Tag: Practical

Posted on by — 1 Comment

Retrain Your Anxious Brain: Practical and Effective Tools to Conquer Anxiety

Control Anxiety Before it Begins 

Trouble sleeping, panic attacks, knots in your stomach, excessive worry, doubts, phobias—anxiety comes in many shapes and sizes, and affects millions of people. But you don’t have to suffer anymore. In Retrain Your Anxious Brain, renowned therapist and anxiety expert John Tsilimparis, MFT, shares the groundbreaking program he’s created to help hundreds of people (himself included) free themselves from crippling anxiety and live healthier, happier lives. 

Rather than just treating or masking symptoms, Tsilimparis’s innovative approach helps you identify and short-circuit anxiety triggers, so that you can stop anxiety before it starts. This customizable plan teaches you how to: 

• Alter the fixed thoughts that can cause anxiety 

• Adjust your existing personal belief systems 

• Challenge the idea of consensus reality 

• Balance your dualistic mind 

• Consciously create your own reality

Posted on by — 2 Comments

Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom

The 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.

Posted on by — 3 Comments

Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment)

Ask yourself… Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner? Are you suspicious when you meet new people? Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing? Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this? Do you make all of the social arrangements for your partner’s life? Have you ever feigned illness to keep your partner at home? Are you frightened of being unable to survive without your partner? Do you examine on your partner’s phone records, emails, or text messages “just in case”? Do you put your partner down over small details or infractions of agreements?

If you answered YES to more than one of these questions, then this book is for you.

This is the book to help you overcome this unwanted emotion. You will embark on a journey to discover the many types of jealousy. You can use this book as a manual to overcome emotional insecurity issues and to give you a clearer perspective on the emotion of jealousy. By engaging with the exercises with this book, you’ll be able to see yourself as you really are and further exercises will assist you in eliminating your jealous thoughts and behavior.

“It is hard to believe how much useful information the author has packed into this slender tome.”
–Sam Vaknin, author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited Learn more at www.LyndaBevan.com

Book #4 in the 10-Step Empowerment Series from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance

Product Features

  • ISBN13: 9781932690859
  • Condition: New
  • Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Posted on by — 2 Comments

Student Motivation Book Bundle: Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges

Give your students the tools they need to motivate themselves with tips from award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo. A comprehensive outline of common classroom challenges, this book presents immediately applicable steps and lesson plans for all teachers looking to help students motivate themselves. With coverage of brain-based learning, classroom management, and using technology, these strategies can be easily incorporated into any curriculum.

Learn to implement solutions to the following challenges:

How do you motivate students? How do you help students see the importance of personal responsibility? How do you deal with a student who is being disruptive in class? How do you regain control of an out-of-control class? And more!

Blogger and educator Larry Ferlazzo has worked to combine literacy development with short and rigorous classroom lessons on topics such as self-control, personal responsibility, brain growth, and perseverance. He uses many “on-the-spot” interventions designed to engage students and connect with their personal interests.

Use these practical, research-based ideas to ensure all of your students are intrinsically motivated to learn!

Product Features

  • Used Book in Good Condition
Posted on by — Leave a comment

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

A practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation, with pointers from some of today’s most respected Buddhist teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cyndi Lee, and Sharon Salzberg.

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives. This authoritative guide to Buddhist meditation will introduce readers to the practice, explain how it is approached in the main schools of Buddhism, and offer advice and inspiration from Buddhism’s most renowned and effective meditation teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Matthieu Ricard.
     Topics include how to build excitement and energy to start a meditation routine and keep it going, setting up a meditation space, working with and through boredom, what to look for when seeking others to meditate with, how to know when it’s time to try doing a formal meditation retreat, how to bring the practice “off the cushion” with walking meditation and other practices, and much more.

