CHAPTER 1 Objectives
- What is stress?
- Personal check list of stress symptoms
- Factors in heart disease & facts on hypertension
- Breathing technique
- Preparing for relaxation
- Learning to visualise
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 2 Stress in the City
- Check list
- The office environment
- Review of breathing technique
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 3 Smoking, Alcohol and Drug Addiction
- Smoking
- Alcohol
- Drug Addiction (prescribed and non-prescribed)
- Useful Addresses for further information
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 4 Diet and Exercise
- Weight Chart
- Diet
- Exercise
- Eating disorders
- Exercise addiction
- Useful Addresses for further information
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 5 Business travel
- Travel in the UK
- European and short distance travel
- Worldwide travel
- How to calculate number of rest days needed to overcome jet lag
- Fear of flying
- Effects of business travel on the family
- Effects of trauma whilst travelling and working
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
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CHAPTER 6 Work performance
- Sources of work stress
- The type 'A' personality
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 7 Relaxation and Biofeedback
- Biofeedback and the human nervous system
- Brain activity - Alpha waves
- Biofeedback & emotional & pyscho-somatic problems
- Deep relaxation using imagery (visualisation)
- Music as an aid to relaxation
- Laughter - as relaxation
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 8 Family stresses
- Problem areas
- Life change events - effects on health
- The importance of "Letting go"
- How a pet can improve your health
- Family relationships
- Useful Addresses for further information
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 9 Midlife crisis, redundancy and retirement
- Midlife crisis
- Redundancy
- Retirement
- Useful Addresses for further information
- Male health problems
- Male menopause, fact or fiction?
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
CHAPTER 10 Stress and the woman at work
- Profile of the average female manager
- Sources of stress on female managers and symptoms of strain
- How can organisations help in the future?
- How can the female manager help herself
- Visualisation to aid relaxation session
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