Instant calm : over 100 easy-to-use techniques for relaxing mind and body / Paul Wilson.
Publication details: New York : Plume, ©1995.Edition: [1st Plume ed.]Description: xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 0452274338
- 9780452274334
- 155.9042 23
- RC455.4.S87 W55 1995
Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | MHERC Stress/Relaxation | 155.9042 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | "Instant Calm is the busy person's guide to finding peace and contentment in a restless world. These ingenious shortcuts to calm, are written in entertaining, easy-to-follow language and are gleaned from sources as divergent as the wisdom of ancient civilizations and the discoveries of modern science. Paul Wilson's solutions are based on meditation, acupressure, self-hypnosis, psychotherapy, aromatherapy, exercise, diet, and much more. | A35994884 |
Includes index.
The age of anxiety -- Calm in an instant -- How to make this book work for you -- Calm choices -- The condition you are about to overcome -- Signals from within -- Signals from the outside -- The causes of stress -- The conditions of clam -- Reversing negatives -- The breath of life -- Power-breathing -- Calm exercises -- Calm suggestion -- Calm visualisation -- The philosophy of calm -- Calm physicals -- Calm pressures -- First party pressures -- Third party pressures -- Calm devices -- Calm foods, herbs and potions -- Calm aromas -- Breaking patterns -- Dealing with specific fears and anxieties -- Longer-term solutions -- Work and be calm -- Type A techniques -- The calm technique -- Crisis : what to do.
"Instant Calm is the busy person's guide to finding peace and contentment in a restless world. These ingenious shortcuts to calm, are written in entertaining, easy-to-follow language and are gleaned from sources as divergent as the wisdom of ancient civilizations and the discoveries of modern science. Paul Wilson's solutions are based on meditation, acupressure, self-hypnosis, psychotherapy, aromatherapy, exercise, diet, and much more"--Global Books in Print.