Risultati Editore "Sounds True" in Salute e benessere

With Transformed by Birth, unabridged and read by the author, Dr. Britta Bushnell has created the transformative, intelligent, and empowering pregnancy and childbirth guide you’ve been waiting for. This audiobook embraces birth as a rite of passage in which you open to the unbidden, embody your own wisdom, and gain freedom from limiting beliefs. Parents giving birth today do so within a society highly influenced by underlying ideals - including a need for control and certainty, vilification of pain, and reverence for intellectual knowledge and technology, among others. Dr. Bushnell brings clarity and awareness to these foundational ideals.

Since the beginning of the "natural health" revolution decades ago, Dr. Andrew Weil's groundbreaking books have helped millions to feel better, live longer, and avoid illness by integrating the best of modern medicine and natural healing practices. Now, with Taking Care of Yourself, this pioneering, Harvard-trained physician invites you to join him in a comprehensive, one-on-one audio learning course.

If the Buddha, Saint Teresa, or an enlightened shaman walked into the room today, would they find themselves in need of some serious spiritual catching up? The surprising answer, says Ken Wilber, is yes. Integral evolutionary thinkers today are seeing a burst of accelerating shifts in human consciousness: in our emotional and cognitive lines of intelligence, our creative and moral capacities, our sense of self, and more.

Dr. Lani Leary was among the first researchers to recognize the body's energy field and its healing potential. Her original edition of Healing Hands taught a generation of caregivers how to use their natural energy to support physical and spiritual wholeness. In this expanded audio edition, Dr. Leary explains the significance of the Human Energy Field and offers four meditations for identifying, gathering, and conveying the inner healing force you can use to help yourself and others.

A sensible approach to better emotional health, Constructive Living can help you live more effectively and see your life more clearly, no matter how you feel.

In the present, within the sacred emptiness, is the deathless state sought by spiritual masters and their students. Exploring Sacred Emptiness gives us a window to this condition without boundaries, through the words of Stephen Levine. With moving eloquence, he speaks about the letting go of suffering in order to experience unencumbered awareness: the essential "am-ness" of being. Levine's words allow us to experience his vision, to close the space that separates us from God.

Pain, loss, shame, sadness - suffering is an unavoidable part of being human. The practice of tonglen offers us a way to transform our relationship with suffering - our own and that which is all around us. In The Courage to Love the World, beloved teacher Pema Chödrön shares insightful and heartfelt stories about tonglen, along with direct instruction and guided practice.

In his day, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was celebrated as a child prodigy, a consummate pianist, and the composer who most defined the classical period in music. Now, over 200 years later, researchers are discovering another dimension of this legendary figure's life - the dimension of healer.

What if you could harness the energies of the universe to bring love into your life and nourish it for a lifetime? According to the sages of India, you can through the ancient art and science of sacred sound and chant. Mantras, teaches Thomas Ashley-Farrand, are specific sound intonations that directly affect our inner states and the people around us.

Is it possible to maintain a youthful flow of abundant vitality throughout our entire lives? Qi Gong masters such as Robert Peng know that we can - by using time-tested practices to amplify our physical, mental, and spiritual energy. Here, he introduces techniques for visualizing and directing the flow of subtle energy with this guided full-body energy-cleansing practice. Sounds True Practices are short downloadable audio sessions selected from our most popular courses.

In the words of the Buddha, the four foundations of mindfulness (the four sadhipatthanas) are " the direct path for the purification of beings, for the surmounting of sorrow and lamentation, for the disapperance of dukkha (suffering) and discontent, for the acquiring of the true method, for the rea;ization of Nibbahna." Within the quinitessential discourse called the Satipatthana Sutta, we find the Buddha's seminal teachings on the practice of meditation.

Join Shri Anandi Ma, a revered singer-saint and sound healer, as she chants specific mantras intended to help attract abundance in matters of personal relationship, material sustenance, creativity, and spiritual fulfillment.

Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we've disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level. With Knowing Your Shadow, this acclaimed psychotherapist and author shows us how to illuminate and wisely engage with the endarkened aspects of who we are. Join him to explore in depth the areas where shadow work can most benefit us.

History's first meditators were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality - and experience for yourself the enduring power of these ancient practices for healing, guidance, and awakening. Here, she leads a guided meditation - called a "journey" in the shamanic tradition - for finding your spirit teachers and power animals.

According to Dr. Caroline Myss, most people want the rewards of consciousness without doing the work of consciousness. But the truth is, without rigor and discipline, the full blessings of a spiritual life will never come. In this step-by-step audio program Myss will teach you to recognize, cultivate, and harness the massive spiritual power each of us is born with. Explore the prayers, reflections, and other teachings Myss has developed as part of her own spiritual practice. Through these daily disciplines - including 2 complete 40-minute meditations, one for morning and one for evening - anyone can learn to tap the wellsprings of love, faith, and trust that energize our spiritual potential.

As a child, did you ever sit under a favorite tree, immersed in the wonder of a single, precious leaf? As our days grow more complex, teaches Pema Chödrön, these vibrant and wholehearted moments may begin to elude even seasoned meditators. But it doesn't have to be that way. Buddhism’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness lead us on a journey back to the unabashed presence and delight of the “Child Mind” that lies within all of us.

We've been conditioned to repress our unwanted emotions, teaches Kim Eng. In "The Emotional Body," Kim leads us in a guided practice that helps us let go of our ideas about emotions and invites us to feel the natural flow of emotional energy, even as we contemplate the awareness in which all emotions arise and dissipate.

A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness - a practice sweeping the country with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm, and expand wisdom and creativity. Clinical psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach has been at the forefront of mindfulness-based therapy since its inception, and here offers a traditional loving-kindness meditation with a neurologically-based relaxation technique known as "smiling yoga".

Most of us will begin - and end - many relationships in our lives. Why is it so difficult to keep one love for a lifetime? Daphne Rose Kingma's The Breakup Bible is a landmark guide that shares a new view of why we fall in and out of love and why this painful process is not only natural but essential if we are to find true love.

Everything new that comes into our lives - every change that unfolds - emerges out of Shakti, the universal force of creation and transformation. Shakti Meditations provides an immediate way to experience the many gifts of this divine feminine power. Taught by expert meditation teacher Sally Kempton, these guided inner practices use India’s goddesses of yoga as gateways for discovering and inviting the many dimensions of Shakti.