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EVERYDAY BLISS FOR BuSY WOMENAfter rushing through your morning routine, dropping the kids off at school, completing your responsibilities at the office, and handling other daily duties, it’s really no wonder that you feel drained at the end of the day. It is possible, though, to find room in even the most hectic schedule to enjoy life moment-by-moment and refocus on the goals that matter most to you.

This book shows you how to stop living at warp speed and reclaim your life for yourself. You’ll learn how to use cutting-edge energy psychology techniques and the power of intention to:

•Create a beautiful private space to escape stress and invite bliss

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•Reduce mental clutter through deliberate acts of focused intention

Don’t settle for just keeping your head above water and getting everything done. You deserve to find focus, balance, and everyday bliss. With what you’ll learn in this book, you can.

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DAILY MEDITATIONS FOR CALMING YOuR ANXIOuS MINDTrying to control your anxious thoughts can backfire, making them more prevalent, not less. The best way to calm these common feelings is by attuning yourself to your thoughts in a nonjudgmental, attentive manner, acknowledging your anxieties but choosing to act rather than react.

From the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind comes this collection of more than sixty-four daily mindfulness-based meditations to help you engage with the present moment, manage stress and anxiety, and rediscover the joy in living. Each meditation contains an easy-to-learn visualization

exercise, affirmation, or activity, with meditations grouped into four sections: relaxing and feeling safe, embracing joys and fears, befriending your anxious mind and body, and connecting to the web of life.

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FIVE GOOD MINuTES®

Do you live your life at a frenetic pace and then drop into bed at night feeling unfulfilled? Do you work hard yet sometimes feel as though you spend most of your time doing things that don’t matter? Do you feel overwhelmed and constantly stressed out? What if you could get everything done and still feel calm, centered, and stress free all day long? How much time would you invest to create focus, presence, and real intention in your life?

How about five minutes?

In this book, Dr. Jeffrey Brantley, founder and director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke university’s Center for Integrative Medicine, offers engaging ways you can make simple, effective, and lasting changes—five minutes at a time. Starting each morning with just one of these exercises will set the tone for a balanced, stress-free, and more fulfilling day. And as you continue your practice, you will find that five good minutes are the best gift you can give yourself.

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FIVE GOOD MINuTES® IN THE EVENINGWhat’s a typical weeknight like for you? Do you leave your workplace, endure the evening commute, putter around the house, race through dinner, and collapse into bed—only to discover that it’s time to go to work again? That’s no way to live! You can leave tension at the office and the traffic on the highway. Just five good minutes stand between a stressful workday and a restorative evening of calm, serenity, and joy.

From the authors of Five Good Minutes, these 100 engaging practices can lead you out of a hectic day and into a peaceful night. This collection of mindfulness exercises, positive visualizations, and affirmations can become a powerful force for change in your life. In no time at all, the five good minutes you give yourself in the evening can help you transform the mundane into the extraordinary and renew your vitality and passion for life.

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THE DAILY RELAXERJust about every day brings some kind of stress into your life—but it also offers a new opportunity to treat yourself to the benefits of a calm mind, relaxed body, and refreshed spirit.

The Daily Relaxer offers simple, daily practices that can really change your life—the most effective techniques distilled from the best-selling Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, the stress-management classic recommended by therapists worldwide. Whether it’s deep breathing,

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Millions of people have used these techniques to relax and tame stress—you can, too! No matter how overwhelming your day is, these simple exercises will help you calm down and enjoy the wonderful gifts that each new day has to offer.

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THE uNTETHERED SOuL What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you.

The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves

into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.

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JuICY TOMATOESJane Fonda, Judy Collins, and Isabel Allende are in their juicy years. So are a Midwest banker and Boston professor, a therapist who became a Mexican inn-keeper, and an empty nester who took up Contra dancing.

Author Susan Swartz likes to call this model of the new fifty-plus woman a Juicy Tomato, someone who enjoys her lushness, and, to push the metaphor, squeezes the most from life. The generation of women who fought to have a career, guilt-free sex, and their say in all things now insists on the right to make the second half of life as meaningful and ground-breaking as the first.

