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Does stress have a grip on your body, mind, and spirit?
Whether it shows up as lowerback pain, insomnia, low-level anxiety, or just general malaise, tension can grip our lives and keep us from living up to our full potential. Dr. John Harvy has organized his relaxation techniques into five different
A sixty-minute CD containing four guided relaxation techniques is included at the back of this book.
John Harvey is licensed ppsychologist who currently serves as director of psychology at Allied Services Rehabilitation Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania. For more than tewnty-five yaers, Dr. Harvey has precticed and taught relaxatin and self-development techniques. The editor of the anthology The Quiet Mind, and a contributor to the Big Book of Relaxation, he resides in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children.
Do you...
...live with chronic tensin in your neck and shoulders?
...constantly have a nervous stomach?
...always feel a residue of anxiety, worry, sadness, or anger lurking within?
...feel a lack of direction and purpose in life?
These are the symptoms of tension in the muscles, autonomic nervous sysem, emotions, mind, and spirit. Dr. John Harvey explains how tension can build up on each of these levels causing physical illness, creating mental stress, and limiting creativity and self-development. Dr. Harvey provides effective relaxation techniques for each level that allow you to achieve total relaxation.
Total Relaxation:
Addresses the five levels of relaxation-muscular, autonomic, emotional, mental, and spiritual-and offers easy-to-master techniques for each level.
Features a symptom checklist so you can identify your own pattern of tension and determine which relaxation techniques are most important for you.
Offers a wide variety of relaxation techniques that can be easily incorpoated into daily life.
Includes: A sixty-minute CD containing four guided relaxation techniques.
Contents
Chapter 1 Tension and relaxation: An introduction
Chapter 2 Muscular tension and relaxation
Chapter 3 Level I Muscular relaxation techniques
Chapter 4 Tension within the autonomic nervous system
Chapter 5 Level II Autonomic relaxation techniques
Chapter 6 The flow of emotions
Chapter 7 Level III Emotional relaxation techniques
Chapter 8 The mind and mental tension
Chapter 9 Level IV Mental relaxation techniques
Chapter 10 The spiritual level
Chapter 11 Level V Spiritual relaxation techniques
Chapter 12 Relaxation in daily life
Whether it shows up as lowerback pain, insomnia, low-level anxiety, or just general malaise, tension can grip our lives and keep us from living up to our full potential. Dr. John Harvy has organized his relaxation techniques into five different
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categories to help you discover where your tension resides. Using a symptom checklist, you can match your symptoms against the five levels of relaxation-muscular, autonomic, emotional, mental, or spiritual-and learn the proven techniques that will guide you to a relaxed, tension-free state quickly and effectively. Some of these relaxation techniques have been practiced for centuries, some of them developed by Dr. Harvey himself, drawing on his years of treating patients worn out by the stress of everyday life. Using these techniques, anyone can achieve Total Relaxation.A sixty-minute CD containing four guided relaxation techniques is included at the back of this book.
John Harvey is licensed ppsychologist who currently serves as director of psychology at Allied Services Rehabilitation Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania. For more than tewnty-five yaers, Dr. Harvey has precticed and taught relaxatin and self-development techniques. The editor of the anthology The Quiet Mind, and a contributor to the Big Book of Relaxation, he resides in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children.
Do you...
...live with chronic tensin in your neck and shoulders?
...constantly have a nervous stomach?
...always feel a residue of anxiety, worry, sadness, or anger lurking within?
...feel a lack of direction and purpose in life?
These are the symptoms of tension in the muscles, autonomic nervous sysem, emotions, mind, and spirit. Dr. John Harvey explains how tension can build up on each of these levels causing physical illness, creating mental stress, and limiting creativity and self-development. Dr. Harvey provides effective relaxation techniques for each level that allow you to achieve total relaxation.
Total Relaxation:
Addresses the five levels of relaxation-muscular, autonomic, emotional, mental, and spiritual-and offers easy-to-master techniques for each level.
Features a symptom checklist so you can identify your own pattern of tension and determine which relaxation techniques are most important for you.
Offers a wide variety of relaxation techniques that can be easily incorpoated into daily life.
Includes: A sixty-minute CD containing four guided relaxation techniques.
Contents
Chapter 1 Tension and relaxation: An introduction
Chapter 2 Muscular tension and relaxation
Chapter 3 Level I Muscular relaxation techniques
Chapter 4 Tension within the autonomic nervous system
Chapter 5 Level II Autonomic relaxation techniques
Chapter 6 The flow of emotions
Chapter 7 Level III Emotional relaxation techniques
Chapter 8 The mind and mental tension
Chapter 9 Level IV Mental relaxation techniques
Chapter 10 The spiritual level
Chapter 11 Level V Spiritual relaxation techniques
Chapter 12 Relaxation in daily life
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ISBN
1568362242 / 9781568362243
Publication
Kodansha International New York Tokyo London