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Here are some resources that you might find useful. 

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  • Daily relaxation reminders: receive a different e-mail every day for a month to remind you to relax. A quick and painless way to devote at least one minute a day to relaxing. Free. 
  • Biofeedback Society of California
  • Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
  • American Psychological Association
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
  • American Academy of Pain Management
  • The American Institute of Stress- information packets and newsletter for a fee
  • Academy for Guided Imagey
  • Somatics Educational Resources 

    • Book List

    STRESS MANAGEMENT

  • Bloomfield, Harold & Cooper, Robert.(1995). THE POWER OF 5. Rodale Press, PA. 
  • Burns, David. (1980). FEELING GOOD: THE NEW MOOD THERAPY. William Morrow, NY. 
  • Charlesworth, E. & Nathan, R. (1982). STRESS MANAGEMENT, Ballantine, N.Y. A comprehensive guide to wellness; informative and practical. 
  • Mason, L.J. (1980). GUIDE TO STRESS REDUCTION, Celestial Arts, Berkeley. 
  • Davis, M., Eshelman, E. & McKay, M. (1982) THE RELAXATION AND STRESS REDUCTION WORKBOOK. New Harbinger Publications. Oakland. 
  • Lakein, A. (1973). HOW TO GET CONTROL OF YOUR TIME AND YOUR LIFE. Signet. NY. 
  • Girdano, D.A., Everly, G.S., & Dusek, D.E., (3rd Ed., 1990). CONTROLLING STRESS AND TENSION: A HOLISTIC APPROACH. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 
  • Sapolsky, Robert. (1994). WHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERS, W.H. Freeman & Co. NY. 
  • Seligman, M.E.P. (1991). LEARNED OPTIMISM, Alfred Knopf, New York. 
  • Woolfolk, Robert & Richardson, Frank. (1978). STRESS, SANITY AND SURVIVAL. Monarch, NY.

    • PAIN MANAGEMENT

  • Bressler, David & Trubo, R. (1979). FREE YOURSELF FROM PAIN. Simon & Schuster, NY. 
  • Caudill, Margaret, M.D. (1995). MANAGING PAIN BEFORE IT MANAGES YOU. Guilford Press, NY. 
  • Catalano, E.M. (1987). THE CHRONIC PAIN CONTROL WORKBOOK. New Harbinger Publications. Oakland. 
  • Corey, D. (1989) PAIN: FREE YOURSELF FOR LIFE. Plume Books. NY. 
  • Melzack, Ronald & Wall, Patrick. (1988). THE CHALLENGE OF PAIN. Penguin Books, NY. 
  • Sternbach, Richard, M.D. (1987). MASTERING PAIN: A TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM FOR COPING WITH CHRONIC PAIN. Ballantine Books, NY. 

    • RELAXATION AND HEALING

  • Achterberg, Jeanne. (1985). IMAGERY IN HEALING, Shambhala, Boston. Shamanism and modern medicine. 
  • Benson, H. (1976). THE RELAXATION RESPONSE. Avon Books. NY. 
  • Benson, H. (1979). THE MIND/BODY EFFECT, Berkley Books, N.Y. How behavioral medicine can show you the way to better health. 
  • Benson, H. (1984). BEYOND THE RELAXATION RESPONSE, Berkley Books, N.Y. 
  • Benson, H. (1996) TIMELESS HEALING, Scribner, N.Y. 
  • Borysenko, J. (1987). MINDING THE BODY, MENDING THE MIND. Bantam Books. NY. How to harness the healing power of your personal beliefs. 
  • Chopra, D. (1989). QUANTUM HEALING, Bantam Books, N.Y. Exploring the frontiers of mind/body medicine. 
  • Chopra, D. (1991). UNCONDITIONAL LIFE, Bantam Books, N.Y. Mastering the forces that shape personal reality. 
  • Chopra, D. (1993). AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND, Harmony Books, N.Y. Ancient wisdom, modern science, and mind/body medicine applied to aging. 
  • Chopra, D. (1987). CREATING HEALTH, Houghton Mifflin, Boston. How to wake up the body's intelligence. 
  • Criswell, Eleanor. (1989) HOW YOGA WORKS, Freeperson Press. Introduction to Somatic Yoga.
  • Dacher, E. (1991). PNI, PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY, Paragon House, N.Y. A new mind/body healing program applied to disease prevention, risk reduction and recovery. 
  • Hanna, T. (1988). SOMATICS, Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, CA. 
  • Locke, S. & Colligan, D. (1986). THE HEALER WITHIN, Mentor Books, N.Y. The new medicine of mind and body, psychoneuroimmunology. 
  • Ornish, Dean. (1990). REVERSING HEART DISEASE, Ballantine Books, NY. 
  • Ornish, Dean (1998) HEALING POWER OF LOVE & INTIMACY. 
  • Pelletier, K. (1977) MIND AS HEALER, MIND AS SLAYER. Dell Publishing. NY. 
  • Pennebaker, W. (1997)OPENING UP: the healing power of confiding in others. 
  • Rossman, M. (1987). HEALING YOURSELF: A STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM FOR BETTER HEALTH THROUGH IMAGERY. Walker and Co., NY. 

    •   MEDITATION

  • Groves, Dawn. (1993). MEDITATION FOR BUSY PEOPLE: 60 SECONDS TO SERENITY. New World Library, CA 
  • Gawler, Ian. (1989). PEACE OF MIND: HOW YOU CAN LEARN TO MEDITATE AND USE THE POWER OF YOUR MIND. Avery Publishing Group, NY. 
  • Goleman, Daniel. (1977). THE MEDITATIVE MIND: THE VARIETIES OF MEDITATIVE EXPERIENCE. Jeremy Tarcher, CA. 
  • Kabat-Zinn, Jon (1990). FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING: USING THE WISDOM OF YOUR BODY AND MIND TO FACE STRESS, PAIN AND ILLNESS. Delacorte Press, NY. 
  • Levey, Joel. (1987). THE FINE ARTS OF RELAXATION, CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION. Wisdom Publications, London. 
  • Ornstein, Robert & Navarjo, Claudio .THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDITATION. 
  • Reps, Paul. ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES. Anchor Books, NY. 
  • Suzuki, Shunryu. (1986). ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S MIND. Weatherhill, NY. 
  • Tulku, Tarthang. (1977) GESTURE OF BALANCE. Dharma Publishing, CA. 
  • Tulku, Tarthang. (1978) OPENESS MIND. Dharma Publishing, CA. 

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