to ther friends. More than half a million copies have helped millions of people take the edge off their stressful lives and find the peace they need to foster happiness and success. ...

Stop the little details from overtaking your life with this internationally bestselling guide -- now reissued in a vibrant new package.

Provides meditation techniques, a detailed 8-week practice schedule, case histories and research findings on how mindfulness meditation is related to physical and mental health.

Is your workload overwhelming? This volume aims to teach you how to keep a clear head, relax and organize your thoughts while implementing the organizational methods taught in the book, which include planning and progressing projects, reassessing goals, and overcoming feelings of anxiety.

Constant deadlines, heavy workloads, and daily dilemmas can make working a stressful experience. This book shows readers how to interact with colleagues, clients and bosses. It offers tips such as planning what you're going to say in a meeting or presentation, taking a deep breath before reacting to a co-worker's criticism, and asking for a raise.

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This guide to the symptoms and treatment of stress at work is designed to help professionals identify stress-related problems in clients and in themselves so that they can react before they become ill or depressed.

Worry affects everyone and descends with ease upon work, money, family life and relationships. This book offers practical strategies for breaking out of this destructive habit, before it breaks you. It shows how worry has been conquered by thousands, some famous, but most just ordinary people.

How to cope when the world overwhelms you.

With simple exercises based on an holistic approach that can be done anywhere, this text explores a range of techniques to combat stress which require minimum exertion and strength. It includes exercises such as breathing exercises, stretching techniques, hydrotherapy, and visualisation.

Yoga is a definite and precise breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of hypertension. It may be used alone or in conjunction with other measures including drugs. While drugs may remove the prick, yoga removes the thorn. The great merit of this book is that its approach is rational and objective. It deftly portrays the problems involved and cites precise reasons for the inclusion of yoga as

A sequel to Stress, Appraisal and Coping , this volume explores the latest findings and trends in research and theory. It focuses on the rationale for a cognitive-mediational approach to stress and the emotions, and distinguishes between social, physiological and psychological stress.

Presents an overview of the stress phenomenon from a biopsychosocial perspective. This book is of use to students of health psychology and also to professionals including those in the fields of medicine, occupational psychology and the health professions.

This text provides an alternative to prevailing approaches to stress at work. It sets stress at work in the context of debates about emotion, subjectivity and power in organizations, viewing it as an emotional product of the social and political features of work and organizational life.

At 57, George Hall is settling down to a retirement. Then Katie, his daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her brother Jamie observes that Ray has 'strangler's hands'. This book features a portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. It also talks about the people who fall apart and come together as a family.

Tom Harpur shows how ancient wisdoms, together with exciting new scientific findings, are combining to show why mere coping techniques are not enough for meeting the stress crisis. Divorced from their spiritual underpinnings and/or religious understanding, such techniques lack the potency which they originally had. Central to a spiritual response to stress is the practice of spiritual meditation .