Popular psychology Books
Shambhala Publications Inc Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of
Book SynopsisNautilus Book Award Gold Winner A psychotherapist offers “crucial” guidance on how to “alter fundamentally our fearful relationship to deep feelings,” from depression and anxiety to grief and fear (Los Angeles Times) We are all touched at some point by the dark emotions of grief, fear, or despair. In an age of global threat, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional wisdom warns us of the harmful effects of “negative” emotions, this revolutionary book offers a more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power in our worst feelings. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it’s the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our time: depression, anxiety, addiction, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to guide, heal, and transform our lives and our world. Drawing on inspiring stories from her psychotherapy practice and personal life, and including a complete set of emotional exercises, Greenspan teaches the art of emotional alchemy by which grief turns to gratitude, fear opens the door to joy, and despair becomes the ground of a more resilient faith in life. “This remarkable book has taught me a whole new way of thinking.” —Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People “A beautiful piece of work destined to become a perennial classic.” —Martha Beck, author of The Joy Diet
£19.55
Shambhala Publications Inc The Inner Journey Home: Soul's Realization of the
Book SynopsisWhat is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the practice of traditional spiritual methods, and the application of modern psychological research. The Inner Journey Home is the centerpiece of the Diamond Approach literature, providing a complete overview of the teaching with references to the author''s other books for more details on certain topics.
£54.37
Shambhala Publications Inc The Art of Emotional Healing: Over 60 Simple
Book SynopsisFeelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. In The Art of Emotional Healing, Lucia Capacchione presents the simple yet powerful methods she uses in her internationally acclaimed workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.
£28.80
Shambhala Publications Inc Don't Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger,
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£20.25
Shambhala Publications Inc The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery: A
Book SynopsisMindfulness, the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is, is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. Because at the heart of addiction is the fear of painful emotional states, addicts compulsively seek drugs and alcohol to avoid or escape emotional pain. Mindfulness, on the other hand, helps us develop greater acceptance and ease with life’s challenges, as well as greater self-compassion. Here, Dr. Lawrence Peltz, who has worked as an addiction psychiatrist for nearly three decades, draws from his clinical experience and on the techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to explain the fundamental dynamics of addiction and the stages of the recovery process, and also gives us specific mindfulness exercises to support recovery.
£16.14
Shambhala Publications Inc The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic and
Book SynopsisPresents a series of drawing assignments which encourage freedom of self-expression and a non-judgmental mindset, habits that the author argues can be carried over into other life activities.
£15.29
Lantern Books,US America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives
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£28.05
Sounds True Inc Way of the Superior Man
Book SynopsisA spiritual resource for the modern man guides readers to the secrets of success in business, family, relationships, and intimacy, offering a program that combines clear advice, empowering skills, body practices, and other exercises to help listeners achieve fulfillment. Book available.
£21.75
Sounds True Inc Language of Archetypes
Book SynopsisA renowned medical intuitive reveals how to identify and work with the eight major archetypal families, introducing listeners to hundreds of archetypes that exist in human consciousness that impact health, relationships, career, and our sacred destiny. Read by the author.
£75.00
Sounds True Inc Meditations to Change Your Brain: Rewire Your
Book SynopsisSeven Guided Practices to "Rebuild" Your Brain for Lasting Joy and Fulfillment The structure of your brain changes constantly in a dynamic, unfolding process that you yourself can help direct to create the life you want. This is the exciting premise of Meditations to Change Your Brain, a breakthrough three-CD program from neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, PhD, and neurologist Richard Mendius, MD. Course objectives: Use meditation to rewire the neural pathways in your mind—to change your brain and to change your mind • Learn the science behind suffering; how our survival instincts have led to our own suffering and how we can change this • Learn several different meditation techniques to promote concentration, let go of painful past experiences, and promote a more positive outlook • A scientific overview of the structure of your brain and which areas are responsible for our different skills and emotions Drawing on a vast body of research spanning more than 30 years, Hanson and Mendius show you how to strengthen the neural circuits that generate happiness, love, and inner peace. Join them to explore fascinating insights about your brain and how you can consciously affect it with good results. Then learn seven guided meditations to reshape your brain, including: "Steadying Your Mind" to tap the full creative power of your attention • "Taking in the Good" to maintain a positive emotional landscape • "Antidote to Stress," a conscious way to activate your body’s relaxation response • "Healing Painful Experiences" to free yourself from the charge of negative memories Science has proven what contemplative traditions have taught for centuries: meditation holds a key to a life of balance, peace, and joy. Whether you’re discovering meditation for the first time or looking for a way to deepen an existing practice, with Meditations to Change Your Brain you have a full spectrum of techniques to make your brain your greatest ally on the path to personal fulfillment.
