Symbols of Power

Symbols of Power Five-Minute Audio Programs

Mental/Emotional Stress pushes your “panic button” (The Fight-or-Flight Response) into emergency overdrive by:

Increasing heart rate and breathing rate
Raising blood pressure
Increasing cardiac exertion
Increasing brain-wave activity
Releasing high levels of cortisol into the bloodstream

The Fight-or-Flight Response (at Five-Minute Stress Relief.com) reviews the scientific documentation of these effects. The extensive website also provides supportive scientific explanation for all the following information:

Stress is Rapidly Aging Your Body
Stress is rapidly aging your body by adding belly fat, increasing skin wrinkles and aging you faster then normal.

Stress is Damaging Your Mind and Body
Stress is also rapidly aging your body by hastening the deterioration of your heart, its surrounding arteries, and the major organs of the body

Stress is Undermining Your Relationships
When you’re stressed, others around you feel it. When you’re stressed, you lose your patience and snap at people; are not in a good mood; lose interest or become closed off — not friendly. When you’re stressed, you shortchange your customer, friends, and loved ones by withholding your sacred gifts.

Stress is Coloring Your Outlook on Life Into a Darker Shade
Stress has been documented as a strong generator of depression. Depression is, perhaps, the most widely spread mental condition affecting some 20 million Americans, and a leading precipitator of heart disease, weight gain, insomnia, and many other serious conditions that lesson one’s lifespan.

Financial Stress is Damaging Your Health
Financial stress, which has been documented, is more relevant today more than ever. The acknowledged physical effects by health experts are a matter of record and have profound impact on your mind and body.

How Symbols of Power Stress Relief Audio Programs Protect You
Symbols of Power Stress Relief Audio Programs are based on the research of Herbert Benson, M.D. (Associate Professor of Harvard Medical School). Dr. Benson’s clinical research has been published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Benson is also the author or co-author of over 170 scientific publications and eight books, including his best-selling book, "The Relaxation Response."

Listening to Symbols of Power five-minute audio programs follows Dr. Benson's four steps for activating your body's healing relaxation response – an inherent ability for your body to heal itself. The five-minute audio programs refocus the mind away from stressful thoughts and reinforce positive emotions -- without the listener having to expend effort.

Physical Body

Individual sits with eyes closed and passively listens to CD with relaxing music and soothing narration. Using earphones increases effectiveness and enables one to use the programs anywhere. Just sitting with eyes closed, listening to the audio programs, for five-minutes guides your body to slow down heart rate, breathing rate, and brain-wave activity, and reduce cardiac exertion.

Mental Thoughts

The narration provides a guided process that refocuses the mind away from everyday concerns by taking you on an imaginary journey that is engaging. This refocusing of mental attention is critical for freeing the mind from stressful thoughts.

Emotional Feelings

Enjoying the experience reinforces positive emotions. All the way through the five-minute process, you are guided to be spontaneous, and have fun, and use your imagination to "color in" the fine details of everything you see and feel.

This totally unique, interactive feature means each time you listen to a program, it's a different, subjective experience, an endless array of ways to reduce stress on your heart, on your whole body while you just relax and enjoy it. The 3 CD's contain a total of 36 five-minute audio programs -- a wide variety of enjoyment.

Returning to Natural Balance

When the mind lets go of mental stress, when the heart feels positive emotions, the body returns to natural balance — homeostasis. Returning to natural balance reduces stress on the heart, strengthens your immune response, restores calmness and clarity to the mind, and stops your body's cortisol stress response, preventing extra belly fat on your stomach and waistline.

Listen to Samples of Audio Programs