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Meditation has been used for centuries to reduce stress, increase energy, and enhance overall health and well-being--so it's no wonder more and more people in today's fast-paced and stress-centric world are adopting this age-old practice. If you want to achieve a greater state of calmness, physical relaxation, and psychological balance, Meditation For Dummies is your life raft. Covering the latest research on the health benefits of meditation, this...
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An accomplished and honored professor, psychotherapist, author, and chocolate connoisseur, Diane Gehart identifies surprisingly efficient and fun ways to increase your daily dose of joy. Drawing on positive psychology, Eastern wisdom, and three decades of psychotherapist know-how, she outlines a no-nonsense yet good-humored path to get you where you want to go. She will teach you step-by-step how to:
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You know you should be meditating, so what's stopping you? This entertaining and enlightening book by the founder of Ziva Meditation-the favorite training for high achievers-will finally take meditation mainstream.
"We meditate to get good at life, not to get good at meditation."-Emily Fletcher
In our high-stress, overworked lives, we think the answer to accomplishing more is to do more. But the best advantage we can give ourselves is to take a...
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"Meditation is supposed to be a practice that's relaxing and beneficial...so why is it so hard to commit to? While many people have taken workshops in meditation, a significant number don't maintain their practice for long after the class is finished. Mindfulness can help us relax and is great for coming to grips with thoughts that make us depressed or anxious, but it can also bring us into a more intimate relationship with ourselves--a prospect that...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIER
Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you.
You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.
What exactly is meditation? ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was...
Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you.
You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.
What exactly is meditation? ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was...
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Personal Transformation Based on Mindfulness and Self-CompassionWhat's your most important goal? Why does it matter so deeply? How will you overcome the obstacles? Answer these questions with sincerity, proceed with mindfulness and compassion, and you have just set in motion a revolutionary method for personal change that is supported by both the latest science and traditional wisdom. On The Neuroscience of Change, psychologist and award-winning Stanford...
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In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and '90s-a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman's alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven-Iowa-to...
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Deborah LeBlanc's Make Sh** Happen is a call to action for dreamers stuck in neutral. Consider this book the first stepping stone on your pathway toward true accomplishment.Inside, you'll discover a treasure trove of wisdom, from myth-busting science to productivity hacks that make progress feel like playtime. You'll map your trajectory by way of insightful exercises, then watch your efficiency soar-at last. With witty warmth and cold hard facts,...
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A lucid presentation of the meditative methods, mantras, mandalas and other devices used, as well as a penetrating interpretation of their significance in the light of contemporary meditative research. Meditative methods ofthe East might have been derived from the mystical techniques of the prophets, and this intriguing possibility, mentioned in the Zohar, is also discussed.
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In spiritual teacher Osho's Aspects of Meditation Book 2: Meditation, a Jumping Off Point, you'll discover a deeper understanding of meditation through an investigation into the subtle workings of the mind—concentration as a way to discover the self.
The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation.
The...
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La depresión está creciendo de forma alarmante y afecta al 20% de la población mundial. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) es la enfermedad que produce más pérdidas de calidad de vida y mayores costes económicos. Mindfulness es una terapia que ha mostrado ser especialmente eficaz para el tratamiento de la depresión recurrente.
Este libro acerca mindfulness y su práctica a las personas con depresión, o aquellas que la han padecido,...
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In spiritual teacher Osho's Aspects of Meditation Book 3: Awareness, the Key you'll discover a deeper understanding of meditation through an investigation into the subtle workings of the mind—transforming the unconscious through awareness.
The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation.
The Aspects of...
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In spiritual teacher Osho's Aspects of Meditation Book 1: The Body, the First Step, you'll discover a deeper understanding of meditation through an investigation into the subtle workings of the mind, focusing on the body.
The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation.
The Aspects of Meditation series...
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In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush-sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations...
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21 Días en Serenidad es un espacio de reflexión, de inspiración, implementación y sensibilidad para reconectarte contigo mismo, con el Universo, con tu esencia, que es el amor que fluye desde ti hacia el mundo.
Este libro te aportará un bálsamo de tranquilidad, un descanso en el día a día y la sensación de recibir una brisa de aire fresco, una señal de serenidad en un mundo apresurado.
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In spiritual teacher Osho's Aspects of Meditation Book 4: Medicine and Meditation, you'll discover a deeper understanding of meditation through an investigation into the subtle workings of the mind, focusing on questions of health and illness.
The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation.
The Aspects...