Managing Stress + The Art of Peace and Relaxation Workbook: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-being (Paperback)

by Brian Luke Seaward (Author)

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Product Description
Highly acclaimed as the authoritative text, Managing Stress represents the most comprehensive and contemporary resource available on the topics of stress management and health psychology. By offering a holistic approach to the problem of stress, Seaward gently guides the reader to achieve a greater level of mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing by emphasizing the ageless wisdom of mind-body-spirit unity. Managing Stress is beautifully illustrated extremely well researched, and full of thought provoking stories and exercises to fully engage the reader. Several new features have been added to this edition which incorporate the newest stress management techniques and strategies. Among them are: the most current information on stress and disease, including an update on ulcers and various components of the human energy field based on the work of Carolyn Nyss and Christiane Northrup, new perspectives on spiritual wellbeing from the mystic Hildegard Von Bingen and Deepak Chopra, and time management techniques, including insights from Time Shifting by Stephen Rechtschaffen. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 6 Pap/Com edition (November 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763756148
• ISBN-13: 978-0763756147
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #463,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Quinticential Stress Book, September 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Wellbeing, Web-Enhanced (Paperback)

This is the "bible" of stress management books, a complete wholistic approach (mind-body-spirit-emotions) which is long overdue in the health profession. Reading this book is like having a conversation with a wise old sage. The CD of four relaxation exercises is wonderful. What a calming voice.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only text I thoroughly read cover to cover in college!!!, August 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Wellbeing, Web-Enhanced (Paperback)

This book is well worth every penny and provides its reader with myriad inventive strategies on confronting and coping with stress. One such strategy is art therapy. I highly recommend that every person committed to a lifeway of health consider purchasing this book. Walk in Beauty, ANP

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - Do No Miss This!!!!, February 13, 2008

By	Paul B. Schlosberg "pschlos" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being (Paperback)

Managing Stress is one of the best textbooks I have seen and should be required reading at every school. The reason I enjoy the book so much is because it presents a whole new way of seeing stress - stress reframed from a positive, enlightened perspective. The book is such a comprehensive volume of information, including just enough of all the most important topics related not only to stress, but to mind-body health in general, as much as any author can encapsulate in such a huge, broad, and growing field.

Managing Stress is so good because Seaward helps readers and students recognize an important need in our culture for embracing a broader perspective of wellness, one that encompasses and touches every nuance of life including business, education, the arts, government, and so on.

Wellness is certainly not solely about taking care of the body, it is perhaps even more importantly about taking care of the mind and spirit. This book is endlessly full of great supporting holistic mind-body health research and tidbits, including fascinating studies proving the efficacy of the stress-management modalities provided. Through the study of this text alone I believe one can develop an in-depth knowedge of not only mind-body health, but of the whole human condition, what it means to be a human being. I cannot think of too many other books that I can make that statement about.

If you want to learn how to change your life, study this text in-depth, and then choose topics from it you are most interested in, and delve into them using many of the additional resources provided. Yet, perhaps most importantly, learn to put these techniques into practice and then you will find not only the jewel of analytical knowledge, but,even more, the crowning jewel of wisdom and enlightenment.