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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > Meditation
A man, his dog, and a long walk can lead to unexpected discoveries.
In the tradition of many literary walkers, David W. Berner sets out
on foot hoping to reexamine his life, look back and forward, and
most importantly, through the help of his young dog, Sam, try to
find harmony in new beginnings and the uncertainties of the
present. In a series of chapters, each dedicated to one walk during
a summer of hiking, the author finds that it is his beloved pet
that allows him to awaken to a new spirit of mindfulness, finding
beauty, wonder, and comfort in the ordinary, and to see a life, a
neighborhood, and even a country with brand new eyes. 'With gentle
humor and brilliant musings, both past and present, Walks With Sam
has the charm and the innate truthfulness that some find in a work
of art, a daily quest tinged with wonder and mystery with each
forward step.' L.B.Johnson, author of The Book of Barkley.
Psychotherapist Sue Patton Thoele is on a mission to help each and every woman uncover her own authentic self and tap into her own wellspring of wisdom and inner-strength. Thoele offers practical tools and gentle guidance to aid in setting boundaries, changing self-defeating behaviours, and increasing passion for themselves and others.
In more than a hundred short entries, Thoele offers meditations, affirmations, and true stories, including deeply personal, often humorous, revelatory stories of her own rocky path of personal growth. The reflections are presented in twelve chapters that can be tapped into randomly or used as a monthly meditation guide. Among the "A Woman Has the Courage to..." chapters are: Create Peace of Mind; Tame and Transform Her Dragons; Make Her Own Choices; Develop Healthy Relationships; Take Risks and Change; and Recognise Rainbows.
Breathwork is conscious breathing - an active form of meditation
that can be done by anyone, anywhere. This grounding activity
clears the mind, slows the heart rate and brings renewed energy to
the body, along with a host of mental, emotional, physical and
spiritual benefits. Created by breathwork expert Ashley Neese, How
to Breathe introduces the foundations of breathwork and gives 25
simple practices for reducing stress, managing anger, falling
asleep, building intimacy, dealing with grief and more. Neese gives
practical guidance for channeling the power of breathing to help
tackle common challenges with mindfulness and serenity.
Jane Alexander is inspired and inspiring. I trust her advice
completely' - Sarah Stacey, Mail on SundayIn this fast-paced,
social media-filled world, people are looking for clarity and inner
calm, as well as an escape from the digital overload. This book
offers a comprehensive lowdown on the ancient wisdoms from around
the world in an accessible way, so we can harness this wisdom and
use it in our contemporary environment. The book will be broken
down into five major sections. The first gives an overview to the
various forms of ancient wisdom covered in the book. The following
four sections will each cover a season with information and
practical exercises on: Nutrition (adapting your diet throughout
the year); Body (different seasonal exercise, including simple yoga
and qiyong flows, healing forms of breathwork and bodywork);
Emotional life (seasonal emotional shifts and advice on natural
approaches to dealing with everyday stresses and anxiety); and
Spiritual life (powerful soul-work, including crystals, sound
healing and oracles).
Vibrant and thought-provoking, Mantra Art harnesses the power of an
innovative art form to encourage a personal inner journey towards
understanding one's own divine nature. Each meditative painting is
imbued with thousands of miniscule, handwritten mantra inspired by
the Sikh concept of Oneness - a universal approach to life that is
mindful of the Divine presence in everything and everyone, and thus
recognises all people as equal. Accompanying the images are
insights from the artist illuminating how each artwork was
instrumental in aiding her own personal and powerful experiences of
joy, exuberance, peace and self-healing.
"When the mind disappears and thoughts disappear, you become
mindful. What is mindfulness? It is awareness. It is perfect
awareness."In "Mindfulness in the Modern World, " Osho helps us
explore both the inner and the outer obstacles that prevent us from
bringing more awareness to all our daily activities. He emphasizes
that while techniques can be useful in pointing the way, in
themselves they are not meditation. Rather, meditation - or
mindfulness - is ultimately a state of being in which we are
capable of both action and stillness, work and play, and able to be
fully present to each moment of life as it comes. Osho's insights
into the nature of the modern mind, with its tendency to judge and
compare, provides a helpful entry point for longtime meditators as
well as beginners. "Mindfulness in the Modern World" covers a wide
range of topics, including five experiential techniques that will
help you bring awareness to your everyday life.
The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on the most important
questions in the life of the individual. Each volume contains
timeless and always-contemporary investigations into and
discussions of questions vital to our personal search for meaning
and purpose, focusing on questions specific to our inner life and
quality of existence.
A firsthand account of a magical meeting in Scotland Recorded from
1972 to 1974 after the author met the nature god, this remastered
narrative describes the profound conversations he had with Pan and
other nature spirits. Through these meetings, he comes to
understand, respect, and love the elemental kingdom, realizing that
it is vitally important for man to work together with this natural
realm to restore balance, wholeness, and harmony on Earth. Elegant
and descriptive, this double-CD recording is a beautiful retelling
with an important message of peace, cooperation, and conservation.
A collection of healing meditations for us and our beautiful
planet. Profound ground-breaking techniques for personal and
planetary healing, gifted by whales and outerdimensional beings.
The ancient dragon energies are returning into our consciousness
now to assist with the ascension process of the Earth. At the same
time the whales offer a heart wisdom that brings invaluable
insights for the future of humankind. Madeleine Walker has
travelled the globe connecting and communicating with whales and
dolphins in their natural habitat. The very essence of her
encounters is channelled into these healing meditations for our
beautiful planet and ourselves. * Learn to change and heal your
past, present and future DNA with the whale mother Nazkaa. * Be
guided to create healing portals for the whales and all ocean life.
* Meet the dragons... find your dragon heart and journey with them
through the multiverse. * Travel with the golden dolphins, Narwhals
and sea dragons deep into the inner oceans to heal the earth and
meet your infinite self.
Ready to turn what you want into the life that you live? The #1 New
York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you
how.
In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential methods
for manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams.
This book is a journey of remembering where your true power lies.
You'll learn how to co-create the life you want. You'll accept that
life can flow, that attracting is fun, and that you don't have to work
so hard to get what you want. Most important, you'll feel good. And
when you feel good, you'll give off a presence of joy that elevates
everyone around you.
Super Attractor is a manifesto for confidently claiming your desires.
In these pages, you'll learn how to:
• Do less and attract more
• Relax and trust that what you desire is on the way
• Know that spiritual guidance is available to you at all
times
• Feel a sense of awe each day as you witness miracles
unfold
Accepting that you are a Super Attractor will change everything. You'll
trust that it's safe to release the past, and you'll no longer fear the
future. You'll tap into an infinite source of abundance, energy, joy,
and well-being. This well-being will become the norm for you, and
you'll grow to embrace it as your birthright. Most importantly, you'll
know intuitively how to show up for life and bring more light to the
world around you.
Voted Best Yoga Book in the Soul & Spirit magazine Spiritual
Book Awards Heal your body, mind and spirit with these quick and
easy yoga and meditation practices. Do you have a pain in your neck
that won't go away? Are you feeling impatient and overwhelmed too
often? Would you like greater love, balance or appreciation in your
life? In The Yoga Healer, Christine Burke, owner of Liberation Yoga
and teacher of 16 years, will put the power to heal and revitalize
yourself into your own hands - mind, body and spirit! Practitioners
of all levels from beginner to advanced, occasional to frequent,
will love this accessible handbook of remedies based on the art and
science of yoga. The first three chapters - Remedies for the Body,
Remedies for the Mind and Remedies for the Spirit - cover a number
of physical, mental, and emotional concerns and provide three
simple, concise practices for each one to address the condition.
The final chapter includes longer combined sequences for morning,
noon and night to wake up, recharge and relax. All poses and
sequences are illustrated with stylish, clear photography. Each
yoga remedy is designed to last 15 minutes or less and targets a
specific condition. From alleviating daily aches and pains to
improving your state of mind and tapping into your creative spirit,
here you will find succinct, powerful tools that can be practised
anywhere, any time.
Music CD in a Digipack which includes a 12-page booklet which
provides information about the musicians, their philosophy and
their instruments! All music on this audio CD is by Trancepilots.
Music for chilling out, cool relaxing sounds for meditation, yoga,
massage, travelling, easy listening. The 'Trancepilots' are two
German jazz and world musicians Jerry Cosmo and Luigi Campala.
Their music is a successful blend of diverse influences and musical
styles from around the world. Alongside classical Western
instruments, a variety of Asian and African percussion instruments
also repeatedly enliven their music. Their wonderful sounds build a
bridge between the long, airy arcs of meditative music and earthy,
body-related rhythms. This juxtaposition of medial consciousness
and grounded energy lets listeners experience the exchange in both
directions. Running time 77, minutes 40 seconds.
Music CD in a Digipack which includes a 20-page booklet which
provides information about the musicians, their philosophy and
their instruments! The evocative music of Celestial Dreaming is a
wonderful tool for deep relaxation, meditation and healing. It is
wonderful to listen to while giving or receiving a massage or
during a yoga session to enhance focus and open doorways to deeper
consciousness. Only acoustic instruments have been used, each with
its own harmonic vibration and specific character. The celestial
sounds of the crystal bowls are complimented by the hauntingly
beautiful melodies of the Navajo flute and the angelic shimmering
quality of the Celtic harp. The mysterious and powerful vocals
raags accompanied by tanpura are contrasted by the refreshing tones
of the concert flute cascading like a waterfall and the pure
silvery tones of the energy chimes which seem to float above the
rest f the music. Each instrument has been carefully recorded in a
sacred space to preserve and enhance their natural healing
harmonics. Relax and enjoy the journey into the exquisite stillness
of Being and experience the deep peace and perfect flow that is
innate within. Running time 61 minutes, 17 seconds.
