Brian Luke Seaward - Managing Stress: Skills for Self-Care, Personal Resiliency and Work-Life Balance in a Rapidly Changing World

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Names: Seaward, Brian Luke, author.

Title: Managing stress : principles and strategies for health and well-being / Brian Luke Seaward.

Description: 10. | Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Managing Stress with Navigate 2 Advantage Access provides a modern, comprehensive approach to stress management, honoring the balance and harmony of the mind, body, spirit, and emotions. Referred to as the authority on stress management by students and professionals, this book equips students with the tools needed to identify and manage stress while teaching them how to strive for health and balance. The holistic approach taken by internationally acclaimed lecturer and author Brian Luke Seaward gently guides the reader to greater levels of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being by emphasizing the importance of mind-body-spirit unity Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020020982 | ISBN 9781284199994 (paperback)

Subjects: MESH: Stress, Psychologicalpsychology | Stress, Psychologicalprevention & control | Adaptation, Psychological | Mind-Body Therapiesmethods | Holistic Health

Classification: LCC RC49 | NLM WM 172.4 | DDC 616.08dc23

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To all my friends and family,
and to the great many people I have encountered
over the years and decades, who have
served as dynamic inspirations in my own life, thanks
for making this a better world in which to live.

PART 1
The Nature of Stress

PART 2
The Mind and Soul

PART 3
Coping Strategies

PART 4
Relaxation Techniques

PART 1
The Nature of Stress

PART 2
The Mind and Soul

PART 3
Coping Strategies

PART 4
Relaxation Techniques

Courtesy of Larry Dossey, MD

After ecstasy, the laundry! This ancient saying can be applied to our current understanding of health and illness. During the past 50 years, we have discovered that, beyond doubt, the mind has an enormous impact on the body. Our emotions, thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors can affect us for good or ill. Now that we have glimpsed these lofty insights, its time to get down to practicalities and apply them. Its time, in other words, to do the laundry. But the task isnt simple. How, exactly, can we bring mind and body into harmony? How can we alleviate the stressful effects of modern life? How can they be turned to our advantage? Can we learn to benefit from these changes? Can we become wiser and healthier in the process? Advice is not difficult to find, as self-proclaimed experts are everywhere. They tout the latest formulas for stress-free living and personal transformation from tabloids, talk shows, and a plethora of self-help books, giving the entire area of stress management a bad name.

It is refreshing, amid all this blather, to discover Dr. Brian Luke Seawards Managing Stress. In clear, uncluttered language, he takes us on a gentle walk through the territory of mind-body interaction. From cover to cover you will find that he is a very wise guide and possesses a quality almost always missing in stress management manuals: humor. Dr. Seaward knows the field wellhe has taught it and lived itand he provides scientific documentation at every step. But perhaps most importantly, Dr. Seaward daringly goes beyond the usual approach to the subject to speak of the soul and of human spirituality. He realizes that stress management and maximal health are impossible to attain unless the questions of lifes meaning are addressed.