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    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer's High
    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer's High
    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer's High
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    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer's High

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    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High by Amber Polo provides a travelogue of hints, exercises, and whimsical side trips to help the stressed writer breakthrough the physical and mental limits to creativity.

    From aromatherapy to zumba, find hundreds of practical ideas and suggestions. Written with the special needs of writers in mind, anyone who spends time in a chair will discover useful tips to escape the dangers of sitting.

    Suggestions range from centuries-old techniques like meditation and yoga to iPad apps. Every page inspires worried writers to explore new ideas to de-stress their lives.

    Relaxing the Writer provides an appendix of resources in all media for further study.
    Amber Polo has also released a 20-minute deep relaxation audio, Relaxing the Writer Relaxation, to teach a proven relaxation technique.

    Relaxing the Writer is a perfect gift for your favorite writer or yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmber Polo
    Release dateSep 19, 2011
    ISBN9781466145610
    Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer's High
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    Amber Polo

    Amber Polo is best known for her Shapeshifters’ Library series, a light urban fantasy filled with dog-shifting librarians and book burning werewolves. Released, Retrieved, Recovered, and Reprinted.Amber's love of books drew her into a career as a librarian- and later a writer. One day a plane flew past her office window and she turned her pen to her own Arizona airpark backyard and Heads in the Clouds was the result. Hearts in the Vortex, a Sedona paranormal romance, was also is set in amazing Arizona.Following her trail back to libraries, The Pharaoh & the Librarian imagines what would have happened if Cleopatra had faked her death and escaped on a pirate ship? While her sister sailed for Wales with the most valuable ancient books from her Library of Alexandria? And they both landed in an imagined new world filled with crypto-creatures and historical humans?In addition to her novels, she is proud of Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High which offers hundreds of tips to help writers and readers relax and her self-produced Relaxation One Breath at a Time, an audio that uses her voice to teach relaxation to calm your body and mind and/or help you fall asleep.

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      Relaxing the Writer - Amber Polo

      Relaxing the Writer:

      Guidebook to the Writer’s High

      by

      Amber Polo

      Relaxing the Writer:

      Guidebook to the Writer’s High

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 by Amber Polo

      Cover Design by Connie Fisher

      ConnieLeeMarie.com

      Formatted by Laura Shinn

      Wordshaping Press

      Contact: info@RelaxingtheWriter.com

      License Notes

      Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High is a work of non-fiction. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be copied or reproduced in any manner without express written permission of the author. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy or copies. If you did not purchase this book or it was not purchased for your use, please go to Smashwords.com to purchase your personal copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The ideas and suggestions in this publication are not intended to substitute for proper medical advice. Not all exercises are suitable for everyone. Pregnant women are advised not to practice twisting poses. If you have any chronic or recurring conditions, take prescription drugs, or when in doubt, always consult a reliable health professional.

      Table of Contents

      I. Traveling the Writing Road

      Why Writers Need Relaxation Strategies

      The Writer’s High

      Around the Writer’s Block

      II. The Ergonomic Writer

      Setting the Scene

      Sitting is Scary

      Wired to Write

      The Writer’s Space

      III. Essential Stops

      Desk Stretches *

      Hand Stretches *

      Rolling & Passive Stretches *

      Breathing

      Eyes Need Exercise, Too *

      IV. Exploring Other Attractions

      Aromatherapy

      Food

      Guided Visualization

      Hands *

      Journaling

      Laughter & Smiles

      Massage

      Meditation

      Progressive Muscular Relaxation

      Retreats & Other Destinations

      Self-Massage

      Seriously Aerobic

      Shaking & Rocking

      Sleep

      Sound, Music, Noise & Silence

      Tai Chi

      Tea & Tonics

      Walking

      Weight Training

      Yoga *

      V. Relaxing the Writer Audio Guides

      Relaxing the Writer Relaxation

      Relaxing the Writer Hand Meditation

      VI. Resources

      Tour Guides & Guidebooks

      Apps to Relax (iPhones, iPods, & iPads)

      Tour Guides (Teachers)

      About the Author

      Reviews

      *Illustrations

      I. Traveling the Writing Road

      Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High is filled with practical hints, reminders, and surprises which relax writers. Anyone who spends time in a chair will find useful tips, suggestions, and options. Relaxation can be learned.

      First, a short detour to look at our goal, The Writer’s High, and one roadblock, Around the Writer’s Block.

      Section II - The Ergonomic Writer - Setting the Scene explores the writer’s office and other physical needs that help create a relaxing writing experience.

      Section III - Essential Stops introduces proven ways to quickly relax you: stretches to do at or near your desk, breathing practices, and eye exercises.

      Section IV - Exploring Other Attractions surveys options from Aromatherapy to Yoga, each filled with solutions from the mundane to the mystical to spark your curiosity and help you discover what relaxes you. If one technique doesn’t work, move on.

      How to Use This Book - Choose several stretches and breathing exercises from Section III and practice for several days. Then choose a few from Section IV and experiment with those. Some practices will become part of your day and others will become refreshing breaks.

      Why Writers Need Relaxation Strategies

      Writing Affects the Writer

      Writers lean forward, necks scrunch into shoulders, backs hunch, brows furrow, eyes bug out, and lower back, arms, wrists, and fingers tighten. Even our faces squinch tight and wrinkle. Eyes squint at screens without blinking. Repetitive use of muscles and unnatural postures create tension, the body’s natural response to imbalance.

      Mental Stress & Physical Tension Affect Every Part of a Writer’s Life

      Mental – Poor concentration, obsessive thinking, preoccupation, racing thoughts, worry, indecision, memory loss, poor problem solving skills, procrastination, conflicted personal relations

      Spiritual – Lack of purpose, goals, and direction, disconnection, lack of inspiration, alienation, loneliness, cynicism, boredom, melancholy

      Physical - Headaches, eye strain, constricted breathing, repetitive stress injuries, back pain, stiff neck, fatigue, insomnia, over-eating, loss of appetite, low energy, frequent colds, accidents, sweaty or cold hands, weakened immune system, teeth grinding, jaw pain, indigestion, hypertension.

      All writers need relaxation techniques to focus the mind, de-stress the body, and calm emotions. Relaxation replenishes creativity. This guide will help you develop your personal user’s manual of relaxation methods.

      The Writer’s High

      Just as athletes revel in the runner’s high and an actor says the muse is with me, writers experience a similar phenomenon. Their zone is also an altered state of consciousness. In that place, time stands still. We are in our bodies, but not. This effortless creativity is the goal writers wish they could reach every time they sit to write.

      The exhilaration felt when faced with danger, stress, and pain supposedly happens when endorphins, the body’s own morphine-like substances, prevent nerve cells from sending out pain signals. The most famous rush is the runner’s high, which takes an athlete over a threshold that activates endorphins. Going past an individual’s physical limits and ignoring pain may cause damage. Lucky for writers, there’s little danger, other than forgetting to get out of the chair.

      As writers, we’d love to step into that absorbed state of mind at will. Yet without preparation, it’s likely to happen less often. Relaxation doesn’t negate the need for hard work, research, or analytical preparation, but does release the physical tension and mental stress that blocks the path.

      In Section III - Essential Stops and Section IV - Exploring Other Attractions, you’ll read about techniques to increase your chances of finding that elusive clarity and activities that help put writers in a place where the writer’s high is more apt to happen.

      Around the Writer’s Block

      Some dismiss writer’s block as simple procrastination or just

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