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Master Your Emotions, Transform Your Life

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Are you easily overwhelmed by your emotions? Is stress hurting your relationships and getting in the way of reaching your goals? With Wise Mind Living, esteemed psychotherapist and Columbia University professor Dr. Erin Olivo presents an in-depth resource that empowers us to stop struggling with emotions like fear, anger, shame, and sadnessand discover the doorway to better health and increased fulfillment in every area of our lives.

"When you're living in balance between your emotions and logic, you're experiencing Wise Mind Living," explains Dr. Olivo. "It's when you have the confidence to deal with difficult decisions or situations because you're in chargenot your emotions." The teachings and practices in this book give you a new understanding of the physiology of emotions and the debilitating effects of stress. Dr. Olivo provides mindfulness-based exercises and lifestyle skills to help us change the way we think, feel, and behave in situations where stress and anxiety arise, and gives practical instruction in putting it all together to manage your emotions for health and well-being.

Wise Mind Living invites you to explore:

Mindfulnesswhat it is and how to practice itCombining the strategies of change and acceptanceThe universal structure of all emotional experienceBecoming fluent with the eight core categories of emotionWhy there is no such thing as a "negative" emotionThe Wise Mind Review to objectively observe your experiencesOvercoming conditioned responses and knee-jerk reactionsRelinquishing struggle as the pathway to changePlus, step-by-step instruction in Dr. Olivo's six-week Wise Mind Living program

For anyone looking to get a handle on stress and anxiety once and for all, Wise Mind Living gives you a practical resource to help you navigate life's difficulties with balance, confidence, and inner peace.

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"There is a grace in this book, an invitation to beautiful, deep wisdom, a banquet to refresh your spirit for the years ahead."Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart

"The Second Half of Life is a wise, unique, and beautifully written guidebook for those who want to live every day of their lives. A book for everyone who plans to grow old."Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings

When you find the courage to change at midlife," Angeles Arrien teaches, a miracle happens. Your character is opened, deepened, strengthened, softened. You return to your soul's highest values. You are now prepared to create your legacy: an imprint of your dream for our worlda dream that can fully come true in The Second Half of Life.

Working with images, poetry, metaphors, and other forms of symbolic language from diverse world cultures, Dr. Arrien introduces us to the Eight Gates of Initiation. By mastering their lessons and gifts, you harvest the meaning and purpose of your life, and come into spiritual maturity.

With The Second Half of Life, she takes you step-by-step through each gate to deepen your most valuable relationships, reclaim your untended creative talents, and shift your focus from ambition to meaning to grow into the exceptional elder you've always imagined you would one day become.

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How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments (Even the Difficult Ones)

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"Nataly's passion is contagious and persuades us that happiness might be possible even when life is hard." Shawn Achor, New York Times bestselling author of Big Potential and The Happiness Advantage
"Happier Now will feed your soul and nourish your mind. Expect inspiration, practical advice, and greater confidence that true, lasting happiness is within reach." Elena Brower, author of Practice You

Do you find yourself stuck in the "I'll be happy when . . ." trap, believing that achievements or big life changes are what will bring you lasting happiness?

In Happier Now, nationally recognized emotional health expert Nataly Kogan shares her lifelong struggle of searching for the elusive "big happy" to how she finally made the essential mindset shifts that allowed her to live with more self-compassion, joy, and meaning.

Nataly redefines happiness as a skill that anyone can cultivate. She shares a wealth of simple, science-backed practicesused successfully by more than a million peopleso you can experience more joy in ordinary moments and greater resilience when times get tough.

Nataly's approach is grounded and practical. You won't be asked to make difficult, time-consuming changes or gloss over life's very real challenges. Rather, you'll learn five core skillsand the science behind themso you can feel more joy and less stress in your daily life.
Highlights include:
 3 mindset shifts to make happiness and emotional health a reality

 Why happiness doesn't mean being positive all the time

 Research and tips to help you practice self-compassion

 Daily Anchorsa custom set of practices to help you cultivate joy daily

 The 5-Minute Happier Workoutfor whenever you need a boost

 Strengthen your "emotional immune system" develop resilience for when times are tough

Filled with accessible, science-based exercises and inspiring stories, Happier Now will help you bring more happiness and meaning into your life, beginning today.

