Stress Relief

Relax the Body and Calm the Mind, Restore Balance, and Resolve Difficult Emotions

By: Martin Rossman MD

Narrated by: Martin Rossman MD

Course objectives:
• Discuss the differences between type 1 and type 2 stress.
• Assess personal stress levels through body awareness and numeric scale.
• Utilize abdominal breathing methods to cultivate relaxation and stress reduction.
• Practice guided relaxation through an awareness of the body, the breath and the imagination.
• Apply creative problem solving through accessing inner wisdom through the imagination.

Stress is a normal part of life, but too much stress can wear us out and lower our resistance to illness. On Stress Relief, Dr. Martin L. Rossman provides clinically proven techniques for managing both the internal and external causes of stress.

“These practices often yield immediate, positive results,” explains Dr. Rossman. “People who bring their stress under control generally discover that they have more energy, better mental clarity and emotional balance, and even a more effective immune system.”

Join this respected physician to learn:
• Simple breathing techniques that produce immediate relief when stress arises
• Deep relaxation exercises for releasing built-up tension and becoming more grounded
• Guided imagery practices for staying relaxed in high-tension situations—and for creatively resolving problems

Modern estimates indicate that stress contributes to or causes over 90 percent of the health issues we face today, which means that reducing stress is one of the best ways we can care for our mental and physical well-being. With Stress Relief, Dr. Rossman brings you a CD of potent, easy-to-use tools to let you feel more relaxed, energized, and able to enjoy your life.

Excellent relaxation technique

Find a quiet place to relax and listen to this relaxing audio. Well worth the credit.

Very good up to the last few minutes

This recording offers three relaxation exercises, each building on the one before. They come one right after the other without a lot of lecturing in between, which I like. They're basically self-hypnosis, where you imagine yourself going down a flight of stairs to deeper consciousness. The last one goes into the spirit guide imagery that Jack Kornfield often uses, where they insist that you personify wisdom and compassion as a being you can interact with - either a real person living or dead, or a religious or imaginary figure. What it's really getting at is the wisdom and compassion within ourselves, or that we have access to, and I don't like the one-size-fits-all demand that we HAVE to personify it into a being we can talk to. I'm sure that technique is helpful to many people, or meditation teachers wouldn't keep doing it, but I wish they'd make it optional. At least some of us who are agnostics or atheists aren't going to be willing to personify those forces into a figment of our own imagination any more than we're willing to call them God. We just don't do that process.