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The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living Paperback – Illustrated, December 24, 2013
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In this book, Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress and resiliency, reveals how the mind's instinctive restlessness and shortsightedness generate stress and anxiety and presents strategies for living a more peaceful life.
Have you ever driven several miles without noticing anything on the road, or read a page in a book without registering any of it? Do the day's worries and disappointments crowd your mind as you're trying to fall asleep at night? Do you feel stressed much of the time and aren't sure how to find peace?
This book is based on the highly popular stress management program offered at Mayo Clinic that Dr. Sood developed after two decades of work with tens of thousands of people. Drawing on groundbreaking brain research, Dr. Sood helps you understand the brain's two modes and how an imbalance between them produces unwanted stress. From this basis, you learn skills that will help you:
Develop deep and sustained attention
Practice gratitude, compassion and acceptance
Live a meaningful life
Cultivate nurturing relationships
Achieve your highest potential
All of these concepts are weaved into a practical and fun journey that has been tested in numerous scientific studies, with consistently positive results. Take the first step to discover greater peace and joy for you and your loved ones.
"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life." -- Dr. Andrew Weil
"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about." -- Dr. Daniel Goleman
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDa Capo Lifelong Books
- Publication dateDecember 24, 2013
- Dimensions6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100738217123
- ISBN-13978-0738217123
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"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about."--Dr. Daniel Goleman
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This practical, can-do guide, written by a positive-energy medical doctor at the Mayo Clinic, offers clear steps to take to decrease the bad kind of stress Just reading Sood's lucid, commonsensical recommendations is a start to eliminating negative stress.”
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Dr. Sood offers simple solutions to relieving stress in our day-to-day problems This 10-part guide can help readers find peace and achieve their goals toward creating a healthier and happier life.”
About the Author
Amit Sood, M.D. is Director of Research and Practice in the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program and Associate Professor, Chair of the Mayo Mind-Body Initiative.
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- Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books; Illustrated edition (December 24, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0738217123
- ISBN-13 : 978-0738217123
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #45,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #174 in Stress Management Self-Help
- #1,011 in Alternative Medicine (Books)
- #1,390 in Psychology & Counseling
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So when I noticed last year that Dr. Sood was publishing this new book, The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, I immediately put it on pre-order. I have this book now, and I'm still working through my first-read of it so this is a preliminary review - I will update it later with my full reaction. I would say this book is a more concise, more streamlined version of that "Train Your Brain....Engage Your Heart...." book, which is exactly what I was hoping it would be.
This is one of those books you want to spend time absorbing and implementing. I know it will take several readings and months, probably years, to do this, but I know it will be worth all the time I invest in it. This book puts you on a path of real, meaningful change, and that takes time.
It's also one of those books you want to shout to the world, "Everyone should read this book! Now!" This is like the missing manual of 21st century American life. Other reviewers have discussed the content already. I will just say, get this book and make it your (second?) Bible.
This is just about the best, most useful self-help book I have found. For me this is alongside the most helpful book ever for me, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy .
I'm grateful for this new book, although my Internet-cynical side wonders if some marketing consultant was a little too involved in packaging it for publication. The title on the cover is The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living. Stress-free, is that even possible? This title contrasts with the actual contents inside the book, where Dr. Sood discusses both positive and negative types of stress.
If Dr. Sood is reading this, then I want to thank him for this book. I hope his ideas get wider dissemination with this Mayo Clinic version. This book should be on the best-seller list. I hope it will, so that more people can learn what's in this book.
By Amit Sood, M.D., MSc.
The entire title is: The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living. I didn’t put it up there because I was afraid I would scare you off with all those words. Thank goodness you’ve decided to read on because this is really an important guide. You really should read this and have a couple of Post-It pads nearby to jot words down and put them around your house to remind you of key elements and prompts. We all need cues, and that’s exactly what the entire concept behind this book is. Instead of a review this go around, I’m going to give you a general idea of the key concepts and let you be the judge.
This collection contains over twenty years of extensive study and offers you some key realizations author Sood discovered:
“Most of us have little information about how the brain and mind work. And, we do not use our brains and minds as well as we can or should…Your brain and mind work very hard to keep you stressed…Your brain is wired to escape the present moment into a default mode of mind wandering.”
Does this sound familiar? Do you get busy doing one thing and before you know it your mind has wandered on out the door into some other task that you may or may not even get to? Let alone you just stubbed your toe because you weren’t paying attention to what was in front of you. Not only are most of us not focused, we’re not present. This is a guide to bulk up your brain and limber up things like imagination and creativity and how to find joy again.
This collection is meant to be read over a period of time. Not in one or two sittings, but to delve into the tools Sood presents and then he suggests you try them on. Use them. Fold them into your life and rediscover something pretty amazing.
You.
One basic tool many of us have lost or never developed well, is attention. You need to be present and pay attention. Sood suggests several ways to embrace this and keep it alive. Then he moves into different areas of focus with simple ways to move them into everyday life. Gratitude, Compassion, Acceptance, Higher Meaning, Forgiveness and Tribe. Then he closes with some simple methods to relax your mind and allow you to reflect on what you’ve experienced.
“The first step…is to log on to your life. Direct your attention away from the mind into the world. Realize you aren’t your thoughts. Your mind can be your prison or your wings.”
C’mon—be the change you’ve been waiting for!
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