£19.20
Sounds True Inc Mindfulness and the Brain: A Professional
Book SynopsisThe Buddha Meets Neurobiology in the Science of Heightened Awareness Mindful awareness creates scientifically recognized enhancements in our mental functions and interpersonal relationships. But how can we integrate this information into our personal or professional lives? In the Mindfulness and the Brain audio learning course, Jack Kornfield, PhD, and Daniel Siegel, MD, offer theoretical and experiential teachings on the power of inner transformation and the cultivation of a wise and loving heart. Whether you’re a therapist, healer, educator, parent, meditation practitioner—or anyone interested in developing a healthy mind—this training offers a practical exploration of what it means for our world and us to be able to nurture and sustain heightened awareness Course objectives: Summarize basic concepts of neurobiology and neuroplasticity • Explain the difference between the concept of mind and the brain • Summarize the Buddhist model of mental health • Compare awareness with mental activity • Discuss how mindfulness practices can change the brain • Practice mindfulness meditation exercises • Evaluate the practical relevance of these insights on the individual and on the world as a whole An Integration of Head and Heart In this training, you’ll discover how mindful practice helps reduce suffering and promote resilience; the "resonance circuit" that enables an individual to attune to oneself and others; and how intrapersonal attunement can catalyze mental, interpersonal, and psychological well-being. /p> From scientific findings and down-to-earth Buddhist perspectives to memorable anecdotes and real-life stories that illustrate key concepts, Mindfulness and the Brain invites you to discover a more integrated and connected way of knowing and developing a wise and loving heart. Course Highlights Clinical findings on the transformative power of interpersonal neurobiology • The structure of the mind and how understanding consciousness can lead to freedom • Neural integration and how it helps create more balanced lives • How to incorporate compassion and forgiveness into our personal and professional life • More than six hours of essential teachings and tools for cultivating healthy change in ourselves and others
£50.25
Sounds True Inc Meditation and Psychotherapy: A Professional
Book SynopsisCourse objectives: Apply the R.A.I.N. technique in your work with clients • Utilize mindfulness meditation to clear blockages that prevent living fully • Discuss basic concepts of Buddhist psychology • Recognize aspirations and intentions that support awakening • Practice a variety of different guided meditations • Adapt specific mindfulness practices to individual client needs • Integrate mindfulness into your personal and professional life Learning How to Face Our Tangled Emotions and Release Our Limiting Beliefs There are many skillful means that we can use to train ourselves and our clients to become aware, teaches Brach, a psychotherapist and meditator of more than 30 years. But they all lead to one essential question: Can I be here in this moment? Using her R.A.I.N. technique, a four-part process that helps us learn how to stop running away from our tangled emotions and start to lovingly face them, we'll investigate and unblock the beliefs that cause suffering. Guiding us through meditations and practices on mindfulness, loving-kindness, forgiveness, allowing, and more, Brach shares key tools and expert insights for moving through this liberating process so that we can open and allow our lives to unfold, moment by moment. "Mindfulness can strengthen our attention, awaken compassion and empathy, and expand our acceptance of our own inner states," teaches Brach. Meditation and Psychotherapy draws on the strengths of mindfulness meditation and the practice of modern therapeutic methods to help clear the emotional blocks holding us back. Highlights: R.A.I.N., a liberating four-step process for learning how to end the suffering caused by clinging to our emotions • How we all can awaken from the trance of unworthiness using mindful awareness and lovingkindness • The alchemy of self-compassion and how it can help in our relationships with others • Why we don't have to believe our thoughts—the transformative power of self-inquiry • "Touch and go," an approach for gently disarming the energy of trauma • Tips for adapting practices for your individual client's needs • A new model of psychotherapy that emphasizes the client/therapist relationship as an unfolding partnership • More than eight hours of expert insights, practices, and tips for using mindfulness meditation and modern therapeutic methods to help untangle our difficult emotions
£75.00
Penguin Putnam Inc The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . .
