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Tools to Relieve Stress • Mind/Body Balance & Healing
TOOLS TO RELIEVE STRESS
Healing Rhythms
Biofeedback Device for Relaxation Training
Developed by Drs. Andrew Weil, Dean Ornish, and Deepak Chopra, this stress reduction and relaxation training program is state of the art and fun to use. Biofeedback technology transmits data on your stress states via a finger sensor into your computer, then teaches you how to harmonize and deeply relax your mind and body to return to balance and calm. 15 programs and 40 guided meditations strengthen self awareness and self regulation skills to become part of your way of being in responding to stress over time. View the demo. Product Details
emWave Personal Stress Reliever
An easy-to-use biofeedback device based on pioneering HeartMath research with a patented heart rhythm monitor designed to prevent, manage and reverse the negative effects of stress. Helps you create physiological coherence, a highly efficient state where all systems of your body and mind work together in harmony. The device collects pulse data through a sensor which plugs into your computer and displays your heart rhythms in graphics. Learn how to change your heart rhythm patterns to create coherence and relieve anxiety, depression and many symptoms of stress-related illness. Product Details
Soulage Eggplant Body Wrap
This elegant eggplant colored wrap delivers thirty minutes or more of heat and comfort. Perfectly designed to drape evenly over your shoulders, spine, lower back, or where ever necessary, this wrap will sooth the stress and tension from your body. Product Details
Sage Eye Pillow
This eye pillow offers sublime comfort to your eyes without adding pressure to the bridge of your nose. Filled with lavender flower and flaxseed, it’s aromatheraputic effects help you relax. Put it in a zip-lock bag in the freezer, and then over your eyes to reduce puffiness and headaches. Product Details
MindSpa
Dr. Ruth Olmstead and A.V. Stim
Brainwave entrainment technology progressively retrains your ability to relax, learn, problem-solve and think creatively by opening new pathways in the brain. The combination of flashing lights through special glasses, and pulsing sounds keyed to different brainwave speeds from quiet alpha to the high beta, induces meditative, creative, receptive or attentive brain states, is deeply relaxing. Portable, easy to operate, 18 preset programs also improve guided imagery and meditation skills. Note: Optical stimulation devices have been known to induce seizures in those with epilepsy or seizure disorders. Product Details
Mindfulness Meditation for Beginniners
Jon Kabat-Ziinn, Ph.D.
Mindfulness practice is paying attention in a purposeful way, in the present moment, without judgment. MIT trained Kabat-Zinn introduced ancient Tibetan Buddhist mindfulness practice into the first evidence-based Stress Reduction Clinic in the US to help alleviate depression, chronic pain and stress related illnesses. This 2 CD set teaches the basics of mindfulness meditation and its benefits. It also includes five meditations, eating mindfully, breathing meditation, and body mindfulness. Listen to an excerpt. Product Details
Inner Peace for Busy People
Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D.
Quieting the ‘monkey mind’ is the bottom line of any stress-relieving technique. Whether you go into a sensory deprivation tank, to a mountaintop to meditate, or use hi-tech biofeedback to witness your brainwaves at work – and at rest – it’s our constant mental chatter and the random fears, resentments, and expectations it generates that underlies stress and tension. This practical guide teaches you skills to tame your mind and regain your inner peace in 52 lessons, one week at a time. Listen to an excerpt. 2-CDs. Product Details
Is Today’s Economy Hurting Your Health?
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Perhaps the world – and your world – is falling apart around you. What are your choices? Broadly speaking, you can take action or you can be swept away by your free-floating anxieties. Dr. Northrup provides tools and action steps to take care of what’s important – including yourself, to take control of what you can, and to let go of the rest. Tune into your body, feel your emotions and learn to use them constructively. Listen to an excerpt. 2 CDs. Product Detail
My Yoga Online
Customize Your Yoga Practice on Demand
This site’s revolutionary concept allows you to customize your exercise routine. With a monthly membership you have unlimited use of all types of yoga, pilates, meditation video classes taught by master teachers. Classes are suitable for all levels of ability, so you can vary your routine, and schedule your sessions according to your mood and convenience. Yoga based exercises are proven to reduce stress by balancing the adrenal glands and so much more, to improve the health of your heart, bones, joints, reduce pain and create deep equanimity and inner peace. Product Details
Stress Free for Good: 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness
Kenneth Pelletier, M.D. & Fred Luskin, M.D.
