The Big Book of Relaxation: Simple Techniques to Control the Excess Stress in Your Life [Paperback]

Larry Blumenfield (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994

This easy-to-use self-help guide reveals the most successful relaxation techniques of America's leading experts. Chapters focus on the role of music in relaxation, visualization as a relaxation technique, the relaxation properties of yoga and sports, and more. A 30-page resource guide directs the reader to other useful stress-reducing tools.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Here's the perfect title to suggest to that snappish, stressed-out patron. Editor Blumenfeld has gathered some of the biggest names in alternative healing to discuss how to unwind and detoxify our souls and bodies. John Harvey provides a good basic chapter on meditation. Lilias Folan, of videotape fame, gives instruction on yogic relaxation. Shakti Gawain provides information on creative visualization. Feminist musician Kay Gardner gives hints on how music can soothe the savage nerves. There are other chapters on mind machines, on aromatherapy, and even on nutrition for relaxation. Readable, immediately useful, and well packaged. Patricia Monaghan

Review

The contributors here are experts in relaxation techniques, packing their recommendations into chapters which provide practical step-by-step approaches to different therapies and options. From yoga and meditation techniques to conscious exercise and visualization techniques, the writers provide a wealth of explicit advice. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Relaxation Co (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559612827
• ISBN-13: 978-1559612821
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,960,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A big book for relaxation techniques, October 4, 2002

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Jason Mark Alster M.Sc "Millenium man" (Wethersfield , CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Big Book of Relaxation: Simple Techniques to Control the Excess Stress in Your Life (Paperback)

As a biofeedback therapist teaching relaxation techniques this is one of my first books on the subjects. Almost all the techniques from seated yoga to music therapy to proper nutrition and aromatic oils, I have used in my therapies. They all worked. I really liked the product list of relaxation technologies at the end almost like the consumer reports of mind expansion. Being in Control: Natural Techniques for Increasing Your Potential and Creativity for Success in School Relaxing Sights and Sounds of Natural Israel