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- Book Review: The Tropical Spa: Asian Secrets of Health, Beauty and Relaxation - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review True to our understanding of the word spa, this is a lush, extravagant book that nourishes the spirit as well as the senses. Unlike the curative focus of European spas with technicians in white lab coats slathering chemical creams on aging faces, Asian spas offer sanctuaries ...
Views: 1211 - Book Review: Healing Mind, Healthy Woman: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Manage Stress and Take Control of Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Women are infected with negative self images and stereotypes which can wreak havoc on their ability to stay well and recover from illness. Dr. Domar discusses the connection between psychological suffering, physical illness and healing. Her book contains a section on general ...
Views: 733 - Book Review: Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Comfortable with Uncertainty reads like a perfect companion guide to the traditional 108-day Buddhist retreat. In a day-by-day format, author Pema Chödrön dives into the soothing wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism, reminding us that groundlessness is the only ground we have to stand ...
Views: 904 - Book Review: Learn to Relax : A Practical Guide to Easing Tension and Conquering Stress - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review While the idea that relaxation is a skill that needs to be learned may strike some as odd, the fact remains that with today's demanding schedules and hectic paces, most people don't dedicate the time necessary to maintain their own mental well-being. Daily we abuse our bodies ...
Views: 865 - Book Review: Yoga for Stress Relief: A Simple and Unique Three-Month Program for De-Stressing and Stress Prevention - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Filled with beautifully clear illustrations of asanas (stretching poses) and pranayamas (breathing exercises), Yoga for Stress Relief should prove effective enough to dissolve the tension out of your body, no matter how frazzled you may feel. Perfect for yoga novices, this ...
Views: 810 - Book Review: A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Sarah Ban Breathnach wanted to offer men the same reflective book that she offered women in Simple Abundance. Yet, she also knew that she needed a man to help her represent an authentic male experience, a book that mined beneath the "Men Are from Mars" stereotypes and "Iron ...
Views: 966 - Book Review: Mars and Venus in the Workplace: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting Results at Work - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Effective communication is a crucial life skill, and John Gray's Mars and Venus series has helped millions peacefully sort out emotional issues in their personal relationships. Now he turns his attention to the professional side of life with Mars and Venus in the Workplace. ...
Views: 1101 - Book Review: Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Concerned about the patterns of anxious behavior exhibited by your child? From simple, specific phobias to general anxiety, these problems can start early and cause tremendous stress for families. Your Anxious Child presents a thoroughly mapped-out program called COPE to deal ...
Views: 807 - Book Review: Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means you've got a progressively worsening addiction like any other, in which ...
Views: 1555 - Book Review: Stages of Meditation - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stages of Meditation is a commentary by the Dalai Lama on a rare text by ninth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Kamalashila, written in Tibet to correct some Chinese misinterpretations of Buddhism that were influential at the time. Kamalashila's short work is not widely known ...
Views: 832 - Book Review: Self-Nurture: Learning to Care for Yourself As Effectively As You Care for Everyone Else - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One of the greatest challenges women face is learning how to nurture themselves. The tendency, of course, is for women to put themselves last on the list--taking care of everyone and everything else before they tend to their own emotional, physical, or spiritual needs, ...
Views: 1620 - Book Review: The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Much more than merely a book about nothing, this is a concentrated guide to cultivating a sense of serenity. Simple living expert Sarah Ban Breathnach calls it a "charming prescription for harried hearts and overwrought minds" that's "filled with persuasive reminders that we ...
Views: 706 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos From T - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "While it's easy to allow little things to take over our lives, there are things we can do to make life around the house less stressful," writes Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chores ...
Views: 1074 - Book Review: Fight Your Fear and Win: Seven Skills for Performing Your Best Under Pressure--At Work, In Sports, On Stage - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Renowned performance coach Don Greene, Ph.D., leads readers on a strategic, goal-reaching mission in this compact, powerful, and often fascinating handbook. A former Airborne Ranger and Green Beret (among a long list of other impressive credentials), Greene believes fear is ...
