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The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

Ancient Skills for Modern Minds

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

Ancient Skills for Modern Minds

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

Joel and Michelle Levey have taught thousands of people around the globe to live in greater harmony and balance. Field-tested and refined over many years, the Leveys' unique approach to stress-mastery and personal development offers step-by-step guidance for developing personal strengths, enhancing the quality of life, and making a real contribution to the world. The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation offers a treasury of their most useful teachings: Waking up throughout the day--finding your meditation practice and sticking to it. Balancing breath, brain, and mind-mastering stress--enhancing performance in every arena of your life. Creative intelligence--the dynamic synergy of active and quiet mind skills. Mastery, mystery, and meditation--awakening to your true nature. Inspired Work--relaxation, concentration, and meditation on the job. A vital blend of profoundly practical skills, advice, instruction, and encouragement makes Fine Arts a complete course for awakening more fully to your highest potentials in each moment of your life.

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Simon and Schuster

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0861719697

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Simple Meditation & Relaxation

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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Simple Meditation & Relaxation

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

Clear guidance and effective techniques to tune out the distractions of the modern world—and find calm and contentment. Most of us have much more than our grandparents and great-grandparents did—more material wealth, consumer goods, advanced technology, abundant entertainment. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always make us happier and more content than they were. It can even have the opposite effect. In this simple, straightforward guide, Joel and Michelle Levey reveal their tools for leading a conscious life—a key to the kind of satisfaction that eludes us. Their technique allows readers to put aside distractions while gaining greater energy, health, and contentment. Mediating and relaxation isn’t about “losing your edge”—it’s about finding a new strength, deep within, that helps us think more clearly, act more calmly, and live more fully. This book teaches you how. Praise for Joel Levey and Michelle Levey: “A skillful blend of time-proven antidotes to the stress of modern life.” —Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence “Evocative suggestions for making use of different ways to practice relaxation, concentration, and meditation. A real gem.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., author of Wherever You Go, There You Are

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Mango Media

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1609256743

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9781609256746

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

By: Levey, Joel,Levey, Michelle

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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

By: Levey, Joel,Levey, Michelle

The Leveys introduce readers to dozens of mindfulness and meditation techniques, skillfully organized into five categories of practice, making Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness a very comprehensive and easy-to-use resource for inner exploration and transformation. This book offers a treasury of practical wisdom distilled from the Leveys’ intensive study with many of the world’s most respected authorities of the contemplative science and wisdom traditions, and an introduction to the mind-fitness disciplines necessary for personal mastery, wisdom, creativity, compassion, and resilience in times of increasing intensity and accelerating change. Given how many people needlessly suffer from overwhelm, exhaustion, and preventable stress-related illness, the Leveys’ wisdom is needed now more than ever! This book is an inspiration for complete beginners, long-time meditators, and everyone in between, who seek to deepen and expand their practice. Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey were among the very first to bring mindfulness and mind-fitness teachings to mainstream organizations beginning in the 1970s. They have taught tens of thousands of people in hundreds of leading corporations, medical centers, universities, sports, government, and military arenas – including Google, NASA, World Bank, Intel, M.I.T., Stanford, and World Business Academy. They are the founders of Wisdom at Work (http://wisdomatwork.com). Originally published in hardcover as Simple Meditation and Relaxation (Conari Press, 1999) and in paperback as Luminous Mind (Conari Press, 2006).

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Conari Press

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1573246492

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A Moment to Relax

Stress Relief in Minutes

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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A Moment to Relax

Stress Relief in Minutes

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

When it's time to take a break from stress, this little book provides big-time relief. Offering a user-friendly introduction to basic techniques for keeping cool at home or at the office, "A Moment to Relax" comes with a mini-CD with guided exercises that are sure to restore peace instantly.

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Chronicle Books

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0811837289

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9780811837286

We Flow Hard

The Y7 Guide to Crafting Your Yoga Practice

By: Sarah Levey,Mason Levey

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We Flow Hard

The Y7 Guide to Crafting Your Yoga Practice

By: Sarah Levey,Mason Levey

Y7 Studios co-founders Sarah and Mason Levey bring their practice to readers with We Flow Hard, a fitness and lifestyle book. Y7 embodies a modern, streamlined approach to the ancient practice of vinyasa, fusing edgy aspiration with flowing, individualized yoga sequences. As practical as it is inspirational, We Flow Hard includes sections on the history and benefits of yoga, the art of crafting the perfect workout playlist, and tips on incorporating yogic practices and meditation into a contemporary lifestyle. At the book's core is a series of yoga sequences, from targeted "abs and ass" moves to a Y7 spin on traditional vinyasa, and advice on customizing a yoga practice for your own skills and goals.

