Picture yourself trapped in a traffic jam feeling utterly calm. Imagine being unflappable and relaxed when your supervisor loses her temper. What if you were peaceful instead of anxious? What if your life were filled with nurturing relationships and a warm sense of belonging? This is what it feels like when you’ve achieved emotional freedom.
National bestselling author Dr. Judith Orloff invites you to take a remarkable journey, one that leads to happiness and serenity, and a place where you can gain mastery over the negativity that pervades daily life. No matter how stressed you currently feel, the time for positive change is now. You possess the ability to liberate yourself from depression, anger, and fear.
Synthesizing neuroscience, intuitive medicine, psychology, and subtle energy techniques, Dr. Orloff maps the elegant relationships between our minds, bodies, spirits, and environments. With humor and compassion, she shows you how to identify the most powerful negative emotions and how to transform them into hope, kindness, and courage. Compelling patient case studies and stories from her online community, her workshop participants, and her own private life illustrate the simple, easy-to-follow action steps that you can take to cope with emotional vampires, disappointments, and rejection.
Emotional Freedom is a road map for those who are stressed out, discouraged, or overwhelmed as well as for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel even better. As Dr. Orloff shows, each day presents opportunities for us to be heroes in our own lives: to turn away from negativity, react constructively, and seize command of any situation. Complete emotional freedom is within your grasp.
From a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our intelligence and happiness throughout our lives.
We’ve all seen the happiness in the face of a child while playing in the school yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy of play. By definition, play is purposeless and all-consuming. And, most important, it’s fun.
As we become adults, taking time to play feels like a guilty pleasure—a distraction from “real” work and life. But as Dr. Stuart Brown illustrates, play is anything but trivial. It is a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition. In fact, our ability to play throughout life is the single most important factor in determining our success and happiness.
Dr. Brown has spent his career studying animal behavior and conducting more than six thousand “play histories” of humans from all walks of life—from serial murderers to Nobel Prize winners. Backed by the latest research, Play explains why play is essential to our social skills, adaptability, intelligence, creativity, ability to problem solve, and more. Play is hardwired into our brains—it is the mechanism by which we become resilient, smart, and adaptable people.
Beyond play’s role in our personal fulfillment, its benefits have profound implications for child development and the way we parent, education and social policy, business innovation, productivity, and even the future of our society. From new research suggesting the direct role of three-dimensional-object play in shaping our brains to animal studies showing the startling effects of the lack of play, Brown provides a sweeping look at the latest breakthroughs in our understanding of the importance of this behavior. A fascinating blend of cutting-edge neuroscience, biology, psychology, social science, and inspiring human stories of the transformative power of play, this book proves why play just might be the most important work we can ever do.
Many aspire to have more in their lives, but what is more? More is relative. One person's mountainous goal may be just a slight rise on the horizon for another. Lofty aspirations for one might be the bare minimum for another. More seems to depend upon the perception of the seeker. We all allow our internal filters to prevent us from getting what we really want out of both our professional and personal lives. Ole Carlson will help you break that restrictive pattern through a inspiring plan for achieving more--more time, more money, more life.
In Aspire, Carlson dissects the success-creation process and lays out simple methods to help you overcome your self-made limitations. You will learn how to live the life you desire--and deserve. By applying the law of attraction and the manifestation trilogy, a three-step transformative process of personal growth, you can apply the laws of the universe to work in your favor. And Carlson can show you how.
Based largely on anecdotes from the author's own extraordinary life and inspired by teachers ranging from the Buddha to Tony Robbins, Aspire will guide you in your quest for more.
Following on the success of Quiet Mind, Awakened Mind is David Kundtz’s newest book of meditations for living peacefully and mindfully in a busy world. As the Navajo proverb says, “When we are pretending to be asleep, no one can awaken us.” We must stop the pretending and “awaken” ourselves. The book contains more than a hundred reflections on life, gratitude, creativity, diversity, and spirituality, each with an inspiring quotation and an idea for putting that meditation to use in daily life. This remarkable collection of insights shows us how living in a state of awareness about the reality that always exists in front of our faces, under our noses, or just below the surface of every moment, is one sure way to live life more fully and joyfully.
People think that happiness, like success, is getting what you want. But a preponderance of new evidence — findings reported by a new field of science called "positive psychology" developed at prestigious universities — strongly suggests that happiness is something else or at least something more than that. Distilling surprisingly practical wisdom through a playful and entertaining format, Robert Mack delivers a turn-by-turn road map and a simple-to-follow instruction manual, based in both science and personal experience, for living a happier, healthier, and wealthier life starting today. Using examples from his own compelling life story, as well as those of his clients (including celebrities, corporate executives, and everyday citizens), Mack describes eight tried-and-true principles for realizing unconditional happiness and achieving the unparalleled success that comes with it. With a little effort, anyone— regardless of their circumstances — can discover new levels of joy and contentment on the inside and live a wonderfully prosperous and abundant life on the outside.
The Artist’s Way for the Matrix Generation: the first- ever book-and-podcast joint production, all about maximizing creative potential
We hear it time and time again: We never get the things we most desire. But is it really true? Psychotherapist Christine Ranck began asking the question and found that in reality, we get exactly what we want—but unconscious desires often drive the bus, rather than conscious intentions. By accessing the genius inside each of us, it’s possible to create the life we crave.
But to do it, there must be a proven method.
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method recommended by the American Psychological Association for treating victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. It uses sounds, eye movements, and tactile stimulation to awaken the dreaming mind and the mind-body connection. Dr. Ranck, a trained EMDR specialist, discovered that this process awakes the genius within and helps clients take concrete steps toward achieving their dreams.
In this revolutionary new book, powerful full-color images accompany penetrating questions to uncover unconsciously held beliefs. The one-of-a-kind podcast soundtrack, developed by acclaimed EMDR and Brain Spotting therapist Dr. David Grand, uses sounds delivered through headphones to stimulate both sides of the brain, evoking a waking dream state. This powerful audio/visual combination produces a heightened state of awareness that enables readers to make the “leap into the realm of infinite possibility…and fulfillment of our heart’s desires.”