Posted on by — 3 Comments

The Creative Power Of Sound: Affirmations To Create, Heal And Transform (Pocket Guide to Practical Spirituality)

Learn how to change our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual worlds with the power of sound. Seven fundamental principles for using affirmations, decrees, prayers and more. For centuries mystics of the East and West have believed that sound creates matter. This book shows that sound is the energy of creation and explains how to experiment with sound patterns in our lives.

Posted on by — 2 Comments

The Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships

2012 International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner in the “Relationships” category
2012 Living Now Awards Silver Medal Winner in the “Relationships/Marriage” category

Create the Love of Your Life–Keep the Life in Your Love

Single, in a relationship, or married: people of all walks of life and all ages are finding this new book on enlightened relationships inspiring, accessible, and truly transformational. This revolutionary guide will help you create and sustain a relationship that is intimately connected on all levels–emotional, intellectual, sexual, and spiritual–and a continual source of love, inspiration, and joy.

In Part 1, chapters like “Loving Your Body,” “Reducing Your Baggage,” and “Raising Your Soulmate Potential” will help you release anything that might be preventing you from experiencing a deeply connected relationship. As you read, you will quickly begin to feel more loving and compassionate toward yourself, more connected to those around you, and more confident about and creating your own soulmate experience.

In Part 2, chapters such as “Creating a Context,” “Turning Expectations into Invitations,” “Transforming the Energy of Jealousy,” “Exploring the Edges,” and “Connecting on a Soul Level” will give you everything you need to approach even the most challenging aspects of relationships in ways that will actually deepen your experience of love and intimacy. You will discover the secrets to keeping the love, passion, and connection in your relationship fully alive–every single day. And you will learn how to lovingly guide each other to release limiting beliefs, heal the past, rise above perceived limitations, and unlock the potential in every area of your lives.

Whether you’re on a quest for your soulmate, looking for deeper connection in the relationship you have right now, or just want to experience much more love in your life, the ground-breaking ideas in this book–and the many stories of real people putting them into practice–will fill you with love, inspiration, and possibility. Because The Soulmate Experience isn’t just a book. It’s a great way of living life.

About the Authors
Mali Apple and Joe Dunn host the very popular community “The Soulmate Experience” on Facebook. They have dedicated their relationship to discovering how to create magical relationships and keep the magic in any relationship alive. Their greatest joy is inspiring others to bring more of the soulmate experience into all their relationships.

Posted on by — 1 Comment

Conversations with Yourself: A Practical Guide to Greater Happiness, Self-Development and Self-Empowerment (ArtScroll (Mesorah))

“The quality of your life is the quality of your on-going self-talk!”
Most people unconsciously engage in internal self-talk, and in this book, best-selling author Rabbi Zelig Pliskin guides the reader to achieve conscious awareness of meandering mental chatter and to transform it into a steady stream of purposeful thought. After reading the first three chapters of Conversations with Yourself, you will sense yourself achieving more and harnessing a power you never realized you had.
A master motivator, Rabbi Pliskin presents significant goals for character growth in simple, attainable steps. Drawing on the wisdom of the Jewish sages, his personal humor, and experiences common to all, Rabbi Pliskin details how anyone can shift habituated negative self-talk into a positive inner dialogue.
Each short chapter in Conversations with Yourself contains a powerful core thought which, as applied, can neutralize toxic self-talk and stimulate one’s positive inner voice. Among the many brilliant principles presented are:
*You Become What You Think About
*Problem Focus vs. Solution Focus
*Self-Conversations to Reach Your Important Goals
*How to be Unhappy!
*The Best Question You Can Ask Yourself
*Running Your Own Mental Broadcast
*”I” Speak to “Myself”
*Self-Talk and Falling Asleep
*Self-Talk about Money
*Self-Talk that Intensifies or Minimizes Anger

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Create Your Art Career: Practical Tools, Visualizations, and Self-Assessment Exercises for Empowerment and Success

The ultimate self-help book for visual artists who want to create and sustain a successful career.

Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success.   This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.