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Are you stressed?The workplace has become increasingly competitive, family life has its never-ending complications, and when you step outside, you have to deal with heavy traffic, aggression, and massive pollution. No wonder that you're tense and agitated, have hyper reflexes and blood pressure that's higher than the midday sun. But you're not alone. Fifty percent of Indian professionals suffer from stress with stress-related diseases from depression to lack of fertility drastically on the rise. In I'm Not Stressed, Deanne Panday, one of the country's leading health and fitness experts, shares with you her secrets to tackle this looming lifestyle problem. She tells you what stress really means, how to know when you have a serious case of it, and most importantly how to deal with it through a simple plan of diet, exercise, sleep, meditation, and breathing. With advice from leading psychiatrists, cardiologists, endocrinologists, and celebrities who have to deal with high-level stress, I'm Not Stressed is your mantra for enduring health and happiness.

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Publié par	Random House Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184002287
Langue	English

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RANDOM HOUSE INDIA
Published by Random House India in 2011
Copyright Deanne Panday 2011 Deanne s workout gear courtesy Bia Brazil Exercise photographs in the book by Vishal Mull
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EPUB ISBN 9788184002287
To both my dads,
Alistair Charles Woodham Rogers and Dr Sharad Panday
Foreword by Shahrukh Khan
Acknowledgements
Meet our panel of experts
Introduction
PART ONE: Understanding Stress
1. Crazy little thing called stress
2. How stressed are you?
3. The six sources of stress
4. The effects of stress: when your body is under siege
PART TWO: Deal with Stress
Section One: Train your mind
5. Breathing
6. Meditation
7. Yoga
Section Two: Train your body
8. Diet
9. Exercise
10. Sleep
Conclusion: The final word on stress
I still remember the day I first met Deanne in 1991. My first film Deewana was yet to be released and I had gone to pick up Gauri after a fashion show. It was there that Gauri introduced me to Deanne, her young and shy friend. I met her husband (then boyfriend), Chikki, the same day when we went to drop her off, and although decades have zipped by we have remained fast friends.
Deanne and Chikki were my first friends in Mumbai. I used to call them the beauty and the beast, the beauty, of course, being Deanne. During those days, LCDs had just been launched so the four of us would gather in Chikki s house and watch movies every night. On most days, after shooting and dinner, I would head there. We loved to hang around, chat, and watch films. It was so much fun. In 1992, when I bought my first house in Mumbai, the rendezvous shifted to my flat, where we would chat late into the night. Soon enough, our dear friends decided to get married and Gauri hosted Deanne s mehndi ceremony at our house.
Deanne has always been extremely fit and exercised regularly even back then, when fitness had not hit Bollywood and India in a big way. After she had her daughter Alanna, she got back into shape quickly and returned to modelling. Friends would often tease her about it because they thought it was sheer vanity. But for Deanne it has always been a way of life. She doesn t smoke and drinks rarely. She is the same even today. She would often sit at the bar in my house and sip tea unperturbed, much to the shock of many of our friends.
I wasn t surprised when Deanne opened her studio Play in 2007 as I had always known about her passion for health and fitness. But what did surprise me was her overall transformation from shy friend to confident and successful professional. It almost seemed as though she was always meant to do this.
It s been almost twenty years but our friendship is still rock solid. I have seen Deanne grow and evolve over the years as a wife, a mother of two children, and a professional who handles the ups and downs of life gracefully and with ease. She is full of knowledge, experience, warmth and optimism, and promotes health through natural methods that endure. According to me, the best quality she possesses is that she preaches only what she practises herself, and would never recommend current fads, fat burners, or shortcuts that could harm the body. This is what has made her the most popular fitness and lifestyle trainer in the country.
I believe that the key to a good lifestyle is the combination of a healthy mind and body. In fact, a healthy mind comes before a healthy body. So when Deanne told me she was writing a book on stress, I couldn t be happier. Stress is, after all, one of the most common and persistent health problems and has both long and short term effects.
For me, stress is the inability to deal with too many things at the same time. I feel sometimes it is self-inflicted. Maybe things are not as difficult as you think. All that is required is to get down to it. I define stress as an unclean work table where you keep feeling, Oh, my God, I ve got so much work to do! But if you sit down and start at one corner, you can work towards cleaning it up. A lot of people collect stress because they let it build up. If my table is cluttered, and if I start forgetting about it or say, I just refuse to do anything about it, it will only pile up. Today was cleaning day for me, as far as work was concerned. I sat down for five hours, and started from A and went up to the end. So I think all you need to do is compartmentalize and organize the cluttered set of things to do in your mind.
When I m stressed, I don t take any outside help. Stress affects me in a different way. I don t start sweating, I go silent. I know that if you are stressed, it s best to face it head on or to accept that some types of stress can t be sorted till the work is done. The kind of work I do sometimes takes years to finish. In fact, my work is always stressful because I m making a highly expensive product and will never know if it s going to work or not. I have been working in stressful situations for twenty years so I know that getting agitated will not solve things. Doing something about a situation will. However, being paranoid is equal to doing nothing, so I try to avoid that. But I do worry, I do think about it. That s why I write it down. Once I ve put it down on paper or on my computer, I know it s been compartmentalized. Then, I open that piece of paper and try to solve it.
Sometimes, for me, the best stress buster is to play it down, whether through a video game, a workout, football or hockey. I don t swim; I wish I knew how to. I take it out physically. Instead of doing the work I m supposed to do, I go and play with the kids or have a game of football. Or sometimes, I feel like cancelling everything and just lying in bed. Right now, my phone has 2,000 messages, of which 1,200 need to be replied to. But my logic is simple: if I have to play Barbie dolls with my daughter when there s a huge amount of work to be done or an important person to meet I ll choose the Barbie dolls. I know I ll pay for it. Maybe I ll lose out on a good opportunity, but I know playing with my son and daughter is going to hold me in good stead twenty years from now when I actually have no work. At that point, when I m 65 or 70 years old, I will not miss work because I ll have my kids to keep me happy without thinking, Damn, I wish I was working! But when I do work, I am very diligent. I m full of energy because I really want to do that work. I ve never said Yes to something I didn t want to do. If I m doing it, it means I took time to decide to do it and that I really liked it over and above playing with Barbie dolls. That s why when I come to work, I m really happy and give my best. I guess all of us need to prioritize and make our choices to avoid stress later. This is what I believe in.
Deanne, with her positive outlook, rich experience, and expert advice is the ideal spokesperson to help people deal with stress. Today, she is stress-free despite going through all sorts of ups and downs, both personally and professionally. Each time she has been in a difficult situation, she has come out stronger and maintained her natural warmth and positive attitude towards life. So I m glad that in her first book, my DD Bachcha, as I call her affectionately, has chosen to write about stress, and share the tips and secrets she has collected over decades. I hope you will find the book as fun and useful as I did.

