Twentieth century has been labeled as an age of anxiety Today, at the beginning of the twenty first century, stress as a condition of life has taken the form of a threat. In this context, this book is a meaningful effort in suggesting ways for coping with stress. The focus is on making life easier to live.
The author has analyzed the anatomy of stress and dealt with various stressors from cognitive as well as behavioral perspective. At the same time the author has made an attempt to synthesize Cognitive and Behavioral approaches to stress management with priceless Indian spiritual heritage. The work by the author is holistic and rooted in nativity.
The book echoes around the theme people are slaves of their beliefs, attitudes and values rather than the real situations. The author has proposed certain practical and simple mechanisms to do away with these negative and destructive thoughts/beliefs. These are also supplemented by the behavioral measures to be adopted.
This book is recommended strongly for managers, trainers. counselors, various professionals, students, youth, couples and educated housewives.
Dr. Neera Dhar is presently working as an Associate Professor at the National Institute Of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi. Her specialization and experience is in the area of Behavioural science, Psychotherapy / Counselling and Training Methodology. She did her doctorate on "Anxiety Proneness, Interpersonal perception and Personality profiles of the rejected". By virtue of her academic brilliance she was chosen and sponsored by the "Rotary International" to pursue her post doctoral studies in USA and also to work as an "Ambassador of Goodwill" from India in the year 1988. Dr. Dhar has been involved in conducting training programmes of executives from Education, Public Sector Undertakings and Health since 1990. A major focus of her training for last couple of years has been on "Stress Management" for doctors, with an innovative perspective. The distinctive and popular features of her creative approach in the training are the messages from Indian spiritual thought, Indian lyrics, singing and music, laughter/weeping, catharsis, love and empathy used towards emotional realization of intellectual and scientific process of stress management. Her training efforts orient around the theme: "keep it simple and beautiful".
Stress management has become a vital concern today. Non-stop stress, acts like a demon at our door step. We never heard of this stuff a few years back. Now every one is talking about it. Stress! Stress! Stress! It has become a condition of living today, condition that cannot be eliminated from life. It is the high time when each one of us has to learn to manage it.
Stress is not always bad. In fact a minimum level of stress is required to lead a productive and a creative life. For instance, in case of a student, stress related to poor performance in the examination can gradually lead to better work efficiency and output. But if it surpasses the required and manageable level, the consequences can be highly counter-productive and even fatal. Tolerance level for the degree of stress varies from individual to individual. No absolute standard exists for that. Individual 'A' might have the capacity to manage ten stressors at a given point in time, individual 'B' might have the capacity to cope up with five stressors only while individual 'C' might not possess the capacity to handle even one stressor. Some people have the notion that stress indicates some psychological disorder.
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