This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibetan lama Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, who authorized Jes Bertelsen to teach Dzogchen, and to do so using his own judgment as to the most appropriate way to assimilate these teachings into Western cultur...

This book is a concise theoretical and practical guide on how to help people improve contact with themselves and each other. Its authors met for the first time in 2007. We represent widely divergent professions, but we share an interest in the circumstances of children with regard to the rapid changes and drastic breakdown of values we all are currently experiencing, the great opportunities that are at hand. We met to come up with an answer to the question: what is the most important and m...

The needs of the self-aware are different. Many of us are overly empathic, and many are extra sensitive to certain foods, medicines, situations, and people.If you have physical or emotional ailments, are overweight, have allergies, or are inexplicably lethargic, unfocused, or feeling lost, there is a reason. Your energetic sensitivities likely have caused you to take on the pain, unhappiness, and other disease of the people around you. Self-Care for the Self-Aware provides a solutio...

From one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life.**"Eloquently argues that living fully in the here and now requires that one heed the lessons of the past." —**New York TimesWhat makes a good life? Is it money? An important job? Leisure time? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes our obsessive focus on such measures has led us astray. Work fills our days with anxiety and pres...

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmony and allows our core Self to leadWe’re all familiar with self-talk, self-doubt, self-judgment—yet most of us still view ourselves as if we have one uniform mind. Dr. Richard Schwartz’s breakthrough was recognizing that we each contain an “internal family” of distinct parts—and that treating these parts with curiosity, respect, and empathy vastly expands our capacity...

Shatter the Illusions and Discover the TruthTo 'know about' something is very different from KNOWING it. Perhaps you have some spiritual knowledge, but how often do you experience PEACE? CONTENTMENT? JOY? BLISS? ECSTASY? You've probably been searching for these higher states for some time now, but what has all your searching brought you? Are you still unsatisfied and unfulfilled? Is it really possible to find lasting peace of mind and happiness in this hectic world, or is ...

A Joyful Intuition will help you live a happy, healthy life inconnection with your own internal wisdom and creativity. Marsolek guides you on an exciting, playful journey into your own intuitive wisdom. You will learn simple, practical yet profound ways of using your intuition in your daily life. As you go through the exercises is this book, you will come to trust your own unique intuitive perception, and discover how you can live your life with clarity and inner inspiration."Patri...

Neuro Linguistic Programming can be very helpful when you are trying to break a habit, get over an addiction or trauma, or simply change the effectiveness of what you do every day.Many people have tested these programs and have had success. In this book, you will learn more about topics that can expand your horizon. Such topics include modeling, profiling, hypnosis, meditation, changing your inner beliefs, and a full comprehension of the terms involved in Neuro Linguistic Programmi...

In It’s Grief, Edy Nathan examines the emotional and devastating impact of loss and trauma. The book illuminates how the brain holds the complex circuitry of grief and then provides choices to help deal with it. Nathan explains this phenomenon through her Eleven Phases of grief, describing how they can move into one another based on one’s distinct needs, without adhering to a specific timeline or order. The grief experience is as individual as a fingerprint, and Nathan offers a un...

There are, despite the loneliness of our classrooms and the heartache of having been called to teach, others on the path with us. Teaching is hard. Teaching in a Montessori path is even more so. Montessorians are asked to give up so much of ourselves, to make ourselves humble and lowly before the child, to be servants, to be scientists, to be saints. We often let ourselves down. There it is, then. We will let ourselves down. But there are others on the path with us. We can lean on each oth...

We learn a lot in life, but one crucial thing often gets overlooked – how to love ourselves and why it really matters. In my counseling work, I've noticed a common thread: many people struggle with self-love. This book is all about taking a journey into understanding self-love and why it's a big deal for our happiness.Think of it as not reinventing the wheel but putting together insights from experts. I want to explore why loving ourselves can be tricky. This book, "Self-Love: What...

DECODE BODY LANGUAGE, PICK UP ON THE SUBTLEST OF GESTURES, AND EFFORTLESSLY CONNECT WITH PEOPLE EVEN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD!Do you want to know what other people are thinking?We all do, but it's not always easy to figure out. You might not always be sure if they're telling the truth, or if they're just trying to manipulate you.You can’t help but feel like you're missing out on a lot of important information. Most people are terrible at readi...