How to Avoid Stress Before It Kills You

ISBN: 9780517305560

定价: 39.00

内容简介

Foreword
Stress is a relatively new concept in our culture
and yet most of us will eventually die of disorders re-
lated to our inability to cope successfully with it. In
an age when medical science has all but conquered
infectious disease??? we still find ourselves faced with
the prospect of suffering--and possibly dying--from
one or more of the stress-linked disorders.
However??? there is hope; for effective anti-stress
self-control procedures have been devised. Some???
like certain meditation practices??? have been popular
in other cultures for centuries. Autogenic training???
an autosuggestive technique??? was developed in Ger-
many some forty years ago??? but only in the last few
years has its literature become available in the Eng-
lish language. Edmund Jacobson s progressive re-
laxation has been taught in the United States since
the 1920s??? but perhaps the inherent simplicity of
this muscle relaxation procedure has prevented its
widespread acceptance in medical-psychological cir-
cles.
Now Western technology has evolved biofeed-
back--a technique for our time and culture--
electronic??? precise??? and demonstrably effective.