For those looking for a compelling and complete guide to transforming one's life and living up to one's potential, this book is an absolute must-read. Author Tony Biasi offers a comprehensive look at utilizing Merkaba Mysticism, which focuses on self-discovery, improvement, and empowerment. Along the way, he shares his spiritual ideology, reveals secrets of success, and shares his life story. By applying the Merkaba model to everyday life, the author has been able to understand and harness the power of creative universal energy to achieve material success, spiritual growth, and development-and you can, too!Though the knowledge of defining and mastering one's reality has been systemically hidden and oppressed throughout the years, Biasi has synthesized it all here in this simple and incredibly gratifying guide. So, if you've been looking for a way to change your life, whether you want more money, freedom, or personal power, this spiritual self-development manual is the perfect choice.
ROCK ON is the crystal healing book for spiritual seekers who love to bend the mainstream rules and walk their own path.Whether you are an energy healer, a crystal lover, or simply a spiritual rebel with an open mind and an open heart, ROCK ON will teach you how to easily overcome life's everyday hurdles and heal yourself and those around you, using the power of crystals.Covering all aspects of crystal healing, from the scientific to the esoteric, and featuring 40 detailed crystal body layouts, ROCK ON is the definitive reference guide for those wanting to learn more about the hands-on side of crystal healing from a Master Crystal Healer with a fresh and unique perspective.If you are interested in all the hype about sparkly rocks but aren't sure about spiritual woo-woo, read ROCK ON's introduction and you won't be able to put the book down!
This book is for anyone who wants to achieve better personal and organizational effectiveness and fruitful business relationships.It is designed to give both the theoretical knowledge and the tools for action to change your organization's power dynamics. To operate in a global environment that is increasingly relational than transactional, it is vital to cultivate globally competitive leaders to deal with ongoing change and challenges. The Power of Belonging addresses these challenges faced by leaders today, both when influencing and achieving organizational goals.This is also a book for individuals too, because we cannot define ourselves by single dimensions-we are a synthesis of our backgrounds, experiences and philosophies. Thus, the most challenging lesson to learn is that belonging will remain a puzzle until we find that it has a unique dwelling place-that we must first profoundly belong to ourselves. So are you ready to be a change agent? Great then this book is for you!
'Radical, honest and timely' FOX FISHER'Fascinating' ASH PALMISCIANO'A cracking read' MEG-JOHN BARKER"e;This book is about my penis. This is my story of going through lower surgery, specifically phalloplasty, and the adventures I have with my changing genitals along the way. Welcome to my journey."e;After coming out as trans, Finlay Games was adamant lower surgery would not be a part of his transition, but as the years went by, and his gender dysphoria increased, he decided to explore surgical options. Detailing the emotional and physical journey of phalloplasty, this book takes the reader through Finlay's experiences, from the initial decision-making through each stage of the surgery to its completion, recovery and after-care. Describing how he had to relearn his body, sexuality and his relationships, Finlay shares his wealth of advice and tips on donor site options, different types of surgery, the referral process, essential items and resources, and looking after your mental health.Part memoir, part self-help guide, this insightful, witty and deeply honest book highlights the life-changing impact surgery can have for trans people and provides hope to those on a similar journey.
Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working to create change, individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. The majority of the book is sourced from brown's twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work, with additional wisdom from a selection of living Black feminist facilitators and mediators.
How to Have Meaningful Relationshipsis an essential guide for anyone who wants to build healthy, happy and sustainable relationships with the people in their lives. Relationships skills are not innate, they are skills to be learned. This pocket guide providesuseful tools, ideas, and checklists to help you become the very best team player you can be. By the end of this book you will have all the tools you need to live a life of extraordinary relationships, deep fulfilment, intimacy, connection and meaning. From practising self-love to dealing with conflict in a healthy and productive way, relationships coach Emma Powershows us how we can begin to cultivate meaningful connections with those in our lives, how we can have conversations that really matter, and how we can set healthy boundaries. Through reading, you will begin to discover your unique fundamental needs and learn how to navigate different relationship dynamics, whether that be with your partner, friend, parent or colleague. Throughout the book there are inspirational quotes as well as activities and questions to ponder.How to Have Meaningful Relationships is relatable, inspiring, contemporary and essential for anyone who is craving deep and meaningful connections. TheSurvive the Modern Worldseries tackles big subjectsin a fun and digestible way. The tone is frank and chatty, but the content is comprehensive.Upskill and expand your knowledge with these accessible pocket guides.
