Letting go of Anxiety - Sarah Edelman - Audio CD
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This CD contains a series of exercises designed to help the listener release the unpleasant feelings that accompany anxiety, including physical tension, arousal, worrying thoughts and emotional uneasiness.
A soothing voice guides the listener through a range of exercises, including deep relaxation, calming imagery, breathing exercises and self-talk for releasing anxiety.
This CD contains six tracks that run for approximately 10 minutes each, with ambient background music by Malcolm Harrison. When using this CD you may choose to arrange the content of your session by selecting specific tracks and playing them in a particular order. Alternatively, you may prefer to listen to the whole CD from start to finish.
Tracks included:
Progressive muscle relaxation
Diaphragmatic breathing
Self-talk for releasing anxiety
Visualisation exercise
Isometric and cue-controlled relaxation
Inner guide imagery
About the Author Sarah Edelman PhD
Sarah Edelman, PhD. is an author, lecturer and a psychologist in private practice. She worked for many years as a research psychologist at the University of Technology Sydney, and has published several articles on the use of CBT with cancer patients. She also conducts workshops for mental health practitioners and employees in industry, and provides training for psychologists at the Black Dog Institute, Sydney. In 2002, Sarah published a book, now in its second edition, titled ‘Change your Thinking – positive and practical ways to overcome stress, negative emotions and self defeating behaviour using CBT, it was reprinted in 2006 ’
Sarh Edelman says CBT is not so much about changing personality, but adjusting cognition and belief with evidence. Many of our thinking patterns are established in childhood and can remain stubborn to change, but Sarah Edelman points out that our thoughts and beliefs are influenced for better or worse throughout our adult lives: influences include the social environment, culture, friends and partners. CBT's mantra is that dysfunctional beliefs can cause unnecessary emotional pain, but we can change those beliefs. In the case of anger, CBT entails the person writing down the advantages and disadvantages of staying angry. With panic attacks, Sarah Edelman encourages people to feel the physical sensations, and help them realise the sensations usually quickly pass. For the shy, Sarah Edelman gets people to rate social events from least feared to most, then go about attending such events, all the while challenging their fear that a social gathering will end in catastrophe.
CBT can alleviate every-day problems stemming from irrational beliefs, says Dr Melissa Green, a clinical research fellow with the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. These problems include frustration, anxiety, even road rage.
Dr Sarah Edelman's book Change Your Thinking (ABC Books, 2006) is a practical and reassuring guide to help overcome stress, negative emotions and self-defeating behaviour using CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy). It demonstrates how to dispute that nagging voice in your head and deal more rationally with feelings of anger, depression, frustration and anxiety. |
