Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
The psychological benefits of mindfulness are already known. However, for people struggling with emotions like anxiety, guilt, anger, loneliness, sadness, or low self-esteem, mindfulness practices can be enhanced by adding an ingredient: self-compassion. This book offers steps for incorporating it into life.
How do you feel when you bite into a pear wear a feather boa stand in a noisy auditorium or look for a friend in a crowd? It's likely that one of these situations would be pleasant for you, and perhaps one would be unpleasant. Some people will adore the grainy texture of a pear, while others will shudder at the idea of this texture in their ......
Would you like better relationships, a deeper understanding of the people around you, and a simple yet powerful way to help them achieve their life goals?Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds can offer all this and more. This book will teach you a new way to communicate which gets to the heart of things! By asking Clean Language ......
Weaving a tapestry of vignettes from patients' intimate lives with excerpts from scientific studies and examples from his own life, the author demonstrates how all of us must learn to give ourselves room to enter into the unknown and endure change.
Written especially for teens and young adults, Wising Up distills the wisdom of many traditions to set out 80 principles of good living in bite-size two-page spreads. Know Yourself, Seize the Day, Respect Others, Trust Your Instincts, and Take Responsibility are just a few of the dozens of principles explained in no-nonsense language.
The human brain is the most complex object in the universe. This book on the science of the brain explores the findings on a host of topics: Consciousness, unconsciousness, and brain death; Learning, memory, and role of genes; Motivation, aggression, and the range of emotions; The plasticity of the growing brain; and Mental illness and treatment.
A woman planning a dinner party calls a gourmet caterer and learns that 'Chateaubriand' can be ordered. To which she responds, 'No, thanks. We're going to take care of the wine ourselves'. The dead silence at the end of the phone is her first clue that something is amiss.
Creativity is one of life's great sources of fulfilment, whether it is expressed in the arts, science, business, or sheer entertainment. This work aims to give you the tools to unleash your creative imagination and manage the tension and negative mind-body reactions that often impede the creative flow.
Drawing from a range of applications, including investing, law, criminology, gambling, and religion, this book shows how opportunities can be defined in various contexts. It examines undesirable situations, where opportunity is lacking, such as poverty and historical instances of slavery to illustrate the defining characteristics of opportunity.