Juicy tomatoes know that experience is an asset, not a liability and that wisdom and power are a lot sexier than a flat stomach. They don’t apologize for their age and they don’t hide their spunk and savvy. Sure, there are regrets, losses, and laugh lines, but juicy tomatoes don’t look back. Long after breaking barriers for women in their youth they are remaking the image of midlife and beyond.

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LEAVE YOuR MIND BEHINDEven though we usually have little control over our thoughts, we tend to invest in them with a lot of authority. Take a moment right now and think, “There’s a hungry grizzly bear sitting next to me.” Did you run screaming from the room? Probably not. But what if instead you had thought, “I’m boring,” or “No one loves me”? Just like that terrifying grizzly, these more garden-variety thoughts are just words and pictures that pop into our minds. If we can learn to notice our thoughts without taking them literally, we can devote our energies to living a rich and purposeful life—rather than running from imaginary grizzlies.

The lighthearted practices in this book can help you make it happen. Drawn from a new approach to psychotherapy called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), these activities won’t tell you to stop or control problematic thinking. Instead, they’ll show you how to watch your thoughts without judgment and learn to live with the confounding and marvelous word-making, storytelling machine that is your mind.

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BuDDHA’S BRAINThe Buddha and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s—and then they changed their brains in ways that changed the world.

Science is now revealing how the flow of thoughts actually sculpts the brain. By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.

Buddha’s Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. You’ll learn how to activate the brain states of calm, joy, and compassion instead of worry, sorrow, and anger. This clear, down-to-earth book is filled with practical tools and skills that you can use in daily life to tap the unused potential of your brain and rewire it over time for greater well-being and peace of mind.

“[Buddha’s Brain] not only shows us effective ways to develop real happiness in our lives, but also explains physiologically how and why they work.”

—JAMES BARAZ, author of Awakening Joy

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MINDFuL WOMANImagine a day in which you can be in the midst of chaos but maintain a clear head and sense of balance and focus and have your feet firmly planted on the ground. Even the busiest of women among us has the ability to embrace mindfulness and will reap the benefits of doing so!

In this book, Sue Patton Thoele shows you how to incorporate mindfulness into your busy and dynamic life. The book’s gentle and humorous approach makes it a practical and easily understood guide for those who are new to the practice of mindfulness as well as those who are already familiar with its gifts.

The book offers over sixty-five simple and effective practices to help you embrace mindfulness one moment at a time. Filled with both the author’s and other women’s personal stories about the joys and hurdles that come with embracing mindful living,

The Mindful Woman is a friend whose hand you can hold on the path toward being present in the moment. Finding your way will lead naturally to a more open heart, inner peace, and greater zest for life—a path well worth pursuing.

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CONNECTING THROuGH TOuCHThere are more than 40,000 nerve endings in the human hand. With a little good advice and a lot of loving and sensitive practice, you can learn to turn each one of these points into a powerful tool for improving communication, deepening intimacy, and sharing love. From one of the founders and longest-serving practitioners of massage at the world-renowned Esalen Institute, this book will show you how.

You’ll learn, step-by-step, how to make a deep and meaningful connection with your partner’s body. You’ll find out how to become mindful of where your partner holds stress and tension.

And then, using a combination of strokes from the most time-honored massage traditions, you’ll learn ways to help make them fade away. As the massage continues, you’ll enter into a profound nonverbal dialogue with your partner, learning much from the simple act of contact with another body, creating a deep and lasting connection.

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FIVE GOOD MINuTES® WITH THE ONE YOu LOVEWhen you first fall in love, every moment you spend with that special someone feels like a lifetime. Even a glance and a smile can seem to last for hours. But as time goes by, let’s face it, relationships change. You have places to go and people to see, children to raise and careers to manage. The rest of the world can start to slip in between you and the one you love. It takes practice to remain deeply connected and truly intimate with someone—but it doesn’t need to

take up all of your free time. With the simple practices in this book, you’ll be able to really connect with your special someone in just five minutes a day.

using simple techniques drawn from mindfulness practice, each of these intimate and fun activities will help you feel closer, more connected, and more deeply in love with your partner. The meditations, affirmations, and observations you’ll find here will foster gratitude, trust, empathy, and loving kindness. use them to get closer to the one you love, and watch as the benefits of mindfulness grow to fill your relationship with renewed romance, harmony, and joy.

