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"Consistently being immersed in violence, tragedies, danger, and evil often scars the spirits of our emergency first responders, resulting in PTSD, depression, suicides (the number one cause of death for police officers), substance abuse, broken families, and emotional pain. Firefighters, police officers, soldiers, medics, and emergency room workers are vulnerable to feelings of helplessness and suffering, and many do not know where or how to find...
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Entrepreneur, speaker, and consultant Kim Romaner has spent years researching the latest advances in science and technology and then working with colleagues and clients to apply those discoveries in practical - and profitable - ways. In these pages, she reveals five principles from recent and little-known scientific discoveries that you can use right now to accomplish your dreams, whether those dreams are focused on career, relationships, fitness,...
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Start each day with a gentle nudge toward greater awareness. This beautiful new edition of Awakening will guide you into closer alignment with the spiritual principles that govern all of life. The 365 entries are organized around the calendar year and the seasons. Each brief entry shares a bit of Shakti's clear and simple wisdom and offers a meditation or question to ponder. Thought-provoking, inspiring, and always affirming, these universal truths...
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The ancient oracle system of the I Ching has guided wisdom seekers for over 5,000 years. Now those seeking insights and motivation can take advantage of these ancient predictions, recast by writing professor Sarah Jane Sloane into suggestions for contemporary writers. Each of the I Ching's sixtyfour hexagrams, interpreted by Sloane from years of study and comparisons of over fifty translations, offers directions and comments about what the future...
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These inspiring true stories tell of men and women who dared to look inward, damned the risks, and learned to love. Asking the question, "What would you do for love if you had no fear?" Diane Conway took to the streets, interviewing ordinary people about the crazy things they did for love. Drawn to Conway's warmth, emotional honesty, and outrageous, heartfelt humor, they told her their secrets, their fears, and their adventures on the road to love...
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Many teachers stress the importance of living in the present moment. Few give the actual practices to make it attainable. This book teaches you how to return to the incredible navigational system of the body and more fully inhabit each moment. For over twenty-five years, Suzanne Scurlock-Durana has masterfully taught her step-by-step practice of present moment awareness through her own combination of bodywork and CranioSacral therapy. The practices...
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There is no single definition of creativity. It is as wide-ranging as the people who seek it: writers, painters, musicians, actors - indeed anyone who desires a richer, more rewarding life. Many consider it inaccessible - limited to gifted artists and celebrities. But as the extraordinary contributors to this book show, it is really everyone's birthright, too often shoved to the recesses of our psyches by the demands of everyday life. From the vibrant...
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Do you know someone who... Has trouble being close to others? Has a strong need to be right - all the time? Acts selfcentered and egotistical? Never asks for help? Has to look good all the time? Works long hours but never finishes? Expects perfection in self and others? Seldom appears vulnerable or weak? Has difficulty relaxing? If so, this person may suffer from counterdependency, the littleknown flip side of codependency. The Flight from Intimacy,...
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Wanda Burch dreamt that she would die at a certain age; her dreams foretold her diagnosis of cancer, and they guided her toward treatment and wellness. Although she took advantage of all the medical resources available to her, Wanda believes she is alive today because of her intimate engagement with the dreamworld. This book is more than one woman's story, however. Wanda provides techniques such as questioning the dream and observing the surroundings...
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Studies confirm what avid journalers have always known: writing helps you move forward in your life, heal, and realize your dreams. This inspiring book balances basic instructions in the art of journaling with intimate entries from the author and workshop participants. Exercises and prompts will gently encourage you to open your journal, and with pen or pencil in hand, begin to transform your life today!
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This short, powerful work is potentially life changing, for it is filled with simple solutions to the difficult problems that confront us ? individually and globally. Marc Allen offers clear, doable solutions to both our personal financial problems and global problems. Key to many of these solutions is both saving and giving away 10 percent of our income, also known as "tithing." By taking the kinds of actions recommended in this book, we can not...
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This book gives readers an inspirational thought and a useful tool - an original affirmation - to be read each day. Each entry has a heading, a short message or meditation, and an affirmation. This new edition of a classic puts the timeless words of Shakti Gawain into a beautiful, fresh package.
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Whether you realize it or not, you play a part in the divine plan of creation. Once you recognize this, you can gain access to the immense power in the universe. It's simple: when you engage the right celestial helpers, anything becomes possible. In Hiring the Heavens, Jean Slatter shares how she learned to hire the Heavens and offers a fresh, revitalized way of bringing spirituality back into your everyday life. Whether the task is large or small,...
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"This book is written to give you a living experience of freedom." These are the opening words of Freedom Is - and Brandon Bays gives us exactly what she promises. This is a book about freedom, freedom in the truest sense, freedom on all levels of being. Brandon doesn't merely talk about freedom; she gives us a direct experience of it. She guides us, in her sure and gentle way, into the stillness and joy that are within us. She shows us how to liberate...
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As a therapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative people. He knows firsthand the struggles that writers, musicians, artists, dancers, and actors face and has helped them find balance in their lives while pursuing their artistic endeavors. His new book presents a comprehensive approach to the much-misunderstood life of the artist. Creativity for Life offers practical ideas as well as exercises and inspiration to...
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Our health as a nation is declining. In addition, it is becoming increasingly clear that allopathic medicine has come to a plateau in its efforts to stem the tide of degenerative disease. As a result, mind-body medicine is a very big topic for the new millennium. You the Healer offers a guide that can help you and your loved ones to live a healthy, disease-free life. Based on the most successful mind development program in the world today, You the...
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Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started the personal writing movement, explores the vital necessity...
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The Real Meaning of Life wasn't written by an expert. It isn't the culmination of painstaking selfstudy or a sudden breakthrough. Instead, this fascinating book collects the insights of everyday people who responded to NYU freshman David Seaman's simple query, "What is the meaning of life?" To his surprise, he received a flood of responses. Some suggested things like "bikinis and beer," but Seaman found that most were much more thoughtful - so much...
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For most people who seek to create - whether they are artists, writers, or businesspeople - the daily task of immersing themselves in their creative work is both a joy and a profound challenge. Instead of stepping easily into the creative state, they succumb to chronic procrastination and torturous distraction. In Standing at Water's Edge, psychologist Anne Paris calls on her extensive experience in working with creative clients to explore the deep...
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A perennial self-help favorite, updated to speak powerfully to contemporary readers and with a foreword by Eckhart Tolle
Before there was The Law of Attraction or The Secret, there was The Magic in Your Mind by U. S. Andersen. Eckhart Tolle recognized the brilliance of this self-empowerment classic and here presents it anew as the latest volume in his imprint. In clear, crisp, invigorating language, Andersen offers a liberating message for anyone...
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