Highly reviewed stress management books

Considering different types of relaxation, from sleep to holiday, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, futurist and company strategist in Silicon Valley, dispels the idea that the more we work, the better the outcome. The real secret to success is deliberate rest, as Pang calls it, and it gives us more energy, clearer understandings, and a happier life. Rest provides a guide to rediscover the importance of relaxation in our lives, and a compelling suggestion that if we ever want to get things done, we better sleep more.

Energy Therapy combines traditional medicine experience with a new theoretical interpretation of hidden forces, regarded as our life energy in many cross-cultural healing practices. Dr. Orloff describes this fascinating new approach in Positive Energy and how it prompted her to devise ten important prescriptions to increase power, strengthen friendships, and battle energy vampires. This book’s aim is to make your life easier. Every prescription has straightforward instructions to follow the quick, effective workouts Dr. Orloff offers her patients and uses herself, plus there is a chapter on treating yourself to help you relax and experience the full benefits of this approach. Positive Energy teaches you how to slow down time to match your patterns, helping you to be truly present in your life. Positive Energy is the toolkit packed with Dr. Orloff’s warmth, charm, and empathy to turn exhaustion, tension, and anxiety into an explosion of energy, power, and love.

Once it was first published in 1980, the Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook broke new ground, outlining simple, step-by-step strategies to relax the body and brain in an increasingly over-stimulated environment. This workbook, widely respected by psychologists and their patients, is now in its sixth edition the go-to guide of pressure management techniques that can be integrated into even the busiest lives. You will discuss your own causes and signs of stress in the first section and discover how to develop a comprehensive stress management strategy. Every section includes a specific approach of relaxing and stress management, discusses how the technique works, and offers on-the-spot workouts if you feel overwhelmed which you can use to follow the process. The outcome is a detailed and open workbook that aids in tense situations and allow for a more balanced life.