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A Modern Yogi's Practical Guide to the Physical and Energetic Anatomy of Your Amazing Body

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A gifted teacher reveals the miracle that is your body, combining science, yogic wisdom, and liberating movement practices.

 
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"Meta" means "beyond"and in MetaAnatomy, celebrated yoga teacher Kristin Leal takes us far beyond our limited understanding of our amazing human bodies. In this information-rich and accessible resource, you'll do more than label parts of your physiology and identify your energy systems. You'll develop a new level of "body literacy"a deep and vital relationship with the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of your being.

 

Kristin writes in an inviting, lighthearted style that makes complex concepts imminently understandable. Here, you'll explore:

 

 The Physicalmeet the marvelous "meat suit" of your body's bones, muscles, joints, and nerves

 The Poetica deep dive into your breath, brain, heart, and the subtle energy systems that bring it all to life

 The Practicalhow to make lasting changes to your health, spirituality, and relationship with the world around you

 Mini-practices, meditations, insights for students and teachers of yoga, and much more

 

What makes Kristin's approach so powerful is that you'll be learning about yourself as more than a collection of parts, but as a unified being of body, mind, and soulinterwoven and interdependent with the world around you. "You are a symphony of synapse and strength; valves and vulnerability; potential, power, and promise," she teaches. "It is my hope that these teachings and practices will ultimately lead you to remember and honor your fundamental wholeness."

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A profound new approach to healing trauma, grounded in a radical reframing of how we understand this nearly universal experience

For centuries, we've been taught that being traumatized means we are somehow brokenand that trauma only happens to people who are too fragile or flawed to deal with hardship. But as a researcher, teacher, and survivor, Dr. MaryCatherine McDonald has learned that the only thing broken is our society's understanding of trauma. "The body's trauma response is designed to save our livesand it does," she says. "It's not a sign of weakness, but of our function, strength, and amazing resilience."

With Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong, Dr. McDonald overturns the misconceptions about trauma with the latest evidence from neuroscience and psychologyand shares tested practices and tools to help you work with your body's coping mechanisms to accelerate healing. Here, you'll explore:

 What is trauma? The latest science that undoes the stigmas of shame, blame, and humiliation

 Moral injuryhaving our basic sense of how the world should work overturned

 The truth about triggerswhat they really are and how they can guide the healing journey

 Traumatic patternsnew findings to help break free from recurring habits and toxic dynamics

 Why we can always rewrite our inner narratives, no matter how much time has passed

 Finding a "relational home" for traumahow we can help each other return to wholeness

Dr. McDonald's case studies reveal the many ways trauma can manifest and persist in our lives, yet there's one factor every case has in common: the trauma response itself reveals the path to healing. "Our traumatic experiences reveal that we can be bent, dented, or bruised," she says, "but we cannot be broken." For anyone who has gone through trauma or wants to help others who are struggling, here is an empowering resource for finding our way home to our bodies, rebuilding our relationships, and returning to full engagement with life.

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How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic, and Shine in Any Spotlight

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Learn how to communicate inside and out with calm, confidence, and self-love no matter the circumstances.

 

Presenters and performers aren't the only ones who need calm and confidence in their everyday lives. After all, confidence is the fuel that drives us toward our ambitions, and calm eases the way. And when the two states combine, they form a magical and powerful combination.

 

After years of struggling with communication in school, business, and public, Patricia Stark achieved this state of "Calmfidence" not through some single moment of revelation but through years of small insights, "aha" moments, and constant practice. Today, after helping thousands of students and clients find their own voices and abilities, Stark makes her methods available in Calmfidencea comprehensive guide to improving communication skills in any social interaction.

