Five Good Minutes: 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm & Focused All Day Long
by Jeffrey Brantley, MD and Wendy Millstine
From the back cover: Do you live your life at a frenzied pace and then drop into bed at night feeling unfulfilled? Do you work hard but sometimes feel as though you spend most of your tim doing things that don't matter? Do you feel overwhelmed and constantly stressed out? What if you could get everything done and still feel calm, centered, and stress-free all day long? How much time would you invest to create focus,
presence, and real intention in your life?
How about five minutes? In this book, Dr. Jeffrey Brantly, founder and director of the mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University's Center for Integrative Medicine, offers engaging ways you
can make simple, effective, and lasting changes - five minutes at a time. Starting each morning with just one of these exercises will set the tone for a calm, balanced, and more fulfilling day. And as you
continue your practice, you will find that five good minutes are the best gift you can give yourself.
Ten Minutes to Relax (CD)
by Paul Overman, Ph.D.
Music by Jim Oliver
From the back cover: When stress levels get too high, relaxation is more than a luxury…it's a necessity. Your physical and psychological health may depend more on your ability to control excess stress than on any other single factor. The good news is that you can learn to control the stress cycle. It is a proven fact, which you can easily and quickly put to use for yourself.
The Breathing Box: 4 Weeks to Healthy Breathing (Interactive Kit)
by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
From the back cover: The evidence is overwhelming: If something’s troubling you, then changing the way you breathe will help. In fact, the FDA now approves breath training as a recognized treatment for hypertension – and over 1,000 additional studies show its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, and more. With The Breathing Box, Gay Hendricks guides you through every step of a simple, yet remarkably effective four-week course designed to transform the way you breathe. Based on the popular Hendricks Institute course, The Breathing Box allows you to master the skills of this healing art at your own pace, in just 10 minutes a day.
The Daily Relaxer: Relax Your Body, Calm Your Mind, & Refresh Your Spirit
by Matthew McKay, Ph. D., Patrick Fanning
From the back cover: The Daily Relaxer offers simple, daily practices that that really change your life – the most effective techniques distilled from the best-selling Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook. Whether it’s deep breathing, progressive relaxation, or mindfulness meditation, you can learn each of these tension-relieving activities in just five minutes and start practicing them right away with amazing results.
Millions of people have used these techniques to relax and tame stress – you can, too! No matter how overwhelming your day is, these simple exercises will help you calm down and enjoy the wonderful gifts that each new day has to offer.
Healing Mandalas
by Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
From the back cover: A collection of 30 modern mandalas specially designed to help you slow down, release tensions, and nurture your body’s innate healing powers. Bring about inner peace and strength, personal growth, and holistic healing by harnessing the power of color, geometry, and symbolic motifs in mandalas. Relieve tiredness, anxiety, mood disorders, and symptoms of depression with mandalas that make you feel calm, whole, and full of vibrant energy. Use the soothing step-by-step meditations to enhance the healing journey provided within each beautiful mandala.
How Now: 50 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment
by Raphael Cushnir
From the back cover: In every moment there is the opportunity for peace, joy, and fulfillment. Most of us – caught up in the frenzy of everyday life – race by, leaving the gifts of each moment unclaimed. If you’re ready to stop stressing and start living, the How Now deck is your launch pad. Inside, best-selling author Raphael Cushnir provides 50 meditations that will inspire, engage and reconnect you with the present moment. From learning the secret of natural breathing to rediscovering the power of play, each card features a simple and joyous meditative exercise. Card by card, you’ll discover new way to take stock of your life, shatter long-held fears, and reveal your true potential. The How Now deck is your guide to achieving the life you were truly meant to live…beginning right now.
Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility in Your Life (Book and CD)
by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
From the back cover: An excerpt from Meditation
“The stresses of today's world seem to intrude constantly into our daily lives – even moments of relaxation and pleasure are curtailed as rising pressures and demands leave us bewildered…. Thankfully, the practice of meditation helps us clear our minds. It rids us of stressed, intrusive thoughts, and fragments and echoes of the outside world – all of which disturb our conscious minds. Meditation makes our minds more sensitive to what's truly important. And the benefits extend well beyond the meditative state itself, although it's important to remember that meditation is in and of itself highly beneficial. The deeper that meditation takes us, the further we move away from the level of everyday consciousness (encompassing frustration, stress, anxiety, and worry), and the closer we draw to the higher self, with its capacity for love. Consequently, as we gain a higher perspective about life and our place in the world, appreciate the love that lies within us, and discover that we already possess this precious gift that's so full of beauty, we find ourselves filled with self-love and are able to achieve happiness and joy. We indeed become enlightened – and enlightening – begins.” - Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
A Meditation to Promote General Wellness (CD)
by Belleruth Naparstek
From the back cover: Our highly acclaimed, research-proven, physician-endorsed guided meditation combines healing imagery, powerful music and the most current understanding of the mind-body connection to help you promote and maintain your good health. Belleruth's imagery is designed to uplift and relax; help the body eliminate unhealthy cells and tissue, and replace them with strong, new growth; encourage psychological healing and growth; invoke a sense of connection with the universe to strengthen mind, body and spirit. (42 minutes)
Relax…Let Go…Relax (CD)
by Whole Person Associates
From the back cover: Mentally scan your body for tension – then discharge that tension through breathing and releasing. Let comforting relaxation spread throughout, and store this peaceful sense for “instant replay” later.
1. Revitalization (27 minutes)
2. Relaxation (28 minutes)
Power Nap Kit: Everything You Need to Power Nap (2 CDs + booklet)
by At Peace Media
From the back cover: Discover an easy technique for taking short 10-25 minute power naps. Feel better instantly! A sleep-inducing, productivity-enhancing, headache-relieving, mood-lifting, pill-free solution for sleep deprivation and stress.
Sleep Soundly: Inner Peace Music for Body, Mind & Spirit (CD)
by Steven Halpern
From the back cover: Over 55 million Americans have trouble falling asleep. This CD provides a proven-effective, non-drug alternative to help you fall asleep. Indeed, many listeners report that they never hear the end of this recording!
Sleep Soundly features soothing keyboard and silver flute arrangements of Brahm's Lullaby and specially-composed music that evoke your automatic “relaxation response.”
To enhance the effectiveness of the music, we add a series of positive statements (You are relaxed. You fall asleep easily.) These are recorded subliminally (below the threshold of your conscious awareness). You don't actually hear them, but your subconscious mind does – and responds accordingly.
The Stress Management Journal: 28 Days to Stress Mastery
by James E. Porter, M.A.L.S.
Medical Advisor: Paul Rosch, MD
From the back cover: About the Author - James E. Porter, M.A.L.S., is president of AudioVision/StressStop.com a company that specializes in stress management training materials for corporations, hospitals, and government agencies. Mr. Porter has written dozens of articles, 4 workbooks, an on-line training program, and numerous brochures on the subject of managing stress. He has also produced over a dozen stress management training videotapes that are broadcast over CC-TV systems in thousands of hospitals nationwide, including The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the New York Presbyterian Hospital .
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Stress R-E-L-E-A-S-E (CD)
by Whole Person Associates
From the CD:
Quick Tension Relievers (15 minutes)
Progressive Relaxation (15 minutes)
Transforming Stress: The HeartMath ® Solution for Relieving Worry, Fatigue, and Tension
by Doc Dhildre and Deborah Rozman, Ph.D.
From the back cover: The HeartMath ® method for transforming stress isn't just another stress management or coping system. It's a breakthrough solution that shows you how to transform emotional and mental energy into new, satisfying feelings and intelligent perceptions that ease the stress. It goes to the heart of the matter to give you power over the automatic stress responses that have become etched into your neural circuitry. By developing the ability to use your heart rhythms to counteract stressful feelings, you can transform the physiology of stress into the physiology of quick recovery, increased energy, and new insight. This method will slow the effects of aging by bringing you closer to emotional flexibility – the perfect antidote for our fast-paced and chaotic lives.
Unplug … For an Hour, a Day, or a Weekend (Interactive Kit)
by Sharon Salzberg
From the back cover: Enjoy a break from the warp speed of modern living! With Unplug, Sharon Salzberg offers a respite from the pressures of daily life whenever and wherever you need it most – whether you have an hour, a day, or a weekend.
Covering eight core topics including Calming the Mind, Facing Challenges, Being Present, and more, this interactive kit provides you with the keys to re-discover “who you fundamentally are.”
Give yourself the room to breathe…deepen your awareness of all of your experience…and bring an openhearted quality with you when you return, with Sharon Salzberg’s Unplug.
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