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Running Press Adult

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0762462833

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9780762462834

Here She Is

The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

By: Hilary Levey Friedman

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Here She Is

The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America

By: Hilary Levey Friedman

A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.

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Beacon Press

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080708364X

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9780807083642

Playing to Win

Raising Children in a Competitive Culture

By: Hilary Levey Friedman

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Playing to Win

Raising Children in a Competitive Culture

By: Hilary Levey Friedman

Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess. Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family time is so scarce? By analyzing the roots of these competitive afterschool activities and their contemporary effects, Playing to Win contextualizes elementary school-age children's activities, and suggests they have become proving grounds for success in the tournament of life—especially when it comes to coveted admission to elite universities, and beyond. In offering a behind-the-scenes look at how "Tiger Moms" evolve, Playing to Win introduces concepts like competitive kid capital, the carving up of honor, and pink warrior girls. Perfect for those interested in childhood and family, education, gender, and inequality, Playing to Win details the structures shaping American children's lives as they learn how to play to win.

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Univ of California Press

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0520956699

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9780520956698

Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature

The Uses of Detail

By: Nick Levey

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Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature

The Uses of Detail

By: Nick Levey

This book begins a new and foundational discussion of maximalism by investigating how the treatment of detail in contemporary literature impels readers to navigate, tolerate, and enrich the cultural landscape of postindustrial America. It studies the maximalist novels of David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, Thomas Pynchon, and others, considering how overly-detailed writing serves the institutional, emotional, and intellectual needs of contemporary readers and writers. The book argues that maximalist novels not only exceed perceived limits of style, subject matter, and scope, but strive to remake the usefulness of books in contemporary culture, refreshing the act of reading. Levey shows that while these novels are preoccupied with detail and description, they are relatively unconcerned with the traditional goals of representation. Instead, they use detail to communicate particular values and fantasies of intelligence, enthusiasm, and ability attached to the management of complex and excessive information. Whether reinvigorating the banal and trivial in mainstream culture, or soothing anxieties of human insufficiency in the age of automation and the internet, these texts model significant abilities, rather than just objects of significance, and encourage readers to develop habits of reading that complement the demands of an increasingly detailed culture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theoretical schools and cultural texts, including Thing Theory, Marxism, New Formalism, playlists, blogs, and archival manuscripts, the book proposes a new understanding of maximalist writing and a new way of approaching the usefulness of literary objects in contemporary culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317205030

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9781317205036

Jews and Australian Politics

By: Geoffrey Brahm Levey

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Jews and Australian Politics

By: Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Explains the contemporary politics of Australian Jewry. This book situates the politics of Australian Jews through comparisons with general patterns in Australian politics, the politics of other minorities in Australia, and the politics of other Western Jewish communities. It contains an appendix of Jewish Parliamentarians.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837642389

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The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

Ancient Skills for Modern Minds

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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Ancient Skills for Modern Minds

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Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

By: Levey, Joel,Levey, Michelle

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Simple Meditation & Relaxation

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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Luminous Mind

The Essential Guide to Meditation and Mind Fitness

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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Luminous Mind

The Essential Guide to Meditation and Mind Fitness

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

Luminous Mind" is the definitive mental fitness manual, offering unique and uncomplicated ways to engage fully in life. Included in the book are techniques for meditation, focus, and relaxation that have helped Olympic athletes, members of the armed forces, and many others.

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A Moment to Relax

Stress Relief in Minutes

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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Stress Relief in Minutes

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Simple Meditation and Relaxation

By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

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By: Joel Levey,Michelle Levey

The authors reveal their own techniques that will help readers to cast aside distractions while acquiring greater energy, health, and contentment.

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Book's by Levey, Michelle

The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

Simple Meditation & Relaxation

Simple Meditation & Relaxation

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

A Moment to Relax

A Moment to Relax

We Flow Hard

We Flow Hard

Here She Is

Here She Is

Playing to Win

Playing to Win

Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature

Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature

Jews and Australian Politics

Jews and Australian Politics

The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness

Simple Meditation & Relaxation

Simple Meditation & Relaxation

Luminous Mind

Luminous Mind

A Moment to Relax

A Moment to Relax

Simple Meditation and Relaxation

Simple Meditation and Relaxation

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