 
Calmfidence gathers a unique set of mental tools and experiential practices for quelling the self-sabotaging habits of the Inner Critic. With warmth and compassion, Stark guides you in how to identify and overcome your blockages to communication, how to react skillfully to strong emotions as they arise, and how to deal with setbacks in your Calmfidence journey without self-judgment.

 

Here you will learn:

 

  "Calmfidence boosters"practices for shoring up your ease and resilience on the spot and in the moment

  Positive daily habits to avoid burnout, exhaustion, and other drains on your Calmfidence

  How to soothe negative inner beliefs around age, body type, unrealistic expectations, and more

  The dos and don'ts of healthy, engaged eye contact

  Why mindfulness of facial expressions and body language is imperative for effective communication

  How to sidestep and eventually erase any fear of public speaking

  Common verbal tics that disrupt public speaking, and how to wean yourself away from them

  Advanced tips for transforming public speaking engagements into memorable, inspiring occasions

  Interview Calmfidence: how to navigate and eventually master one of the most nerve-wracking social exchanges

  Natural, non-intoxicating remedies for soothing ambient stress and restoring balance

 

You don't need some rare talent to communicate well. When you engage with the exercises and encouragement in Calmfidence, you'll learn how to stop surrendering to fear and become the calm and confident communicator who has always been waiting within.

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How to Soothe & Dissolve Physical Pain with Mindfulness

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"The most lucid and effective guidance for transcending pain I have ever encountered."

aCharles T. Tart, PhD, editor of Altered States of Consciousness


The newest treatment for pain is one of the oldest, most effective strategies for pain-free living: mindfulness. With Natural Pain Relief, meditation expert Shinzen Young teaches you how to retrain your relationship to pain through traditional meditation practices.

Drawing from 40 years of results in the field, this widely respected teacher offers the essential techniques that have proven successful at pain-management centers around the country. This integrated program adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to a practical process that can treat even extreme, chronic pain effectively, possibly reducing the need for drugs or surgery.

Through step-by-step techniques taught in plain language, you'll learn how to overcome your internal resistance to pain by observing and opening to it, which is the key to transforming physical suffering into a flow of pure energy. With regular practice, you can tap into your mind's own power to overcome physical pain.

Five guided practices include:

-How to deconstruct pain into manageable pieces

-Experience how pain naturally transforms into energy

-How to allow pain to dissipate into space

-Use the "Breath Pleasure" technique to dramatically soothe pain

-Free up your energy to heal and begin living your life again

Includes digital access to guided meditations.

Previously released as Break Through Pain.

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Cyndi Dale's The Subtle Body has become the go-to reference guide for anyone who wants to learn about the many varieties of energy healing. With The Subtle Body Practice Manual, she offers an equally valuable resource: a practical instruction manual for putting energy healing into action. Filled with lucid information, step-by-step guidance, diagrams, and key insights, here is an expansive how-to manual that covers practices from a vast range of holistic healing and energy medicine traditions, including:

The six core energy techniques that every healer should knowEnergetic diagnosis practices to determine which kind of modality will be most effective for specific health issuesSetting strong and flexible energetic boundaries, with special guidance for those in the healing professionsTechniques for working with the subtle aspects of the body, emotions, and the subconscious mindDozens of practices for healing through the chakras, the meridians, chi, breathwork, auric fields, sacred geometry, acupressure, music, and much more

As Cyndi Dale writes, all medicine is energy medicinewhich is why subtle energy practices can be used to complement and enhance any approach to healing or self-care. Presented with Cyndi Dale's thorough scholarship and clear writing style, The Subtle Body Practice Manual provides professionals and laypersons alike with an indispensible resource on the many varieties and applications of energetic careso you can begin using these powerful practices in your own life.

