Slow Down and Lighten Up: Letting Go of Stress and Tension - Paperback

by Bob Van Oosterhout (Author)

What if you could see stress coming and knew how to stop it from interfering with your work, rest, and relationships?

What if you could effectively respond rather than impulsively react to pressure and loss?

What if you could see where your thoughts are leading you and redirect them to where you really want to go?

These are not distant fantasies but practical things you can accomplish by reading "Slow Down and Lighten Up." You will gain a clear understanding of how body, mind, emotion interact, what goes wrong, and what you can do about it. You will learn how to restore and maintain physical, mental, and emotional balance and how to apply three simple principles that prevent stress and solve problems. Slow Down and Lighten Up explains how all this works in clear, simple terms using stories and metaphors based on the experience of the author and thousands of students, workshop participants, clients, and patients who made significant improvements in their lives by applying what is described in this text.

Author Biography

Bob Van Oosterhout is a Masters level Psychologist, Social Worker and college professor who began teaching and counseling in the early 1970's. He developed a habit of seeking regular feedback and reflecting on what worked while searching for underlying principles and strategies that were consistently helpful to the thousands of students, workshop participants, clients, and patients who made significant improvements in their lives by learning how to restore and maintain physical, mental, and emotional balance. Bob has a Masters Degree from Michigan State University, completed four years of postgraduate clinical training through the Michigan Society for Bioenergetic Analysis and is a Limited Licensed Psychologist (LLP) and Licensed Masters Social Worker (LMSW) through the State of Michigan. He has provided training for schools, corporations, small businesses, hospitals, health care clinics, professional organizations, as well as government and non-profit agencies. Bob recently retired from counseling at a Federally Qualified Health Center in rural northern Michigan. He has had a daily meditation practice since 1972. Bob was asked to develop a course in Stress Management for the Health Careers Department at Lansing Community College in 1981 and has been teaching it since that time. He has taught online since 2001.