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Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

The founder and CEO of Onnit, the mega lifestyle brand and one of the fastest growing companies in the country, teaches us how one single day of positive choices leads to a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and spirit.

Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus’s personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can we get the most out of our body and mind on a daily basis?

Marcus answers that question in Own the Day, Own Your Life, an empowering audio handbook that guides listeners to optimize every moment of the day, from waking in the morning, through work and play, until bedtime each night. With small, actionable changes implemented throughout the course of one day, we can feel better, perform more efficiently, and live happier. And these daily habits turn into weekly routines, ultimately becoming part of lifelong healthy choices.

From workouts and diet to inbox triage, mindfulness, shower temperature, and sex, this ground-breaking manual provides simple strategies for each element of your day. Drawing from the latest studies and traditional practices from around the world, Own the Day, Own Your Life delivers an optimization philosophy, including cutting-edge life-hacking tips, nutritional expertise, brain upgrades, and fitness regiments.

Own the Day, Own Your Life is a must-have “choose-your-own-adventure” guide for the everyman and everywoman – packed with pragmatic and effective strategies that empower you to enjoy your life, take charge of your health, and own the day.

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Learner-Centered Classroom Practices and Assessments: Maximizing Student Motivation, Learning, and Achievement

Using core principles of educational psychology, this teacher-friendly guide features instructional strategies, assessment tools, and interactive training exercises that support student growth, development, and achievement.

Product Features

  • Interactive training exercises.
  • Self-assessments and reflection tools.
  • Real-life success stories and models.
  • Extensive reproducibles and illustrations.
  • A comprehensive glossary and research resources.Appropriate for preservice and inservice use, Learner-Centered
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The Fear and Anxiety Solution: Guided Practices for Healing and Empowerment with Your Subconscious Mind

Transform Your Fear and Anxiety into Catalysts for Wholeness

We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for a growing number of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily to get the best of us? According to Dr. Friedemann Schaub, the answer lies in the subconscious mind-the source of these most challenging emotions and the key to the wisdom they offer.

The Fear and Anxiety Solution presents Dr. Schaub’s breakthrough program for learning to understand, direct, and utilize the subconscious mind as our greatest ally on the path to health and wholeness. Through a wealth of insights and step-by-step guidance in more than a dozen practices, Dr. Schaub explains how to transform fear and anxiety into healing catalysts that lead to greater confidence, self-worth, and success as he illuminates:

How to address inner conflicts, stored emotions, and limiting beliefs-the three subconscious root causes of fear and anxiety.The Parts Reintegration Process, a powerful method for peace of mind, increased energy, and improved health.The Pattern Resolution process to release emotional baggage from your subconscious and cellular memory.How to replace your old anxiety-driven identity with a new foundation of self-reliance and empowerment at the cellular level.

At last, here are the tools to change faster and perform better in every aspect of your life with the power of conscious-subconscious collaboration.

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Neurosculpting for New Habits: Brain-Changing Practices to End Self-Defeating Behaviors and Create Healthy Ones

Tools for Harnessing Your Brain’s Innate Power to Learn New Habits
 
What is the number one factor for determining career success and personal fulfillment? The answer isn’t genius, willpower, or passion—it’s habit. “The human brain is a champion for forming habits,” teaches Lisa Wimberger. “Yet that essential quality can also get us stuck in self-sabotaging patterns.” With Neurosculpting for New Habits, this dynamic teacher brings you two sessions of scientific insights and highly effective practices for rewiring your brain to promote healthy, self-empowering behaviors, including:
 
• How the brain forms habits—and why it retains unhealthy ones
• The crucial role of managing stress when creating healthy habits
• Intention, focus, action, and repetition—four steps for mastering habits, with mindfulness-based meditations for each step
 
Advances in neuroscience have transformed our understanding of the way our brain acquires and reinforces habits. Lisa Wimberger’s Neurosculpting® uses proven techniques to consciously direct your brain’s natural processes for learning and changing. Join her to learn this powerful approach for breaking unwanted behaviors—and instilling the habits that serve you in creating the life you choose. 


