Beyond Stress: Strategies for Optimal Living
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 192
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Copyright: 2021
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 166
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Beyond Stress: Strategies for Optimal Living is a comprehensive journey guiding the reader toward moving from stress to establishing homeostasis and balance. Each reader creates an individual footprint as one develops strategic changes and ways to design a lifestyle based on the reader's individual life experiences, reflecting on the past, embracing the present and using the tools learned from Beyond Stress to shape the future.
Chapters to look forward to on your journey:
- Mindful Reflections of Optimal Living
- The Joy of Living in the Parasympathetic System
- Simply Meditate
- Sustainable Living and Conscious Eating
- A Shift in Behavior: The Road to a Sustainable Environment
- The Science of Instincts and Intuition: Intuitive Smartness in Times of Information Overload
- Connections to All Living Things: The Beauty of Relationships
- Happiness is Bliss: Paying it Forward
Contributors
About Beyond Stress: Strategies for Optimal Living
CHAPTER 1 Mindful Reflections of Optimal Living
By Maria Napoli
CHAPTER 2 The Joy of Living in the Parasympathetic System
By David Berceli
CHAPTER 3 Simply Meditate
By Maria Napoli
CHAPTER 4 Sustainable Living and Conscious Eating
By Lisa Schmidt
CHAPTER 5 A Shift in Behavior: The Road to a Sustainable Environment
By David Shetzen
CHAPTER 6 The Science of Instincts and Intuition: Intuitive Intelligence in Times of Information Overload
By Jonas Nordstrom
CHAPTER 7 Connection to All Living Things: The Beauty of Relationships
By Bhupin Butaney and Samuel Chates
CHAPTER 8 Happiness Is Bliss: Paying It Forward
By Maria Napoli
Maria Napoli, PhD, is Emeritus Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Work. She has incorporated the practice of mindfulness in her research, teaching, trainings and presentations at conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Napoli has developed mindfulness programs for elementary school children, undergraduate and graduate students including a graduate certificate in integrative health.
The Mindfulness Model used in the curriculum is the simple four step Mindful MAC Guide created by Dr. Napoli. She has published in academic journals and books as well as audios reflecting her work in whole person health and mindfulness.
David Shetzen is an instructor at Arizona State University in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, School of Social Work where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level stress management courses emphasizing the development of mindfulness as a skill to manage stress and quality of life.
David holds a B.S. in Human Communication from ASU as well as a Masters degree in Higher and Post-Secondary Education, and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. His knowledge and training in trauma treatment bring mindfulness, body centered practices, and skills that transform trauma to homeostasis. As a practitioner for over 15 years, he has worked in higher education with the goal of introducing and teaching quality of life through the practice of a mindfulness.
Beyond Stress: Strategies for Optimal Living is a comprehensive journey guiding the reader toward moving from stress to establishing homeostasis and balance. Each reader creates an individual footprint as one develops strategic changes and ways to design a lifestyle based on the reader's individual life experiences, reflecting on the past, embracing the present and using the tools learned from Beyond Stress to shape the future.
Chapters to look forward to on your journey:
- Mindful Reflections of Optimal Living
- The Joy of Living in the Parasympathetic System
- Simply Meditate
- Sustainable Living and Conscious Eating
- A Shift in Behavior: The Road to a Sustainable Environment
- The Science of Instincts and Intuition: Intuitive Smartness in Times of Information Overload
- Connections to All Living Things: The Beauty of Relationships
- Happiness is Bliss: Paying it Forward
Contributors
About Beyond Stress: Strategies for Optimal Living
CHAPTER 1 Mindful Reflections of Optimal Living
By Maria Napoli
CHAPTER 2 The Joy of Living in the Parasympathetic System
By David Berceli
CHAPTER 3 Simply Meditate
By Maria Napoli
CHAPTER 4 Sustainable Living and Conscious Eating
By Lisa Schmidt
CHAPTER 5 A Shift in Behavior: The Road to a Sustainable Environment
By David Shetzen
CHAPTER 6 The Science of Instincts and Intuition: Intuitive Intelligence in Times of Information Overload
By Jonas Nordstrom
CHAPTER 7 Connection to All Living Things: The Beauty of Relationships
By Bhupin Butaney and Samuel Chates
CHAPTER 8 Happiness Is Bliss: Paying It Forward
By Maria Napoli
Maria Napoli, PhD, is Emeritus Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Work. She has incorporated the practice of mindfulness in her research, teaching, trainings and presentations at conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Napoli has developed mindfulness programs for elementary school children, undergraduate and graduate students including a graduate certificate in integrative health.
The Mindfulness Model used in the curriculum is the simple four step Mindful MAC Guide created by Dr. Napoli. She has published in academic journals and books as well as audios reflecting her work in whole person health and mindfulness.
David Shetzen is an instructor at Arizona State University in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, School of Social Work where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate-level stress management courses emphasizing the development of mindfulness as a skill to manage stress and quality of life.
David holds a B.S. in Human Communication from ASU as well as a Masters degree in Higher and Post-Secondary Education, and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. His knowledge and training in trauma treatment bring mindfulness, body centered practices, and skills that transform trauma to homeostasis. As a practitioner for over 15 years, he has worked in higher education with the goal of introducing and teaching quality of life through the practice of a mindfulness.