AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO STRESS MANAGEMENT

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The peer-reviewed, medical research by Dean Ornish, M.D. and his colleagues at the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute has shown that chronic stress has direct harmful effects on your whole being.

Integrating stress management methods, such as: breath awareness, therapeutic stretching, meditation, imagery, relaxation, and altruism give you the means to better detect, relate and respond to the mental, emotional and physical effects of stress on your health and overall sense of well-being.

These are proven skills you can integrate into your daily life to help you manage stress, anxiety and pain; the important thing is to find what works for you. Although powerful when practiced alone, combining them yields a power even greater than the sum of individual methods.

The purpose of practicing stress management is to:

-Reduce the physical, psycho-emotional & behavioral reactions that lead to disease & suffering

- Heighten overall awareness in ways that can transform how you relate and respond to stress into more skillful, sustainable & joyous ways of being.