Are you stressed out of your mind?  Do you sometimes want to scream and take a really, REALLY long vacation?  Do you sometimes wish it would all just go away and leave you alone?

I've been there.  A lot.  For years and years and years.  First, I was so broke I never knew how in the world to find the money for tuition -- not to mention rent -- but if I didn't, I'd have to leave the country and wouldn't be able to finish my degree.  Talk about stress.  The humiliation, for starters.  And all the people who had said, "I told you so!" I couldn't stand it!

Then I went from the frying pan into the fire (or was it the other way round?).  My job as a professor paid a lot less than I had bargained for, and with all the debt I had racked up, and the huge workload that my fancy job came with, I didn't know what had hit me.  If I had thought I knew all about stress -- well, I was in for a whole new dimension.

And then I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  And my first reaction was actually relief.  That's how much pain I was in.  Emotional pain, from all the stress.

But then I got a grip on myself.  I was NOT going to die.  I was going to fight for my life.  And in order to help my immune system to fight along with me, I needed to find a way to make my life a lot happier.  The stress had to go -- or at least become manageable.

I did a lot of research and decided I had to make some big changes.  I had to learn how to cope with stress a whole lot better -- and make my life work better so I wouldn't be so stressed in the first place.

Well... life goes on, and when I came up for tenure review, stress came right back.  But I did learn a lot of things about how to cope better.  And I made it my mission to learn everything I could about how to stay calm or at least calm myself no matter how relentless the stress.

I got better and better at it, and eventually, I learned some extremely powerful techniques that helped me calm myself instantly when I was once again under the pressure of too many deadlines all at once.

Of course, I wasn't the only one who was stressed...

My students were plenty stressed too -- what with exams and doing presentations. Some had real anxiety attacks over that. And so I taught them some of my special techniques and they worked for them too.

Why another book on stress relief, though?

I mean, I go to the local bookstore and they have stuff on stress management all over the place.  What makes this book different?

Three things:

1. Those other books tell you to lead a less stressful life.

Ha!  I wish.  Don't we all wish it were that easy.  Sometimes, and occasionally quite often, we find ourselves under fire and we need help NOW, right then and there, and all the advice about better planning and saying "no" is worth squat.  In fact, it's downright insulting and annoying.

What we really need is strategies that meet us right where we are, without any guilt tripping, and help us reclaim our Inner Calm right then and there.

2. Those other books are filled with theory -- and the practical stuff is buried in there somewhere.  Or too complicated.  Or not effective enough.

In my book, I made a point of going VERY easy on the theory.  Mostly, I left it up to you to go out to buy a book on theory if you absolutely insist on having that information.

This book was meant to be practical.  It was supposed to have all the info you need right there at your finger tips.  It was supposed to have really effective techniques that you could use right away.

And it has all that and more.

3. Those other books make things too complicated.

In my book, I took some of the more complex techniques and stripped them down to their bare essentials.  One of the most powerful techniques out there, EFT, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique, is explained in its basic, easy-to-learn version, and focused on relieving the most intense stress quickly and effectively.

There are other techniques in there, and they can be used alone and in combination.  One thing you won't find is advice on prescription drugs. That's something best left up to you and your doctor. I'm going to stay out of that.

So what's it like when you feel REALLY stressed?.

• You're freaked out. 

• You don't know what to do.

•  You wish you could just crawl under the covers... or that it would all just GO AWAY!

•  You're afraid you'll explode, and wonder if that may not be a good thing...

• You can't get any work done because you can't focus and that makes you feel even more stressed. 

And you do know that stress can kill you, don't you?

But it usually doesn't, at least not right away, and so it leaves you right in the situation that caused all that stress in the first place and you still need to figure out a way to cope.

So because I'm using these powerful techniques, I quickly regain my inner calm, which allows me to do what needs to get done -- quickly and efficiently. Oh ...and calmly.

Wouldn't you like to be able to reclaim YOUR inner calm too?

Quickly?  Easily?  Now you can.

I was so excited about the results I was getting from these stress relief secrets that wanted to share them with you. I wrote a book for people who struggle with exactly this problem.

In fact, one of the things you're really going to love about my book is that the strategies are presented in bite-sized chunks.  There's also a quick action guide for immediate results.

So you can dive in and apply them right away -- whenever you feel stressed.

I was a foreign student working on a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.  Money was tight.  Every time tuition was due and I didn't know how to pay for it, I had a panic attack.

And because English was not my first language, I was not a very fast reader, and so I often panicked when I realized that there was more reading to do for the upcoming test than I could possibly accomplish even if I read around the clock.

And those tests themselves...

In fact, I got one of my most valuable lessons in a workshop I took after I freaked out during a test -- I knew I had a problem.  And I was determined to fix it.

Why do I know this works for others too?

I got my Ph.D., became a professor, and taught those same techniques to my students.  And yes,  it worked for them too.  They also learned to stay calm in the middle of the storm.

And you know when I really went on a mission?  When I realized that  my ongoing stress had affected my immune system, and I needed to make changes.

As I made sure to apply the strategies I had learned, my life improved.

But it was only a few years ago when I discovered some of the most powerful strategies of all, the ones that INSTANTLY helped me calm down, no matter what.

And they will help you too.

Instant Stress Relief Strategies:

It's an Emergency Rescue Toolbox

Helping you Reclaim your Inner Calm

Right When You Need It