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A Year of Living with more Compassion: 52 Quotes & Weekly Compassion Practices

In this book master teachers in the fields of compassion, mindfulness and psychology (Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joan Halifax and 33 others) give your their favorite compassion quote, explain the lesson, and provide a compassion practice for the week – 52 quotes, lessons & compassion practices in all. The book has nine sections – -Heart and Love, -Opening to Compassion, -Kindness, -Self-compassion, -Interconnectedness, -Compassion & the Body, -Important Aspects of Compassion, -Compassion-Hate & Difficult People, -Compassion for Difficult & Challenging Situations,

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A Year of Living Mindfully: 52 Quotes & Weekly Mindfulness Practices

In this book,30 renowned mindfulness teachers, including Jack Kornfield, Daniel Siegel, Tara Brach, Marsha Linehan, Rick Hanson, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Shauna Shapiro, Kristin Neff, and many others, picked their favorite quote, described the mindfulness lesson for that quote, and created a weekly mindfulness practice. All 52 quotes were independent of each other. They are organized into 8 sections. Each section builds upon the previous section, and the reader develops a good understanding of mindfulness in a fun, engaging, and creative way.

Here are a few of my personal favorite quotes:

Wherever you are that is the entry point. – Kabir, 15th century Indian Poet.

I am the cause of most of my suffering because of the habits of my mind. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at 8 years of age.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. – Pema Chodron.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi.

Each of these, and the other 48 quotes, are analyzed by one of our mindfulness teachers, you are given a mindfulness practice for the week, each week, for 52 weeks. These teachers bring you ways to develop a more mindful attitude, and a better way of being in life.

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Spiritual Makeover, Ten Practices for Falling in Love with Your Life

Just as yoga and meditation offer defined practices for exercising your body and mind, Spiritual Makeover offers a defined practice for exercising your spirit. The dust and grit of our everyday journey is frequently challenged with issues of livelihood, health, relationships, finances, and parenting. Our state of mind is kept in a constant state of fluctuation no matter how many vacations we take or material conveniences we acquire to lighten and balance the load. Workable solutions, however, always begin within our very own being. It is from our inner world that our outer world is impacted. We cannot make-over our outer world thinking it will bring inner resolution. Enduring change occurs first in the inner or spiritual facet of our existence and then demonstrates itself in our outer life. People the world over are attempting to understand how to attract what they want into their lives and experience more fulfillment. This book provides you the steps towards that end by offering spiritual and psychological know how for drawing out the deepest and the highest from within yourself. In language that’s easy to understand and through the author’s time-tested work with clients you are offered wonderful tools, deep spiritual wisdom and practical guidance to help you fall in love with your self and your life.

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The Fear and Anxiety Solution: Guided Practices for Healing and Empowerment with Your Subconscious Mind

Transform Your Fear and Anxiety into Catalysts for Wholeness

We all find ourselves in situations that stir up anxiety. And for a growing number of us, our fear and worry have reached debilitating levels. How can we stay balanced and live up to our potential when fear and anxiety seem so easily to get the best of us? According to Dr. Friedemann Schaub, the answer lies in the subconscious mind-the source of these most challenging emotions and the key to the wisdom they offer.

The Fear and Anxiety Solution presents Dr. Schaub’s breakthrough program for learning to understand, direct, and utilize the subconscious mind as our greatest ally on the path to health and wholeness. Through a wealth of insights and step-by-step guidance in more than a dozen practices, Dr. Schaub explains how to transform fear and anxiety into healing catalysts that lead to greater confidence, self-worth, and success as he illuminates:

How to address inner conflicts, stored emotions, and limiting beliefs-the three subconscious root causes of fear and anxiety The Parts Reintegration Process, a powerful method for peace of mind, increased energy, and improved health The Pattern Resolution process to release emotional baggage from your subconscious and cellular memory How to replace your old anxiety-driven identity with a new foundation of self-reliance and empowerment at the cellular level

At last, here are the tools to change faster and perform better in every aspect of your life with the power of conscious-subconscious collaboration.

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Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing: Traditional Japanese Practices for Your Energy and Vitality

Most people know the system of Reiki as a healing art for treating others, but few realize that this increasingly popular energy practice also focuses on meditations for self-healing and personal empowerment. With Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing, acclaimed author Bronwen Stiene (The Reiki Sourcebook, O Books, 2004) presents two CDs of guided instruction in traditional Japanese practices for your own health and vitality. Requiring no prior experience in the system, this program guides listeners through meditations for building the life energy of ki throughout the body¿s meridians, becoming more emotionally balanced, focusing healing through the hands to specific areas of the body, and opening a conduit to this divine source of energy, Reiki.