The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living - by Amit Sood & Mayo Clinic (Paperback)

About the Book

Here is the Mayo Clinic s first book focusing on the timely, urgent health issue of stress-free living. The author, Dr. Amit Sood, is a Mayo specialist in stress relief and resiliency training and this book represents captures the essence of his successful stress management and resiliency training program.
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Book Synopsis

In this book, Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress and resiliency, reveals how the mind's instinctive restlessness and shortsightedness generate stress and anxiety and presents strategies for living a more peaceful life.
Have you ever driven several miles without noticing anything on the road, or read a page in a book without registering any of it? Do the day's worries and disappointments crowd your mind as you're trying to fall asleep at night? Do you feel stressed much of the time and aren't sure how to find peace?
This book is based on the highly popular stress management program offered at Mayo Clinic that Dr. Sood developed after two decades of work with tens of thousands of people. Drawing on groundbreaking brain research, Dr. Sood helps you understand the brain's two modes and how an imbalance between them produces unwanted stress. From this basis, you learn skills that will help you:
Develop deep and sustained attentionPractice gratitude, compassion and acceptanceLive a meaningful lifeCultivate nurturing relationshipsAchieve your highest potential
All of these concepts are weaved into a practical and fun journey that has been tested in numerous scientific studies, with consistently positive results. Take the first step to discover greater peace and joy for you and your loved ones.
"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life." -- Dr. Andrew Weil
"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about." -- Dr. Daniel Goleman

Review Quotes

"Dr. Sood has put together a simple, secular and structured program that is anchored in science, is free of rituals and dogmas, and is accessible to everyone. This book can change your life."--Dr. Andrew Weil

"An important innovative approach to well-being, one we all should know about."--Dr. Daniel Goleman

Booklist, 1/1/2014

"This practical, can-do guide, written by a positive-energy medical doctor at the Mayo Clinic, offers clear steps to take to decrease the bad kind of stress...Just reading Sood's lucid, commonsensical recommendations is a start to eliminating negative stress."

Taste for Life, February 2014

"Offers an innovative approach to mindfulness and well-being."

Chatelaine.com "10 Best Health Books of 2014," 2/3/14

Spirituality & Practice, 3/1/2014

"Dr. Sood has come up with a rather amazing affirmation of a contented life."

Taste for Life, May 2014
"Dr. Sood offers simple solutions to relieving stress in our day-to-day problems...This 10-part guide can help readers find peace and achieve their goals toward creating a healthier and happier life."

About the Author

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit worldwide leader in medical care, research and education for people from all walks of life. For more information, visit MayoClinic.com.

Amit Sood, M.D. is Director of Research and Practice in the Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program and Associate Professor, Chair of the Mayo Mind-Body Initiative.