Stress Free for Good: 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness

by Ken Pelletier and Fred Luskin

Book Overview

Ten Minutes to Learn One Minute to Practice Ten Seconds to WorkImagine if you could . . . Radically reduce stress Increase your physical vitality Improve your quality of life Now you can. We live in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060832991
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Simple to understand and do

Practice what the book says on a regular basis and you will get to be less stressful. It has helped me and I like the realistic approach of the book.

Share with the people you love..

I liked this book so much, I read a chapter a week to my mom, dad, and sister after our Sunday night dinner together. I've posted the principles and read them when I brush my teeth in the morning. Once you've read the chapters, the titles alone can help you remember the techniques you practices. I continue to recommend the book to friends. I've had stressful moments at work and have used the skills to bring me back to center.

This book turns stress-management techniques into life-mastery skills

As a former occupational therapist I know that reduction of stress and the speed of physical recovery is closely linked. Yet, the authors in this book prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. For years now I have been working with stressed and overwhelmed entrepreneurs helping them to grow their businesses while creating balance in their lives. This book, in combination with my own professional knowledge, allowed me to put together an instant-stress-busting audio course. Both authors speak with kindness and authority to a subject that not only affects the stressed and overwhelmed person but also everybody around them: employees, children, friends. I thank the authors for their courage to take stress-management to a level of life-mastery.

The single most important tip on stress

The different books on stress on the market offer different visions on the causes of stress and the ways to fight it. Stress Free for Good endorses the perspective that stress is the result of an unconsciously provoked fight-or-flight body response. This unwanted and often continuous trigger of the body's innate system stresses the body and causes stress as we define it today. The book then offers valuable tips on how to handle and reduce this kind of stress. Despite their importance, these tips fall short of devising a complete anti-stress plan and clearly say nothing about what would be the best nutrition diets for stressed out people. The book is also wordy and cites numerous patient cases that, even if relevant to the subject, might push readers to boredom. The book has a lot of repetition and makes the reader want to skip pages to get to the point. However, once you're there, you'd find that the wait might have been worth it. Despite its shortcomings, the book offers one of the best tips on how to avoid stress and this single tip makes it worth your money.

End the problems of stress for good!

I've read lots of books and listened expensive tape programs on stress management. They helped some, but caused problems in that the excercises were too time comsuming, didn't always work, took too long to work, or was just to expensive. The techniques offered in Stress Free for Good are simple, quick (takes only 1 minute), and incredibly powerful. I've never felt so good in my life. I've never been so efficient in all my tasks and responsibilities either. The quality of my work has also improved. This is the only book you'll ever need on the topic!!