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How to Embrace Being Single, Heal Core Wounds, and Build a Life You Love

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"A liberating guide for every woman ready to embrace her own worth, heal deeply, and find fulfillment from within." Wendy Valentine, host of The Midlife Makeover Show and author of Women Waking Up

If you've been waiting for your life to start once your relationship status changes, it's time to rethink things and learn to choose your self first. We often relate to singlehood as a phase that should be rushed and remedied by finding a partner, rather than relating to it as our most potent opportunity for growth. But if the priority is on being chosen over being the one to choose, you're more likely to keep ending up with the wrong partner. It's time to break these old patterns and embrace single life with compassion. "One of the great advantages of spending time intentionally single," shares expert coach and therapist Megan Sherer, "is having time to self-reflect, to learn from your past, and to experiment with new ways of being. Key word: intentionally."

Sherer teaches how to fall in love with your own life and be unwilling to waver in the pursuit of a relationship as strong as the one you build within your self. Using personal story as well as potent reflection prompts, somatic exercises, and self-care practices, she shepherds you through the process of moving beyond attachment wounds to new levels of self-awareness to build a rock-solid foundation for your relationship with self. If you have an interest in partnering in the future, you'll also discover how to do so in a way that allows you to remain true to your self. Here you'll uncover:

 Clarity in defining your desires

 How your attachment style has impacted your relationships

 Why you keep choosing emotionally unavailable people

 What your patterns are and how to clean up old habits

 How to manage your nervous system and heal your inner child

 The magic of doing the things you thought you needed a partner for

It's time to move from the disempowered experience of loneliness to an empowered version of singlehoodone filled with joy, adventure, play, passion, and all the other things that you thought you had to wait for the perfect person to experience. You are that person, and that time is now.

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Apolo Ohno shares his most valuable lessons for overcoming challenges with resilience, creativity, and purpose.

 

In speed skating, a hard pivot is an aggressive shift of direction that requires courage, practice, and split-second timing. For Apolo Ohno, the most frightening hard pivot of his life didn't happen on the icebut rather, when he had to hang up his skates for good. "After my final Olympics, I felt confused, vulnerable, and adrift without purpose," he says. "Yet that's when I realized my experiences had given me something much more valuable than medals and memories. I had tools I could use to shift my life in a new directionand most importantly, these were tools anyone could benefit from."

 

With Hard Pivot, Apolo combines practical guidance, personal stories, and deep insights from the psychology of success into a resource to help you through challenging times. Here he shares his most valuable lessons and tools, condensed into the Five Golden Principles:

 

 Gratitude: A daily practice to help you maintain perspective, cultivate empathy, and alleviate stress

 Giving: How to elevate your life's purpose by offering your time, attention, and resources to others

 Grit: Exercises to build mental stamina, resilience, and toughness to persevere through hard times

 Gearing Up: Ways to prepare yourself to meet the unknown with flexibility and grace

 Go: Develop the courage to take risks, learn from success and failure, and come back stronger

 

When life drastically changeswhether by choice or circumstancethe hardest part is often letting go of what was familiar and stable. Yet in Hard Pivot, Apolo provides the tools and inspiration to create a new life filled with greater purpose, wisdom, and joy. "You can trust yourself," he writes. "You can lean into the curve, pick up momentum, and speed down the track to success. In that pivotal moment, you might even find that you're having the most fun you've ever had. You're in flow. You're enjoying your precious life. And you're winning."

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Find Clarity, Feel Relief, and See Beauty in Every Moment

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"This is a practical guide for everyone to learn the requisite art of slowing down, becoming more curious in order to 'nurture transformation and love limitlessly.'"

Derrick C. Brown, author of Hello. It Doesn't Matter., UH-OH, and How the Body Works the Dark

 

 

How do we deal with the heaviness of everyday living? When we are surrounded by uncertainty, distrust, and destruction, how do we sift through the chaos and enjoy being alive?

 

In Every Day Is a Poem, Jacqueline Suskin aims to answer these questions by using poetry as a tool for finding clarity and feeling relief. With provocative questions, writing practices, and mindset exercises, this celebrated poet shows you how to focus your senses, cultivate curiosity, and create your own document of the world's beauty. Emphasizing that the personal is inextricable from the creative, Suskin offers specific instructions on how make a map of your past and engage with your pain to write a healing poem.

