Andrew Bernstein is the founder of the Resilience Academy and creator of ActivInsight. His work is changing the way individuals and organizations around the world understand stress and resilience. His clients include Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and many others. He lives in New York City with his family. For more information, visit ResilienceAcademy.com.
The Myth of Stress is a compelling, compassionate book about our
suffering when we fight reality and the transformation that is
possible when we don't. I loved it.
--Geneen Roth, author of When Food Is Love and Women, Food, and
God
Andrew Bernstein has brought some much needed common sense to the
subject of stress and that alone makes this book a winner.
-- Caroline Myss, author of Defy Gravity and Invisible Acts of
Power
Bernstein has created a wonderful, accessible how-to manual for
regular people wanting to feel better. This WORKS!
--Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D., author of Potatoes Not Prozac
Bernstein's volume is an outstanding guide to understanding the
nature of stress and how to handle it. The book provides numerous
insights and techniques for anyone experiencing stress -- and who
doesn't?
-- Aaron T. Beck, M.D., founder of Cognitive Therapy
Hans Selye's theory of stress as a fight-or-flight response is
wrong and overrated, according to Bernstein, originator of
ActivInsight, a cognitive method for identifying, understanding,
and transforming stress. Bernstein asserts that stress originates
in thoughts and beliefs, but he concedes that it has long-term
physical and mental effects. Using the worksheet process adapted
from his mentor Bryon Katie, Bernstein formulated ActivInsight, a
seven-step stress-reduction program he has taught in seminars to
corporations and nonprofit organizations. While acknowledging
similarities to positive thinking, Bernstein envisions ActivInsight
as working not just by replacing stressful ideas, but by
subtracting the underlying negative beliefs. In the book's second
half, Bernstein guides readers in applying ActivInsight to 12
common challenges ranging from anger, heartbreak, and money
problems to fear of dying. By the end, readers should be able to
apply ActivInsight to their own problems, though Bernstein admits
that some issues may need more than a single work-sheet session. An
online self-help platform with downloadable work sheets, tutorials,
and email connections will be launched upon publication. VERDICT An
easy-to-learn method for addressing issues underlying stress, best
suited for the workbook crowd and believers in cognitive-behavioral
therapy. --Library Journal
Look out Anthony Robbins, move over Deepak Chopra, there's a quiet
storm moving up through this state and beyond. His name is Andrew
Bernstein... He's an intelligent, calm, and soft-spoken person who
uses reason and logic to quiet the mind. --Vision Magazine
We often think we have to avoid or reduce stress. The Myth of
Stress teaches you not to "manage stress" but to root out the very
causes of stress, the tangled thinking that keeps you stuck in the
belief the world has to change for you to be happy. Andrew
Bernstein guides us through a way to untangle those thoughts and be
free. Read this book and it will change your life and you will find
your happiness will depend on only one thing - YOU.
--Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times best-selling author of The
UltraMind Solution
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