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Willow Creek Press Just Sisters
Book SynopsisSisters are wonderful, and sisters are terrible. Depending on the day, the mood, the weather, or the time of day, a sister can be a companion, an adversary, an enemy, or a soulmate. But no matter what, a sister is always a best friend, and the combination of animal photos and quotes in this delightful gift book celebrate the unique duality of sisterhood.
£14.00
Red Wheel/Weiser Find Your Inner Voice: Using Instinct and
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Emotional Fitness at Work: 6 Strategic Steps to
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£14.24
Red Wheel/Weiser Happiness Genes: Unlock the Positive Potential
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser The Relationship Code: Engage and Empower People
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Secrets of Power Problem Solving
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£13.29
Red Wheel/Weiser Activate Joy: Live Your Life Beyond Limitations
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Your Ultimate Life Plan: How to Deeply Transform
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£13.29
Red Wheel/Weiser 100 Ways to Overcome Shyness: Go from
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£11.39
Sounds True Inc Fear and Anxiety Solution: A Breakthrough Process
Book SynopsisYou're late to a meeting and caught in traffic. Your toddler is screaming and your in-laws just showed up. You're about to give an important presentation but you've misplaced your notes—and you're beginning to panic. We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for many of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily to get the best of us? According to Dr. Friedemann Schaub, the answer lies in the subconscious mind—the source of our most challenging emotions and the key to the wisdom they offer. The Fear and Anxiety Solution presents Dr. Schaub's breakthrough and empowerment program for learning to understand, direct, and utilize the subconscious mind as our greatest ally on the path to health and wholeness. The processes and tools of each chapter will show you how to consciously work with your subconscious mind to pinpoint and understand the root causes and deeper meanings of your fear and anxiety, release emotional blocks from the past, and "shine more of who you truly are out into the world." Through step-by-step guidance, Dr. Schaub explains how to transform fear and anxiety into healing catalysts that lead to greater confidence, self-worth, and success, as he illuminates: The five principles for change—awareness, flexibility, choice, actualization, and readjustment • How to address inner conflicts, stored emotions, and limiting beliefs—the three subconscious root causes of fear and anxiety • A five-step process for effectively eliminating negative self-talk and mind-racing • How to manage "free-floating anxiety" • The Parts Reintegration Process, a powerful method for peace of mind, increased energy, and improved health • The Pattern Resolution Process for releasing subconsciously stored fear and anxiety • How to replace your old anxiety-driven identity with a new foundation of self-empowerment at the cellular level "The more unresolved fear and anxiety you've stored in your subconscious, the more untapped potential awaits you," explains Dr. Schaub. With The Fear and Anxiety Solution, now you have the tools to change faster and perform better in every aspect of your life through the power of conscious-subconscious collaboration. The Fear and Anxiety Solution is the 2012 Independent Publisher Award Gold Medal Winner and the USA Best-Book Award Winner in the category best new-self-help book.
£14.23
Sounds True Inc Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for
Book SynopsisBrain-based therapy is the fastest-growing area in the field of psychological health because it has proven that it can immediately address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. Now Dr. David Grand presents the next leap forward in psychological care—combining the strengths of brain-based and talk therapies into a powerful technique he calls Brainspotting. In Brainspotting, Dr. Grand reveals the key insight that allowed him to develop this revolutionary therapeutic tool: that where we look reveals critical information about what's going on in our brain. Join him to learn about: The history of Brainspotting—how it evolved from EMDR practice as a more versatile tool for brain-based therapy • Brainspotting in action—case studies and evidence for the effectiveness of the technique • An overview of the different aspects of Brainspotting and how to use them • Between sessions—how clients can use Brainspotting on their own to reinforce and accelerate healing • Why working simultaneously with the right and left brain can lead to expanded creativity and athletic performance • How Brainspotting can be used to treat PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, physical pain, chronic illness, and much more "Brainspotting lets the therapist and client participate together in the healing process," explains Dr. Grand. "It allows us to harness the brain's natural ability for self-scanning, so we can activate, locate, and process the sources of trauma and distress in the body." With Brainspotting, this pioneering researcher introduces an invaluable tool that can support virtually any form of therapeutic practice—and greatly accelerate our ability to heal.