 

Poetry isn't a magic cure-all that makes adversity vanish, but it does summon the wondrous and sublime out of the shadows. Suskin seeks to remind you how incredible it is to be alive at all, even when it hurts. Most importantly, Every Day Is a Poem reveals that we all have the ability to weave beauty and meaning out of otherwise difficult and overwhelming times.

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We spend countless hours training our dogs, but how often do we consider what they have to teach us? "Our canine companions aren't just our best friends," explains Tami Simon. "Sometimes they can also be carriers of a special medicine and the wisdom lessons we most need." The Dharma of Dogs shares the reflections of spiritual teachers and writers who have found a source of deep truth and practical wisdom beneath the furry surface of our four-legged friends.

For anyone who loves dogsand who has learned and grown through this special relationshipthese 31 essays offer humor, solace, inspiration, and insight into the life lessons our dogs make available to us, exploring such themes as unconditional love, connecting with nature, facing our fears, and much more.

Edited by Tami Simon, The Dharma of Dogs includes contributions by Alice Walker, Eckhart Tolle, Pam Houston, Mark Nepo, Roshi Joan Halifax, Adyashanti, Julie Barton, angel Kyodo williams, JP Sears, Lama Surya Das, Diane Musho Hamilton, Allan Lokos, Andrew Holecek, Bonnie Myotai Treace, Chris Grosso, Geneen Roth, Jeri Parker, Joan Ranquet, Lama Tsomo, Laura Pritchett, Mirabai Starr, Sarah C. Beasley, Stuart Davis, Susan Martin, Susanna Weiss, and His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche.

Portion of proceeds donated to the National Mill Dog Rescue. milldogrescue.org.

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Eckhart Tolle, Alice Walker, Pam Houston, Tami Simon

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Aligning with the Energy of Desire to Manifest Your Highest Vision, Power, and Purpose

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Have you ever felt the magic of being in the right place at the right time, when you and the universe seemed to be working in effortless cooperation?

If so, you have already witnessed what Rick Jarow calls the "Alchemy of Abundance"the fusion of internal forces and external experience that transmutes the "base metal of a stagnant life" into the gold of full and open participation in every unfolding moment.

In Alchemy of Abundance,  Jarow reveals the miracle that happens to you when you align your inner energiesyour passion, creativity, attention, and willwith the power of the universe itself to make manifest your unique purpose. Includes in-depth exercises and guided visualizations to strengthen your faith in yourself, cultivate patience and generosity, and bring your goals into harmony with the plan the universe has for you.

Highlights:

Creating your "Mandala of Manifestation"a powerful tool that will clarify and focus what you want to come into being. Fourteen guided visualizations for learning to attend to your body, your vocation, your relationships, your money, and much more.

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Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World

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From nationalbestselling author and humanitarian Zainab Salbi, a powerful look at what happens when we heal our shadows and align with our core values.

 
"May this book help create bridges to a much bigger and kinder world." Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road and Revolution from Within

 
"If you want to know what true self-power is, then read this book. It will open your inner eye to the beauty of your own being." Deepak Chopra, MD, author of The Healing Self and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

 

How can we transform our collective fear and the deep divisions between us into meaningful change? In Freedom Is an Inside Job, bestselling author, humanitarian, and TV personality Zainab Salbi shares that to transform our outer world, we must turn towards our inner world.

 

After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if she wanted to confront and heal the shadows of the world, she needed to face her own shadows first. Holding nothing back, Salbi shares pivotal moments from her personal life alongside poignant and fascinating stories from her encounters around the world. Through her stories, we learn that if we want to create real change, we need to heal the inconsistencies within our own values, actions, and goals.

