This is a simple and effective relaxation method geared to the needs of people who don't have the time or the inclination to practice aerobics, autogenics, yoga or meditation yet experience the need for some way of antidoting the stress, tension and fatigue that they experience every day. The heart of the book is the five-point alpha plan for total relaxation. It takes about 30 minutes to work through and, modified, can be used at any time during the course of the working day to switch off for a while,unwind and recharge batteries. The book will facilitate readers' awareness of their own special areas of stress and the ways in which they try to relax and they can pinpoint what makes for tension or relaxation. Stress throughout is on the ordinariness and familiarity to all of us of the alpha state, its benefits for health and quality of life, and how to sink into it at will.