How to relax, by Thich Nhat Hanh

 

This is a great little book (116 pages) that serves as a primer on how to relax focusing on short meditations using the breath and mantras to help. It consists of brief one or two page essays or paragraphs on topics that will help you relax in a lot of different ways. Headers such as Resting, Healing, Awareness of the breath, Stopping, Looking deeply, and many more look at the different ways that we are over-stressed and anxious and the many ways that we can use to reverse those states. It's part of a series of publications with similar titles: How to sit, How to eat, How to Love, etc.