£19.82
Sounds True Inc Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All
Book Synopsis"Why are the people around me so difficult?" "Why do I keep getting in situations like this?" Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level. With Knowing Your Shadow, this acclaimed psychotherapist and author shows us how to illuminate and wisely engage with the endarkened aspects of who we are. Join him to explore in depth the areas where shadow work can most benefit us, including: Discovering and cultivating intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself • Identifying and healing your core wounds • Working effectively with anger, fear, shame, guilt, and other difficult emotions • Understanding how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness • Guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path Our moods and relationships often seem to have a life of their own. Knowing Your Shadow offers exceptional support for taking charge of your life at a deep level, providing expert guidance and instruction to discover and make wise use of what lies hidden or otherwise neglected within us. Learn More About: Becoming intimate with your shadow • Relating wisely to shame and guilt • Ending your suffering by entering your pain • Exploring the presence of your past • Freeing yourself from your inner critic • Working with fear, anger, and other darker emotions • Bringing sex out of the shadows—how we eroticize our unmet needs • The signs of spiritual bypassing • Healthy spirituality • Becoming intimate with all that you are Music by Diane Bardwell Course objectives: Discuss how to discover and cultivate intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself including core wounds and difficult emotions • Explain how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness • Define the signs of spiritual bypassing versus healthy spirituality • Discuss how to free yourself from your inner critic • Summarize how to become intimate with all that you are • Utilize guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path Knowing Your Shadow—Session Titles Session 1: Becoming Intimate with Your Shadow Session 2: Becoming Intimate with Your Reactivity and Pain Session 3: Relating Wisely to Your Inner Critic, Shame, and Guilt Session 4: Becoming Intimate with Your Darker Emotions Session 5: Bringing Sex Out of the Shadows Session 6: Spirituality's Shadow
£63.00
Sounds True Inc Self-Therapy: Transform Stuck Parts of Yourself
Book SynopsisCourse objectives: Discuss an overview of the Internal Family Systems Therapy—recognizing your stuck parts in need of healing, while accessing Self as the calm, centered, ground in your life. • Practice, through guided meditation, the necessary steps to access, "un-blend" from, and get to know the various parts of your psyche in service to healing and transformation. • Utilize the recordings of complete IFS demonstration sessions as a way to observe the outlined steps within an individual's process. • Outline the seven types of inner critics—the steps to access them, un-blend from them, get to know them and transform them. • Discuss the seven types of inner champions and practice a guided meditation for accessing your inner champion—the antidote to the inner critic that supports you in being your Self. Psychotherapy works through dialogue between the therapist and client—but what if you could have an effective healing dialogue with yourself? "Because our minds are actually a home to many sub-personalities," Dr. Jay Earley explains, "we have the ability to heal ourselves by engaging directly with the each of our parts." With Self-Therapy, Dr. Earley offers a complete audio training course in a revolutionary therapy called Internal Family Systems (IFS), a powerful psychological tool for finding freedom from chronic emotional issues such as depression and anxiety, and creating internal harmony where the aspects of your psyche are working together for your well-being. Your True Self—The Wellspring of Inner Healing The IFS method teaches you how to access the Self—the grounded, spiritual center of your being that is the source of all healing. You’ll learn to engage with each of your parts from your Self with open curiosity, compassion, and love. Dr. Earley offers guided practices and step-by-step instructions for healing the exiled parts that carry emotional wounds from childhood, the protectors that try to shield you from pain, the inner critics that judge you and undermine your self-worth, the parts that make you procrastinate or overeat, and more. "Each part of us is trying to help or protect us," explains Dr. Jay Earley. "Though they may unintentionally cause suffering by being stuck in the past, we can learn to transform them into caring allies." Self-Therapy is a complete training course in a revolutionary method for inner exploration, psychological self-healing, and cultivating love for your whole being. HIGHLIGHTS Internal Family Systems—an effective tool for creating harmony among our many sub-personalities • Recognizing the Self—how to operate from the grounded and compassionate core of your being • Why many of our parts remain stuck in childhood, and how to release them • Protectors—how their efforts to wall us off from pain can keep us from fully experiencing life • Exiles—helping the parts that hold our deepest wounds to heal and transform • Inner Critics—techniques for turning self-sabotaging parts into Inner Champions • Practical guidance for "un-blending" from a part that has taken you over • How to bring harmony to parts of ourselves that are in conflict with each other • More than seven hours of guided practices, step-by-step instructions, and immersive training in IFS therapy from Dr. Jay Earley
