Publisher's Synopsis
Stress has quite possibly become one of the biggest threat to health that our society has faced. Nearly 77% of all people experience physical symptoms such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, lethargy, and many more, caused by stress, and a whopping two-thirds of all office visits to family physicians are due to stress-related symptoms. We hear about it, we know about it, and we see how it affects us negatively but most of us haven't learned how to actually tame it for good, until now!
In this ground breaking book, Terry Lyles, Ph.D.--author, speaker and leading authority in the science of utilizing stress for extraordinary performance--not only shows us how to eliminate harmful "bad" stress once and for all; he teaches us how to harness the power of Good Stress to achieve all that we want out of life.
"Yes, there really are TWO kinds of stress--the helpful and the harmful," states Dr. Lyles. "Today's media focuses on stress almost exclusively as a dangerous and potentially life-threatening force that must be minimized to ensure good health and longevity," he continues, "But this is just one side of the story - the misleading side. What you might not know is that human beings actually require stress to survive. In truth, we need stress in order to remain engaged with life and, for certain, to accomplish any kind of mastery or proficiency in it."
In this remarkable, mind-bending book, Cracking the Stress Code: 4 Simple Steps for Decoding Harmful Stress and Achieving Life Mastery, Dr. Lyles--father of three, including a special needs son, and one of America's leading experts in stress, serving at some of the world's most impactful disasters (9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Asian Tsunami)--takes us on an extraordinary journey into the heart of stress. Not only will you learn about the positive type of stress (good stress), you will learn--through understanding your unique and personal stress code--how to transform the stress in your life to reach a level of proficiency most often attained only by the professional athletes, military personnel and top executives that are trained by Dr. Lyles.
What science has proven time and again is that by embracing the four simple steps of change--awareness, change, alignment, evaluation--you are laying the groundwork for an entirely new life while altering your relationship to stress, forever. What is it that you dream of having in your life? Whatever it is, stress will get you there. If you want--once and for all--to have life working for you, then you have found the right book. Dr. Lyles will not only coach you on how to incorporate the simple secrets and strategies that keep elite performers on the top of their game, he will provide tips, exercises and insight into mastering this elusive art, and how to see stress as the catalyst for positive change that it is.
