Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace [Hardcover]

Brian Weiss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003

This book is guaranteed to reduce your blood pressure! Stress is a mental state that can cause both emotional and physical illness. The good news is it can be eliminated, or at least greatly lessened by learning simple relaxation techniques. This book and accompanying CD will help you learn these techniques and in so-doing help prevent and heal stress-related illness and disease.

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About the Author

Brian Weiss, is a psychiatrist, practising and living in Miami, Florida. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, and is the former Chairman of Psychiatry at the Mt Sinai Medical Center in Miami.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 100 pages
• Publisher: Hay House; Book & CD edition (September 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401902448
• ISBN-13: 978-1401902445
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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80 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, February 14, 2005

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Lloyd R. (California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace (Hardcover)

This is a book and CD. The book explains some of the key elements and benefits of deep relaxation, and the 30 minute CD provides an excellent way of achieving this state of inner peace.

This CD has got to be one of the best guided meditation CDs available. Dr. Weiss uses imagery that is easy and natural to invoke, he has a soothing enough voice, and Steve Halpern's music is perfect.

A quick comparison with two highly rated similar products: Deepak Chopra provides a good CD, "The Soul of Healing Meditations", but it leaves you your own for several minutes at a time (with just the music sound track) and therefore doesn't help you stay "guided" and focused. There's a highly rated CD by Bodhipaksa, "Guided Meditations", which is also good, but there is no music to keep the mind flowing along (the CD is voice only), and the imagery is not as easy or natural to invoke as that of Dr. Weiss.

"Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace" is the third such work from Dr. Weiss, and is the best of the three. The two previous works ("Meditation" and "Regression") last 20 minutes each, which I find a better length of time, but unfortunately Dr. Weiss uses an echo effect for his voice that doesn't quite fit, and the music is not the same quality. These days I use "Meditation" once in while for a change.

Dr. Weiss is a graduate of Yale Medical School, and former Chairman of Psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami. He spent many years developing successful treatment protocols that include guided meditation. (I should mention that he successfully pioneered the use of past life regression as a treatment modality. Some people find this disagreeable, however, even if you're one of these folks, don't let it stop you from acquiring "Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace" which stands entirely on its own merits as an excellent guided meditation.)

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Calming Relaxation, July 16, 2005

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Sam - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace (Hardcover)

The CD included with this book is well done by Brian Weiss. One of the best of its kind. His voice is clear and soothing to help guide you into a relaxing state of mind and body to help you eliminate everyday stress. Extremely helpful if one encounters difficulty getting to sleep.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A useful tool in the battle against stress, November 5, 2006

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S. V. Dyer "Aussie reader" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eliminating Stress, Finding Inner Peace (Hardcover)

I found that while the book that accompanies the CD is a little simplistic for my needs it may be helpful to people whose understanding of the various conditions applying to stress and anxiety is minimal and it is well laid out but the real value of this product lies in the meditation CD which I use daily in addition to my medication to help control panic disorder which started only a few months ago. I can confirm that it has made considerable difference to my wellbeing and I have monitored improvements in my blood pressure. I recommend its consistent use as an aid to anyone troubled with stress or anxiety problems.