Your mind can be working against you. The proof is when you have stressful thoughts. This book shows you how to manage them. Psychiatrist Dr Karen Graham sheds light on the significance of mental habits, and complications caused by unhelpful thinking. She describes simple ways you can respond to these thoughts and have instant stress relief.

Know more about why you get stressed, and deal with stressful thoughts, as they arise. This will unblock your potential so you can put your best foot forward.

After reading this book you -

• Understand how worry and pressure are related.
• Learn how to have less stressful thinking.
• Learn how to have less conflict about issues.
• Can open your mind and think new ways.
• Appreciate how minding what you think builds resilience.

Your thoughts can automatically control your behaviour or choices, or how you feel. Distraction as a way to cope doesn’t really work. Instead when you learn how to respond to negative thoughts in helpful ways, you will immediately feel the benefit.
Mindfulness involves having full mental awareness without reacting at all, which can be difficult. This book provides you with an alternative. As you find balance you are reducing the stressful impact of thoughts, while also encouraging awareness about the way your mind works.

‘I want to stop feeling stuck about thinking.’ Many negative judgments and beliefs are rooted in old understanding and have been reinforced by habits. But you will discover a simple way to invite deeper lasting change, without trying to force yourself to think differently.

A stressful reaction or habit doesn’t have to determine what you experience, or sabotage your success. Learn how to free your own mind to help you to make better choices in life, or to get through daily challenges more easily. Then you are the leader of your experiences.

This book will answer the important question, where does stress come from, and it provides the self-help if you -

• Want to learn why thoughts are hard to deal with.
• Want to learn about managing stress and anxiety.
• Want to learn about changing your mind.
• Want more confidence about something.
• Want to know what good mental health is.
• Or have new ways to cope.

Find out how to get more mental self-control and how to get more peace of mind, quickly and easily. And it is for anyone already interested in balancing their mental world.