Meditation is now enjoying a renewed surge of popularity, penetrating the public consciousness as never before. What might that mean for us all? "Be the Change" examines the transformations wrought by this ancient practice through the wisdom of extraordinary luminaries, interwoven with text from award-winning authors Ed and Deb Shapiro. The words of these spiritual leaders from all disciplines and walks of life will surprise, enlighten, and inspire readers to begin their own meditation practiceand perhaps create the foundation for a new and more hopeful age. Includes wisdom from luminaries such as: *HH the Dalai Lama * Marianne Williamson * Robert Thurman * Jon Kabat-Zinn* Ram Dass *Byron Katie * Dan Millman * Joan Borysenko *Jane Fonda * HH The Karmapa* Jack Kornfield *Krishna Das * Dean Ornish * Andrew Cohen * Jean Houston * Kitaro * Ellen Burstyn * Gregg Braden * Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks * Debbie Ford * Gangaji * Rabbi Zalman Schachter * Cyndi Lee * Wavy Gravy * Linus Roache * Tim Freke * Don Campbell *and many more
What are your symptoms and illnesses telling you about yourself? In Your Body Speaks Your Mind, renowned teacher and bestselling author Deb Shapiro shows you how mastering the language of your symptoms can actually increase your potential for healing. You'll discover how unresolved psycho/emotional issues can affect your physical health, how feelings and thoughts are linked to specific body parts, and steps you can take to heal your body with your mind and to heal your mind with your body. By learning the body's language of symptoms, '' writes Deb Shapiro, ''you will soon discover that there is an extraordinarily intimate two-way communication going on that affects both your physical state and your mental and emotional health.'' With Your Body Speaks Your Mind, she shows you how to initiate this communication, and decode the priceless information your body is giving you
About The Unexpected Power As an activist in a Chinese jail, Kiri Westby used meditation to maintain her peace amidst the hardship. Seane Corn used yoga and mindfulness to work with child prostitutes in LA. Play therapist Megan Larson says meditation has changed everything, including her work with children. People everywhere are now realizing the profound benefits of mindfulness and meditation to reduce deep-rooted stress, calm the mind, become kinder, and find true happiness. About the Authors Award-winning authors, Ed & Deb Shapiro, with some of today's most notable voices, explore how being aware can resolve issues such as anger and fear, relationship breakdown, forgiveness, parenthood, and a lack of self-esteem. Join such luminaries as Jon Kabat-Zinn, Marianne Williamson, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Oscar award-winning actresses Jane Fonda and Ellen Burstyn, Professors Robert Thurman and Richard Davidson, and others. Enlightening and inspiring, The Unexpected Power of Mindfulness & Meditation is essential reading. Learn these practices and transform your life at the same time. THE UNEXPECTED POWER OF MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION ED and DEB SHAPIRO
In the last ten years we have witnessed a massive rise in self-help and development books reflecting a growing dissatisfaction and a longing to be happier and more personally fulfilled. But too often these are simply quick-fix solutions that temporarily restore an emotional or mental balance and give some clarity and direction but fail to offer a more transformative result. Unconditional Love shows that without a direct connection to the spiritual aspect of our being we miss out on the vital grounding and motivation that is necessary for personal fulfilment. Ed and Deb Shapiro specialise in making the ancient truths accessible and applicable to everyday life and, more specifically, in reaching those who are seeking a spiritual direction free of religious doctrine. They believe that the answers are within us but that we have to be willing to go further within ourselves to find them.
Fully updated and expanded edition of the classic book on body-mind. What are your symptoms and illnesses telling you about yourself? In Your Body Speaks Your Mind, renowned teacher and bestselling author Deb Shapiro shows how understanding your body's 'language of symptoms' can increase your potential for healing. She explains the interconnectedness between your physical state and your emotional, psychological and spiritual health, and reveals: How unresolved emotional and psychological issues can affect your physical health; How feelings and thoughts are linked to specific parts of the body; How you can take steps to heal your body with your mind, and your mind with your body. Your Body Speaks Your Mind shows you how to initiate communication between body and mind, and decode the priceless information your body is giving you, in order to achieve better health and a greater sense of wellbeing.
“Over a dozen practice pages to get the reader jumping right in....Thirty included cards actually double their use: one side of each offers a natural setting to breathe in and just sit with. The other side...offers the same picture...jotted on with words for the day’s reflection. Cards and book together, simple and beautiful themselves, help one to start on this even more simple and beautiful inner path.”—The New Times.
Did you know that your state of mind directly influences your body and your overall health? This book is an exploration of the relationship between the body and the mind, showing how conflicting attitudes, fears and repressed feelings can all directly influence the body and its functioning. Learn to understand and to listen to your body. The author describes the various body and mind patterns, languages used and explains how our states of mind can influence such illnesses as high blood pressure, heart trouble, nervous disorders and even cancer! As we discover and understand the messages behind the physical disorders, we can bring about personal resolution and self-discovery.
