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A Personal Note | p. xi |
The First Steps to Calm | |
How To Use This Book | p. 3 |
Would Somebody Please Tell Me What Happened? | p. 6 |
How Susceptible Are You? | p. 12 |
Who has most reason to complain? | p. 13 |
What does it mean to be 'stressed'? | p. 14 |
Putting the Fun Back Into Work | p. 26 |
Invest in calm | p. 28 |
Discount the silly excuses | p. 30 |
Take This First Step | p. 35 |
Life-Changing Choices | p. 36 |
Your life priorities | p. 36 |
Your circumstances | p. 40 |
Employers to Choose From | p. 41 |
How to choose your employer | p. 42 |
Sanity-Saving Understandings | p. 47 |
The Shared nature of work | p. 47 |
The nature of business | p. 48 |
The purpose of employment | p. 49 |
The power of the individual | p. 50 |
Life-Enriching Pieces of Advice | p. 52 |
Look on the bright side | p. 52 |
Assume responsibility for yourself | p. 52 |
Do your own job first | p. 53 |
Have a life | p. 54 |
Learn to breathe | p. 55 |
Areas Where You Can Make a Difference | p. 56 |
Behaviour | p. 56 |
Attitude | p. 57 |
Circumstance | p. 57 |
Procedure | p. 58 |
Planning | p. 58 |
Decision-making | p. 59 |
Causes of Stress in the Workplace | p. 60 |
Time | p. 62 |
Control | p. 66 |
Self | p. 70 |
Social | p. 79 |
Change | p. 84 |
Physical | p. 85 |
Lifestyle habits | p. 87 |
Your Portfolio of Calm Solutions | |
First, Make a Decision | p. 91 |
Second, Take a Calm Breath | p. 94 |
Breathe deeply | p. 96 |
Breathe slowly | p. 101 |
Listen | p. 102 |
Third, Send Your Subconscious to Work | p. 105 |
Managing your subconscious | p. 110 |
Four Tools of the Subconscious | p. 114 |
Visualisation | p. 115 |
Affirmation | p. 118 |
Self-hypnosis | p. 121 |
Assumption | p. 127 |
When the Cause is Time | p. 130 |
Controlling time | p. 131 |
Depressurising deadlines | p. 137 |
Procrastination | p. 139 |
Overwork | p. 142 |
Information overload | p. 147 |
Your time | p. 153 |
When the Cause is Control | p. 157 |
Take control of your life | p. 158 |
When the Cause is You | p. 170 |
Plan to be calm | p. 171 |
A positive change | p. 182 |
Dealing with worries | p. 191 |
B-type transformations | p. 205 |
Drive control | p. 209 |
Take the time to be calm | p. 215 |
Secure is a state of mind | p. 222 |
When the Cause is Social | p. 226 |
Getting what you want | p. 231 |
Handling superiors | p. 254 |
Slipstreaming | p. 260 |
When the Cause is Change | p. 265 |
When the Cause is Physical | p. 273 |
Calm the building | p. 274 |
De-stressing the workplace | p. 280 |
Calm associations | p. 286 |
A calm mind in a calm body | p. 291 |
The ups and downs of workplace tension | p. 302 |
When the Cause is your Lifestyle | p. 312 |
Longer-Term Calm Solutions | |
Now, for the Serious Stuff | p. 321 |
The six ways to lasting calm | p. 322 |
The calm technique | p. 325 |
Help! | p. 332 |
Calm in a crisis | p. 332 |
Stay Calm | p. 334 |
The Calm Centre | p. 334 |
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