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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Getting Ready | |
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| Introduction to Stress Management | |
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| The Games | |
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| The Anti-Boredom Game: Positive planning for the slow times | |
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| The Beastly Boss Game: Fantasy and role playing that focuses on the boss | |
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| Beliefs That Can Kill: A look at irrational thinking in the workplace | |
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| The Bliss List: Creating a personalized list of relaxing activities | |
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| Blowing Away the Tension: Quick relaxation with the cleansing breath | |
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| Blowing Up the Company: Putting things in perspective with guided imagery | |
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| Building a Relaxation Machine: Learning to use the materials at hand to aid relaxation | |
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| Capturing a Daydream: Unguided imagery to promote relaxation and creativity | |
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| Compu-Relaxation: Using the computer as a relaxation tool | |
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| Corporate Space Oddity: Guided imagery in deep space | |
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| Corporate Telephone: An amusing variation on the telephone game | |
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| The Co-Worker from Hell: A role play for coping with interpersonal conflict | |
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| Dancing with your Eyes: Quick-and-easy eye-movement relaxation | |
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| The Glittering Roof: A guided-imagery fantasy | |
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| The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Learning to distinguish good and bad ways to manage stress | |
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| Gravity Magic: Relaxing with the passive stretch technique | |
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| Hands that Heal: The art of self-massage | |
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| Hour Power: Learning to schedule break time | |
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| Keeping the Fires Burning: Fighting burnout with small changes | |
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| The Laugh Graph: The power of humor in lowering stress | |
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| A Little Help from My Friends: Creating mutual support teams | |
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| The Make-a-Fist Technique: A simple muscle relaxation technique | |
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| Make Me Laugh: Handling stressful situations with humor | |
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| Making It Personal: Designing a personal relaxation regimen | |
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| Meditation for the Impatient: Learning the relaxation response | |
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| The Nirvana Room: Designing a low-stress workplace | |
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| One Minute in Hell: Learning to cope with discomfort | |
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| The Place of Perfect Peace: Partially guided imagery that takes you there | |
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| Popeye Puffs: Pumping out bad air with the double blow | |
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| Punch That Pillow!: Learning to redirect workplace hostility | |
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| Reach for the Sky: An active stretching exercise | |
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| Ready, Set, Sit!: The power of the relaxation posture | |
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| Red, White, and Very Blue: A colorful approach to managing stress | |
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| Run for Your Life!: Quick aerobics for the office | |
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| The Seek and Kill Game: Finding and eliminating sources of stress | |
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| Stacked to the Ceiling: A structured approach to organizing and prioritizing | |
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| Staying Cool, Getting Hot: Using temperature sensors for quick and easy biofeedback | |
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| Tangerine Trees: A fanciful guided-imagery exercise | |
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| The Ten-Year Planner: Fighting stress with long-term planning | |
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| The Terrific Tummy Technique: An easy way to learn abdominal breathing | |
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| This Perfect Day: Guided imagery to promote relaxation and planning | |
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| The Time-Tested Ten Count: An anger-control exercise | |
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| Turn, Turn, Turn: A simple head-turning and head-tilting exercise | |
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| The Turtle Technique: Learning to withdraw constructively | |
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| The Twenty-Eight-Hour Day: Squeezing more hours into less through time management | |
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| The Warmth of the Sun: An imagery exercise for beach lovers | |
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| What D'Ya Know?: A stress-management quiz for the organizational setting | |
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| The Whoosh Game: A powerful thought-restructuring exercise | |
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| Within You, Without You: An imagery exercise exploring the body and surroundings | |
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| The World Is Round: The ultimate thought-restructuring exercise | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |