Spirituality Articles

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• Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture is Wrong
  Back in 2010, students at the high school where I taught began telling me, without the least bit of skepticism, that the world was going to end in 2012.  I’d reply, “No, it isn’t” and ...
• Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
  Jon Kabat-Zinn writes the foreword and does a lovely job of setting the stage for Mark Williams and Danny Penman’s Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World.  In the foreword, as ...
• A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys
  A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys is written for anyone who has felt the pull between the chaos of everyday living and the longing for a rich spiritual life.  Pesi ...
• Right Here with You
  What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.”  Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different.  It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book.  In it, ...
• Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
  Anyone with even the slightest interest in psychology will have come across the concepts of mindfulness and meditation before. They are mentioned in almost all of the literature in the field, and frequently referred to ...
• Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
  In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
• Pocket Truths For Success: 365 Daily Principles to Become the Most Successful Person You Know
  “Achieving and sustaining success” and helping others to do so is the premise for Pocket Truths For Success, by B.A. Newman and Dr. Justin B. Short. Other inspirational books have used the day-at-a-time focus and ...
• Moving Through Fear: Cultivating the 7 Spiritual Instincts for a Fearless Life
  Jeff Golliher, author of Moving Through Fear: Cultivating the 7 Spiritual Instincts for a Fearless Life, is both an Episcopalian priest and a cultural anthropologist, a combination that allows him to address uniquely how fear ...
• 7 Ways To Make Interfaith Relationships Work
  “People try to minimize the differences when they’re in love,” says Joel Crohn, Ph.D., author of Mixed ...
• The Books That Changed These 6 Psychologists’ Lives
  It's hard not to imagine that books have the power to change our perspectives and even our lives. ...
• Beyond Happiness: The Zen Way to True Contentment
  In Beyond Happiness: The Zen Way to True Contentment, Ezra Bayda maintains a calm, practical tone that embodies much of what he teaches.  Bayda has a wide collection of knowledge, from personal experiences to the ...
• On Grief, Loss and Coping
  When I was driving my mom and I to the hospital, I knew that my father, who had ...
• Online Dating: Increasing Your Chances for Love
  "All the good ones are taken," Jennifer complained. "There's nobody to date – even if I lower my ...
• Total Relaxation: Healing Practices for Body, Mind & Spirit
  Who among us could not use a little more relaxation in our lives?  Especially since Americans as a whole seem to have forgotten how to incorporate active rest into the quotidian, relying instead on mindless ...
• Full Recovery: Creating a Personal Action Plan for Life Beyond Sobriety
  Full Recovery: Creating a Personal Action Plan for Life Beyond Sobriety is both an inspiring and a very practical book for those who are in recovery as well as anyone who wants to grow ...
• Mystic Cool
  Don J. Goewey subtitles his book “a proven approach to transcend stress, achieve optimal brain function, and maximize your creative intelligence.” However, a more appropriate choice may have been “the missing owner’s manual for your ...
• Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
  “Humans suffer, in part, because they are verbal creatures.” So says Steven Hayes, PhD, authors of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life. We, as humans, learn specific names for specific things and we ...
• Saying No To Naked Women
  In the summer of 1974, Jack Derritt leaves the city and all of his material possessions behind and heads out to the Arkansas countryside, to live in a shack and take stock of his life. ...
• Mindfulness in Relationships: Breathing Together
  Connecting with others enriches our lives. Researchers find that when we feel close to friends and loved ones we experience greater energy and vitality, increased clarity, and an enhanced sense of value and dignity. Interpersonal ...
• Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
  It was back in the '50s. One day my friend's mother just disappeared. That Sunday as they gathered in the church parking lot, the other mothers whispered. My friend stood next to me and cried. ...
• The Depression Advantage
  Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...
• Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide
  Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...
• Hiding Behind the Pulpit with Bipolar Disorder
  I have an illness that affects nearly 1 out of every 17 Americans, and affects 1 out of every 5 families. This disease is chronic in nature, and can only be controlled, not cured. It ...
• Mother’s Day Thoughts by a Mommy of Angels
  I have been thinking. I have 6 Angels waiting for me in Heaven. I have miscarriages. The couple weeks surrounding Mother's Day contain several significant dates for me anyway. May 8th was the 7th anniversary ...
• December Festivals: A Celebration of Diversity
  Companies spend millions of dollars on diversity training to help workers become more sensitive to each other's cultures, traditions, and practices. School boards now regularly struggle with the tension between wanting to celebrate the holiday ...