£50.25
Sounds True Inc Freedom from Your Inner Critic: A Self-Therapy
Book SynopsisWe've all heard the voice of the inner critic—that part of us that judges us, shames us, and makes us feel inadequate. "You don't want to give in to the Critic, and it doesn't really work to fight against it," explains Dr. Jay Earley. "But there is a way to transform it into an invaluable ally." With Freedom from Your Inner Critic, Dr. Earley and psychotherapist Bonnie Weiss present a self-therapy approach for uncovering the psychological roots of our self-sabotaging inner voices and restoring our sense of worthiness. Filled with insights, case studies, and practical self-therapy exercises, this breakthrough book explores: How to connect with your Inner Critic through the groundbreaking approach of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy • The seven varieties of the Inner Critic and their positive intent • Healing your Criticized Child that is hurt by your Inner Critic • Awakening your Inner Champion—the antidote to the influence of your Inner Critic • How to transform your Inner Critic and learn to love yourself • How our self-confidence, motivation, and courage improve when we are free from our Inner Critics "Self-esteem is our birthright," says Dr. Earley. "And even the most intractable Inner Critic can learn to let go and allow you to blossom." Freedom from Your Inner Critic offers a solution to one of our greatest psychological challenges—so you can reclaim your confidence, freedom, and joy in life.
£13.29
Sounds True Inc When Pain is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most
Book SynopsisFinding Freedom in Our Most Difficult Circumstances What if the full sense of our aliveness were only to be found amidst our most challenging times and difficult experiences? In pain and crisis, teaches Pema Chödrön, there lies a hidden doorway to freedom that appears to us only when we're sure that there is no way out. In these intimate audio learning sessions, Pema Chödrön helps us distinguish the triggers or external events that we blame for our suffering from the deeper habitual patterns that feed our anger, fear, or sadness. From this understanding, we learn how to free ourselves from our propensity to suffer through the transformative awareness of impermanence—the dynamic and ever-shifting nature of both joy and suffering, self and selflessness—and the absolute and eternal flow from which all of it arises. What is causing my pain? What will happen if I simply lean in, keep company with it, hold it with tenderness? Moment by moment, Pema supports and encourages listeners to bring an openhearted sense of curiosity and welcoming to our apparently impossible situations or unbearable relationships—to discover the deeper freedom available just beneath the surface. For those experiencing emotional crisis, When Pain Is the Doorway provides expert guidance to help us stop, stay present, and enter into a more welcoming, spacious place of being that is our true home.
£20.52
Berrett-Koehler Wander Woman: How High Achieving Women Find
Book SynopsisAfter years of coaching high achieving women, master coach and personal development expert Marcia Reynolds started noticing something troubling: many of the clients with whom she worked were plagued by anxiety over their own restless responses to the world. These women were jumping jobs regularly, defining and redefining their relationship with the marketplace, constantly questioning their roles as wives and mothers and sisters.Dubbing her subjects "wander women," Reynolds found that the mentoring and personal development resources currently available don't address this audience's needs. They don't want to balance their lives; they want to find peace of mind in the chaos. They don't necessarily want to learn how to gain a seat in the boardroom; they want projects they can run with or businesses they can run on their own. The problem isn't their level of stress; it's about knowing who they are and what they want to accomplish in this one lifetime.The author explores how generational shifts and changing expectations of working women have fostered a new kind of restlessness among many. Through real life stories she reveals the hopes and dreams, disappointments and challenges this group of high achieving women are facing. And she provides exercises and development strategies for readers as they make their journey to peace and finally come to rest with a strong sense of identity and purpose.
