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This Layman’s guide to stress management offers easy to understand, simple to use, stress reduction and avoidance techniques. We can utilize these techniques in our daily quest for a stress free environment. By introducing zero stress as a mindset and not just a catch phrase, this book will help us get to that place I call, "The Zero Stress Zone." As you will discover, it is so fun and easy you might ask yourself why you need a book to get there. In the end however, if you ask yourself that question, you will have gained an understanding of how simple stress management can really be. Additionally, you may not be the one experiencing the stress. It may be those around you manufacturing drama in order to burst your anti-stress bubble. Don't let it happen! keep them on the outside suspended in their manufactured tension while you enjoy the cool comfort of your Zone. You can even choose to use these techniques to help them; or not. Whichever; always remember, just like on an airplane, you have to put your mask on first, before you can help others.
Lieutenant Top Harris, a veteran Southern California police officer, has been in the business of "People" since graduating from the police academy in 1987. Having worked a myriad of assignments from the mundane to the ultra-stressful, he has seen people at their best and, unfortunately; at their worst. Armed with these experiences Top has made it his mission to take what he has learned about the real life, "human condition," and pass it on so that others might benefit without having to endure unnecessary, learning-curve pitfalls.
While possessing a Bachelor's Degree in Business and a Master's Degree in Organizational Management, and believing that higher education greatly improves critical thinking, he also firmly believes that life skills and knowledge are born from numerous other places outside of Academia. Therefore; he incorporates lessons from a wide range of origins, then fuses them together in a simple, easy to grasp format.
Top is a California Law Enforcement Master Instructor with expertise in the many critical disciplines that are extreme stress producers. In light of that, he puts his greatest emphasis on the life lessons given to him by his mother, "Miss Ruby," for it is through that "Mother-Wit" and knowledge that he has grown to understand life. Quite simply, Top is committed to sharing what works. Welcome to the Zone.
It is possible to manage stress without becoming slaves to therapy, drugs, or other medical or scientific remedies. By no means is this book intended to be a substitute for legitimate medical or psychological diagnosis, however; commonsense will be the word of the day. Commonsense will form the foundation of the coping strategies that will emerge from the reading.
The information will be delivered in layman’s terms in order to break from the mind numbing, scientific and academic approaches commonly associated with stress management. I am not a Ph. D., nor am I a scientist, philosopher, or intellectual. I am an average person, of average intelligence, drawing from personal experiences and the experiences of others. In fact, many of the concepts to be explored were passed to me from my mother, Ruby, and are referred to throughout the text as “Rubyisms.”
Although from a blue-collar background, I understand that stress does not discriminate. It affects white-collar, blue- collar, and even no-collar people. Therefore, within this text, no one; is more important than the other. Having been exposed to the multitude of stressors we all face on a daily basis, I place emphasis on dealing with stress at its most basic level, thus the average Joe, and the CEO, are the same when it comes to individual stress management. Ultimately, the overall objective is to provide basic, real-world stress management skills in a clear, concise, simple manner as a guide to better understand those things we can control, improving our ability to cope with stress and maintain our own mental health.
