What if you could see stress coming and knew how to stop it from interfering with your work, rest, and relationships? What if you could effectively respond rather than impulsively react to pressure and loss? What if you could see where your thoughts are leading you and redirect them to where you really want to go? These are not distant fantasies but practical things you can accomplish by reading "Slow Down and Lighten Up." You will gain a clear understanding of how body, mind, emotion interact, what goes wrong, and what you can do about it. You will learn how to restore and maintain physical, mental, and emotional balance and how to apply three simple principles that prevent stress and solve problems. Slow Down and Lighten Up explains how all this works in clear, simple terms using stories and metaphors based on the experience of the author and thousands of students, workshop participants, clients, and patients who made significant improvements in their lives by applying what is described in this text.