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EMOTIONAL FITNESS FOR COuPLESPeak athletic performance requires regular exercise, and a great relationship depends on regular emotional practice to stay in top form. Don’t wait for a crisis to make you scramble to save your relationship. Start building emotional fitness today! This collection of simple tips will energize your emotional fitness program and hone your relationships skills to championship levels—in just ten minutes a day.

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WOMEN WHO WORRY TOO MuCHDo you worry incessantly about things that are not likely to happen? Do you lose sleep because of worry or “worry yourself sick?” Does your tendency to worry affect your work or relationships? Do you even worry about worry itself?

If so, you might have a problem with worry or generalized anxiety—and you’re not alone. Many women feel just like you do. In fact, research suggests that a range of psychological, social, and even biological factors make women more prone to worry about things than men. But, regardless of natural inclinations, worry doesn’t need to cause difficulties in your life. Worrying too much is

something you can overcome—if you have the right information and good advice.

This book offers a range of simple, powerful techniques to combat worry. It shows you how to stop the spiral of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviors that perpetuate the worry cycle. Instead, the exercises and inventories in the book will help you gain new perspectives, relax, and live fully in the present. You’ll learn how to redirect your focus and energy into positive action instead of worry.

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EATING MINDFuLLYThis is not another diet book. Eating Mindfully offers simple and compassionate mindfulness exercises that can help you understand when you are truly hungry and when you are eating to calm negative emotions. You’ll discover that the key to changing the way you eat is not discipline over what is on your fork, but mastery of your hungry mind. By becoming more aware of your appetite in the moment and practicing mindful eating habits, you will develop a healthier body and enjoy food without guilt.

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—RITA FREEDMAN, PH.D., author of Bodylove: Learning to Like Our Look and Ourselves

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50 WAYS TO SOOTHE YOuRSELF WITHOuT FOODFood has the power to temporarily alleviate stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring us comfort when we need it most. It’s no wonder experts estimate that 75 percent of overeating is triggered by our emotions, not physical hunger. The good news is you can instead soothe yourself through dozens of mindful activities that are healthy for both body and mind.

Susan Albers, author of Eating Mindfully, offers this collection of 50 mindfulness skills and practices for relaxing the body in times of stress and ending your dependence on eating as a means of coping with difficult emotions. You’ll not only discover easy ways to soothe urges

to overeat, you’ll also learn how to differentiate emotion-driven hunger from healthy hunger. Reach for this book instead of the refrigerator next time you feel the urge to snack—these alternatives are just as satisfying!

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PLEASuRE HEALINGSpas have become self-care oases for millions of people living busy, hectic lives. And while your skin may be smoother when you leave, the relaxation response sparked by a visit to the spa is an equally invaluable gift. This book will help you give that gift to yourself every day by bringing relaxation and present-moment awareness into your life. As you incorporate mindfulness techniques including meditation, healing breathwork, conscious movement, and other pleasure-healing rituals into your daily routine, you’ll notice the “spa ethos” transforming your mindset, calming stress, and enriching your life.

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—DEBORAH SZEKELY, cofounder of Rancho La Puerta with her husband Edmond Szekely, and founder of the Golden Door Spa

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EATING THE MOMENTDo you use food to comfort yourself when you’re feeling depressed or stressed? Do you sometimes eat simply because you’re bored? There are so many opportunities to snack and overeat mindlessly, it’s no wonder that most diets fail. But mindless eating can lead to health problems, obesity, and a feeling that you’ve lost control.

Eating the Moment offers 141 mindfulness activities to help you listen to your body, understand why you’re eating, and control your cravings if you’re eating out of habit or because of your emotions. You won’t find any start dates, dieting tips, or meal plans in this book, just practical and

meaningful exercises to help you end mindless eating and begin nourishing yourself in healthy and fulfilling ways.

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THE GIFT OF LOVING-KINDNESSLoving-kindness, the English translation of the Sanskrit word metta, is defined as “unconditional well-wishing and openhearted nurturing of ourselves and others, just as we are.” By practicing loving-kindness, you can learn to treat yourself and others—even strangers—like dear friends, putting aside criticism and judgment and choosing instead to open your heart to greater generosity, forgiveness, and compassion.