Music CD in a Digipack which includes a 16-page booklet which
provides information about the musicians, their philosophy and
their instruments! At Byron Bay in Australia, an energetic,
extraordinarily beautiful seaside location -- Andy Holm finds the
right 'spirit' to compose new music. Andy's world music is a
brilliant and lively blend of electronic synthesiser sounds and
traditional instruments such as the digeridoo, Asian flutes,
kalimba and berimbau. Running time 63 minutes 40 seconds.
Life today poses many questions, both in our personal lives and in
our participation in nature and the broader culture. We often focus
on the outer needs for social, political, technological, or
environmental change. However, can we really meet the challenges
around us without also attending to our inner life and to our own
evolving biography as it reflects and informs the outer world? This
book starts from the premise that each of our lives expresses
uniqueness of spiritual intention within the unfolding of universal
rhythms and possibilities. Can we wake up to the developmental
opportunities offered to us through different life phases? Are we
able to step out of the narrowness of the dualistic nature-nurture
argument and experience that we are both more than our genetic
composition and more than a product of the social and educational
influences that have shaped us? Can we come to appreciate the
learning that our "I" has received through heredity, ethnicity,
schooling, and gender without losing a sense of our true
individuality? Waking up to our unique self as it grows through
interaction with the world and other human beings helps us
recognize the significance we all play in one another's biographies
and in the unfolding of our larger human story. Why on Earth?
invites us to explore our own meaning-filled life journey, to bring
conscious attention to how we go our path, so that we may more
freely perceive our possibilities and our responsibilities along
the way of our personal and shared becoming.
Yoga is a popular physical, mental, and spiritual discipline that
originated in ancient India, and in recent years Western culture
has embraced yoga's power of simplicity, stillness and mental
poise. This serene calendar offers up step-by-step instructions of
how to perform 12 simple poses, set on inspirational backgrounds.
The datepad features previous and next month's views.
This yoga book, firmly rooted in the tradition, is a modern
classic. It is first and foremost a practical guide to the whole
system of yoga. The clear step-by-step instructions, richly
illustrated, make it easy for the beginner to learn the yoga poses,
breathing exercises, relaxation and meditation. For the
experienced, the book contains in-depth sections that include both
practice and theory. It even elucidates the tantric tradition,
kundalini yoga, the chakras and the sexual rituals. Use it as a
self-study course and for inspiration in your everyday life.
--------- This book differs from most other books on yoga, it has
its fundament in the tantric tradition, that is, the author's
intention and interest is to offer you a way to achieve tangible
results, rather than to present philosophical explanations, create
dreams and ideals or follow the fleeting fashions in the yoga of
today.The goal is to make it possible for you to create a strong
and supple body and a free and creative mind, and to find peace
within yourself. If you really want something out of yoga, it is
not enough to do some exercises quickly and mechanically like in
sport or fitness training. --------- The book shows yoga in its
original light; recreational, meditative and relaxing, thus
providing necessary energy for meeting your daily activities with
peace and wellbeing. --------- Yoga, Tantra and Meditation in Daily
Life is one of the most widespread yoga books of today. This is the
third expanded and revised edition, for the UK and EU markets.
Clear blockages and open up to enhanced wellbeing with this healing
musical journey through the seven major chakras in your body.
Increase your energy and relax into Alana's healing voice and
enchanting, melodic mantras. Suitable for beginners and more
advanced meditators, Chakra Meditations will help you connect more
deeply to the spiritual essence within you. 59 minutes - 2 Tracks
Have you ever noticed how cruel and self-sabotaging your critical
inner voice can be? Have you been looking outside of yourself for
friends and loved ones to reassure you of your worthiness and
lovability? The latest developments in neuroscience unveil the
amazing extent to which humans are wired for connection, belonging
and resonance with other humans. This wiring for connection is so
strong, our nervous systems have the capacity to become our own
compassionate self-witnesses, even when we have not had access as
children to stable loving presence and warmth. The field of
neurobiology and the science of mindfulness reveal that the human
brain is capable of being engaged in the experience of upset (fear,
anxiety, depression) while simultaneously observing and holding
ourselves with kindness, as a loving parent or partner would. This
ability to be both experiencing and holding the experience is the
key to maintaining inner calm in the face of life's challenges. If
we learn to honour that each and every inner voice, no matter how
distressing, has the desire to help us, we open to the possibility
that each part of us has value. This help creates a gentle,
accepting and warm resonance with ourselves that can remain stable
and present, even when parts of us feel upset. In simple language
and easy-to-follow exercises, Your Resonant Self synthesises the
latest discoveries in brain science, trauma treatment and the power
of empathy into an effective healing method that literally rewires
our brain and restores our capacity for self-love and well-being.
Each chapter weaves the core concepts of neurobiology with guided
meditations and beautiful illustrations, painting an inspiring
picture of the human brain's inherent yearning towards healing and
wholeness.
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