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Unstressed

How the Science of Heartfulness Can Transform Your Body's Stress Response and Build Emotional Resilience
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Unstressed reveals how our emotions hold the power to heal us amid daily stress and turmoil. It offers hope for reclaiming contentment, connection, and well-being through practical skills and clinically proven strategies grounded in mindfulness, neurobiology, and positive psychology. Using the author's innovative HEART tools (Heartful Engagement And Re-focusing Training), readers learn to manage stress by embracing positive emotions like gratitude, compassion, empathy, and hope, leading to calmness, happiness, and vitality.
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Ideal for anyone looking to manage stress through emotional resilience and scientific strategies, especially readers interested in mindfulness, positive psychology, and holistic wellness approaches.

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In this guide, a professor of kinesiology shows readers how embodying positive emotions such as gratitude, compassion, empathy, and love can rewire the body's stress response, ignite a sense of calm and connection, and lay the foundation for strength and resilience in the face of everyday stress.

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In the midst of daily stress and turmoil, Unstressed exposes the power of our emotions to heal us—and offers new hope for reclaiming contentment, connection, and a greater sense of well-being.

Do you feel stressed out during the day and lie awake at night worrying? You're not alone. In today's hectic, fast-paced world, stress and anxiety have become a default way of being—as natural to us as breathing air. And because stress is an inevitable part of life, one of the most important things you can do for yourself is to learn how to manage and heal it.

This book offers proven ways to help you counter the negative effects that stress has on the body and mind. You'll also discover practical skills and clinically proven strategies grounded in mindfulness, neurobiology, and positive psychology to help you cultivate a deep sense of emotional resilience.

Using the author's innovative HEART tools (Heartful Engagement And Re-focusing Training), you'll learn to manage stress by harnessing the power of positive emotions—such as gratitude, compassion, empathy, and hope—leading to a feeling of expansiveness and possibility, and a lived sense of calm, happiness, and vitality.

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"Unstressed uses the latest science to show readers how to master their emotions to create a fulfilled life," says Paul J. Zak, PhD. Frank Rogers, PhD, highlights that the book "explains the science and provides the skills for transforming emotional chaos into resilience and well-being," with mindfulness and heartfulness cultivating calm and connection. The book is praised for restoring readers to vitality and love through expert guidance.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684032839

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Alane K. Daugherty, PhD, is a stress expert who teaches courses in stress management, emotional health, embodied spirituality, and the psychophysiology of contemplative practice. She is co-director of the Mind and Heart Research Lab-a psychophysiology lab, stress management and emotional health facility at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. She also serves as research consultant for the Center for Engaged Compassion at Claremont School of Theology. She routinely conducts seminars, workshops, and retreats on stress management and cultivating emotional resilience.

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