Shahrukh Khan
July 2011, Mumbai
I would like to thank all the people who gave me their valuable insights and shared their experiences with me. This book would not have been the same without your help. So thank you Shahrukh Khan, Dino Morea, John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez, Bipasha Basu, Lara Dutta, Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor, Dr Nitin Raut, Leander Paes, Rhea Pillai, Atul Ruia, Cyrus Broacha, Anaita Shroff Adjania, Danesh, and Surily Goel. You ve made this book special.
Our wonderful panel of experts who took out time from their busy schedules and provided invaluable insight and information-Dr Bijoy Sharad Apte, Varkha Chulani, Shiamak Davar, Dr Niti Desai, Dr Ranjana Dhanu, Dr Shashank Joshi, Dr Prakash Kothari, Dr Ashok Mehta, Dr Sunita More, Dr Snehalata Panday, Dr Brian Pinto, Dr Jamuna Pai, Dr Sanjay Ramani, Rozina Amin Rajwani, Dr Vishwas Raut, Shonali Sabherwal, Dr Niti Sapru, Dr Rustum Soonawalla, Radhika Thakkar, and Tamara Zweck.
Diana Kotwal, thank you so much for helping me with your suggestions and inputs. A big thank you to all the people who shared their stories-those we could include in the book as well as those we couldn t-for being patient and generous with your time.
Thank you, Tina Dehal, for shooting the cover photograph, and Vishall Mull for the exercise photographs in the book at such short notice.
I want to especially thank my beautiful family-my loving husband Chikki, my darling children Alanna and Ahaan-who have been my anchor and joy for all these years, mum-in-law Sneha, brother-in-law Chunky, sister-in-law Bhavna, my mom Queenie, and siblings Alison, Linda, Leon, Suzie, Alistair; I could not have come this far without you guys.
And finally, thank you, Tanya Chaitanya, for introducing me to the wonderful Random House family, and my editor, Milee Ashwarya, for her constant support and encouragement in writing my first book.
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