Prescription for Stress

Prescription for stress is based upon decades of innovative research with individuals facing distressing situations ranging from the hassling experiences of daily living to life-threatening events. Learn how stress causes or worsens physical or mental illness, lowers defense against infectious disease and cancer, intensifies age-related memory loss, steals energy, and promotes depression. Also recognize dimensions of your personality that may predispose you to unnecessary stress. The book helps you understand what stress is; provides an overview of the nature of stress; provides a framework for understanding how the stress responses is triggered; details some of the way that modern living can contribute to stress; identifies methods for assessing specific life demands that can lead to stress; offers road maps for understanding coping and for under standing stress; offers suggestions for how to build coping resources such as wellness, relationship skills, tension-reduction practices, and ways of deepening spirituality; examines stress-generating personalities; suggests ways of overcoming stressful patterns of thinking; reviews practices that create stress free consciousness; and highlights key points and presents step-by-step instructions for using the many suggestions presented.