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AK Press
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English
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"Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us...
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English
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"A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's voice? If so, then you've experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your body. Yet while we accept that stress or anxiety can damage...
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Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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There's more to meditation than just rhythmically chanting "Om" in a seated position - inner calm can be achieved through the simplest of actions, such as mindfully drinking a cup of tea. This guide shows you how to harness the power of meditation in your daily life with a variety of meditation techniques that you can learn and carry out in just a few minutes. From breathing exercises that can help you quickly calm down in a stressful situation to...
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St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"We all know the moon. We all have a relationship with it. The earliest people obeyed her orbit, timed their months and holidays and celebrations and agriculture to the moon; the echoes of that system are still visible today, though the connection to the moon is often forgotten. Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is the leader of a movement to remind us of that lineage, guiding our rhythms and our sleep, our energy and our emotions, reminding us of our humanity...
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Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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"Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. In...
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Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher explores the ways many of us inherit a broken and unhealthy understanding of the body and offers a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life"--
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In this book, Oliver explains how energetic blocks lodge themselves in your system as negative beliefs, emotions, and sometimes even physical conditions. Traumas, ancestral roots, or environmental factors create feelings of fear, guilt, anger, betrayal, uselessness, hurt, and inadequacy that can flow through you like dangerous, free radicals. These create walls in your energetic field, which can cause physical disease, relationship issues, feeling...
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Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Chakras es el resultado de más de treinta años de investigación y práctica terapéutica con los que Marián De Llaca y Maldonado sostiene que este conocimiento no es exclusivo de India, sino un camino de sabiduría compartido por diversas culturas. Por eso, cada capítulo está aderezado con simbología mexicana prehispánica, con la intención de ampliar la visión del lector y transportarlo al mágico mundo de sus ancestros. El libro incluye...
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Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The Way of Miracles is an adventure for the mind and spirit that begins with the premise that miracles don't randomly happen-we create them! According to Mark Mincolla, PhD, developing our superconscious mind and recognizing the divine source that exists within each of us is what generates miracles. A holistic physician for more than three decades, Mark used his own techniques and learnings to cure himself of a life-threatening illness. In The Way...
10) How to heal yourself when no one else can: a total self-healing approach for mind, body, and spirit
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Llewellyn Worldwide
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A guide to self-healing outlines such techniques as subconscious release, chakra clearing, and energy therapy.
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Emergent strategy volume no. 4
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working...
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Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity. We are the midst of a new revolution. For over twenty-five years Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. have revolutionized medicine and how we understand our minds and our bodies--Chopra, the leading expert in the field of integrative medicine; Tanzi, the pioneering...
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Have you ever had the feeling your life just isn't working? That no matter how much you push and direct, or sit back and let go, the square peg you're holding just won't fit into the round hole that is your life? What if, instead, the roadblocks to transformation went away? What if you could simply wake up as your greatest self, living your greatest life? Can you imagine what that would look like--and more important, what it would feel like? In this...
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Urano
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Offers advice for dealing with certain types of chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and other conditions by paying attention to what the body is saying and using conventional medicine, wellness practices, and intuition to heal physically and emotionally.
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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This comprehensive guide is designed to help everyone whose days are filled with chronic pain{u2014}the kind of pain that truly is a disease unto itself. Where does chronic pain come from, and why doesn{u2019}t it go away? Dr. Steven H. Richeimer, an eminent voice in the field of pain management, answers these and other fundamental questions about chronic pain. Board certified in pain medicine, anesthesiology, and psychiatry, he knows that the stress...
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Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Descubre el poder de los cristales y sus beneficios para el bienestar. Los cristales siempre han sido apreciados por su belleza. Sin embargo, hoy en día, cada vez son más quienes recurren a estas potentes fuentes de energía natural en busca de bienestar, calma, equilibrio y vibraciones positivas. ¿Sabías que los cristales pueden ayudarte a combatir el estrés y la ansiedad, además de otras muchas dolencias físicas y emocionales? Este manual...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A trained whole foods chef, food and body image coach, and certified Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) practitioner offers a step-by-step guide to using the simple yet powerful technique of Tapping to help you get off the diet rollercoaster, forgive yourself and your body, and truly heal your relationship with food so you can enjoy the nourishment that is your birthright. For many people who struggle with food, mindful eating alone is not the...
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Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From one of today's leading experts on the emerging science of the microbiome comes a ground-breaking book that offers, for the first time, evidence that the gut-microbiome plays a pivotal role in the health crises of the twenty-first century.
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