Presented with simple wisdom and the authority of decades of researching stress, just reading this book of everyday, in-the-moment body, mind and behavioral practices will find you slowing down and wondering what all your urgency is about. The authors distill decades of research into ten practical stress management skills that are really steps to self mastery. Product Details
Total Relaxation
Binaural Beat Recording to Alter Brainwaves
Listening to these gentle sounds, this deep relaxation CD uses binaural beat brainwave technology to relax your body while your mind sets aside its worries and to-do lists, and your brain creates and releases natural serotonin relaxants. After 60 minutes, nothing is a problem. You feel calm, empowered, and fresh, not drowsy, and your upbeat mood continues. A refreshing time-out. Product Details
Chakra Balancing
Binaural Beat Recording to Alter Brainwaves
Relax as you listen to pleasant brain synchronization sounds and feel your body gradually release tension and rebalance, as the seven chakra (energy) centers along your spine, at the root, sacrum, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye and crown, are activated. After your 60 minute session you feel a deep inner shift and notice yourself holding your body differently as energy streams through you, unblocked. Use it to rebalance after work to set the stage for a relaxing evening. CD. Product Details
Power Siesta
Binaural Beat Recording to Alter Brainwaves
For a quick power nap if you’re jet lagged, had a late night, or just need an attitude adjustment, slip on your headphones, sit back and listen to soft, gentle sound of rain and background sounds. Feel your body ease into deepening states of relaxation. When you ‘wake up’ 30 minutes later by the changing tones, you’ll feel fresh, rested, in a much better mood and alert and thinking clearly. CD Product Details
MIND/BODY BALANCE & HEALING
Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind
New Insights Into the Body/Mind Connection
Candace Pert, Ph.D.
Your body is your subconscious mind. Your brain is not in charge. Research shows that every cell in your body is constantly communicating, biochemically exchanging information with every other cell, and regulating all aspects of your health, moods, and energy. This is the new science of life. This pioneering neuroscientist who discovered the Molecules of Emotion talks about its implications for our potential, our spiritual growth and how to navigate a world where the old model of the brain controlling the body no longer fits. Listen to excerpt. Product Details
Psychosomatic Wellness: Guided Meditations, Affirmations & Music to Heal Your Bodymind
Candace Pert, Ph.D.
Sounds vibrate the molecules of our bodies, not just our ears and brains, to resonate with the music we hear. Research shows that certain sounds, or vibrational frequencies, electrically tune our cells to operate at more healthful frequencies. Dr. Pert leads guided meditations with healing flute, percussion, vocals, and bass to entrain your body and mind to resonate with more harmony and equilibrium. Listen to an excerpt. 1 CD Product Details
The Mind-Body Code: How the Mind Wounds and Heals the Body
Mario Martinez, Ph.D.
This psychoneuroimmunologist and member of Carolyn Myss’s CMED core faculty is mesmerizing as he describes the cultural and psychological basis of mind-body medicine. He states that people – and our bodies – are inseparable from the living field of mind and historical culture. As with cultures that see aging as a process that increases wisdom and abilities have more – and healthier – centenarians, he explores how cultural influences impact our wellness, relationships, productivity and personal development. Teaches the biosymbolic language of the body, meditations for mind/body balance. Listen to an excerpt. 6 CDs. Product Details
Inside-Out Wellness: The Wisdom of Mind/Body Healing
Wayne W. Dyer, M.D. & Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Techniques to transform worn habits, thoughts and beliefs that keep you in self-sabotage, three steps ahead, two steps back. Dr. Dyer presents new Excuses Begone practices to let go of the past and retrain thinking patterns. Dr. Northrup emphasizes the benefits to your health, empowerment and vitality when you dare to cultivate pleasure and follow your passions instead of your stresses. Body/mind wellness support with tools and practices from leaders in personal growth. Listen to excerpt. 4 CDs. Product Details
The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage
First in ” Journey to Wild Divine” Adventure Gaming Series
Wise mentors guide your breathing and meditation practices so you achieve control over your mind & body. With this innovative, creative biofeedback tool, you build stairways with your breath, open doors with meditation, juggle balls with your laughter, and more. Wearing finger sensors that track your body’s heart rate variability and skin conductance, learn to use the power of your thoughts, feelings, breath and awareness to increase relaxation, restore balance and vitality, and improve your well being. Take your mind-body wellness into your own hands with this easy to use and fun technology. Demo The Journey. Product Details
Meditations to Change Your Brain
Rewire Your Neural Pathways to Transform Your Life
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. & Richard Mendius, M.D.
Contrary to the myth we grew up with, studies in neuroplasticity show that the shape and structure of the brain changes constantly – and we can help direct it if we want. This 3 CD set brings together the neuroscience of changes in the brain that happen when neurons wire together, with Buddhist meditation practices that strengthen neural circuits to generate peace, resilience and happiness. By tapping the creative power of attention, you can deliberately cultivate wholesome states of mind to create permanent, structural changes in your brain over time. Listen to an excerpt. Product Details
Bach Flower Essences
Almost 100 years ago German physician Edward Bach observed that patients’ positive emotional states accelerated their recovery. Using new discovered homeopathic distillation methods he formulated flower essence remedies from 38 single flowers to help balance and heal specific emotions, as well as mental states such as fear, anger, and apathy. Lots of information on the site describes the essences, how to choose the ones you need and how to use them.
Many actors rely on Rescue Remedy, a first aid remedy to soothe shock or trauma, to calm stage fright. Well written materials guide you in choosing simple and effective emotional healing and balance remedies. Product Details
Mind/Body Makeover Cards
Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuropsychiatrist and medical intuitive Schulz created these evocative bodymind balance cards as a way to tap into your intuitive abilities and become more aware of your emotions, thoughts, and how these may play into your physical symptoms. They help you rewire emotional patterns to decrease your chances of succumbing to physical illness, depression, and anxiety. Comes with a helpful guide. Product Details
