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Audio Tapes by Iris Barrow
plus
CD on Relaxation

Plus

The Personality Manager tool-kit

A. For Businesses
B. The Individual
C. Families

Iris Barrow is a New Zealand author of 12 books, a relaxation CD and 8 tapes. Iris is also a human resources consultant and has a client base ranging from corporate groups to individuals. She has extensive experience in psychological counselling, coaching, mentoring, life-skills training, staff training and presenting seminars.

Self Help Tapes Available :

For full descriptions on each tape, scroll down the page:

Learning to Relax(CD or Tape)

Understanding and Overcoming Stress

Understanding and Overcoming Depression

Raising Your Self Esteem

Building Your Confidence

Responsible Self Assertion

Communicating With Confidence

Goal Setting and Motivation

How to Purchase Iris' Self Help Tapes:

All Iris' books can be purchased by Phone, Email, On-Line Banking, Direct Credit or Postal, (See Shopping page for more details).

Learning to Relax - Tape 1

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging for tape
or
Price : NZ $28.00 - (for CD)

This tape or CD consists of five relaxation exercises:
- Learn to relax physically.
- Learn to relax mentally.
- A ten-minute daytime mental and physical relaxation exercise.
- "Time-slot instant spot", relaxation for regular one-minute-letting-go periods throughout the day.
- And a last thing at night, "Getting a good night's sleep" exercise.

If two or three exercises are listened to on a regular daily basis, mental and physical tension is considerably reduced.
Noticeable improvement usually takes place within a two or three week period.
Not to be used while driving!

For most effective results, use in conjunction with tapes 2 & 3.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tapes 2 & 3

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Understanding and Overcoming Stress - Tape 2

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

This tape discusses how to cope with stress.
Side one explains :
- What stress is.
- What it does to a person.
- How to identify stress symptoms.
- Situations that are likely to cause stress, etc.

Side two teaches :
- How to cope with stress.
- The measures we can take to prevent it from building up.
- How to eliminate as much as possible.
- And generally how to get and stay on top of stress.

This tape should be listened to daily, for 10-15 minutes as you are walking around, and repeated for two months.
For most effective results, use in conjunction with tapes 1 & 3.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tapes 1 & 3

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Understanding and Overcoming Depression - Tape 3

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

This tape gives a series of simple steps to help overcome depression and prevent its recurrence.

If listened to for ten minutes a day while you are walking around, (and played repeatedly for as long as necessary), the positive message will be fed into the subconscious.
In a few weeks, provided a commitment to work for oneself is there, improvement should follow.

It's message is constructive, based on common sense, and if put into practice, should lead to positive results.

For most effective results, use in conjunction with tapes 1 & 2.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tapes 1 & 2

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Raising Your Self Esteem - Tape 4

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

This tape teaches you how to raise your self esteem and gives practical methods (including exercises) for achieving this.

It is vital to our mental and emotional well-being that we have a good self esteem. The way we handle pressure, interact with others, the quality of our relationships, confidence, the state of inner security and our peace of mind, are all dependent upon it.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tape 5

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Building Your Confidence - Tape 5

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

This tape gives simple workable steps to building confidence.
It teaches you how to deal with self-doubt and negative feelings and how not to be limited by these, but rather to move on despite them.

This tape also covers :
- Overcoming shyness and feelings of inadequacy.
- Relating more comfortably to other people and communicating more confidently with them.
- Self motivation/goal setting and acting as we wish to become.
- Constructive ways of dealing with worry and anxiety.
- Problem solving and decision making.

The emphasis is on learning to think positively and to act constructively. A number of practical confidence-building exercises are given.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tape 4

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Responsible Self Assertion - Tape 6

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

Assertiveness is a state of emotional maturity, it is a very important skill for people who wish to function in a confident way.

This tape covers :
- How to seek justice and respect.
- How to treat others with justice and respect.
- How to stand up for our rights when necessary.
- How to say no without feeling guilty or giving offense.
- How to set survival limits.
- The difference between being compassionate in an adult and positive way, and falling into the compassion trap.
- The handling of negative feelings (anger, frustration, resentment) and expressing those feelings in positive, safe and nondestructive ways.
- The handling of criticisms and put downs.
- How to give criticism constructively.
- Communicating in an honest, open, yet tactful way.
- Assertive communication.
- The importance of being oneself.
- Expressing positive emotions.

These and other important aspects of assertive behaviour are explored in this tape.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tape 7

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Communicating With Confidence - Tape 7

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

You can communicate with ease and confidence!
This tape teaches the skills needed to relate to and communicate with others in a relaxed and confident way.

Key points covered are :
- Overcoming shyness.
- Creating a safe, positive climate for communication.
- Listening skills.
- Drawing people out.
- The five levels of communication.
- How to overcome the fear of speaking up in a group or public.
- How to make others want to communicate with you.
- Developing a confident attitude towards communication.
- Asking the right questions.
- Why others want to accept you.
- The psychology behind good relating and communication.

Confidence and communication go hand in hand, improve in one and you automatically improve in the other!

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tape 6

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Goal Setting and Motivation - Tape 8

Price : NZ $15.00 - plus postage & packaging

You can become motivated to succeed, achieve, reach your goals and have a better quality of life. Learn the keys to setting life, work, and personal goals!

This tape teaches you the keys to becoming motivated and how to set and achieve goals.

Areas covered are how to :
- Have an active orientation to life.
- Set long term life and work goals.
- Set shorter-term stepping-stone goals to achieve these.
- Find positive direction, whilst remaining flexible.
- Be adaptable.
- Keep reassessing and writing out goals.
- Be one of life's actors and not reactors.
- Have goals which are based on realism and common-sense.
- Take into consideration potential for future growth.
- Believe in yourself and your potential to succeed.
- Use imagination to reach your goals.
- Act in a way that fits the vision.
- Develop the ability to see obstacles as challenges and mistakes and stepping-stones to growth.
- Have consistency and commitment.
- Pay attention to detail and avoid red-herring distractions.
- Approve of yourself and build on personal strengths.
- Affirm others and pull the positive from them.
- Direct energy into constructive action and not misdirect it into anxiety.
- Make decisions and avoid procrastination.

Follow the principles on this tape and you are unlikely to fail!

ALSO RECOMMENDED: Tape 5

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Learn what The Personality Manager can do for you - your business or your Family, by clicking here.

The Personality Manager

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email: iris@irisbarrow.co.nz
Iris Barrow Counselling Ltd

Audio Tapes by Iris Barrow plus CD on Relaxation

Plus

The Personality Manager tool-kit

Audio Tapes by Iris Barrow
plus
CD on Relaxation