Views: 1801 - Book Review: Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change--A Positive Psychology for the West - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Can you remember the childhood feeling of living happily moment to moment, without intrusive aims or fears? Psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott called it the state of "going on being." Bestselling author Mark Epstein sees a similarity with the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, of ...
Views: 793 - Book Review: The Woman's Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If the pace of your life or depths of your depression leave you lacking in body and soul, this book can help you feel whole again. Jennifer Louden encourages you to assemble and draw on personal rituals, journals and sanctuaries that can add comfort and breathing space to ...
Views: 626 - Book Review: Transforming Stress: The Heartmath Solution For Relieving Worry, Fatigue, And Tension - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This follow up to The HeartMath Solution and Transforming Anger reveals how becoming aware of the heart’s innate intelligence can dramatically reduce stress and tension. Based on over thirty years of research showing that it is possible to shift the heart into a "positive ...
Views: 1914 - Book Review: Worry - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem ...
Views: 688 - Book Review: Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Catherine Whitmire's book of contemporary and historic Quaker voices reads like an antidote to consumer-driven despair. We all know the spiritual downfall of compulsively acquiring material goods (or what Quakers refer to as "cumber"); how it leads to a frantic-paced ...
Views: 1234 - Book Review: Teachings on Love - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review For venerated Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, love is more than an emotion. Drawing on millennia of Buddhist wisdom and his own therapeutic methods, Teachings on Love further develops his practical notion of interbeing in terms of love. If all things are interrelated, ...
Views: 775 - Book Review: Unleashing the Ideavirus - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Treat a product or service like a human or computer virus, contends online promotion specialist Seth Godin, and it just might become one. In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin describes ways to set any viable commercial concept loose among those who are most likely to catch ...
Views: 713 - Book Review: Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Why do so many seemingly successful professionals hit the wall in middle age, and decide to either radically scale back their careers or set off in an entirely new direction? Clinical psychologist Steven Berglas, a specialist in success-induced burnout, believes it stems from ...
Views: 1328 - Book Review: The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Wouldn't it be nice to have a handy collection of highlights from the Dalai Lama's writings and teachings? Renuka Singh, a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, brings together a sampling of his words for each day of the year in The Path to Tranquility. In her selections you ...
Views: 1061 - Book Review: If Life Is a Game, These are the Rules - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Before Cherie Carter-Scott discovered her true calling as a writer of inspirational books, she worked as a teacher. As she reads, her experience and talents as an instructor are evident. She carefully outlines her rules and lessons, frequently slowing her cadence to verbally ...
Views: 842 - Book Review: Living The Seven Habits: Stories Of Courage And Inspiration - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of ...
Views: 1150 - Book Review: Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you're a woman over 40, you are undergoing physical and emotional changes, declining metabolism, fat deposits at your waistline, decreased energy, mood swings, food cravings--do we need to continue this list? Now pile on chronic, long-term stress (which the author terms ...
Views: 694 - Book Review: How to Meditate - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, ...
Views: 893 - Book Review: Emotional Alchemy : How the Mind Can Heal the Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And ...
Views: 891 - Book Review: Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performanc - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Where you start reading this book will probably say a lot about your current station in life. New parents will probably skip right to chapter 12 and the section subtitled "Tips for Exhausted Parents of Newborns, Infants, and Children." Drowsy office workers might go for ...
Views: 1179 - Book Review: Meditation as Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than nonmediators, according to a large body of studies. Meditation has been shown to improve sleep and reduce chronic pain. Not all meditation is equally effective, however. Dharma Singh ...
Views: 922 - Book Review: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in her introduction to Kitchen Table Wisdom. "It is the way wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worth remembering." Remen, a physician, therapist, ...
Views: 888 - Book Review: Contemplative Prayer - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This little gem of a book, newly issued with a foreword from the great Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (who knew Merton in the 1960s) beautifully distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation. Written close to the end of Merton's life, this book ...
