What if everything you thought you knew about stress was wrongOver the years we've grown to see stress as Public Enemy No.1, responsible for countless health problems, relationship troubles, unhappiness and anxiety, and to be avoided at all costs. But what if changing your mindset about stress could actually make you healthier, happier and better able to reach your goalsIn this new book, health psychologist Dr Kelly McGonigal reveals the new science of stress, showing that by embracing stress and changing your thinking, your stress response could become your most powerful ally. Drawing on the latest research and practical brain-training techniques, The Upside of Stress shows you how to do stress better, to improve your health and resilience, focus your energy, build relationships and boost courage. Rethink stress, and watch your life change for the better.

The Upside of Stress: Why stress is good for you (and how to get good at it)

Kelly McGonigal

Vermilion

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet it feels like a chore to many. But as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy. Through her trademark blend of science and storytelling, McGonigal draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, as well as memoirs, ethnographies, and philosophers. She shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys and why it is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. McGonigal illustrates her findings with stories of people who have found fulfilment and belonging through activities like running, walking, dancing, swimming and weightlifting. Her examples span the globe, from a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, to a dance class at Juilliard for people with Parkinson's disease, to volunteers in London combining fitness and community service, athletes pushing the limits of human endure with races in the wilderness. The result is a revolutionary narrative that goes beyond familiar arguments in favour of exercise, and highlights the human capacity for hope, cooperation, and self-transcendence, complete with guidance on how readers can harness the power of movement in their own lives and communities.

Joy of Movement, The

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Avery

It's no secret that yoga increases muscular flexibility and strength, but you may not know that yoga is a proven treatment for back pain, knee pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic pain conditions. Yoga also helps to ease the stress, anxiety, and depression that can create and reinforce pain, making you feel more comfortable in both your mind and your body. Written by a yoga instructor and former chronic pain sufferer, Yoga for Pain Relief is packed with gentle postures and practical strategies for ending pain. This complete mind-body tool kit for healing also includes deep relaxation practices drawn from the yogic tradition and psychological techniques for helping you make peace with your body and dissolve pain. As the ancient practice of yoga releases the hold that chronic pain has over your life, you will begin to feel more like yourself again.

Yoga for Pain Relief: Simple Practices to Calm Your Mind and Heal Your Chronic Pain (The New Harbinger Whole-Body Healing Series)

New Harbinger Publications

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower," The Willpower Instinct is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity. Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. For example, readers will learn: 
<ul>
<li>Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep.</li>
<li>Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health.</li>
<li>Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, but the brain can be trained for greater willpower</li>
<li>Guilt and shame over your setbacks lead to giving in again, but self-forgiveness and self-compassion boost self-control.</li>
<li>Giving up control is sometimes the only way to gain self-control.</li>
<li>Willpower failures are contagious--you can catch the desire to overspend or overeat from your friends--but you can also catch self-control from the right role models.</li>
</ul>In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from losing weight to more patient parenting, less procrastination, better health, and greater productivity at work.

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

Self-Help

Happiness

If anything were possible, what would you like to see in your life? How would you like to grow? And what's stopping you? In The Neuroscience of Change, Dr. Kelly McGonigal weaves the newest findings of science with Eastern contemplative wisdom to give listeners a revolutionary process for personal transformation. Six sessions provide breakthrough ideas supported by clinical research, guided practices, and real-world exercises for making self-awareness and compassion the basis for meaningful change, choosing deep "wantpower" instead of brute willpower, dealing with setbacks and the inner critic, and more.

The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Program for Personal Transformation

Religion & Spirituality

SOUNDS TRUE.

We have provided step-by-step methods for readers for the purpose of they can know their targets and improve the willpower instinct, and make up their minds to change the life. We shall be attention to control our willpower, emotion, appetite and behaviors, which will influence our health, financial security, communication and career to some extent.

The Willpower Instinct:How Self-control Works,Why it Matters,and What You Can do to Get More of It (Chinese Edition)

Graphic Communication Press

The willpower instinct: how self-control works,why it matters,and what you can do to get more of it (Chinese Edition)

Psychology & Counseling

Beijing United Publishing co., LTD

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It (Chinese Edition)

Traditional Chinese edition of The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It. The book is based on the lectures of the course Dr. McGonigal teaches at Stanford. Psychology is largely known as inexact science, but Dr. McGonigal's research show how psychological principals are applied to areas of personal development. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The Willpower Instinct (Chinese Edition)

Motivational

Xian Jue

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