Instant Calm: Over 100 Easy-to-Use Techniques for Relaxing Mind and Body

by Paul Wilson

Book Overview

Available in a serene new package, Instant Calm is the busy person's guide to finding peace and contentment in a restless world. These ingenious shortcuts to calm, are written in entertaining,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452274338
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Plume
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Finding shortcuts to help you relax

A guide to finding shortcuts to help you relax and keep your mind and body free of stress and anxiety. This book will show you ways to do this by using several different methods that have been proven to work. Feel like your sitting on a time bomb? I did and I knew I had to do something to ease it all. Finding this book has started me down that road and more. In this book are over one hundred anxiety and stress relievers that can work for anyone. By using things such as music, hugs and even different words, you can begin to relieve your stress in a matter of minutes. Managing a hectic lifestyle can be easy to deal with. This book gives you straight forward ideas on how to make this work. By using self hypnosis, aromatherapy, diet and exercise, just to name a few, you can have a less stressful life. This book is just so simple. Within just a few minutes time I was trying to put some of this advice to work for me. Itís pretty straight forward and really nothing explained in this book is hard to do. You just have to want to get rid of the stress and anxiety and be willing to use these ideas to do it. My favorite part of the book is the section on words. Word play can make a big difference. For instance instead of thinking sad, think happy. If you are thinking you are angry try thinking about being calm. Just changing a word around can make a big difference in how you perceive and cope with the world. This book helps to point that out. If you are looking for quick, effective ways to help reduce the stress in your busy life try reading this book. Put to use the information you find inside and you will begin to feel better about the world you live in. Anxiety Disorders. Concise Blueprint To Overcome Panic Attacks, Phobia & Anxiety. Plus Information On Medication.

Instant calm

Overall, I would say this was a pretty good book with several valuable exercises to create instant calm. However, many of the exercises weren't really instant (such as a diet with calming foods or changing lifestyles or patterns). The book emphasized the use of proper breathing techniques which can certainly help create calm and is the basis of many of the techniques. There is a wide variety of techniques throughout the book that will allow readers to select several that are most appropriate for them to use.

Great!

I've been using the techniques from this book for a couple or years now and I have to say that it works! This book uses many different ways to help you, going from yoga to massage... from exercising to dieting. The book is simple, does not use a hard to follow vocabulary, has clear ideas and instructions, and will help you to learn how to get rid of that horrible thing called stress. A very good book!

Instant Calm-Great Book!!!

This is a great book! it has many techniques, something there for anyone! on first impressions, very impressed on the mention of the various techniques, nice and simple to understand too! great resource, great to read and flip through enjoyable, makes you feel good to use

simple, jargon-free ideas and instructions

I don't agree with the synopsis of this book. The book does not contain mere "quick-fix solutions to relieve the stress and anxiety of daily life". `Instant Calm' although is about crisis control, brings together over hundred of the most powerful stress management techniques known to the humans from ancient times to the discoveries of modern research on stress management. These include meditation, yoga, ancient relaxation techniques such as Tsu-sanli, Feng-Chih, acupressure, self-hypnosis, massage, aromatherapy, exercise, diet and much more. Some of these `other' remedies include `dance', `unfold chair' and `calm hugs' which has been described as "one of the most effective techniques of finding comfort in troubled moments..." For those who don't have the luxury of receiving `calm hugs' can try listening to `calm music' and or `calm your own wrist' with the other hand!What I liked most about the book was simple, jargon-free ideas and instructions. I liked the page on `calm affirmation'. It reminded me that the list of the words at the end of this section can help me to convert the negatives into positives. For example, `panic' can be replaced with `peace'. The `anger' can be turned into `love' and `failure' can be substituted with `success'.The book is packed with immediate remedial and effective methods of eliminating stress, negativity and lack of energy from our life.It is a handbook for those who have to live with stress and worries in this modern `age of anxiety'.