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When is the last time you:
- Danced around your living room?
- Screamed at the top of your lungs?
- Bought a box of crayons for yourself?
- Took a field trip?
In quick, easy and not-necessarily-orthodox methods, Undress Your Stress will show you how to strip away stress and shed lifes pressure.
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Copyright 2005, 1999 by Lois Levy
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This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. From a Declaration of Principles Jointly Adopted by a Committee of the American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations.
Quotation sources:
Bartlett, John, Familiar Quotations, (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1980). Frank, Leonard Roy, Websters Quotationary (Random House, New York, 1999). Lamb, G.F., Harraps Book of Humorous Quotations (Harrap, London, 1990). Maggio, Rosalie, The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (Beacon Press, Boston, 1992). McWilliams, Peter, Life 101 Quote Book (Prelude Press, 1997). Partnow, Elaine, The Quotable Woman 1800-1981 (Facts on File, New York, 1982). Warren, Roz, Womens Lip (Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL, 1998).
Published by Sourcebooks, Inc.
P.O. Box 4410 Naperville, IL 60566
630-961-3900 Fax: 630-961-2168
ISBN: 1-4022-0532-5
First edition published in 1999.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the first edition as follows:
Levy, Lois B.
Undress Your Stress: 30 curiously Fun ways to take off tension/ by Lois B. Levy
p. cm.
1.Stress (Psychology) 2. Stress management. I. Title
BF575.S75.L47 1999
155.9042dc21 5 99-36917
CIP
Printed and bound in Canada
WC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
To Kenny, without whom
nothing happens.
Its a pleasure to be able to say a public thank you to all the people who helped birth this book. Of course, Ill forget someone and to that person I say, Please forgive me. It wasnt intentional. My memory isnt what it used to be.
First, I must salute my friend Connie Cordaro, who said, Hey, this is a book, before it ever occurred to me that it could be. Then theres my cousin Rhoda whos been saying, Please write a book, for about fifteen years.
I want to thank my son for not laughing at me when he heard what I was doing and for editing the raw material with wisdom and grace. Hes a great supporter and my favorite moment of truth. Hes taught me to laugh and to cry and to understand why a balanced life is sensible.
To Jane Ford for the perfect market survey. To Kaitryn and Steven Wertz for applauding the rough draft when I was most vulnerable. To all of the friends and colleagues who were willing to take a look and make comments.
To Deb Werksman, my editor, for making the process so easy and for being so enthusiastic about the project from the first minute.
To Kenny Kesslin who sat still and quiet for days on end so I would find the discipline to sit at the keyboard for hours at a time. This book is the outcome of his willingness always to be there for me.
And finally to my parents. It is the combination of their genetic material that gives me my sight, my intensity, my intelligence, my determination, my stubbornness, and my humor. At their table I grew up watching people who knew how to work, knew how to play, and didnt forget either.
So many of us slog through life wearing our angst, our anxiety, our exhaustion as if they were Easter outfits. It looks like we think its some kind of fashion statement. Trust me, it isnt. To make a real statement, how about dressing up in joy or happiness or passion? Its time to undress our stress and clad ourselves in contentment.
Heres my pledge to you. If you pick just one activity from this book and do it consistently for the next three weeks, you will feel better. I guarantee it.
This is a book about taking care of yourself. Its something most of us dont do very well. Do you? Admit itits last on your list of things to do that never get done. But now youve noticed how depleted you feel physically and mentally, and something about this book called to you. Thats a great first step.
In the 1950s, they promised us that by the 1990s wed all be working twenty-hour weeks and our biggest problem would be all the leisure time wed have. Somehow, the technology that was supposed to create all this leisure time for us has done exactly the opposite. We work more hours, have fewer resources, and we spend all of our time trying to do more and more faster and faster. Instead of more leisure time, most of us have less. When we do have some free time, we try to cram as much as we can into it. When was the last time you sat and looked out the window and just daydreamed? Or walked slowly by a stream or watched the clouds roll by? We have to make space in our lives just to be.
As a child of the 1950s, Ive been waiting for all of this down time to magically appear in my life. It hasnt happened for me. Has it happened for you? Ive been wondering what Im doing wrong, but Ive noticed that it isnt just me. Its most of us. And, as a self-employed person with a grown child, I have much more control over my life than most people do. So, if I feel overwhelmed by my schedule and all I have to do, thats not a good sign for the rest of you.
The good news is that everything contained in this small volume is easily doable, simple, fast, and cheap. The bad news is that I cant do any of it for you.
{ | If you are all wrapped ~Kate Halverson | } |
the tension
Stress, according to Websters Dictionary, is a state of bodily or mental tension resulting from factors that tend to alter an existent equilibrium. Originally, stress was a metallurgy term about the force one inanimate object exerted against another. Today, when we talk about stress were talking about people.
We are not designed physically to keep up with the technology we are smart enough to invent. Biologically, we are still quite primitive and our reactions to stressful situations are exactly the same as those of our original ancestors. Our bodies respond to stress by pumping adrenaline into our systems as a way to prepare for fight or flight. Our muscles tense, we are ready to fight or flee for our very lives.
Unfortunately, that response was created for things like saber tooth tigers, not a slow ATM machine or the person with fifteen items in the twelve-item line. The physical response is designed to give us the best possible chance of survival in a dangerous situation. Fight or flight was not intended as a response to the fax machine getting stuck. But, its the only physical response we have for stress and so instead of using it sparingly as our ancestors did, we find ourselves having small stress reactions all day long.
As technology continues to speed up our lives, we become more and more stressed because we are unable physically to go as fast as our machines would allow. Yet, we try and try to keep up, only to fall further behind, feeling more exhausted, and wondering whats wrong with us.
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