Effective Life Skills -- Complete Body & Mind Relaxation, Brief Version, CD (Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Stress Management and Reduction) (Calms Body & Mind to Cope with Stress, Depression, Worry, and Anxiety, Spoken Word, Narrative Throughout, Acco

This progressive relaxation recording is ideal for creating the deepest possible physical relaxation that releases and discharges all traces of stress and tension from your entire body, and then clears and calms your mind. It works so effectively by systematically tensing and relaxing each of the major muscle groups and areas of your body, beginning at the tips of your toes, and slowly and sequentially moving up through each area, until reaching the very top of your head. With practice, this process will retrain your brain to recognize whenever any part of you is carrying tension or stress, and allow you to rapidly release it. Therefore, this technique becomes a powerful aid to you in preventing the build up of stress and tension in your body and mind, in repairing and preventing the damage of accumulation of tension and stress, and creating a more relaxed physical and mental state as your "new baseline", becoming your normal way of living and coping. This relaxation state enhances your immune system, reduces the negative impact of stressors on your body (including health problems), strengthens your ability to respond in a beneficial and constructive way to life's challenges, stresses, physical and emotional demands -- all because your body and mind's resources are no longer being drained by chronic and/or intense stress or tension. Even if you feel that you have never been able to completely relax, you will find that you can relax more and more deeply with this than ever before. IMPORTANT NOTE: The progressive relaxation technique is like a "mini workout" of stretching, strengthening, and tension-releasing resistance exercises for your muscle groups. The process requires your active participation, both physically and mentally, in an interactive guided program of stress/tension release and deep relaxation. ALSO, there are two different versions: BRIEF (approx. 25-30 minutes) and FULL (approx. 50-60 minutes).