Stress Management | Self Help Books on Stress Management

The Art of Extreme Self-Care: Transform Your Life One Month at a Time by Cheryl Richardson.

Highly Recommened

This life-changing handbook by bestselling author Cheryl Richardson offers you 12 strategies to transform your life one month at a time. Designed as a practical, action-oriented program, each chapter challenges you to alter one behavior that keeps getting you in trouble.

The book is filled with personal stories of how Cheryl and others have learned to make the practice of Extreme Self-Care their new standard for living. With chapters such as "End the Legacy of Deprivation," "Take Your Hands off the Wheel," "The Absolute No List," and "Does That Anger Taste Good?" you will stop the endless cycle of self-betrayal and neglect that stems from daily violations of self-care.

Each chapter includes a relevant resource section that offers books, websites, audio programs, podcasts, and more should you want to explore a particular topic further.

90 Days to Stress-Free Living by C Norman Shealy

Experts will tell you that good health is your natural state, but stress can upset the balance between your genetic health code and your social environment. To return to your natural state of health, take the Personal Stress Assessment Test and identify your specific problem areas. Then start the day-by-day health plan with a variety of exercises--both at-home workouts and at-your-work quick destressors, designed to transform your life in only 90 days. The techniques for diet and relaxation are simple and original, introducing you to a new, enjoyable way to remove stress-building foods and activities and replace them with ways to eat and work in peace and calm even in the midst of people who are notorious for driving you crazy. Take control. No matter if you've spent years building up habits that produce stress, you can turn your mind and body into an oasis of calm in minutes a day.

Calm Energy by Robert Thayer

You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much?

You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much? Why can't you stay with a reasonable exercise program? It's your moods!

Mood is central to these negative cycles. Our moods are made up of two elemental feelings - energy and tension. Low energy and increased tension (tense tiredness) can result in depression, overeating, and avoidance of exercise. The opposite mood is calm energy, a Zen-like mood that others have referred to as "Flow" or "the Zone." When experiencing this state, we eat only what we need, and exercise becomes attractive.

Managing energy and tension - and therefore regulating our moods - is key to sticking to a healthy eating and exercise plan. In Calm Energy,Robert Thayer describes how most people's daily energy cycles function, and explains how you can learn about your own mood cycles. Instead of using food as a mood regulator - as in emotional eating - you can use appetite as a guide and have a better chance of controlling weight.

The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy

The book introduces the newest most recent techniques for mental health problems and stress such as Eye Movement Desensitization and reprocessing, dawn simulation alarm clocks and pet therapy. Truly, the techniques being discussed here are unusual but effective.

The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times

Can you really start from nothing and become truly secure financially?

Trusted financial coach Jean Chatzky shares the secrets her groundbreaking research of the self-made wealthy has uncovered so that anyone can break through the barriers that stand between them and true financial freedom. Find out why it's important to:

- Get happy, but not too happy
- Do what you love, but don't quit your day job
- Read every day
- Remember that failure is not an option-it's a necessity
- Harness your intuition to take risks that make sense
- Practice the Kevin Bacon Principle-make connections
- Say thank you-and mean it
- Make your money work as hard as you do

Happy for No Reason By Marci Shimoff

Many books have been written on the subject of happiness but this blissful gem shines out in a league of it's own. It is an easy to read, hugely inspiring compilation of the latest research in and around the burgeoning field of Positive Psychology.

Every page contains either an uplifting case study or a practical exercise geared towards allowing the reader to discover how they can become unreasonably happy. I read the entire book in one sitting, all the while thinking, "They should teach this stuff in schools!"

The ideas may not be entirely new to some readers but the way they are presented, backed up with scientific research, makes it an essential and highly accessible text for anybody who wants to make a positive difference in their own lives or in the lives of others.

Choosing Motivation Over Defeat by Keith Harrell

Tips To Improve Your Attitude

Each of us encounters hard times, hurt feelings, heartache, and physical and emotional pain. The key is to realize it's not what happens to you that matters-it's how you choose to respond. You can choose an inner dialogue of self-encouragement and motivation, or you can choose one of self-pity and defeat. Your inner dialogue will be reflected in how you act.

Keith Harrell, corporate trainer and the author of Attitude is Everything, says there are several steps you can take to improve your attitude.

Turn Back the Clock with a Proven, Personalized, Anti-Aging Lifestyle Program by Karlis Ullis

My Longevity BIBLE

Don't resign yourself to growing old gracefully. With Age Right as your guide, you can reduce body fat, increase strength and energy, and boost your sex drive, all while adding years to your life. With his revolutionary approach, Karlis Ullis, M.D,, provides you with the latest methods for stopping -- and even reversing -- the aging process. Based on twenty years of pioneering work with Olympic and professional athletes, Age Right offers an antiaging program that helps you extend your life span by identifying your unique aging pathway through the "Mind-Body-Spirit" test.

