Calm at Work Breeze Through Your Day Feeling Calm, Relaxed and In Control

by Wilson, Paul F.

• ISBN13: 9780452280427
• ISBN10: 0452280427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

The author of "The Little Book of Calm" turns his focus to the workplace with more than 100 techniques for instant relief from tension, stress, and anxiety.

Table of Contents

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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