Guide to stress reduction

By L. John Mason

Book Overview

This title provides tips for controlling specific ailments such as high blood pressure, chronic pain and insomnia, and techniques for stress reduction, including autogenics and visualization. In all,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915238330
• ISBN13: 9780915238330
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Peace Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

stress guide

This guide was very helpful and FULL of ideas to reduce stress. Not every idea is for everyone, but everyone will certainly find something useful in this book.

Relieve your stress with a stress management technique that works for you

There is allot that I like about this book. First of all it offers many types of stress reduction activities and techniques. Not every activity works for everybody so the fact that there is a selection makes it a helpful book. The techniques are also quite straightforward so it is easy to follow and understand. I particularly like the variety of stress reduction techniques and that the techniques are doable and workable into almost any schedule. A very good read.

A guide to fighting stress at work and home

This is the latest version of a bestseller that has been in print for more than 25 years. John Mason is clear and persuasive about why constant stress is an inappropriate (if natural) part of modern life. The techniques for learning to relax and letting go of stress make a lot of sense, and tapes of the various methods are available to buy from the author's associated Web site. Some of the medically related claims about the benefits of stress reduction are somewhat less convincing, but taken as a practical approach to becoming healthier and happier through relaxation, this book is a proven winner. We recommend it to anyone suffering from undue stress in their working life or at home.

Being in a state of constrant stress is not healthy and can be managed or eliminated

This book has remained in print for 25 years so it definitely has an audience. The author makes his living helping people learn techniques to eliminate the stress response from their lives by learning to trigger the relaxation response. This book teaches you a variety of techniques from deep breathing exercises to visualization, mediation, and gentle exercise. While he provides the text for talking you through these exercises in the book, he also sells tapes on his website. The idea would be that you would listen to him talk you through them rather than trying to remember the words in the book or read them while you are trying to focus your attention elsewhere. I think what he says is generally good advice even if he gets a bit new agey for my tastes.