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These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion — the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions. We need resilience every day to raise a family, work at a job, cope with stress, deal with health problems, navigate issues with others, heal from old pain, and simply keep on going....
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity. For over twenty-five years Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. have revolutionized medicine and how we understand our minds and our bodies. Chopra is the leading expert in the field of integrative medicine and Tanzi, the pioneering neuroscientist and discoverer of...
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Anthony William, the one and only Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can’t resolve. He’s done this by listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to restore their health. His methods achieve spectacular results, even for those who...
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Beyond Words Pub
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
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xv, 186 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Dr. Stanley Block offers his Ten-Day Plan to optimize your life -- a breakthrough program that has helped people all over the world heal from post-traumatic stress syndrome, combat trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, pain, and depression. The easy-to-apply method uses Identity System "resting" techniques that enable you to recognize and defuse the self-defeating mental tug-of-war that exists in all of us. Learn how stress, fear, and thought activate...
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In celebration of its 10th anniversary, a revised and updated edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller that changed the way we look at meditation, expanded with new material by Dan Harris.
After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"How do our brains store-and then conjure up-past experiences to make us who we are? A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination. Psychiatrist Veronica O'Keane...
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AK Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, [this book] is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
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xxxi, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype. Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial...
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Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A practical and soul-stirring guide to meditation that offers a much-needed antidote to the forces of stress that overwhelm so many of us.
We all experience negative emotions from time to time. But in a world with as much frenzy and pressure as ours, it’s incredibly easy for these same emotions to become destructive. Now, by blending Eastern tradition with Western science, Why We Meditate effortlessly helps you embrace and understand meditation...
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2000
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viii, 390 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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An introduction to Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system of preventive medicine and health care, discussing the possibility of perfect health, providing a test for assessing basic body type, exploring how the mind directs the body toward sickness and health, and offering advice for achieving mind/body balance.
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From trauma expert and somatic healer Kimberly Johnson comes a guide for tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the body to rewire the nervous system, heal from trauma, and live fully"--
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Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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330 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it. Sweeping...
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Hierophant Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xxiii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In this groundbreaking book, neuropsychology professor Chris Niebauer writes that the latest research in neuropsychology is now confirming a fundamental tenet of Buddhism, what is called Anatta, or the doctrine of "no self." Niebauer writes that our sense of self, or what we commonly refer to as the ego, is an illusion created entirely by the left side of the brain. Niebauer is quick to point out that this doesn't mean that the self doesn't exist,...
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Chiron Publications/Lantern Books
Pub. Date
2006
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xxiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The Five Spirits are the Taoist map of the human psyche. The system provides a view of the nervous system and forms the basis of Chinese medical psychology. It also describes a precise and efficient technology for spiritual transformation, the process through which a human being rediscovers their essential wholeness and innate connection to the divine. The Five Spirits themselves can be understood as the Taoist version of the chakra system of Vedic...
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1991
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xii, 193 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Provides a detailed description of Tension Myositis Syndrome which the author believes is the cause of most neck, shoulder, back, and buttock pain; discusses the manifestations, psychology, physiology, and treatment of TMS; and includes a look at traditional diagnoses and treatments.
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