January 2010
Stress Relief: "Pick up ways to manage your stress before you see the credit card bills from Christmas. Have relaxation techniques mastered before starting your taxes!"

Exercise for Stress Relief
	Yoga for stress relief By:  Instructor: Suzanne Deason Summary: Features a series of poses designed to help the viewer regulate breathing and soothe frayed nerves.
	Tai chi: health for life: how and why it works for health, stress relief, and longevity By:  Bruce Frantzis Summary: Tai Chi combats immune deficiencies, mitigates arthritis, improves circulation, decreases high blood pressure, and helps the elderly regain physical balance. This comprehensive guide reveals how and why. Rather than teaching a specific style of Tai Chi, the book gives readers the intellectual foundation and inspiration to use the practice as a potent preventative healthcare routine.
Stress Relief for Everyone
	The art of doing nothing : simple ways to make time for yourself By:  Veronique Vienne Summary: The stress-reducing techniques described here require no time, no skill, no commitment. A practical guide to rest and relaxation, it ushers us into a world where "being" is more compelling than "doing."
	Eliminating stress, finding inner peace By:  Brian L. Weiss Summary: This book and its accompanying stress-reduction CD will help you deeply relax. It will enable you to release the acute and chronic stress we constantly carry in our bodies and our minds. It can help you remove the blocks and obstacles to your inner peace and joy, and prevent and heal stress-related illness and disease.
	:60 second stress management By:  Andrew Goliszek Summary: Expert advice and comprehensive information combine to help optimize stress relief and produce a healthier life within the first 60 seconds of its occurrence.
	Everyday calm : relaxing rituals for busy people By:  Darrin Zeer Summary: Everyday Calm offers over 50 fun and simple ideas for daily stress relief no matter where you are.
Guys and Teens: Special books for you.
	The male stress survival guide By:  Georgia Witkin Summary: In this valuable, easy-to-read book, Dr. Witkin explains why men develop the stress symptoms they do; how stress affects their bodies, careers, families, personal goals and expectations; why they are particularly vulnerable to certain types of stress and not to others; and how to improve the quality and prolong the length of their lives.
	A guys' guide to stress ; A girls' guide to stress By:  Travis Clark and Annie Belfield Summary: A reversible book explores ways young people of both sexes can learn to cope with the dramas and dilemmas they face in their busy, day-to-day lives.
	Stress relief : the ultimate teen guide By:  Mark Powell Summary: Grade 7 Up-Powell's first-person, informal text includes both immediate and long-term recommendations for managing the stress of everyday life. He presents different scenarios and situations and offers viable options. Awards Review
Music to aid in your relaxation:
	Ison sleep system 2.0 [sound recording] : relax and sleep --easily and naturally By:  David Ison Summary: A combination of peaceful music, harmony, and rhythmic structures creates a soothing environment that helps the body ease into sleep.
	Calm at work By:  Paul Wilson Summary: Breeze through your day feeling calm, relaxed, and in control. Read First Chapter
	Sunset symphony By:  Various performers Summary: "An adventure in nature and music."
	Relaxation [sound recording] : a Windham Hill collection By: Various performers   Contents: Only a memory / Yanni Big thing in the sky / Will Ackerman Rainsong / George Winston Glass green / Tim Story Bayangume / Schonhertz and Scott No wonder they sing / Philip Aaberg Majestica / Lisa Lynne Espana / Patrick O'Hearn Wind in the trees / David Arkenstone On the edge / Jim Brickman Closer still / Douglas Spotted Eagle Tibet part II / Mark Isham.