Adding supplements to your daily diet plan is the best longevity gift you can give yourself says M.D. Karlis Ullis.

Memoirs of a Geisha

A Good Read for Stress Reduction

This beautiful, epic and thoroughly engaging novel chronicles the life of a woman who was sold into slavery by her father after her mother dies, and rises to become a beautiful and famous geisha. The writing is well-paced and richly descriptive, and the subject matter is a fascinating mix of history, cultural exploration, and fiction. I found this novel to have some helpful stress management features:

Distraction

Perspective

Inspiration

7 Simple Steps to Unclutter Your Life

The books explains that the clutter that you see in your surroundings can actually create stress. They also defines clutter as confusing thoughts, ideas, problems and priorities that you are experiencing.

These stress management books are fun and nice to read. However, behind all the light hearted words, there are very good and practical suggestions in de-cluttering your life.

The Serotonin Power Diet:

A balanced diet full of colorful fruits and vegetables is perhaps the best shield against stress-related health problems, but carbohydrates will quickly soothe you in a tense moment, says Judith Wurtman, author with Nina Frusztajer Marquis of The Serotonin Power Diet

French Women Don't Get Fat by Madame Mireille Guiliano

I was given a copy of French Women Don't Get Fat by Madame Mireille Guiliano as a Christmas gift and I simply can not put it down! The book is so well-written and the dietary advice is so down to earth and realistic that we just had to share it with you.

For those of you who don't know about Mireille Guiliano, she is simply the most beautiful and elegant french women around.

Here are some of Madame Guiliano's tips to weight loss that can be found in her book:

- Keep a dietary journal, analysing what seems excessive.

- Embrace pleasure and individual happiness as your goals.

- Eliminate offender foods such as potato chips, bagels, pizza, pasta, fried foods, fruit juices, beer or hard liquor, candy bars, ice cream, soda, and junky chocolate.

- Choose quality over quantity. The better quality chocolate the better it will be for you.

- Eat one thing on your plate at a time.

- Drink water.

Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-zinn

A self help book with meditation as its focus to unlocking the calming powers of the mind, intends to heal the gap between the mind and heart. It espouses simplicity and enjoying more of the simple things in life. It contains practical advice on slowing down, smelling the roses, and finding ones center as a touchstone to greater personal achievement. Short chapters of effective learning length are followed by small easily followed practical suggestions. It squarely addresses the challenge of introducing and integrating Eastern concepts to the Western -- particularly the American -- mind.

Naked

"Naked" by David Sedaris is another fun filled, light hearted book. Though not considered as a pure stress management book, this book contains hilarious essays and witty humor.

Laughter is the best medicine and a great stress remedy. David Sedaris essays in "Naked" can surely bring the laughter out in readers. Through humor, this book can make you focus on the lighter things in life.

Chakra Foods for Optimum Health by

"Chakra Foods for Optimum Health is loaded with wisdom, joy, and practicality. Reading through this book provided me with many "ah ha!" experiences. Chakra Foods is full of unusual and uplifting insights that one can apply to their life instantly." --Christiane Northrup ,MD.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment. He shares ideas about personal integration with uncommon eloquence and a deep understanding of the human condition. A spiritual guidebook that has the potential to inspire the reader to live more fully in the present.

Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal

Joshua Rosenthal's book Integrative Nutrition
is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to explore and discover the truth about giant food corporations and pharmaceutical companies and how they affect the American diet; the strengths and weaknesses of the popular diets in the market; the reasons why we should listen to our body when we crave for certain foods, the Mind Body Spirit connection, healthy recipes and much, much more. Great pictures,layout etc. A must have Nutrition Resource Book :-)

This book contains recipes for simple grains; beans; vegetables; meat and fish, soup, etc.

Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It

The book helps you develop a lifestyle that fits what you would define as your ideal life. The book mainly explains the effectiveness of writing and how it can release stress or achieve your goals. It has many practical suggestions about stress relief.

The problem with this stress management book is that it delves too much on spiritual references. Most of the advice that is given is more anecdotal and spiritual, rather than scientific.

Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality

Based on the work of her mentor, mind-body pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais, dancer and clinical psychologist Baniel developed a program she has used with clients, including professional musicians, athletes and learning-disabled children.

By taking quizzes, then doing gentle physical movements and brain exercises, readers can test Baniel's theories for themselves, as well as read personal success stories. Baniel's compassionate and empowering approach will leave readers, particularly those with problems defying traditional treatment (chronic pain, mental and emotional trauma) eager to forge positive communication pathways between the body and the mind.