RELAX --- YOU MAY ONLY HAVE A FEW MINUTES LEFT by Loretta LaRoche Villard, 1998
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION --- Three one-dollar bills (p3-14)
Using the POWER OF LOVE to overcome STRESS in your life. Instead of going through your life "awfulizing" and "catastrophizing" --- "waiting to be happy" --- which produces a higher level of stress, unhappiness, physical problems and perhaps even an early death, you can choose many creative options to change the way you think and feel and perhaps add years to your life!
1) Four hundred times a day (p15-44)
Our culture is primarily pathological. Too often we focus on what's wrong with people, NOT what's right. Your life may NOT work for you because YOU need to challenge yourself to move away from the safe and familiar worlds of your problems, and develop skills that help you see your problems as opportunities!
You can see the "Bless in the Mess" (p9-10)
2) The need to do everything perfectly (p45-54)
3) Awfulizing and catastrophizing (p55-66)
4) If you don't have to suffer, don't practice (p67-78)
5) Don't "should" on yourself! (p79-94)
6) Worrywarts (95-114)
7) Lose your "baggage" (p115-128)
8) Going global (p129-138)
9) Relationship killers --- the "blame game" and "directors of the universe" (p139-160)
10) How to prevent "hardening of the attitude" (p161-176)
11) Loretta's "joy journal" (177-182)
RESOURCES FOR HEALTH, HEALING AND HUMOR (p183-186)
ORGANIZATIONS (p187-190)