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Berrett-Koehler Perseverance
Book SynopsisIn this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley offers guidance to people everywhere for how to persevere through challenges in their personal lives, with their families, at their workplaces, in their communities and in their struggles to make a better world. She provides hope, wisdom and perspective for learning the discipline of perseverance.Wheatley does not offer the usual feel-good, rah-rah messages. Instead, she focuses on the situations, feelings and challenges that can, over time, cause us to lose heart or lose our way. Perseverance is a day-by-day decision not to give up. We have to notice the moments when we feel lost or overwhelmed or betrayed or exhausted and note how we respond to them. And we have to notice the rewarding times, when we experience the joy of working together on something hard but worthwhile, when we realize weâve made a small difference. In a series of concise and compassionate essays Wheately names a behavior or dynamic - such as fearlessness, guilt, joy, jealousy - that supports or impedes our efforts to persevere. She puts each in a broader human or timeless perspective, offering ways to either live by or transcend each one. These essays are self-contained - you can thumb through the book and find what attracts you in the moment. Perseverance helps you to see yourself and your situation clearly and assume responsibility for changing a situation or our reaction to it if itâs one that troubles us. There deliberately are no examples of other people or their experiences. You are the example - your personal experiences are the basis for change.In addition to Wheatleyâs graceful essays there are poems and quotations drawn from traditions and cultures around the world and throughout history. The book is deeply grounded spiritually, accessing human experience and wisdom from many sources. This grounding and inclusiveness support the essential message - human being throughout time have persevered. Weâre just the most recent ones to face these challenges and we can meet them as those who came before us did. As Wheatley quotes the elders of the Hopi Nation: âœWe are the ones we have been waiting for.â
£15.29
Berrett-Koehler The Power of Your Past: The Art of Recalling,
Book SynopsisMost of us donât use our yesterdays very well. With our cultural obsession with âœliving in the moment,â we neglect to engage in creative reflection on our personal histories. In The Power Of Your Past, John Schuster systematically demonstrates that our pasts are the biggest, most accessible, and most under-utilized of resources for anyone wanting to make positive changes. In contrast to other more technical, spiritual, or therapeutic guides that address working with oneâs past, he offers a balanced, practical and accessible approach through an actionable three-phase model: Recalling, Reclaiming, and Recasting. He provides exercises that link past events to achieving sounder interpretations and illustrates the process with inspiring histories of those who have experienced transformative results through embracing their own professional and personal pasts.Schuster provides insight, encouragement, and steps for essential professional and personal development. Readers who follow this model will make progress in careers short on heart and meaning, overcome obstacles that other methods canât address, and make decisions based on their truth, not the âœversionsâ of truth they have inherited and not fully examined. They will enjoy the peace of mind that comes with the knowledge that all they need to grow insight, courage and persistence are the ingredients is already within.
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Berrett-Koehler No More Regrets!
Book SynopsisWe all have regrets in life, but none of us want to have more of them. While the sources of our individual regrets are unique to each of us, Marc Muchnick has discovered that there are some common themes: we get stuck in ruts and lose perspective, hanging on to bad jobs, bad relationships, and bad habits; we fail to appreciate how little time we have on this Earth and take people and things for granted; we live without authenticity, sticking to the status quo and losing sight of our dreams; we stop evolving, becoming trapped in our fear of failure and rejection: and we become overly self-absorbed and judgmental, growing insensitive to others. Each of the âœ30 Waysâ falls into one of five overarching strategies for avoiding these sources of regrets: Gain a Fresh Perspective Cherish Each Day Follow your Heart Stretch Yourself Be the Force of Goodness The book is written in a "pick-your-style" format you can dip in at any point and find something of value. You can try to implement a way a day, or work on one way for a week. Just one or two new insights from the 30 ways presented in the book can be the key to having greater happiness and meaning in your life, career, and relationships.
