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Lifeskills
3 Brighton Road
London N2 8JU
Tel. 01-346 9646
This company offers a practical series of tape cassette programs and
books designed to help handle a wide range of stressful situations
in life. Each program lasts 45-60 minutes. Relax - and Enjoy It is a
complete course in deep, quick and differential relaxation, with
techniques which provide the basis for anxiety management training,
overcoming phobias, reduction of tension and fatigue, and good
eating and sleep habits. In its sequel, Control Your Tension, the
user is taught how to detect and use an anxiety surge as a trigger
for quick relaxation and positive thinking strategy. Other cassettes
available teach techniques for better sleep, self-assertion,
handling interviews, studying effectively, passing exams,
controlling fear of flying and agoraphobia.
Centre for Autogenic Training
Positive Health Centre
101 Harley Street
London W1N 1DF .
Tel. 01-935 1811
The Centre runs autogenic training courses on a regular basis. Each
course is limited to around eight people - an initial assessment by
the Centre's specialist medical consultant is required before
joining - and consists of eight sessions, once a week, lasting 1 1/2
hours each. Great emphasis is laid on the positive value of
autogenic in controlling stress by means of passive concentration.
The Centre also supplies a list of members of the British
Association for Autogenic Training and Therapy, all of whom are
willing to accept referrals for autogenic training.
Relaxation for Living
29 Burwood Park Road
Walton on Thames
Surrey KT12 5LH
Tel. 0932 227826
The aim of this registered charity is to promote the teaching of
physical relaxation to combat the stress of modern life, to reduce
fatigue, and to prevent ill health and promote healing by means of
muscle relaxation. Day and evening classes - average number is eight
in a class - are in courses of six or seven at weekly intervals,
with a refresher 'booster' class after a few months. Pupils are of
all ages. A correspondence course, with cassettes, is
available. Practice and study tapes, and leaflets published by
Relaxation for Living cover stress-related subjects such as heart
disease, sounder sleep and better breathing, migraine, the
menopause, easing grief, and posture, poise and confidence.
The Awakened Mind
9 Chatsworth Road
London NW2 4BJ (Isabel Maxwell Cade)
Courses and workshops on stress reduction, holistic health and
relaxation, meditation, therapeutic massage, self-healing and new
brain technology, with special emphasis on individual biofeedback.
There are intensive one-day Saturday courses of five weekly
sessions, with two seminars in each session. Isabel Maxwell Cade may
also be contacted on certain days at Audio Ltd.
Westminster Pastoral Foundation
23 Kensington Square
London W8 5HN
01-937 6956
The Foundation’s network of counseling centers all over the country
offers a comprehensive range of counseling services including
individual, group, marital and family counseling. Anyone can refer
themselves and payment is according to means. The Foundation
organizes a wide variety of training courses, full and part-time.
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