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This book encapsulates an easy-to-imbibe therapy to evacuate people from the rubble of stress and help them attain health and happiness through non-pharmaceutical practices. Stress to Serenity is based on the wisdom acquired through three decades of experience in healing and counselling by the author. It holds that the key to well-being lies only in one’s own attitude. The seeker is required to simply release his negativity by turning the key correctly and adhere to a defined curriculum to unload the ‘trash of stress’ we so freely accumulate in our daily life.
As you start reading the book, it makes you feel as if you are co-driving with Amar Chandel on the journey to shackle stress and unshackle life from emotional carcass. Meditation is an integral part of holistic charter to keep physical and emotional buoyancy in proper equilibrium. More and more people are now found taking refuge in meditation not to attain self-realisation, but to channelise their stress. It is a revelation for the author that in majority of the cases it was over-reaction and jealousy that trigger stress. The shift from joint family to nuclear families has precipitated the problem further, because we rarely find an outlet to drain our strain. As a true therapist, Amar Chandel recommends ‘tears to cheer’ the drooping spirits if the situation tends to get out of control. However, one ought not to become a ‘cry baby’ even for tiny matters. What cannot be cured, advises the author, it should be endured’. One ought to be an optimist and look for a ‘silver lining in life’. As a nutritionist, he asks his students to prefer ‘naturally-made’ food products, which are generally hope-inducers in contrast to the processed foods, which trigger stress. We should tame our thought process and be in the driver’s seat rather than be the ‘script writers for disasters’. As an indulgent healer, he inspires his readers to ‘win the psychological war’ to recoup physical vigour and mental happiness in life. He extols his students to ‘lower their expectations’ but it should certainly not imply that we easily ‘give in’ and ‘shift goalposts too often’. The title page epitomises the theme of the book in its entirety. The opening sentence of the first chapter makes it amply clear that the book is not a mere tabulation of ‘do’s & don’ts’ but it rather ushers the readers to the ‘ultimate destination’ of perfect health and serenity. The author deserves kudos for giving the readers a bible on holistic living without any medication or medical intervention. If the prescribed charter is not imbibed and practiced, warns the author, the offender is trapped in a vicious circle of disease, stress, aggression, depression and faster ageing. By invoking some extra-discipline and attitudinal shift in our daily routine, we can certainly succeed to tame our stress to refresh our life, concludes the researcher-author with an air of confidence.
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Amar Chandel catalogues
simple recipes in his interactive book to restore the mental, physical
and emotional harmony of the readers, which they have lost by sheer
aberration in their lifestyle. He exhorts them to rinse the human
body, mind and spirit to preserve their temporal sanctity with a
holistic approach. It is primarily the individual who is himself
responsible for all the malaise in his life, propagates the author.