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Do you want to learn how to melt stress, sleep well, and experience new levels of fulfillment? It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the incredible self-healing benefits of mindfulness meditation with the multitude of new scientific studies that are emerging. Recent brain studies have revealed that a short daily meditation practice can decrease stress, blood pressure, anxiety, and depression while improving sleep quality, immunity, and mood. This series contains three professionally recorded meditations designed to guide a complete beginner to meditation mastery.

The right idea, invoked at the right time, can change our lives. Drawing from her long studies of happiness, and also from the challenges she’s faced herself, writer Gretchen Rubin has discovered the “Secrets of Adulthood” that can help us manage the complexities of life. To convey her conclusions, she turned to the aphorism—the ancient literary discipline that demands that a writer convey a large truth in a few words.

By focusing on strengthening your neural pathways in addition to your muscles, you'll finally start seeing improvements in your mobility, energy, and confidence. Dr. Hawley's expertise and experience make her an invaluable resource for anyone with MS looking to improve their quality of life.

Want to introduce your child to the life changing power of meditation in just five minutes per day? There are no shortage of new studies praising the endless benefits of mindfulness meditation for kids. The 12 meditations in this series were professionally written and recorded to introduce kids to meditation in a fun, approachable way. Each meditation is designed to teach fundamental meditation skills in a “bite-size” five-minute chunk.

Would you like to experience deep, healing states of relaxation - even if "quieting the mind" is something you normally struggle with? Yoga Nidra meditation trains your brain to enter a state of deep relaxation that occurs between waking and sleeping. It welcomes consciousness into the moments when you are drifting off to sleep. There are countless emotional and physical health benefits of learning to cultivate this state effectively.

There is a secret energy you possess that has been hidden inside you for a very long time. While there are several miracles and blessings modern science and technology has bestowed upon us, there are few things it has done which lead us to more truly fulfilling lives. The possible solution? Tapping into our dormant inner energy by activating and healing the body’s energy chakras to facilitate a never experienced before physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

The growing influence of technology and frenzied pace of society can make it difficult for kids to “flip the switch” at bedtime, quiet the mind, and fall asleep. The three meditations in this audiobook combine years of mindfulness research with professionally written and recorded sleep meditations engineered to peacefully lull your child to sleep.

You want your children to grow strong, healthy, and resilient, and become competent, happy, and fulfilled in their lives. You know you won’t always be around to be their safety net, so they need to become competent and effective in their own right, at some point. But adding ADHD into the mix means we need to bring a whole different level of thinking to our parenting strategies. It’s not just about managing what the rest of the world sees as naughty or bad behavior. It’s not just about getting them to sit still, be quiet, and obey. That kind of thinking went out with the Titanic!

Rose Baker seals men’s fates. With a few strokes of the keys that sit before her, she can send a person away for life in prison. A typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose is like a high priestess. Confessions are her job. It is 1923, and while she may hear every detail about shootings, knifings, and murders, as soon as she leaves the interrogation room she is once again the weaker sex, best suited for filing and making coffee. This is a new era for women, and New York is a confusing place for Rose. Gone are the Victorian standards of what is acceptable. All around her women bob their hair, they smoke, they go to speakeasies.

A Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives—and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love.

A blend of storytelling, science-based mindfulness techniques, and a calming voice will lull your child to sleep while they learn fundamental, researched-based mindfulness techniques.

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or anything else), Mac has been raised by his mom and grandad to call out things that are wrong.

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.

One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick - why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home. And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already.

Each of us has the power to awaken the divine within. We all have a secret power lying dormant waiting to awaken and arise, coiled like a snake at the base of our being. It is the stuff of legend, but the truth of life that honors the call to spiritual enlightenment and living in the frequency of creation. It is this force that brings you in contact with pure consciousness. This powerful, primal energy is known as Kundalini, and awakening this dormant life force is just the beginning of walking the path of enlightenment.

Do you ever feel anxious, insecure, or jealous in your relationships? Have you struggled with fear of abandonment and clinginess? If you're nodding your head, you're not alone. Anxious attachment affects millions of people, and it can have a profound impact on your relationships, your self-esteem, and your overall happiness. In this book, you'll discover everything you need to know to overcome anxious attachment and build healthy relationships.

A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.

Social media is like the secret power-up juice for your business... Discover how to harness its magic now! Social media isn't just for big brands; it's your key to connect, engage, and build loyalty. It's about making your business soar with the right strategy. This guide offers everything you need to create a successful social media marketing journey.

Where there is light there is shadow. Where there is love there is war. When Selkie, an orphan with a gift for drawing, first meets Aidan, a stranger with an intoxicating smile, she thinks that her lonely heart has finally found a home. Unfortunately, love isn't always as easy as it seems, and Selkie soon discovers that Aidan has secrets that could alter her very existence. To make matters worse, something dangerous has been lurking around, contaminating her dreams with terrifying shadows.

The seven chakras are the concentrated energies that are spread out throughout our bodies, but often those energies become blocked and closed, affecting us both physically, mentally, and spiritually. This can prevent you from pursuing your dreams or achieving inner peace, but knowing and taking the time to learn how to open and awaken those main energies can help you overcome illnesses and mental suffering as well as set you on the right path of your spiritual journey.