A Handbook on Stress Management

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.