Most of us experience some degree of stress and many are too frustrated and exhausted to deal effectively with life's pressures. Consumed by the mind's chatter, we cannot appreciate the beauty and wonder of creation and we lose touch with the real purpose of our lives. Ed Shapiro trained with the originator of yoga nidra and draws upon the timeless wisdom of centuries of Eastern meditation teachings to offer and in-depth, easy-to-follow path to profound relaxation and relief. By following these techniques, we can truly still our minds, tapping into a tremendous inner source of richness and creativity and finding the freedom to realize our true potential. "There are many teachers of meditation, but there are few who can so effortlessly translate such profound and ancient techniques. An authentic, accessible, and enjoyable guide to relaxation." -Andy Puddicombe, founder of Headspace "This inspired book should be on every yoga practitioner's shelf. I can vouch for yoga nidra's brilliant effectiveness. Highly recommended!" -Seane Corn, founder of Off the Mat "Change can be transformative, but if we put it off, then we put living on hold, fixed in old ways of being. Ed Shapiro gives us the courage to embrace change. This is a necessary and timely book." -Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan
The technique authors Eddie and Debbie use is called Inner Conscious Relaxation. Once in such a relaxed state, you can easily enter into the quiet mind and experience the joyful, healing energy of meditation. Included in the book are detailed relaxation and meditation practices, recommendations for daily practice and quick exercises you can do whilst at work or travelling. This is an uplifting book which will help you to rediscover peace and happiness in your life.
A principle of this healing technique is that during the nine months preceding birth all our physical, mental, emotional and behavioural structures are laid down. Working on the spinal reflexes of the feet, hands and head refocuses on this formative period, thus allowing healing to take place.
The Democratic National Committee chair and Florida Congresswoman calls for strategic changes in such areas as energy, healthcare, and the economy to secure American livelihoods and stability for the next generation.
The new edition of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts is designed to help students really understand statistical concepts, the situations in which they can be used, and how to apply them to data. Hahs-Vaughn and Lomax discuss the most popular, along with many of the lesser-known, procedures and models, whilst also exploring nonparametric procedures used when standard assumptions are violated. They provide in-depth coverage of testing assumptions and highlight several online tools for computing statistics (e.g., effect sizes and their confidence intervals and power). This comprehensive, flexible, and accessible text includes a new chapter on mediation and moderation; expanded coverage of effect sizes; and discussions of sensitivity, specificity, false positive, and false negative, along with using the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve. In addition to instructions and screen shots for using SPSS, new to this edition is annotated script for using R. This book, noted for its crystal-clear explanations, and its inclusion of only the most crucial equations, is an invaluable resource for students undertaking a course in statistics in any number of social science and behavioral disciplines—from education, business, communication, exercise science, psychology, sociology and more.
One from the keeper shelf! Enjoy again this heartwarming story from one of America’s favorite storytellers, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Three women meet at their fifteen-year class reunion…and discover that their lives have taken unexpected directions. Back in their college days, Gretchen Wise had been engaged to a top law student. Carol Furness, head cheerleader, had said yes to the school’s football hero. And Maddie Cobain was the girl who’d fallen for a professor. Now the three of them gather around a popular fountain on the college grounds. This fountain was where lovers met, where promises were made…and broken. So it’s fitting that Gretchen, Carol and Maddie sit here to share their stories of betrayal, revenge and finding new love… Originally published in 1997
This memoir (of sorts) slips n' slides us from the fifties on up to the nineties by award-winning and Emmy-nominated comedy writer, Debbie Kasper, who has already been hailed "a female David Sedaris." A deliciously honest memoir splattered with so many scathing family secrets, that she had to wait for people to die to even write it. Her collection of hilarious, acerbic, sometimes poignant tales drops us smack into the middle of the fifties and sixties inside the chaotic Kasper house--a home where bourbon rules, hamsters roam freely, and sanity runs scared. Debbie's parents smoke and drink like they only have a day to live, spewing out twisted advice like, "Don't have children, you'll just end hating half of them." Debbie navigates through the suburban jungle overrun with three terrorizing brothers who dangle snakes in her face, hide mice in her bras, jump out of second-story windows, crack open fish tanks and eventually set the place on fire. During the Summer of Love, the parents throw their kids a surprise half-sister, just in time to watch her go mad. Debbie stampedes through the '70s, and 80s armed with horrible parental guidance, and a drinking problem all her own. These memoir-ish stories are a blast to read and they're also a bit of a reunion for baby boomers-one that you don't have to drop twenty pounds to go to.
The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all—and done most of it. From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making divorce from Eddie Fisher, raising a famous daughter to hitting the road with a successful one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds has been in the spotlight for decades. She’s met presidents, performed for the Queen of England, and partied with kings. A show business icon, she continues to sing and dance—and can drop more names than Andy Cohen. In this fabulous personal tour, she recalls wonderful moments with the greats of the entertainment world—Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, Phyllis Diller, and many, many more—sharing stories that shed new light on her life and career and the glittering world of Hollywood then and now. Debbie has plenty to tell—and in Make ’Em Laugh, she dishes it in the warm, down-to-earth voice her fans adore. Debbie shares memories of late night pals and some of the greatest comedians of all time, stories from the big screen and small, and tales of marriage, motherhood, and children. Combining her wicked sense of humor and appealing charm, she reveals the personal side of show business and fame in funny, poignant, and delightful reminiscences. Nothing is off limits: Debbie talks about her sex life, her family drama—and even shares a few secret recipes. As irresistible as the woman at its heart, this collection shows the consummate skill of a beloved entertainer who truly knows how to Make ’Em Laugh.
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