Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction xxi
Part I Stress and destressifying 1
Chapter 1 Stressed Out? 3
Chapter 2 What Stress Does to Your Body: The Fight-or-Flight Response 25
Chapter 3 What Stress Does to Your Mind: The Reactive or Ego Response 39
Chapter 4 Beyond Stress: The destressified Response 53
Part II Mastering the Five Cores of destressifying-the Practice 71
Chapter 5 Destressifying by Mastering Your Awareness 75
Chapter 6 Destressifying by Mastering Your Needs 111
Chapter 7 Using the Five Realms to Master Your Needs 141
Chapter 8 Destressifying by Mastering Your Emotions 155
Chapter 9 Destressifying by Mastering Your Communication 177
Chapter 10 Destressifying by Mastering Your Purpose in Life 209
Part III Living a destressifying Life and Keeping It Real 243
Chapter 11 Destressifying Through Lifestyle Choices 247
Chapter 12 In-the-Moment destressifying 257
Afterword 273
Index of Meditations and Exercises 275
Acknowledgements 277
About the Author 281