Product Description

This book, based on the authors' highly successful workshops, will help you to harness the positive energy of pressure without feeling the damaging effects of stress. An innovative mind-body system, 'Positive Under Pressure' will help you to handle a work project, a job interview, a sports event or simply the stresses and strains of contemporary life. Whether you're a high achiever who likes life in the fast lane, or someone who is simply trying to make peace with their stress-filled life, this book can help: understand and control your early warning signs of stress; achieve and maintain 'flow' state; say 'No' assertively; ask for your needs to be met; think positively; and, relax yourself with a set of techniques you can use anytime, anywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #559040 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Some people thrive on stress. We've all heard it said. And apparently there's some truth in the saying. Evolutionary theories suggest that stress was beneficial to our prehistoric predecessors by equipping them with responses that maximized their survival. Stress sharpened the senses and created the adrenal energy needed to fight or take flight. Apparently these responses are controlled by our autonomic nervous systems. But while this built-in system helps us to survive, it can be set off inadvertently and inappropriately. Positive Under Pressure will help you control your "pressure thermometer" and attune your angst.

As well as explaining how to recognise the signs of stress (such as poor concentration, becoming reclusive and developing nervous habits) authors Gail Lindenfield and Dr Malcolm Vandenburg will show you how to harness and utilise your stress positively. Preventative care, pressure management and reframing the way you think are just some of the topics discussed in the book. It also includes examples of people who have succeeded in spite of setbacks.

And by teaching techniques intended to modify emotions, and explaining strategies to relinquish stress, the book aims to encourage change and to help the reader take responsibility for their personality. Positive Under Pressure will help you cope with the ups and downs of life and reach an emotional equilibrium. So that, rather than be under pressure, you can be on top of it. And use it to your benefit.--Christopher Kelly

From the Back Cover
Everyone is under pressure - to meet deadlines, pat bills, achieve, find time for a balanced life. What few people realize however is that pressure can be good for you. It can stimulate you to achieve your peak performance at work and bring passion and vitality into your personal life. Managed badly, however, pressure can lead to stress, strain and self - sabotage.
This book, based on the author's highly successful workshops, will help you harness the positive energy of pressure without feeling the damaging effects of stress. An innovative mind-body system, Positive Under Pressure will help you handle a work project, a job interview, a sports event or simply the stresses and strains of contemporary life. Whether you're a high achiever who likes life in the fast lane or someone who is simply trying to make peace with their stress filled life, this book can help.
LEARN TO:
* Understand and control your early warning signs of stress
* Achieve and maintain 'flow' state
* Say 'no' assertively
* Ask for your needs to be met
* Think positively
* Relax yourself with a set of techniques you can use anytime, anywhere

About the Author
Gael Lindenfield is a leading personal develoment trainer the UK. She is the author of 9 personal development titles that have been translated into 16 languages. She features frequently in the media. Malcolm VandenBurgm a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, bring experience understanding the physiology of stress to this project.