Ayurvedic Rituals: Wisdom, Recipes and the Ancient Art of Self-Care is your introduction and practical guide to Ayurvedic philosophy, showing you how a deep connection to yourself and your natural environment will help achieve harmony in your body and mind.In this guide, Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle Consultant Chasca Summerville introduces this ancient practice to us in a modern setting. Chasca teaches us how we can achieve optimal health and happiness by tuning into nature and living an Ayurvedic lifestyle: rising daily with the sun, eating a seasonal plant-based diet, using natural/toxin-free personal care products, nurturing our mind and body through meditation & movement, and accessing the apothecary that the plant kingdom offers in abundance. Ayurveda is decadent self-care, its for anyone wanting to deepen their yoga or meditation practice and its for those who want to achieve a life of great health, deep fulfilment and serenity.Featuring sumptuous photography, Ayurvedic Rituals includes seasonal recipes, herbal teas, natural beauty recipes, self-care rituals, a plant-based first-aid kit plus methods to reduce stress & anxiety, improve digestion & gut health, and techniques to access deep rejuvenating sleep. Routines and rituals spread throughout the book will help you feel relaxed, happy, healthy and deeply connected to the natural world.This ancient practice will help you find a sense of peace & vitality so you can glow from the inside out.
Prepare for a Great Adventure: Your Daily Life Kori Hahn has always done life her way living off the grid as a young woman in Alaska; studying with spiritual teachers and soul guides in Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Morocco; surfing around the world. Yet her primary, perennial quest has been an inner one. To that end, she evolved the practices she shares in this book, simple daily steps grounded in sacred yogic texts that will help you live your life your way, with maximum meaning and joy. Timeless principles of awareness, intuition, self-knowledge, and manifestation become contemporary practices incorporating visualization, breath work, journaling affirmations, and meditation. These habits of being grow the soul, enable our bravest and best selves, and, as Hahn shows, can take you wherever you most want to be.
Are you struggling to control your anger? Feel like you're on a short fuse all the time? Do little things tip you over the edge? Unhelpful beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of unhealthy anger, which can be dangerous and destructive. Windy Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and shows you how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding what triggers it. The good news is that you have the power to change this pattern, and to develop strategies to express your anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate what you feel without scaring yourself, or those close to you. Practical, rational, strategic and supportive, this updated second edition contains the latest therapeutic insights, allowing you to make lasting and meaningful changes to the way you process your beliefs and manage overwhelming or destructive emotions.
We have almost all been addicted to something at some point, or had a habit spiral out of control. But what does that mean? What exactly are addictions and out of control behaviors, why do we get caught up in them, and how do we get our lives back? Bestselling author Dr. Faith Harper helps those of us struggling (or supporting others) with problematic use of alcohol, drugs, gambling, work, food, sex, shopping, screens, gaming, or anything else where we've crossed a line. Their perspective is down to earth, realistic, and refreshing. You'll learn about the brain science behind addiction, how to tell if something is a problem or about to become one, how to find your way out of unhealthy behaviors, and how to avoid passing them down to the next generation. No matter what paths you've taken in life, you can absolutely learn to fulfill your needs in ways that are healthy for yourself and the people around you.
An essential book to help women to live well through the menopause and to cope effectively with menopausal symptoms, using a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach.Living Well Through the Menopause is based on a wealth of research, including randomised controlled trials of the MENOS intervention with over 1000 women, that has demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach specifically for menopausal symptoms - hot flushes, night sweats and also their impact on daily life. CBT is proven as an effective alternative for women who do not want or are unable to use hormone therapy (HT).Written in an accessible and interactive style, with case examples and quotes, this guide will empower you and, specifically: Help you to understand and cope with your physical and emotional reactions to the menopause Clarify your key goals, thoughts and feelings using interactive questions and homework sheets Enhance your self-care through behaviour change Help partners and loved ones to support you through the menopauseLiving Well self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.Series Editors: Professor Kate Harvey and Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper
Breathe out your worries and breathe in calm.This friendly support is an essential handbook to help tackle stress, anxiety, and to make everyday living easier for everyone.Breathwork is an ancient practice backed up by modern science. It is not just for the spiritually enlightened! It is a simple but powerful way for everyone to boost their health and happiness.Rebecca Dennis is the UK's leading breath coach, who has helped hundreds of people for over a decade to overcome all kinds of common issues simply using breathing exercises. Dive into bite-size sections with easy, immediately impactful methods to help you with: anxiety and stress, grief, to find happiness and positivity, confidence, focus at work, energy, deeper sleep, stronger immunity and to slow ageing, find resilience and recovering (from illness), as well as family-friendly exercises to help both children and parents.
