Power up Your Life & Make Stress Work 4 You: A Do-It-Yourself Handbook on Managing Stress Efficiently

By Pierre Milot

Stress is a positive force in our bodies that can be utilized to motor our dreams and desires. It can become the power needed to accomplish personal fulfillment, career success and emotional and mental balance.

We all experience stress in our daily lives and as long as well be part of this world, it will be ever-present. We just need to acquire the knowledge of how to manage and minimize its destructive effects and learn to use its potent energy advantageously.

"Power Up Your Life and Make Stress Work 4 You" is an easy, short and efficient handbook that covers proper nutrition as a line of defence and describes various routines such as self-relaxation, meditation, auto-suggestions, breathing exercises and mind reprogramming techniques to help convert and channel stress through your body to manifest relaxation, control and peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479728237

Pierre Milot

Christine Dorothy (nee Fripp) is from Ottawa, Ontario, but presently lives in Martintown, a small village outside of Ottawa. She lives driving distance to her son, Brandon, and to her grandchildren, Joel, Ella and Charlie. She is a published author and recognized as an international expert on-line writer. Having lived in many corners of the globe, her favorite ‘other home’ is France. After her divorce in 2000, she began to buy bungalows and condos to satisfy her voracious appetite to own investment property. This book is a result of the knowledge she gleaned over the years of being a landlord. Presently, Christine lives three seasons at her cottage on a lake in the Gatineau and travels with her companion, Pierre, in the winter months.

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Copyright © 2012 by Pierre Milot, Ph.D.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1    Defining stress and its dangers The ‘Fight or Flight’ phenomena

Chapter 2    Vital energy, a source of well-being Introduction to ‘Prâna’ or ‘Chi’ energies

Chapter 3    Recognizing the negative effects of stress ‘Kappâlabhati’, the cleansing breath

Chapter 4    Identify the negative signs of stress Look at strategies to combat stress Learn a second relaxation exercise

Chapter 5    Countering stress with adequate nutrition Third relaxation technique

Chapter 6    Stress and Food Combination Visualization / Mental Imagery

Chapter 7    Auto-suggestion, an efficient tool against stress Yogic thought blocking exercise AUM meditation

Chapter 8    Japanese thought blocking exercise: Zen Meditation

Chapter 9    Putting it all together to make an advance stress management technique

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to those who have suffered, are suffering or will suffer from the debilitating effects of stress.

SPECIAL THANKS

I would like to give a special thank you to my best friend and life partner Christine who skillfully applied her magical touch to my somewhat doubtful English and help turn it into a readable language.

INTRODUCTION

I wrote this manual on stress management in the hopes that it would become your bedside reading handbook and travel companion. It is meant to increase your comprehension of how the body reacts in certain stress situations and help you to become acquainted with the workings of the numerous coping mechanisms I recommend.

The techniques and exercises described in this work are the results of 25 years of research and experimentation and they have over time served me well, both in my private and professional life as a therapist.

I especially developed this program to be simple, short and result oriented. You can follow the whole program, at a comfortable pace of one chapter per week or per month if you wish, or complete the whole thing in one week if you are an eager-beaver and rushed to get results. You can also jump the content of each chapter and go directly to the exercises.

The basic components of the program are natural and holistic in nature and comprise various approaches such as: self-relaxation, nutrition, breathing exercises, auto-suggestion, meditation and mind reprogramming techniques.

I trust that this handbook will benefit you and help make your life a little better.

CHAPTER 1

Defining stress and its dangers

The ‘Fight or Flight’ phenomena

I strongly believe that stress is an important contributing factor in our life’s discomforts and thus I recognize the need to learn to overcome, master and make that ‘inevitable’ stress work for us. To that effect, I am inviting you in the nine chapters of this handbook, to share my efficient, quick and easy stress management program.

The program is highly effective, and, in it, you will learn how stress works, how to identify the symptoms of stress and how