52 Brillant Ideas: Stress-Proof Your Life: Elisabeth Wilson

Everyone knows stress is a bad thing. It leaches energy, leads to illness, strains relationships, and generally makes life miserable. Yet studies show that even though most people know they should relax, few actually do. Stress-Proof Your Life shows readers how to soothe their frazzled lives with techniques like:

This practical and upbeat guide will help even the most exhausted readers stop stress in its tracks.

This self-help guide takes stress relief back and forth from doing simple things like to-do lists and itemizing important over frivolous time-wasting activities to offering suggestions on how to Feng Shei your house and what scent incense you should burn to calm your mind. From the usual and obvious advice on going out and getting a massage, the author expands the ideas to include the necessity of just fucking cleaning your room. We all know that mountains of old McDonalds bags, wrappers and half-finished cups of mold-infested cola do not help the body's immune system much less the health of the mind.

I found it quite uplifting and yes, I did mark a few pages. I am attempting, at least for the moment, to do a few of the techniques listed within the text and although I know that I will never be completely stress free...I will be able to manage what anxiety I do suffer with. Touched with a bit of professional quotes, surveys of tests done by doctors and little tidbits of how to organize this or that along with Q/A at the end of each chapter, I could not ignore the ideas set forth.

Another great coffee table book read and promptly placed on top of the stack of old National Geographics in the restroom to share the joy of living stress-free with the family. Thank you for one good idea and "namasta" Miss Wilson.

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Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (April 1, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0399534059
ISBN-13: 978-0399534058
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