(3 DVDs)
•Defeat burnout and reclaim the ability to make a difference in the lives of others
•Achieve life–work balance by living in the present moment
•Improve patient safety through focus, concentration and balance
•Apply mindfulness techniques to challenging patient care scenarios
•Decrease emotional exhaustion through awareness of your habitual stress reactions
•Experience mindful eating
•Weave quick and effective selfcare practices into your day

Throughout this life-changing program, you will learn a variety of new skills to incorporate into your professional work practice and your personal life as well. Sara Lefkowitz, RN, BSN, MPA, will help identify your habitual stress reactions. As you become more aware of these reactions, you develop the capacity to respond to stress rather than react. This increases our abilities to practice teamwork and collaboration and contribute to a positive work environment. Through mindfulness of breathing meditation, you can develop improved attention and concentration. These skills can decrease errors and increase patient safety. Body scan meditation is particularly useful for re-establishing the mind-body connection. As we become more connected to ourselves, it becomes easier to connect with others. We recognize our common humanity and treat ourselves and others with more kindness and compassion. You will walk away with in-the-moment practices to help regain balance in the midst of a busy workday.

23 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture (guide available)

Disc 1. lecture 1-6. Why don't zebras get ulcers? -- The nuts and bolts of the stress-response -- Stress and your heart -- Stress, metabolism, and liquidating your assets -- Stress, overeating, and your digestive tract -- Stress and growth -- echoes from the womb.
Disc 2. lecture 7-12. Stress, growth, and child development -- Stress and female reproduction -- Stress and male reproduction -- Stress and your immune system -- Stress and cancer -- Stress and pain.
Disc 3. lecture 13-18. Stress, learning and memory -- Stress, judgment, and impulse control -- Stress, sleep, and lack of sleep -- Stress and aging -- Understanding psychological stress -- Psychological modulators of stress.
Disc 4. lecture 19-24. Stress and the biology of depression -- Stress and the psychology of depression -- Anxiety, hostility, repression, and reward -- Stress, health, and low social status -- Stress management -- clues to success? -- Stress management -- approaches and cautions.

"What does being happy have to do with work? We've all been told that if we work hard, we'll be successful. And if we're successful, we'll be happy. What if that formula is wrong? What if the opposite were true and happiness is the secret to success--at work and at home? In 'The Happiness Advantage,' author and Harvard Professor Shawn Achor explains how happiness can improve your performance and satisfaction at work. Happy is a healthy state of mind and it is infectious! When we are happy, that positive feeling will ripple out of those around us, which can raise productivity and help us work faster and smarter"

Part one - 39 min. ; Part two - 47 min.
Study after study shows that organizations and teams that have fun on a regular basis get more done. Having more fun at work improves morale, keeps people motivated, lowers stress, and leads to a happier workplace environment. At home, the benefits are just as evident. Get ready to bring more fun into your personal and professional life, as expert speaker and motivator Christine Cashen brings you this fast-paced, entertaining program. You'll discover keys to having more fun, ideas for managing challenging situations, tactics for lowering stress, exercises for creative thinking, methods for understanding others more effectively, and much more. Whether it's other people who are driving you crazy, or you just need a little more fun in your own life, this program is guaranteed to add more joy to everything you do.
- CREATING MORE FUN THROUGH THE POWER OF LAUGHTER
- NOT LETTING OTHER PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR AFFECT YOU
- UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STYLES
- LOWERING STRESS BY MANAGING YOUR HAPPINESS
- HOW YOUR ATTITUDE AND SELF-TALK CREATES YOUR DAY
- AND MUCH MORE...

(208 min.) On disc 1, Chopra offers a life-changing prescription for living more joyfully and with greater awareness of all things, drawing upon the world's major spiritual traditions and incorporating contemporary applications of Buddhist principles. On disc 2, he presents ten powerful keys that will establish within the individual new freedom and joy, covering practical exercises for relinquishing anger and the need for approval, eliminating toxins from the mind and body, and replacing fear with love. Bonus feature includes meditations.

A series of laboratory and field experiments demonstrated that stress, long thought to be an exclusively psychological phenomenon, is measurable and dangerous on a physical level. Stanford neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied baboons (Papio) on the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya, measuring their levels of stress hormones caused by social hierarchies. Sapolsky found that the hormones adrenaline and glucocorticoid increase in subordinate troop members, and dominant males had significantly lower blood pressure and heart rates. Also working with nonhuman primate models, Dr. Carol Shively of Wake Forest University examined the arteries of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Corroborating Sapolsky's findings, Shively demonstrated that subordinate macaques have higher plaque levels in arteries, potentially increasing the risk for heart attack. These results were compared to a long-term human study, directed by Sir Michael Marmot of the University of London Medical School. Tracking the health of British Civil Servants, Marmot found that that humans lower in the workplace hierarchy had higher stress levels, and higher rates of sickness. Several researchers took these results a step further, focusing in on how stress affects mothers. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel of the University of California-San Francisco found that chronic high stress in mothers shortened telomeres in chromosomes, potentially producing lifelong consequences. In all of these studies, researchers found that stress and its harmful effects can be reduced by social interaction, and that grooming, playing, and equal social rank in nonhuman primates produced positive health effects.