£12.59
Berrett-Koehler Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Book SynopsisWeâve all had those perfect moments when events that could never be predicted, let alone controlled, remarkably seem to guide us along our path. Carl Jung called this phenomena âœsynchronicityâ â âœa collaboration between persons and events that seems to enlist the cooperation of fate.â In this book, Joseph Jaworski argues that the right state of mind will make you the kind of person who can enlist the cooperation of fate and take advantage of synchronicity, creating the conditions for âœpredictable miracles.â If you are tired of being the victim of circumstances, this book will teach you to be the kind of person who creates your own circumstances. Jaworski shares the story of his own escape from an inauthentic life and his journey into a world filled with possibility. He maps out the inner path of leadership for those who feel the call to achieve their full potential, using his own life story to teach readers a greater truth. He examines the fundamental shifts of mind that free us to seek out the power of synchronicity. After reading this book, you will discover your own power to help those realities unfold. You will learn to âœlistenâ to realities that want to emerge in this world and acquire the courage to help them be born.
£22.50
Berrett-Koehler The Art of Insight; How to Have More Aha! Moments
Book SynopsisOne insight can change your life, and the next can change your organization or even the world. Everybody has had the occasional insightâthis book is a concise guide to simple actions that can help you have more consistent and timely insights. Put the ideas in these pages to good use and you will become a more effective thinker. Fresh ideas will abound. You will make better decisions quickly and confidently, find solutions to longstanding problems, and ultimately enjoy a more effortless and engaging life. The path to finding insights is simple once you know what to look for and how to listen. Kiefer and Constableâs Insight Thinking Methods provide a guiding formula and practical steps to increase the frequency, strength, and quality of the insights that you experience each day. This is not a rigid set of rulesâitâs a creative pursuit. Youâll find your own personal, individual approach to developing an insight state of mind and practicing insight listening, while having more insights on the topics that matter to you most. The book is supplemented with free web-based exercises, examples and illustrations (the draft website is at http://just-start.com/insight-thinking-book-landing-page-draft/ password: ArtOfInsight).
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Berrett-Koehler How to Change Minds; The Art of Influence without
Book SynopsisSooner or later we all find ourselves in situations where we need to change peopleâs minds to help them see where their best interests lie. It comes up in countless personal and professional situations. As a salesman, manager, corporate trainer, and for 30 years a professional speaker, bestselling author Rob Jolles knows first hand how to translate the lessons in influence traditionally taught to those in sales for non-salespeople.Jolles lays out a simple, flexible, repeatable process that begins with establishing genuine trust and connection by asking the right questions, not by telling people what you think they need. You're not trying to force someone to come to a conclusion that only benefits youâthat is manipulation. Your task is to explore and expose through dialogue the pain caused by the problem the other person is facing, and the consequences that could result from not dealing with the problem, and to work with them so that they see what you're suggesting will benefit them and those they care about. That is influence.The book is filled with sometimes funny, sometimes moving stories of the principles behind Jolleâs approach in action. These stories emphasize the hard line between influence and manipulation. Sometimes we have to take a stand, reach down deep, and help people change their minds. But rather than feeling badly, we need to believe in something bigger. We need to believe there is a clear, ethical line between influence and manipulation, and to stay on the right side of that line.
£15.29
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC Chicken Soup for the Soul Merry Christmas
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC Chicken Soup for the Soul A Book of Christmas
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Shambhala Publications Inc Being Well (Even When You're Sick): Mindfulness
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Shambhala Publications Inc Leap Write In!: Adventures in Creative Writing to
Book SynopsisInvite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all the wacky, confusing, brave, soul-stirring wonderings and wanderings of your emerging life’s inner treasure in a way that’s sure to unleash what you most need to say. In this book you’ll find: • On-the-Spot Drops that offer quick “free-fall” prompts on different themes, such as short-winded poems and seven-line stories. • Mini Memoirs to unlock personal narrative to share, or not. • Suddenly a Story suggestions to explore feelings and states of being like fear, reluctance, compassion, kindness, anxiety, anger, jealousy, happiness, and more. • Surprise Yourself Surveys for those who think they know everything about themselves. • Untie-Your-Mind Word Lists to jump-start stalled imaginations. • Definition Decoders to introduce new ideas and styles of writing. Created especially for tweens, teens, and other earthlings, this book provides you with a chance to create imaginative poems, stories, fragments, and real-life on-the-spot sketches. All that’s required is that you take a breath, relax, reset, and leap write in!
