The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life "The psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said, ‘In between stimulus and response there is a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our ...
Seeking Enlightenment: The Spiritual Journey of a Psychotherapist Seeking Enlightenment by Catherine Morrison is a short memoir of one therapist’s journey in conceptualizing Eastern and Western spirituality. Morrison tries to come to terms with how these two diverse spiritual traditions cross paths in ...
George Mason: Life of Death Author's note: This review of George Mason’s autobiography, Life of Death, is not a review of Mason’s life, but rather of his book. It is difficult to critique the book without appearing critical toward the ...
A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival You thought of Aesop when you read the subtitle, didn't you? The story in this book is not your typical Aesop's fable. Not by a long shot. In fact, Aesop's got nothing on the author ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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