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The Morning Mind: Use Your Brain to Master Your Day and Supercharge Your Life

AMACOM, 2019

Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time.

Bad habits. Bad feelings. Bad mornings that turn into regrettable days.

Banish them all with simple brain...

Talking to Strangers

Picador, 2019

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize–finalist Paul Auster.

Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and...

The Mindful Kind

ABC Books, 2020

If you're feeling overwhelmed, pressured, anxious and disconnected, this book will change your life, one mindful step at a time.

A guide from a popular podcaster to de-stressing and becoming happier by becoming more mindful in your everyday life.

Learn why it's vital to prioritise...

Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth

North Atlantic Books, 2019

"Françoise Bourzat has written an authoritative book on guided psychedelic therapy with important lessons for anyone thinking of either guiding or being guided.” —Michael Pollan via Twitter

A comprehensive guide to the safe and ethical application of expanded states of...

Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World (Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, 6)

Springer, 2020

This volume addresses an important problem in social scientific research on global religions and spirituality: How to evaluate the role of diverse religious and spiritual (R/S) beliefs and practices within the rapid evolution of spiritual globalization and diversification trends. The book examines this question by bringing together a...

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship

Routledge, 2020

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion,...

Breathing: An Inspired History

Reaktion Books, 2021

Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of...

One Who Is Not Busy, The: Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way

Gibbs Smith, 2004

The Problem of Busyness I agreed to write this book almost a year ago. Gibbs Smith and I had met during a five-day workshop on the topic of time and busyness at Tassajara Hot Springs, a Zen Buddhist retreat center in Big Sur. I co-facilitated the workshop, "The One Who Is Not Busy," with Basya Petnick and Rabbi Helen Cohn. Gibbs was quite...

The Meditator's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Eastern and Western Meditation Techniques

Thorsons, 2002

A clear and authoritative introduction to the different traditions of meditation by an authority in the field. Meditation is an extraordinarily powerful tool for physical and mental relaxation as well as for personal and spiritual growth. It has been practiced for thousands of years and today it continues to have serious relevance for an...

Meditation - Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality)

Springer, 2013

This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga (2nd Edition)

Alpha, 2000

This book is for anyone interested in health, fitness, or the healing arts. It teaches you the basics of stretching, breathing, and meditation, with exercises designed to help you relax, become more flexible, more productive, and more self-satisfied.

About the Author

Joan...

The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri: Shabkar's Essential Meditation Instructions (Tsadra)

Snow Lion Publications, 2019

Instructions for traversing the entire Vajrayana path to enlightenment from one of Tibet's most famous wandering yogis.

Composed by Shabkar at the Cave of Miracles close to Mount Kailash around 1815, this compendium of spiritual instructions is written in the form of questions and answers, alternating verse and...

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