| Press Release --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ---
Top Ten Relaxation Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
Available from Self-Guided.com
Nov. 21, 2003, Seattle, WA. Most
holiday stress tips offer the same cliché advice. Now the editors at Self-Guided.com have
compiled the top ten ways of reducing holiday stress based on relaxation techniques from
leading authors and meditation experts Joel Levey and Michelle Levey.
The Top Ten Relaxation Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress are
now available on www.self-guided.com (http://www.self-guided.com/), which also publishes
the Relaxation Tips Newsletter delivered free via e-mail every week. The Web site also
offers online resources for relieving stress and achieving balance during the holidays,
including links to other useful articles with holiday stress tips for parents, singles,
divorced families, and others.
"We want to help people have a fuller and more enjoyable
experience this holiday, especially during this time of increased tension due to a
prolonged war, threat of terrorism, and economic uncertainty," said Joel Levey.
"We want to guide people to tap their natural inner resources for resilience during
the holidays."
For example, a common holiday stress tip suggests that you
create a hand-made gift. The Leveys take it a step further and provide insights on how to
tap into your natural creativity and offer a link to an online guided imagery audio clip
designed to enhance creativity.
They also provide tips that include relaxation exercises to
relieve stress, suggestions for finding balance in life, mindfulness techniques, and
reminders about living a purposeful life.
The Top Ten Relaxation Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
– enhanced with additional content on the Self-Guided.com Web site
– include:
- Create realistic expectations -- don't try to make this the
perfect holiday.
- Learn to say "no" to extra obligations that might
stress you out.
- Take short relaxation breaks to let go of tension.
- Get involved in a volunteer activity where you help others.
- Tap into your natural creativity and create a hand-made gift.
- Eat and drink sensibly, and get plenty of exercise and sleep.
- Practice being a peacemaker if family squabbles erupt.
- Balance your spending of time and money to improve your
quality of life.
- Create a new holiday tradition that builds connections among
your family and friends.
- Reflect on the deeper meaning and spirit of the holidays for
you personally, for your family, and for humanity and the world.
Joel Levey and Michelle Levey are the authors of The Fine
Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation (Wisdom Publications, 2003) and Living
in Balance (Conari Press, 1999).
In his Foreword to Living in Balance, the Dalai Lama of Tibet
writes the following about the Levey’s work:
"As more people achieve some degree of
mental calm, insight, or the ability to transform negative emotions into positive ones,
there will be a natural reinforcement of basic human values and consequently a greater
chance for peace and happiness for all."
Self-Guided.com is the producer of Joel Levey’s
"Self-Guided Relaxation" CD and other guided imagery audio products for stress
relief and well-being. See www.self-guided.com
Contact: Bryan Brewer, 206-527-3168, Seattle, WA bryanb@self-guided.com |
