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State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Offers an interdisciplinary look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and mental stability. This collection brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and...
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English
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"'There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books.' Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
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English
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"A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice? If so, then you've experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body. Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage...
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Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a practical guide to developing the inner resources necessary to meet a world in crisis with a clear, balanced, and courageous outlook. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and practical instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. In 26 chapters-each with practices to cultivate an important quality like mindfulness,...
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Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Language
English
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When science meets religion, the result can be explosive--or insightful. His Holiness the Dalai Lama poses many questions about secular approaches to mindfulness, the brain biology of meditation, and meditation's relationship to mental and physical health, which are then answered by the preeminent meditation scholars, academics, and researchers in each specialty.
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English
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"A lively and warmhearted novel starring four precocious Gen X teens-turned-twenty-first-century middle-agers who are seeking . . . well, if not exactly justice from a long-ago hurtful teacher, then at least some kind of long-desired reckoning and closure. Late one morning, parked in a desk chair at his humdrum job, Tip Murray finds himself reading the suicide note of his long-lost high school friend Pete Stroman. Mentioned in the note as a root cause...
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Publisher
LifeLines, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Melissa Bernstein, mother of six, married 30 years, and founder of toy company Melissa & Doug, shares her ... journey, [her poetry] and the LifeLines that enabled her to triumph over anxiety, depression, and despair"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Grand Central Life & Style
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sadehghi, a Goop contributor who runs an integrative health center in Los Angeles, offers readers a 90-day pathway to cut through all of the noise and demands of daily life to create a calm space to process the emotions, relationships, and events in their lives. Readers follow this diet for 10 days a month (including a fast day) while alternating between emotional purging and mind-clearing exercises: 12-minute writing purges and 12-minute dialogues....
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Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Our bodies have a story to tell. The Embodied Path weaves inspiring and ordinary body stories together with discussion questions, writing prompts, and breath and body practices to help anyone interested in creating more capacity for compassion for themselves and others by doing the internal work to contend with trauma and privilege.
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Publisher
Grupo Editorial Tomo
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
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A comprehensive guide to healing. In this in-depth and comprehensive book, Inna Segal unveils the secrets to understanding the messages of the body and reveals the underlying energetic causes of over 200 symptoms and medical conditions. This handbook explores nearly every conceivable part of the human body, delving deeply into the possible reasons for problems in any given area of the body and offering a unique, step-by-step method to assist in returning...
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