 

As Salbi explores her own riveting journey to wholeness, readers learn how embarking on such a journey enables each of us to create the world we want to live in. "So long as we are conflicted within, we will continue to have conflict without," writes Salbi. "If we want to change the world, we need to begin with ourselves. This is the path to freedom."

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Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World

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"This wise and deeply relevant book guides us in navigating the seductive trance of a growingly virtual world... and living with our full creativity, intelligence, and love."
Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold
A New York Times bestselling author shares a powerful new approach for living in a distracted and divided world with greater engagement, freedom, and openness.

With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner experience by compulsively checking our devices. We close down to others by getting caught in echo chambers of outrage. But what if there's another way? What if being more open to life is actually what brings us sanity and happiness? In this climate of distraction and division, Nate Klemp's Open offers a path back to a way of living that is expansive, creative, and filled with wonder.

Drawing on new science, age-old practices, and personal stories, Klemp examines why we close down when faced with stressors or threats, then reveals how we can train ourselves to open up to the fullness that life offerseven when frightened, outraged, or heartbroken. Join him to explore:

 The uniquely modern challenges that make closing down easier and more tempting than ever

 Experiential stories of psychedelic-assisted therapy, opening to political adversaries, meditation, and other tools for opening the mind

 The Three Shifts of Openinghow to break the habit of mind wandering, approach instead of withdraw, and enlarge the size of your perspective

 The Open Toolkita treasury of meditations, investigations, and habit-changing practices to open your mind

Expanding the size of the mind may sound subtle yet the results can utterly transform our lives. "When we open to life," says Klemp, "we're no longer stuck in here fighting against our thoughts on the inside or a crazed world on the outside. We're connected. Our minds and lives get bigger. There's more room, more perspective, more possibility. This is what it means to be free."

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Revolutionary Insights on Living, Dying, and the Continuation of Consciousness

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Our beliefs about what happens when we die define how we live today. And more and more of us are discovering a radical truth: when we release our fear of death, we open to an immensely richer life right here and now. But how do we incorporate this profound insight into our everyday lives? With Death Makes Life Possible, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz presents a wealth of teachings and practical guidance on how to turn this taboo topic into a source of peace, hope, connection, and compassion.

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Featuring contributions by eminent scientists and scholars; spiritual leaders and devout skeptics; health and healing practitioners; and men, women, and children from all walks of life, this far-reaching work reveals the myriad ways that we grow and change by expanding our perspectives on the ultimate mystery facing each one of us.

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Could our memories of past-life experiences offer a key to unlocking the mysteries and questions we struggle with today? According to Dr. Roger Woolger, the answer is yesand anyone can learn to explore these extraordinary memories to retrieve valuable healing insights.

With Healing Your Past Lives, Woolger gathers together an astonishing two decades of research that he has conducted with hundreds of patients, to offer a clear account of past livesincluding many specific techniques to begin investigating them.

Readers join Woolger to discover:

How past-life memories can help resolve cases of depression, anxiety, and other inexplicable symptomsWorld teachings and clinical evidence on past livesSix guided past-life practices, and much more

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Wisdom of the Heart from the Aramaic Words of Jesus

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Aramaicthe language of Jesus and his discipleshas captured the imagination of seekers from every faith and spiritual tradition. Since the publication of his bestseller Prayers of the Cosmos, Aramaic scholar Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz has become a foremost expert at uncovering the rich layers of meaning found in Jesus's native wisdom sayings.

Now, in Blessings of the Cosmos, this renowned author presents a collection of all-new translations of Jesus's best-loved benedictions and invocations for peace, healing, divine connection, and more, including:

"Come unto me, all ye that labor"blessings to renew and rededicate your life's sacred vocation"Ask, and it shall be given you"discovering your origin in the source of Love itself. Jesus's parting words to the disciples, from the blessing of greater works to the many mansions teaching to the great commandment on love, and more. Jesus' Beatitudes in Lukeblessings for our inner being. Plus an 80-minute CD with 20 guided Aramaic body prayers, similar to the traditional Middle Eastern practices that Jesus himself used to generate spiritual energy and insight.