While Buddha taught loving-kindness meditation as an antidote to fear, it can also quiet feelings of anger, judgment, and worry by helping you see the innate goodness within yourself and others. Whether used as part of a formal meditation practice or as daily mindfulness exercises, the 100 meditations in this book make it easy to open your heart and share the seeds of loving-kindness with others.

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LITTLE WAYS TO KEEP CALM & CARRY ONFirst featured on a British poster produced during World War II, “Keep calm and carry on” has become the mantra of millions—but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us.

The next time you are stressed by pressures at work, overwhelmed by life’s challenges, or panicked by problems that seem unsolvable, reach for this book. In Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On, you’ll find twenty short yet powerful lessons and anxiety-reducing techniques that will help you move past stressful moments with grace. Each lesson is so simple to learn and practice,

you’ll find that this pocket guide is all you really need whenever you need a little help keeping calm.

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THE BALANCED MOMDoes being a mother mean that you have to give up your self? Of course it doesn’t. You can be a great mom and still have a life of your own. In fact, your kids will only benefit from seeing you as whole person and will develop greater independence and a stronger sense of who they are as people. If you’re ready to rediscover your self, this book offers dozens of simple tips to help you create the time and space you need to reconnect with an amazing person—you! This is the best gift you can give yourself.

Discover simple ways to:

•Feel good about encouraging independence in your kids

•Balance the demands of motherhood with your own needs and goals

•Maintain strong relationships with your kids

•Rediscover your true passions and interests

•Live your life in ways that reflect your true values

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uRBAN MINDFuLNESSThe city is an exciting, yet demanding place to live. Although you love the tremendous energy and diversity of the urban environment, the day-to-day grind of going to work and navigating crowds, traffic, and lines can leave you feeling weary and disconnected.

Respectful of the challenges and advantages that arise when you live or work in the city, Urban Mindfulness provides practical advice for transforming everyday experiences into opportunities for contemplation, stress relief, and fulfillment. Filled with insightful reflections and exercises you can do at work, at home, or even while riding the subway, this guide will help you achieve and

maintain the sense of peace and calm that you’ve been seeking. You’ll find yourself returning to this guide again and again for gentle reminders that will help you create stillness within yourself as the outside world rushes crazily by.

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THE LOTuS EFFECTThe lotus plant has a unique ability to survive in muddy, humid swamps, producing beautiful flowers that bloom just above the water’s surface. By repelling dirt and parasites from their leaves, lotuses are able to thrive and access as much sunlight and water as possible. What if we, like the lotus, could let the trials and tribulations of everyday life slip away, and emerge unscathed and whole?

Suffering results when we lose sight of our true sense of self and absorb everyday frustrations instead of letting these feelings fall away. Inspired by Buddhist and Vedic psychology, The Lotus

Effect will help you rediscover who you are by clarifying what you are not. Through the contemplative “identity detox” exercises and meditations in this book, you’ll learn to let go of stress, worry, anger, suffering, and need for approval as naturally as the lotus sheds mud from its leaves. As you practice detaching yourself from life’s disappointments, frustrations, and fears, you’ll take the first steps toward strengthening your core “lotus self” so that you, too, will possess the resilience to blossom, no matter the circumstances.

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GLuTEN-FREE RECIPES FOR THE CONSCIOuS COOKA gluten-free diet can help you feel more energetic, improve digestion, aid in weight loss, and dramatically improve the symptoms of many mental and physical health disorders. It’s no wonder that more and more people, both with wheat allergies and without, are discovering the health benefits of going gluten-free. In Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook, Leslie Cerier, “The Organic Gourmet,” presents over 100 remarkably delicious recipes for easy-to-make, gluten-free, vegetarian meals. You’ll learn to create delectable, high-protein breakfasts, dinners, desserts, and more, use organic and seasonal ingredients to put a fresh twist on your favorite family recipes, and come up with your own original gluten-free creations.

•Whip up tasty grab-and-go meals and snacks

•Get tips for using organic and seasonal ingredients to make gluten-free food even more delicious

•Enjoy pancakes and waffles, casseroles, pastas, and pastries—all made without gluten

•Get creative with the wealth of recipe variations and ideas in this book

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books make great gifts · 2011-10-07 · Your guide to creating unconditional happiness Rick Hanson, PhD, is a neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain You’ve heard the