Smarten Up the Way You Think to Achieve the Goals You Want
A perceptive guide and set of techniques on how to get
rid of messy, negative thoughts from your mind and how to
ensure that it's clear and receptive to positive ones.
Rid yourself of low esteem and obsessions, learn to
manage your own through processes and emotions.
Understand how others see you. Present, negotiate and
influence others ......
The visual journal is a simple hand-bound notebook in which to create, using mixed media techniques, works that serve as an expression of the soul and create a path to healing, internal freedom, and the sparking of passion.
This mind-stimulating book offers tools and resources to strengthen mental functioning. Targeted brain fitness activities work to exercise many areas of cognition, such as memory, attention, focus, visual-spatial processing, and sequencing. These activities are fun - and appropriately challenging. And just like any good workout, the benefits ......
A useful tool for initiating communication and providing stimulation for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. It can be used by children, adults, and family as well as health professionals as a device to interact with those suffering from memory loss.
Ronald Alexander draws on his decades of experience working with highly creative artists who tap into their deepest "core" creativity. He shows how anyone can achieve breakthroughs by implementing practices used by highly creative people.
Do you wish you could remember the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, anniversaries, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Robert Madigan is an expert in the "memory arts"--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, it's important to ......
When we are in painfully difficult or confusing life situations, especially amidst ever-uncertain times, our minds grapple for structure: a funeral ceremony definitively lays the dead to rest; the exaggerated choreography of a surgical room confirms its sterility; and a daily schedule gives prisoners a sense of normalcy. These practices, these ......
How Learning Transforms Our Brains, Minds, and Bodies
To the outsider, an expert seems as if they are doing everything effortlessly. A master chess player, an expert golfer, and a prolific writer seem to be able to quickly home in on what needs to be done and execute flawlessly over and over again. How do we master new skills? How do our brains and bodies transform performance from novice to expert? ......
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance I Opened the Gate Laughing is the story of one woman's journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. Born in Japan, Mayumi Oda comes back to the practice of Buddhism at beautiful Green Gulch Farm retreat center in Northern ......