Views: 789 - Book Review: The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Wouldn't it be nice to have a handy collection of highlights from the Dalai Lama's writings and teachings? Renuka Singh, a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, brings together a sampling of his words for each day of the year in The Path to Tranquility. In her selections you ...
Views: 758(3 votes) - Book Review: The GOOD BOOK: READING THE BIBLE WITH MIND AND HEART CASSETTE: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Biblical studies have historically been consigned to theological schools and church groups. In The Good Book, Peter Gomes, pastor of Harvard University's Memorial Church and a professor of theology, has written a vivid, common sense and wise analysis of what the Bible means ...
Views: 797 - Book Review: Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Clearly, one of the most complicated and devastating experiences of life, next to the death of a loved one, is the death of a relationship. Daphne Rose Kingma offers a process and a way of examining relationships that is not only healing and helpful through the process and ...
Views: 1226 - Book Review: There Is A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With his usual mix of enthusiasm, optimism, and anecdote, Dr. Wayne Dyer is back again to emphasize that we are in control of our life experiences. Quoting everything from the Bible to The Tao of Pooh, he returns continually to his central point: with truth and self-awareness, ...
Views: 863(4 votes) - Book Review: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Qigong (ch'i kung) is the modern incarnation of a Chinese energy art that goes back over 2,000 years. With superior scholarship and scientific acumen, The Way of Qigong covers the entire range of theory and practice, including relaxation, meditation, massage, therapeutic ...
Views: 1279 - Book Review: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the ...
Views: 765 - Book Review: Until Today!: Devotions For Spiritual Growth And Peace Of Mind - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This book of 365 daily devotionals supports the time-honored adage, "Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?" The charismatic spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant knows how easy it is to stay stuck in "old sentiments, resentments, beliefs, decisions, agreements, ...
Views: 822 - Book Review: The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Janet Luhrs provides a thoughtful and practical guide to simplifying our busy lives. Luhrs stresses that living simply is not about being frugal, living on a tight budget, or a modest income. Rather, living simply is being fully aware of what you're doing and why you're doing ...
Views: 934 - Book Review: Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When Sue Bender proudly announced to a friend that her first book, Plain and Simple had made it to the New York Times bestseller list, her friend immediately shot back, "But what number on the list are you?" Bender was shocked, realizing that nothing we accomplish seems like ...
Views: 1379 - Book Review: The Invitation - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One night, after an unsatisfying evening at a party, author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the start of The Invitation. By the light of her streetlight, she began, "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of ...
Views: 770 - Book Review: Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Over the last fifty years, life has become more complicated. Longer working hours, intensified by grueling commutes and more traffic, the increased cost of housing, food, and health care, rising credit card debt, and the combined responsibilities of work and childcare in ...
Views: 1593 - Book Review: Traveling Light Releasing The Burdens You Were Never Intended To Bear - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review From beloved award-winning author Max Lucado comes Traveling Light, refreshing words wrapped around the biblical passages of the 23rd Psalm to reenergize weary spiritual travelers. In his inimitable, pastoral voice that both soothes and exhorts, Lucado gently unpacks the ...
Views: 689 - Book Review: Creative Visualization: The Complete Book on Tape - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When it comes to creating the life you want, Shakti Gawain literally wrote the book. Now considered a classic, Creative Visualization teaches readers how to use their imaginations to manifest their deepest desires. In a straight-talking narrative, Gawain uses the first part to ...
Views: 786 - Book Review: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Are you an HSP? Are you easily overwhelmed by stimuli? Affected by other people's moods? Easily startled? Do you need to withdraw during busy times to a private, quiet place? Do you get nervous or shaky if someone is observing you or competing with you? HSP, shorthand for ...
Views: 1590 - Book Review: The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays ...
Views: 2203 - Book Review: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case, that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't ...
Views: 1696 - Book Review: My Utmost for His Highest - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily ...
Views: 1199 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is ...
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