Your body shows the signs of stress - backache, shoulder tension, headaches, asthma, frequent colds and high blood pressure. This text shows how maintaining control and letting go of unnecessary muscular tension can help these symptoms. Using Alexander Techniques - postural techniques and breathing helps you to counter anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other stresses. Alexander realized there is an inseparable unity between body, mind and emotions - mental stress will lead to muscle tension and emotional instability. This book will enable people to counter this and take control. A new look at the Alexander philosophy in the centenary of his Technique. Related in a practical and appealing way to the stressful world we live in and the common stress illnesses that one in four people are suffering from with useful exercises.