Description

CONTENTS – A Handbook on Stress Management

How TO USE THIS BOOK

WARMING UP

PART-1

The Pressure Cooker and the Alphabets of Stress

UNIT I

Ch. 1 Defining Stress: The Boiling Cauldron
Ch. 2 Classification of Stress
Ch. 3 Symptoms of Stress

UNIT II

Ch. 4 Factors that cause Stress
Ch. 5 The Biology of Stress (How it happens)
Ch. 6 Psychology of Stress
(Why it is allowed to happen)

UNIT III

Ch. 7 Positive Effects of Stress
Ch. 8 Negative Effects of Stress
Neutral Effects of Stress

PART-2

Cooking the Stew and Managing Stress

UNIT IV

Ch. 9 Positive Principles (Processing) of Stress Management
Ch. 10 Negative Principles (Pruning) of Stress Management
Ch. 11 Holistic Principles of Stress Management

UNIT V

Ch. 12 Biology of Stress Management
Ch. 13 Psychology of Stress Management

UNIT VI

Ch. 14 Traditional Tools of Stress Management
Ch. 15 Contemporary Fads of Stress Management
Ch. 16 Spiritual Distillation: Kundalini Wisdom and Flowing with Life

UNIT VII

Ch. 17 Managing Occupational Stress
Ch. 18 Managing Emotional Stress
Ch. 19 Managing Socio-cultural Stress
Ch. 20 Managing Personal Stress

SUMMARY

APPENDIX: WORKBOOK

ABOUT THE BOOK
Stress is a mind-borne discomfort that infects us through our thought-process and sense organs. But the point worth considering is why we allow stress to infect us? Are we not intelligent human beings? Yes indeed we are. But, in spite of all our intelligent achievements, we allow stress to infect us because of following four fundamental reasons:
1. We are lonely in the crowd.

2. We don’t trust life

3. We are non-co-operative and hostile towards ourselves.

4. Life does not have a script and we don’t know whether to be self-directed or other-directed.

This book is all about understanding these fundamental reasons from all possible aspects and achieve a stress free living. For serious and persistent people it can herald an exciting journey on the path of introspection and spiritual evolution.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Meena Nanda is the author’s pen name. A trainer for Dynamic Life Management: Stress-free Living, she holds a Ph.D. in political science, a Bachelors Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication, a Jyotish Alankar in Vedic Astrology (from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi). Her unique experience in life has been the spontaneous awakening of Kundalini while leading a household and working life.