Whether for personal inspiration or for communal worship and rites of passage, Blessings of the Cosmos offers you a heart-opening prayerbook that offers guidance and encouragement toward an ever-deepening daily experience of the Divine.

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In the teachings of Jesus, there are prayers, and then there is prayerthe silent, loving communion with the divine, beyond words or ritual. With Father Thomas Keating's book Open Mind, Open Heart, hundreds of thousands discovered the transformative power of Centering Prayer as a form of Christian meditation. Now, with The Path of Centering Prayer, Keating's senior student, friend, and advisor David Frenette reveals the profound depths of this practice, making it easier for meditators to deepen their connection with God.

Has your spiritual path grown routine or unfulfilling, or is it at a crossroads for new discovery? For all Christians who seek to move closer into the presence of the divine, The Path of Centering Prayer offers guidance in this rewarding and time-honored meditation practice, to help break through obstacles and illuminate the way.

"This book in my view is the best, most comprehensive, and most practical book on centering prayer."

Father Thomas Keating

"In this beautiful book, David Frenette expands the map of the known Centering Prayer universe. With the blessing of his spiritual father, Thomas Keating, David develops and gently reshapes fundamental building blocks of the Centering Prayer teaching. This is an important moment in the Centering Prayer lineage transmission, when a faithful student emerges into mastery. David's work will breathe significant new life into your personal practice."

Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, author of Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

"This excellent book represents Christianity come to maturity! Here you will find good theology, good practice, good psychology, and a recovery of the foundation itselfhow to live in communion all the time."

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, founding Director of the Center for Action and Contemplation

"With simplicity and great wisdom, David Frenette reconnects you to the universal tradition of how to open to God, how to pray in silence, and finally, how to let the spirit pray within your heart. If you want, or need, to be drawn deeper into prayer, read this book and live its guidance."

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, Sufi teacher and author of Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism

"In his lucid guide to Centering Prayer, David Frenette navigates a path for beginners and seasoned practitioners who wish to enter ever-deepening states of loving friendship with the Divine."

Mirabai Starr, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

"This wonderful book provides direction, encouragement, and support for a prayer practice with ancient roots. Drawing on his considerable experience as a spiritual director, David Frenette skillfully shares stories and offers wisdom that illuminates the heart of the practice and will lead practitioners through the subtle challenges that inevitably arise in the process of living into ever-deepening levels of prayer. This is a book not only to be read, but to be consulted regularly for insight and help along the way."

The Right Reverend Robert O'Neill, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado

"The Path of Centering Prayer is a beam of light in what can sometimes be a dark and unknown journey with God. It is written from the heart of David's relationship with God and his discoveries along his contemplative journey in solitude, in community, and in spiritual direction. From this place of wisdom, David enlightens readers with encouragement and enrichment, which will nourish them in their own commitment to the centering prayer practice and the contemplative life."

Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler, President of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.

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Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times

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What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.

 

How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it throughindividually and as a species? "We all assumed that learning, rationality, and good intentions would prove enough to bring us to the promised land," says Dr. James Hollis. "But they haven't and won't. Yet what we also do not recognize sufficiently is that this human animal is equipped for survival. In time, as we have seen of life's other insolubles, we grow large enough to contain what threatened to destroy us."

 

Dr. Hollis's readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. You will learn to invoke the tools of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, dream work, and myth to gain access to the resources that supported our ancestors through their darkest hours. Through these paths of inner exploration, you will access your "locus of knowing"an inner wellspring of deep resilience beyond the ego, always available to guide you back to the imperatives of your soul.

 

Though many of the challenges of our times are unique, the path through for us, personally and collectively, will always rely on our measureless capacity for creativity, wisdom, and connection to a reality larger than ourselves. Here you will find no easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet within the pages of Living Between Worlds, you will encounter causes for hope. "We can find what supports us when nothing supports us," Hollis teaches. "By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there."