Product Description

Most of us believe that in order to achieve anything worthwhile, whether in our careers, family life, health or even on the sports field, we have to work hard and apply a lot of effort. In fact, just the opposite is true. In this book, Dr. Ingrid Bacci offers evidence that the most productive, creative and healthiest individuals are those who practice effortless living. By doing less, paradoxical as it may seem, they achieve more. In this book the reader meets individuals who have transformed their lives in radically simple ways: The executive whose influence over her colleagues increased dramatically after she began a deceptively simple relaxation. The patient who eliminated 30 years of suffering from migraines after ten training sessions in releasing unconscious muscle tension. The golf player who corrected his golf swing in one brief session, using a series of visualization exercises. This book aims to show you how to dissolve conscious and unconscious stress through simple techniques that replace effort with effortlessness. The result should be a more rewarding lifestyle leading to physical vitality, increased productivity, creative relationships and the freedom to express your best self.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102888 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
A practical, ground-breaking guide to achieving more by doing less.

From the Back Cover
Most of us believe that in order to achieve anything worthwhile, whether in our careers, family life, health or even on the sports field, we have to work hard and apply a lot of effort. In fact, just the opposite is true. In The Art of Effortless Living, Dr Ingrid Bacci offers compelling evidence that the most productive, creative and healthiest individuals are those who practice effortless living. By doing less, paradoxical as it may seem, they achieve more.

Here you learn how to dissolve conscious and unconscious stress through simple techniques that replace effort with effortlessness. You will also discover a more rewarding lifestyle that leads to physical vitality, increased productivity, creative relationships and the freedom to express your best self.

'This book contains a piece of essential wisdom - that by letting go we gain more, not less. Because most of us are obsessed with the idea of making things happen, we seriously need the lessons of The Art of Effortless Living'
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Recovering Your Soul

About the Author
Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D., is a health care practitioner and motivational consultant to corporations, educational institutions, hospitals and churches. She has published articles in scientific, management and spiritual journals, including has produced television shown on mind-body training and has demonstrated the techniques of effortless living on major networks. The author's training and expertise in mind-body healing grew out of her own experience with a serious medical condition. Twenty years ago, she was a young philosophy professor on the academic fast track with degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities. At thirty-one years of age, her career was abruptly shattered by a crippling collagen disease that defied cure by highly respected traditional medical doctors. For three years Bacci was a bedridden invalid in constant pain. During this time she turned her own mind and body into a laboratory for self-study. She explored and subsequently tralned in alternative theraples based on the mind-body connection, and studied spiritual traditions that focus on accessing the higher powers of the mind. Ten years later all signs of illness were gone, and Dr. Bacci had transformed herself from a cripple to a tri-athlete. In addition, she had committed herself to a lifelong professional goal of assisting others in achieving optimum health and creativity.

Customer Reviews

An excellent read
Having suffered from depression I was looking for a new way to look at life. This is the first self-help type book I bought, and it resonated with me. I have read it twice and still look through it when Im feeling a little down. It starts with the reasons we may find life hard, and goes into ways of making them easier by meditation (relaxation), visualisations and adopting the ethos that things happen for a reason even if we dont understand why at that moment. I found the book insightful and have adopted many of the practices laid out in the text, and it really is helping.

this book changed my life
This book is more than a self help book - more of a non religious bible! It is so easy to read and written so everyone who reads it can relate to every subject in their lives and want to change too.

I have read alot of self help books but this one is by far the best one out there so.... buy it now!

The Art of Effortless Living - Buy It !!
A wonderful book. It introduced to me the concept that life really wasn't meant to be a struggle, filled with stress and anxiety. Living with stress become the accepted norm in modern society, and to read the authors own story is truly inspirational. The book led me on a path to taking Alexander Technique lessons which in themselves were a revelation in undoing the stresses that have built up in our bodies - physical, mental they are all mixed up in one mind/body medley. The `less is more' approach is so poignant for me and the author explains a number of ways in which we can make our lives effortless, the way we were created until the 20th and 21st century taught us otherwise. Its a few years since I read it but I always refer back to it.