Calm the Hectic Mind: 6 Mental Exercises to Lower Cortisol, Reduce Stress, and Restore Natural Balance

Name: Calm the Hectic Mind: 6 Mental Exercises to Lower Cortisol, Reduce Stress, and Restore Natural Balance
Rating: 4.316081523895264 (1082 reviews)

Darryl Burnett

Jan 2019 · Positively

1.08K reviews

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You've tried the apps. The journaling. The ten-minute breathing exercises that promise calm and never quite deliver.

None of it stuck, because your mind isn't a machine waiting for the right setting. It's part of a body that evolved outdoors — and most of us haven't been outside, on purpose, in years.

Calm the Hectic Mind gives you 6 practices built from real experience, not theory.

🔥 Build a fire from scratch — and watch your baseline anxiety actually drop

🌳 "Tree" — a 90-second standing practice that visibly steadies shaking hands

🚶 The silent walk — no phone, no destination, no performing for anyone

🌿 Sit with a plant and actually pay attention — stranger than it sounds, and it works

🏞️ Find your local park — no mountain required

🪴 Bring the outdoors into a home or office that never sees real daylight

No subscription. No special gear. Just a little time and a willingness to feel awkward at first.

Get your copy. Your hectic mind didn't build itself overnight — but it will calm down.

You've tried the apps. The journaling. The ten-minute breathing exercises that promise calm and never quite deliver. None of it stuck, because your mind isn't a machine waiting for the right setting. It's part of a body that evolved outdoors — and most of us haven't been outside, on purpose, in ...

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1.08K reviews

Raul Sanchez

January 15, 2020

The book was ok in my opinion because it was mainly centered around nature. I do agree that spending time outdoors can be more beneficial than staying indoors but I feel like that was an already given to people before even reading this book. In my opinion the greatest point for "Calming the Hectic Mind" was "qigong". I learned something new and I personally believe it's a great way to relax your mind and body.

45 people found this review helpful

s allard

February 7, 2020

the author describe common sense easy way to connect or reconnect with Nature. Although the 6 ways he describe are all excellent and easy way, plus they are all cost free. I would have appreciated more instructions even a how to for some. Like the Qigong and the Taoist way of walking even if the schemas were done with stick figure. Breathing with my navel is a complete mystery for me, in every discipline I was taught to use my diaphragm to breath deeply, is navel breathing the same?.

4 people found this review helpful

Andria Hexx

January 5, 2020

I would call this more of a pamphlet tha n a book, its only a few pages of very basic stuff that I think would be common sense. But hey, it was free and I appreciate getting something for nothing either way!

3 people found this review helpful

About the author

Darryl Burnett is a health coach, focusing on mental and physical exercise. He likes to write about the topic of mental strength and body fitness. His favorite quote is "hustle for that muscle".

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