Who It’s For: Would you like to train your body to relax on command? Do you want to change the way you react to the stressors in your life? Do you want to “let go” of things that bother you? Do you just want less stress in your life? Do you want to move beyond coping with your stress to eliminating it? Is you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this program is for you.

Stress can cause over 80 health and psychological conditions. Just about every chronic illness is made worse by stress. When you experience stress, you don’t think as well, your body doesn’t heal as fast and your health suffers.

What You’ll Do: We have pored through volumes of research on stress and chosen the most effective, simplest ways to reduce your stress. The focus of these methods is not on the tricks or tips that you might find elsewhere. Instead, we are interested in increasing your body’s ability to relax while training your mind to become aware of stress and how you react to it. We want to help you revolutionalize how you deal with stress in your life. Over the next four weeks, you’ll work on one skill each week that will help you relax, stay calm and feel better. The skills are:

• The Relaxation Response
• The Stress Log
• The Writing Cure
• Deconstruct “Stress”