Toxic stress

By some accounts, stress is the new smoking.  Ways to respond and address this threat include:

1. Remove as many sources of stress as possible
2. Seek help (from trained professionals as well as from friends)
3. Get active (walking, weightlifting, stretching, and other forms of exercise)
4. Practice mindfulness

Healthy Living at the Library continues at the Carpenter Branch on July 7 at 7 p.m. Join Philip Horn as he explains how to use Meditation for Stress Relief.

Discover the latest research on the benefits of meditation, learn basic exercises for meditation practice, and see a hands-on demonstration of sitting for meditation and breathing spaces. You’ll come away with tools to reduce daily stress.

Books available at your library

Stress

• The 15 minute heart cure: the natural way to release stress and heal your heart in just minutes a day by John M. Kennedy and Jason Jennings.
• The stress answer: train your brain to conquer depression and anxiety in 45 days by Frank Lawlis.
• When the body says no: understanding the stress-disease connection by Gabor Maté.
• Stress-related disorders sourcebook edited by Amy L. Sutton.

Mindfulness

• Success through stillness: meditation made simple by Russell Simmons.
• New beliefs, new brain: free yourself from stress and fear by Lisa Wimberger.
• Mindfulness: an eight-week plan for finding peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams and Danny Penman.