Excerpts from the Manual (38 pages) - © 2003 Istituto Scientia, Italy


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 Striking reduction of anxiety is shown by a
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Congratulations for learning the Natural Stress Relief technique.
This is a simple mental technique to be practiced 10 minutes a day (or more, if you feel like). A regular practice of this technique is expected to improve your well being, to reduce your stress and to produce remarkable improvements in your life.
To learn this technique, 6 sessions are needed over 3 days, around 20 or 25 minutes each session. This manual comes with an audio file (mp3), called 'learn'. Do not listen to the audio file 'learn' at this time! Wait for the right time.
Best wishes by the Team of the Scientia Institute (Istituto Scientia, Italy).

This manual and the audio file learn are protected by copyright (© Istituto Scientia, Italy, 2003). It is forbidden to copy or to distribute them without permission.

1 - The Natural Stress Relief technique.

The Natural Stress Relief technique has shown to work fine and there are even scientific confirmations about its effectiveness (Appendix 1). It is very simple but it must be:

  • learned in a correct way;
  • practiced in a regular way.
Remarkable results have been achieved by people who have done this seriously. You have to practice this technique every day, 10 minutes or more.
Several other techniques that claim to reduce stress/anxiety and to increase mental performance, have shown to achieve less remarkable results compared to this one. Such competitor techniques include autogenic training, self-hypnosis, relaxation, meditation, breath control, brainwave audio tapes (or CDs or files), visualization, yoga meditation (Appendix 2).

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3 - How to practice the Natural Stress Relief technique.

This chapter exposes the basic instructions to practice the Natural Stress Relief technique, even though details are not revealed (this is not your personal instruction yet). This technique:

  • is to be practiced at least 1 time a day, 10 or 15 minutes each time;
  • is to be practiced while sitting comfortably, with closed eyes;
  • begins with 15 or 20 seconds of rest and silence
  • ends with 2 minutes of rest and silence;
  • may be practiced anywhere you can sit down and close your eyes;
  • cannot be practiced after eating (2 hours) or before sleeping (2 hours).
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4 - More details about the Natural Stress Relief technique.

The Natural Stress Relief technique can be practiced by anyone who is at least 14 years of age and is able to read and understand this handbook. Provided your are at least 14, there are no differences depending on your age, your sex, your race, your profession, your political or religious belief, or your confidence or skepticism in the Natural Stress Relief technique. It will work in any case.
Remember, there is no difficulty in learning this technique, that is very simple, but you must follow the instructions correctly, and you must practice the technique in a regular way. [snip...]


5 - Preparation to your personal instruction.

Chapter 5, 6 and 7 prepare you to your first session ever. During this session, you will learn to practice the Natural Stress Relief technique. The duration of the personal instruction is around 30 minutes.
Warning: do not listen to the audio file 'learn' yet! You will listen to this audio file later. [snip...]


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 Appendix 1.

Who learns the technique in a correct way and practices it in a regular way, will get remarkable results. This has shown to be true on thousands of people and confirmed by scientific research.
The striking reduction of stress and anxiety is shown by a sharp increase in skin resistance.
The more ordered state of mind and restful alertness is indicated by EEG changes, showing an increase of slow alpha waves (around 8 or 9 Hertz) and spreading of alpha and theta wave activity to the more central and frontal areas of the brain in a synchronized and coherent way.
For more information, read Appendix 3.


Appendix 2.

Other mental techniques usually produce less powerful effects than this technique.
For example, the famous Benson’s relaxation response technique claim to have reached the same striking results, has not been confirmed by scientific research (Dr. Herbert Benson is the author of the best-seller The relaxation response, HarperCollins Publishers 1975, 2000).
The Natural Stress Relief technique is different and much more effective than such competitor techniques. Usually the other techniques achieve an increase of slow alpha waves (8 or 9 Hertz) only, but alpha and theta wave activity does not spread to other areas of the brain in a synchronized and coherent way.


Appendix 3.

The creators of this method are expert in several mental techniques such as autogenic training, sofrology techniques, mantra meditation, Maharishi’s TM and Sidhi, Yogananda’s Hong So, Benson’s relaxation response, the Silva method and other ones.
Raymond Harrison (Ph.D. in physics) has been a Maharishi’s TM teacher. He inspired the creation of the Natural Stress Relief method, that was developed by the Scientia Institute (Istituto Scientia, Massa, Italy).
The President of the Scientia Institute, Fabrizio Coppola (Ph.D. in physics), is an expert practitioner of several mental techniques, including Maharishi’s TM (since 1983) and Sidhi (since 1989). He was charmed by the changes in EEG patterns during the practice of the TM technique and he studied them in physical terms.
Harrison and Coppola understood that TM and the Natural Stress Relief technique establish a natural resonance phenomenon in the nervous system, which can be considered a physical system crossed by electrical signals. This resonance is determined by a periodic signal, created by a special sound in the mind, which, starting from the brain, spreads out to the entire nervous system. Whoever is expert about resonance phenomena in physics, knows that they may create striking effects. Actually this resonance is able to “clean up” the nervous system, eliminating what in physics would be called “residual background noise”, and that in psycho-physiological terms appears as “stress”. Unfortunately, this connection between physics, physiology and psychology is not well known by most scientists at this time.
The Scientia Institute has verified the striking effects produced by the Natural Stress Relief technique. Specifically:
1) a striking skin resistance increase;
2) the respiration patterns (that are completely different from the respiration patterns in Benson’s relaxation response);
3) a statistical study of the subjective effects (as reported by the practitioners), that confirm the effectiveness of this technique.



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