Now in a revised and expanded fourth edition, this definitive reference and text has more than 50% new material, reflecting a decade of theoretical and empirical advances. Prominent researchers describe major theories and review cutting-edge findings. The volume explores how personality emerges from and interacts with biological, developmental, cognitive, affective, and social processes, and the implications for well-being and health. Innovative research programs and methods are presented throughout. The concluding section showcases emerging issues and new directions in the field. New to This Edition *Expanded coverage of personality development, with chapters on the overall life course, middle childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. *Three new chapters on affective processes, plus chapters on neurobiology, achievement motivation, cognitive approaches, narcissism, and other new topics. *Section on cutting-edge issues: personality interventions, personality manifestations in everyday life, geographical variation in personality, self-knowledge, and the links between personality and economics. *Added breadth and accessibility--42 more concise chapters, compared to 32 in the prior edition.
What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species. This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously.
This beautiful little book is a brilliant reference guide for herbal remedies and ingredients.Edward Bach believes that we develop illnesses due to our fears and worries and that we may heal ourselves using natural treatments and wildflower cures. This classic guide presents simple herbal remedies that are designed to care for a range of ailments from indecision and loneliness to hay fever.This wonderful volume's contents include: - For Fear- For Uncertainty- For Insufficient Interest in Present Circumstances- For Loneliness- For Those Over-Sensitive to Influences and Ideas- For Despondency or Despair- For Over-Care for Welfare of Others
Get ready to experience the Rules effect. Begin to get more out of life, shrug off adversity more easily and generally be a happier, calmer, more fulfilled person. Youll feel the benefits, and so will everyone around you.
100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering?not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others.In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.
Combat daily stressors and live your life to its fullestIn the newly revised Rewire Your Brain 2.0: Five Healthy Factors to a Better Life, distinguished psychologist Dr. John B. Arden delivers an essential discussion of how to apply the latest developments in neuroscience, epigenetics, and immunology to help improve your mood, memory, lives, longevity, and relationships. You'll learn to overcome mild depression and anxiety, procrastination, burnout, compassion fatigue, and a variety of other negative thought patterns.You'll also find:* Practical, self-help tips based on well-researched principles that are proven to work in the real world* Ways to minimize the impact of everyday anxiety, stress, and depression and live your life to its fullest* Tactics for improving your memory for day-to-day tasks at work and at homeA practical and hands-on roadmap to applying new advances in neuroscience, psychology, gene expression, and immune system research to everyday problems we all face, Rewire Your Brain 2.0 deserves a place on the bookshelves of professionals, athletes, parents, and anyone else susceptible to the stressors of daily life.
This second edition of the award-winning original text brings together in one volume the current thinking and conceptualizations on dissociation and the dissociative disorders. Comprised of ten parts, starting with historical and conceptual issues, and ending with considerations for the present and future, internationally renowned authors in the trauma and dissociation fields explore different facets of dissociation in pathological and non-clinical guises. This book is designed to be the most comprehensive reference book in the dissociation field and aims to provide a scholarly foundation for understanding dissociation, dissociative disorders, current issues and perspectives within the field, theoretical formulations, and empirical findings. Chapters have been thoroughly updated to include recent developments in the field, including: the complex nature of conceptualization, etiology, and neurobiology; the various manifestations of dissociation in clinical and non-clinical forms; and different perspectives on how dissociation should be understood.This book is essential for clinicians, researchers, theoreticians, students of clinical psychology psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and those with an interest or curiosity in dissociation in the various ways it can be conceived and studied.
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