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Relaxation Basics: A Doctor's Prescription for Stress Relief |  | Creator: Mary Pullig Schatz M.D.
Publisher: Rodmell Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 210792
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD
Media: Audio CD
Edition: abridged edition
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1930485220
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781930485228
ASIN: 1930485220
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
In this comprehensive audio program, Dr. Mary Pullig Schatz helps listeners use progressive relaxation techniques to manage stress-related conditions and illnesses, such as fatigue, muscular tension, high blood pressure, tension headaches, asthma, insomnia, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, allergies, and much more. In three guided sequences, she gently helps listeners relax their muscles and breath. Both beginners and experienced yoga students can practice one or more sequences each day, lying either on the floor or in bed, and it's easy to integrate the program into a workplace or life at home. Dr. Schatz shows how to let the body and life direct listeners to what they need and when. These exercises can improve circulation, digestion, immune response, clarity of thought, concentration, memory, and sleep.
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Worth the price for Track 4 alone August 19, 2009
John Hastings (Portland, OR USA)
I usually only listen to the fourth (or last) track on this CD. That track is about 30 minutes long and, in my opinion, is of unusually high quality. (See more about track 4 below.)
Track 1 (about 2 minutes long) consists of a short introduction.
Track 2 (about 10 minutes long) is a "Brief Relaxation" which incorporates something commonly called progressive relaxation where you methodically contract and then relax various muscles. I'm not a fan of the progressive relaxation technique (which only appears on Track 2 of this CD) in general, so I don't ever listen to Track 2.
Track 3 (about 16 minutes long) is called "Heart and Lungs Relaxation." This track guides you through visualizations that combine breathing with mental images of the heart, lungs, and other areas of the body. For this track I do not enjoy the images in the visualizations as much as I do in track 4, and I don't have any reason to pay special attention to my heart and lungs, so I listen to track 3 only rarely. However, it's nice to have an alternative to track 4.
Track 4 (about 30 minutes long) is called "Total Body Relaxation." It combines easy visualizations, focusing on various parts of the body, with breathing. I am very comfortable with using this track to help me get to sleep or to help me get back to sleep if I awake during the night.
On all four tracks, Mary Pullig Schatz, M.D., who sounds relaxed and self-assured, speaks in a soothing voice with a pleasant, not too pronounced, southern accent. If a speaking voice can be beautiful, in my opinion, Dr. Schatz has one of the most beautiful speaking voices I've ever heard. It's also a comforting voice. One of my pet peeves is CD narrators who drop their voices to a whisper now and then, making it nearly impossible for me to hear them if I have my CD player's volume at a subtle level. Dr. Schatz does not whisper at all anywhere on "Relaxation Basics."
In fact, the way Dr. Schatz uses her voice plus the way in which her voice was recorded cause the CD's volume to remain even throughout. There is no background music - or any other sound, besides her voice (and a short bell or gong-like sound at the end of each relaxation sequence) - on the CD.
Useful Tool for Relaxation December 12, 2008
Margaret Santon (rural Ontario)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a yoga teacher and occasionally use the 15 and 30 minute segments at the end of a class. Students always rave about Ms. Pullig-Schatz's voice and the fact that it relaxes them so swiftly and thoroughly. I expect to be using the CD myself for many years. The variety in the length of the four sequences makes it very useful and appealing.
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