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With Somatic Descent, you are invited to tune in to the natural wisdom of your body, refine and amplify it, and explore it fully. In this program pioneering teacher Dr. Reggie Ray presents a fascinating audio program on this rich dimension of Tibetan Buddhism: how to go beyond the veil of the thinking mind to tap the wondrous yet wholly trustworthy domain of your body.

At their first meeting, a remarkable bond was sparked between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one of the world's most revered spiritual leaders, and the psychologist Paul Ekman, whose groundbreaking work helped to define the science of emotions. Now these two luminaries share their thinking about science and spirituality, the bonds between East and West, and the nature and quality of our emotional lives. In this unparalleled series of conversations, the Dalai Lama and Ekman prod and push toward answers to the central questions of emotional experience.

More than 2,000 years later, Plato's Republic remains astonishingly relevant to our everyday lives. It poses one question after another that might well have been drawn from the headlines and debates of our nation's recent history: What sort of person should rule the state? Are all citizens equal before the law? Should everyone have equal access to health care? Plato's greater inquiry, however, was into the question of defining justice itself and the reasons why a person would choose a life aligned with that virtue.

Jon Friedl from the Professor Slots blog and podcast show offers real-life winning strategies and tools to successfully achieve individualized gambling goals while avoiding common financial pitfalls. Learning to Win provides winning strategies and easy-to-use tools to successfully achieve individualized gambling goals. This audiobook is about winning at slot machine gambling. Further, strategic approaches are described and applied to each style so slots enthusiasts can win using their own individual slot machine gambling style.

In The Meditation Summit: Volume II, Sounds True publisher and founder Tami Simon speaks with 10 leading meditation teachers about their personal understanding of this practice - each with a complete guided meditation. Practitioners of all levels will benefit from the abundance of insight and guidance provided by these diverse voices.

For every professional woman who wants to get ahead, but feels she is at an impasse, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office comes to the rescue. In this program, Dr. Frankel, reveals the 101 self-sabotaging behaviors women learn as girls, behaviors and habits that are now holding them back in the workplace, such as couching statements as questions, tilting one's head when they speak, waiting to be noticed, and pinching company pennies.

We all have the capacity to raise children who are highly resilient and emotionally connected. However, many of us are unable to because we are blinded by modern misconceptions of parenting and our own inner limitations. In The Awakened Family, I show you how you can cultivate a relationship with your children so they can thrive; moreover, you can be transformed to a state of greater calm, compassion and wisdom as well.

When others look at you, what do they see? What would you like them to see? A confident, successful person brimming with ideas and energy? Or a fearful, passive person? Others see you as you see yourself. Your image of yourself is a reflection of your self-esteem, which defines your level of professional success and personal happiness.

In this life-changing live recording, the third in a series, led by Dr. Margaret Paul, you will join an exclusive, members only community of caring and supportive people who are working together and helping each other heal the cycle of shame and self-abandonment—and emerge as healthier and more joyful loving adults.

Reduced stress, improved concentration, lower blood pressure, and increased sexual pleasure are among the many benefits of meditating. So what's holding you back? Perhaps you don't see yourself signing up with a guru. Or twisting yourself into a lotus position while repeating a mantra. But what if meditating were as easy and pleasurable as eating a dish of ice cream? In this guide, Lorin Roche proves that mediation is that easy - and even more enjoyable. Roche explains everything you need to get started, including some mini-meditations that can be integrated into spare moment throughout the day and tips for developing a customized practice that will become as natural and vital to you as breathing.

As a psychologist and minister with more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Thema understands how challenging it can be to create and cultivate healthy relationships—and how critical it is for our well-being. Matters of the Heart draws on the wisdom of science, sacredness, and lived experience to help listeners tend to the garden of their hearts and build their best relational lives.

The world may be in crisis, but you don't have to be. People who bounce back from change and challenge are able to face reality head-on, find deeper meaning in life, and use whole-brain thinking to improvise novel solutions to life's problems. The two meditations here were created especially to help you cultivate the qualities of resilience that some people are born with, but most of us need to learn.

Using examples from literature, poetry, and spiritual texts, Michael Lipson, Ph.D, articulately describes how to turn one's life into an art form. By following Emerson's description of harmonious living, Lipson shows us through simple and thoughtful exercises how to achieve peace and realization of one's life's purpose.

In Divine Dialogue, Ron Roth crosses cultures, eras, and denominations as he takes you on a journey to the essence of prayer. He shows you how to embrace prayer as an empowering experience of the heart. He shares astonishing, profoundly moving stories of individuals whose bodies and souls were miraculously healed when they welcomed true prayer into their lives. And he teaches you how to open your whole life to its healing power.

John Gray, who celebrated gender difference in his groundbreaking work Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, turns to diet and exercise as a source of well-being and harmony. This practical audio guide addresses the unique needs of men and women to reveal how diet, exercise and communication skills combine to affect the production of healthy brain chemicals.

Educational accountability is here to stay. Comprehensive educational accountability, if designed and implemented effectively, can be the one initiative that helps schools create sustained and meaningful reform.

Jon Kabat-Zinn makes it clear that the essence of meditative practice lies in how one lives one's life from moment to moment, in all its aspects and relationships, and not merely in formal meditative practices. This program offers an experience of mindfulness that is entirely congruent with our lives in the 21st Century: It is effective, portable, and easily adopted - a perfect antidote to life in the fast lane.

A practical guide for those afflicted with the life draining condition of scrupulosity. The listener is guided through a self-evaluation that pinpoints when scrupulosity is dominating the person’s life. She gives spiritual exercises designed to help the person live in the moment, let go of past events, accept the forgiveness of God, and finally be forgiving to oneself.

This book uses the playful image of the Universe like a Cosmic Kitchen, just waiting to take and fulfill your orders by means of affirmations and visualizations. The eight principles for placing effective orders with the Cosmic Kitchen are applied to career, prosperity, relationships, health, traveling, and finding your perfect home. It explains how to use the Law of Attraction and why affirmations together with feelings are the most powerful combination for achieving your dreams.

Here's an approach that can make a genuine difference in the quality of your life and in the lives of those you love. Dr. Laura Schlessinger delivers a witty, wise, and workable moral philosophy based on the principle of personal responsibility. With a lively, pull-no-punches style, she takes on the moral dilemmas of our time, and demonstrates in no uncertain terms that personal values are always our own responsibility, and that choosing not to honor them actually compounds unhappiness. Finally, she explains that by disciplining self-indulgence and rising above temptation, we can discover the infinite pleasure, the true happiness, of the moral high ground.