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Stress Reduction Skills

We all are aware that stress can accumulate over time and negatively affect our physical health, our energy and productivity, our memory and thinking clarity, our anxiety level and emotions - our quality of life. While we may not be able to prevent ‘stressors’ from occurring, we most definitely can prevent or greatly reduce the short and long-term damage stress potentially has on our body, mind, and emotions. We can create our own buffer or barrier for the stresses of living.

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn for your own physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being is deep relaxation. This is a complete physiological response that you can readily train yourself to produce through breathing techniques, guided imagery and visualization, self-hypnosis, and progressive muscle relaxation. As you can imagine, true deep relaxation - the pure relaxation that heals your body, clears your mind, calms your emotions, and renews your spirit - is more than just unwinding with a book or in front of the television. Deep relaxation involves your full attention in systematically relaxing every part of you, so that tension and stress are discharged and released, and your whole body fully relaxes.

I have prepared these instructional audiotapes/CDs to blend the most effective elements of:

1. deep (abdominal) breathing to induce inner calm;
2. guided imagery to promote peacefulness and a sense of well-being through visualizing serene scenes;
3. guided self-hypnosis to allow you to effectively release stress or tension, and to deepen the positive benefits of mind/body relaxation;
4. progressive muscle relaxation to systematically relax your entire body, as effectively as massage.

Through regular practicing of deep relaxation for at least 15-20 minutes, you can reverse the negative impact of stress, allow your body and mind to recover and heal, and promote an overall feeling of relaxation and well-being that becomes your new “normal” way of coping and living. With practice over time, the relaxation will spread to the rest of your daily living, and you will feel more relaxed and less stressed throughout your day - with more reserves for challenges and more energy for enjoying your life.

For more information regarding the specific benefits of learning deep relaxation and stress-reducing skills of guided imagery, visualization and self-hypnosis, select: More Information About Uses

For descriptions of the audiotapes/CDs developed for deep relaxation and stress management skills, you may choose any of the following:

Inviting Garden Path:
Guided Imagery for Relaxation Self-Hypnosis & Stress Management/Reduction

Complete Body & Mind Relaxation
Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Stress Management/Reduction

Songs of the Sea
Guided Imagery for Stress Reduction & Progressive Deep Relaxation

Creating a Safe Place for Relaxation, Restoration and Reducing Stress