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Shambhala Publications Inc Writing from the Senses: 59 Exercises to Ignite
Book SynopsisBreak through writer''s block using your five senses!The sensory details that infuse our everyday experience—the smell of a favorite dish cooking, the texture of a well-worn coat, hearing a song that reminds you of a person or a time in your life—can be used to add richness and spark to what we write. Whether you are a professional writer (or want to be one) or someone who enjoys just writing for your own personal fulfillment, Writing from the Senses will show you how to tap into an endless source of engaging material, using your senses as prompts. The exercises will stimulate you to develop stories, imagery, and details that will allow readers to see, taste, hear, smell, and feel that they''re in the scene.Writing from the Senses•Provides 60 prompts and creative writing exercises organized by sense; •Presents engaging narratives, personal essays, and instruction to entertain and inform readers and illustrate the effectiveness of each exercise;•Helps writers recognize the sensory prompts that surround them daily and use them to trigger their individual stories; and•Shows how freewrites from the prompts in this book can result in publishable pieces.
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Shambhala Publications Inc Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag
Book SynopsisFrom the beloved writing teacher behind Writing Down the Bones comes a treasury of personal stories reflecting a life filled with journeys—inner and outer—zigzagging around the world and home again Here, Natalie Goldberg shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexican desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan’s birthplace and to Larry McMurtry’s dusty Texas ghost town of rare books. We feel her deep hunger while she sits zazen in a monastery in Japan, and her profound loss when she hears of the passing of a dear friend while teaching in the French countryside. Through it all, she remains grounded in a life informed by two constants: the practices of writing and of Zen. With humor and insight, Natalie encircles around the essential questions these paths compel her toward: Where does this life lead? Who are we? This is a book to be relished one awakening at a time. Each story is a reminder that no matter how hard the situation or desolate you may feel, spring will come again, breaking through a cold winter, bringing early yellow forsythia flowers. And the Great Spring of enlightenment—that sudden rush of acceptance, pain cracking open, obstructions shattering—will also burst forth.
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Experiment One Life to Give: A Path to Finding Yourself by
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The Experiment LLC Short Cuts to Happiness
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Tharpa Publications Meditations for a Clear Mind: Finding Happiness
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Algonquin Books Dinner with Edward
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Companion Press,US Ptsd Solution
Book SynopsisA new approach to understanding PTSD as a form of grief rather than a medical disorder Have you ever felt that something essential was missing from your post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment options? If you suffer from PTSD, you know the problem is complex, but what you probably don’t know—and what the medical establishment isn’t telling you—is that post-traumatic stress is not fundamentally a medical disorder but rather a form of grief. Your body, mind, and soul experienced tremendous loss, and to fully integrate the many losses into your ongoing life, you must explore and express your necessary grief. In other words, you must mourn. This groundbreaking book reveals a new approach to understanding PTSD and its debilitating symptoms. With compassion and insight, it affirms the nature and severity of your experience while providing you with a step-by-step plan to transcend it. A full review of traditional medical treatments for PTSD are presented and included as part of the healing plan. Whether your PTSD is severe or more subtle, whether your traumatic experience was recent or in the distant past, this book unlocks the secret that will finally allow you to once again live and love fully.
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Sounds True Inc Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most
Book SynopsisWhat if there were a single skill that could directly and radically improve your relationships and your emotional life? Empathy, teaches Karla McLaren, is that skill. With The Art of Empathy, she teaches us how to perceive and feel the experiences of others with clarity and authenticity—to connect with them more deeply and effectively. Informed by current insights from neuroscience, social psychology, and healing traditions, this book explores: Why empathy is not a mystical phenomenon but a natural, innate ability that we can strengthen and develop • How to identify and regulate our emotions and boundaries • The process of shifting into the perspective of others • How to provide support in a sensitive and healthy way • Insights for navigating our hyper-connected social landscape • Targeted chapters for improving family, workplace, and intimate relationships • Ways to expand our empathy to our community, global levels of society, and the natural world Empathy, reflects Karla McLaren, is the skill that builds bridges— a skill that not only creates connection, but that helps us to be more effective in all areas of our lives.
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