Resilient Living With Dr Sood

Resilient Living with Dr. Sood is a comprehensive solution to support people facing chronic health conditions and other life adversities. This book is presented as a journal to help you integrate into your life, the seven resilience skills that have been shown in over thirty clinical trials to improve stress, resilience, anxiety, happiness, wellbeing, quality of life, and positive health behaviors. The book is best studied concurrently with the online program at resilientliving.net.

It isn't about living in the present moment; it is about being present for your moments. It isn't about emptying the mind; it is about filling the mind with hope and positivity. It isn't about focusing on breath and emptiness; it is about striving to be consistently patient and kind. "Immerse" offers you an authentic, simple, practical, and engaging program to be more present for your moments, fill your mind with hope and positivity, and become consistently patient and kind. The subtle strength of authentic presence, hope, positivity, patience and kindness will make you strong - phenomenally strong. Despite truly wishing to live our days guided by our core values, most of us struggle because of one important reason - our mind's distractibility and forgetfulness. Our mind needs daily reminders, repetitions and a constant flow of novel ideas to translate our kind intentions into daily habits. "Immerse" offers you stories weaved in scientifically-anchored insights and the discipline of a daily practice your mind needs to develop an attention that is strong, focused, and kind, and thinking that is big picture, rational, and values-driven. Whether you're interested in improving your relationships, enhancing your health and wellness, career success, becoming a better parent, or all of the above, you'll need deeper presence, intentionality, contentment and kindness to succeed. "Immerse" strives to provide you all of these. The book has 104 writings (two for each week) that integrate science, stories and observations from daily life, to create an inspirational, interesting and informative delicacy that your mind will savor for years to come. Combining the (optional) online program that links these insights with practices can offer you a complete meal for your mind. (Check Stressfree.org/Immerse/) Immerse yourself in timeless values so you become one with them. Take others with you on this ride, so together, you savor a rewarding and meaning-filled life.

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

SMART is an innovative, fun, engaging, and simple approach toward twenty-first-century stress. The program shares with you a set of transformative principles that can help enhance your relationships, make sustained behavior change, improve work experience, enhance health, resilience, and wellbeing, reverse burnout, and find greater happiness. SMART achieves these goals by taking you on a backstage tour of the brain to help you understand some of the brain's automatic mechanisms that generate and multiply stress. In four simple steps, SMART then enables you to take back control of your brain, so you live your days with greater intentionality, courage, hope, and inspiration. In developing SMART, we have synthesized information from tens of thousands of research studies, the experience of hundreds of thousands of patients and learners, and wisdom collected by Dr. Sood in his journey across two continents over three decades. We have tested the resulting approach in over twenty clinical trials. The resulting program has reached over half a million people and adopted by some of the most reputed organizations in the world. SMART is scalable and practical and offers skills that won't crowd your already clogged inbox. In the words of Dr. Sood, "We aren't adding more milk to your already filled cup. We are adding chocolate powder to the milk, so it doesn't increase the volume, but changes the entire flavor!" Dr. Amit Sood is internationally recognized for his work on stress, resilience, mindfulness, happiness, and wellbeing. A Professor of Medicine (Retd.), Dr. Sood serves as the Executive Director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing. Resiliencetrainer.com; Resilientoption.com

Happiness is a habit. For some of us, that habit is a natural inclination; for others, it is a learned behavior. The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness combines wisdom from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to help you choose contentment. Dr. Amit Sood's actionable ten–week program has helped tens of thousands of people reduce anxiety and find greater fulfillment in life. Each of the book's four sections is filled with practical insights and easy–to–implement exercises. You'll understand why your brain struggles with finding happiness and what real–world practices can help you to better manage stress and choose peace and contentment instead. Praise for the Stress–Free Living Program: “This book can change your life.”–Dr. Andrew Weil “An important innovative approach to well-being.”–Dr. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

"Offers a straightforward plan anyone can implement across 10 weeks. Combining groundbreaking insights from neuroscience and psychology, and wisdom from philosophy and spirituality, Dr. Sood reveals how to reduce everyday anxiety and find greater fulfillment in life."--Back cover.

SMART is an innovative, fun, engaging, and simple approach toward twenty-first-century stress. The program shares with you a set of transformative principles that can help enhance your relationships, make sustained behavior change, improve work experience, enhance health, resilience, and wellbeing, reverse burnout, and find greater happiness. SMART achieves these goals by taking you on a backstage tour of the brain to help you understand some of the brain's automatic mechanisms that generate and multiply stress. In four simple steps, SMART then enables you to take back control of your brain, so you live your days with greater intentionality, courage, hope, and inspiration. In developing SMART, we have synthesized information from tens of thousands of research studies, the experience of hundreds of thousands of patients and learners, and wisdom collected by Dr. Sood in his journey across two continents over three decades. We have tested the resulting approach in over twenty clinical trials. The resulting program has reached over half a million people and adopted by some of the most reputed organizations in the world. SMART is scalable and practical and offers skills that won't crowd your already clogged inbox. In the words of Dr. Sood, "We aren't adding more milk to your already filled cup. We are adding chocolate powder to the milk, so it doesn't increase the volume, but changes the entire flavor!" Dr. Amit Sood is internationally recognized for his work on stress, resilience, mindfulness, happiness, and wellbeing. A Professor of Medicine (Retd.), Dr. Sood serves as the Executive Director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing. Resiliencetrainer.com; Resilientoption.com

This book is being taken off print. It will be replaced by The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living.http://www.amazon.com/Mayo-Clinic-Guide-Stress-Free-Living/dp/0738217123/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1371834550&sr=8-3&keywords=amit+sood