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  Chakra
Meditation: Discover Energy, Creativity, Focus, Love,
Communication, Wisdom, and Spirit
by Swami Saradananda
Chakras are a series of seven energy centers running from the
base of the spine to the top of the head. Each one operates as a
hub for the vital energy that flows through the human body, and
is important to certain aspects of personal well-being, such as
remaining clam, sexual energy, and an open mind. This
comprehensive guide explains the seven major chakras in-depth,
as well as the often overlooked minor chakras associated with
them. Each beautifully illustrated chapter looks at different
kinds of meditation. Techniques covered include walking
meditations and techniques to help tune in to these centers:
emotion-based visualizations, a rose meditation, and even a
singing meditation and a Sufi whirling exercise.
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 The
Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life
and the World
I've been reading Lynn McTaggart's book, The Intention
Experiment (and wow, if you haven't taken in this
mind-blowing book that summarizes the available science to
date about how consciousness shapes reality, do so now!)
In a truly fascinating chapter on healing the past,
McTaggart talks about the idea that prayers and intentions
in the present can actually make a difference not just now
or in the future, but in the past as well.
McTaggart's findings came as no surprise to me, because
esoteric teachings and quantum physics both posit that Time
is only a construct of the mind. I've seen this idea work
with my clients time and time again as I've helped them
re-write the "scripts" of traumatic memories to produce real
healing in the present, not only for themselves, but often
for their ancestors and children too.
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  The
Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
by Jeffrey
M. Schwartz
Schwartz (A Return to Innocence),
a UCLA psychiatrist and expert on treating
patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),
teams up with Begley, a Wall Street Journal
science columnist, to explore the mind/brain
dichotomy and to discuss the science behind new
treatments being developed for a host of brain
dysfunctions. Building on the work presented in
Schwartz's first book, Brain Lock, the authors
begin by demonstrating that OCD patients are
capable of rechanneling compulsive urges into
more socially acceptable activities and that, by
doing so, they actually alter their brains'
neuronal circuitry. By presenting a wide array
of animal and human experiments, Schwartz and
Begley show that similar neuroplasticity is
possible in stroke victims, often leading to a
return of function previously thought impossible.
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  New
Psycho-Cybernetics
by Maxwell Maltz
With over 30 million copies sold since its original
publication in 1960, Psycho-Cybernetics has been used by
athletes, entrepreneurs, college students, and many
others, to achieve life-changing goals--from losing
weight to dramatically increasing their income--finding
that success is not only possible but remarkably simple.
Now updated to include present-day anecdotes and current
personalities, The New Psycho-Cybernetics remains true
to Dr. Maltz’s promise: “If you can remember, worry, or
tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics”
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 Meditation Secrets for
Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and
Inner Peace
By Camille Maurine,
Lorin Roche
"The field of meditation has been not just a
man's world but a monk's world," write Camille
Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D., who assert that
the techniques that worked for "reclusive and
celibate males" need updating for contemporary
women.
Meditation Secrets for Women presents 12
"secrets" in 12 chapters. Each secret is a
theme, such as "celebrate your senses," "claim
your inner authority," "ride your rhythms," or
"love your body." Each chapter starts with a
poem and includes explorations (questions for
you to ponder), skill circle (practical tips for
skill building), meditations, and reflections.
This is a nurturing book, filled with
acceptance, warmth, and encouragement. If you've
tried to meditate but found it too restrictive,
dull, or difficult, this book will give you a
different, distinctly womanly, approach.
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 Meditation: A Simple Eight
Point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals into
Daily Life
By Eknath Easwaran
This
handbook of meditation practice is a complete guide
to a unique approach to tapping inner resources by
training concentration on inspirational passages.
Meditation and the Eight-Point Program that
compliments and supports it can be used by anyone
who wanst sity of California, Berkeley, in 1960 on
the Fulbright exchange program and established the
Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Northern
California in 1961. His 1968 Berkeley class is
believed to be the first accredited course in
meditation at any Western university. His deep
personal experience and his love for his students
have made the ancient art of meditation accessible
to those who hold jobs and live active lives among
friends and family.
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 Strength in the Storm:
Creating Calm in Difficult Times
By Eknath Easwaran
Gone are the days when anxiety was an uncommon
affliction. Today, it’s a chronic, low-level
interference that affects everyone, sometimes
with devastating results. In Strength in the
Storm, one of the 20th century’s great
spiritual teachers addresses this issue. Drawing
on his observations of modern life and his
teachings, this compact book shows readers how
to make the small choices every day that help
them build better families, work environments,
and communities — transforming themselves in the
process. With gentle wisdom and humor, Easwaran
offers specifics on finding the calm center of
chaos. He urges readers to take their time,
showing how it is the mind, not external events,
that drive a sense of urgency and restlessness.
He stresses meditating on words that embody
one’s highest ideals, allowing them to take root
and bring about wonderful life changes.
Additional inspirational passages invite the
reader to achieve deeper healing and reflection.
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 The Mantram
Handbook
By Eknath
Easwaran
Every person has ways of dealing with
life's challenges, but these resources
are often locked beneath layers of
stress and anxiety. Focused repetition
of a mantram, or holy name, provides a
simple, effective way to regain one's
natural clarity, energy, confidence, and
control. The good news is that the
mantram's power to heal, calm, and
restore is available to anyone.
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Conquest
of Mind: Learning to Think in Freedom
By Eknath
Easwaran
Conquest of Mind is a beautifully poetic
book, but also very meaningful and
helpful. Like Freud, Eknath shows how
our lives are ruled by desires and
impulses. Unlike Freud, however, Eknath
offers us hope, and a method, for
escaping from them. His simple method
for retraining the mind through
meditation and thought control works for
anybody, no matter what your religion
is. I highly recommend this book to
anybody looking to better your life. His
methods of thought control can lead to
increased concentration and focus, or
even to transcendental living. Eknath's
writing style will keep you captivated,
and when used properly, his methods will
take you to a more fulfilling life.
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  God
Makes the Rivers to Flow: Sacred
Literature of the World
by Eknath Easwaran
Chosen for their
universal spiritual appeal, literary
merit, and recognized wisdom, these
selections are perfect subjects for
meditation and daily inspirational
reading. Drawing from Christian, Jewish,
Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native
American sacred literature, this
expanded third edition serves as a
useful reference and guide to world
mysticism. Included are Easwaran's
criteria for choosing personally
transformative passages, tips on
memorization, and suggestions for
further reading.
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The
Places that Scare You: A Guide to
Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala
Classics)
By Pema Chodron
Pema Chödrön may have more good
one-liners than a Groucho Marx
retrospective, but this nun's stingers
go straight to the heart: "The essence
of bravery is being without
self-deception"; "When we practice
generosity, we become intimate with our
grasping"; "Difficult people are the
greatest teachers." These are the
punctuations to specific teachings of
fearlessness. In The Places That
Scare You, Chödrön introduces a host
of the compassionate warriors' tools and
concepts for transforming anxieties and
negative emotions into positive living.
Rather than steeling ourselves against
hardship, she suggests we open ourselves
to vulnerability; from this comes the
loving kindness and compassion that are
the wellsprings of joy. How do we
achieve it? Through meditation,
mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and
several other practices, such as
tonglen, which is taking in the pain
and suffering of others while sending
out happiness to all--emphasis on the
all. Chödrön introduces each of
these practices in turn, backing them up
with succinct practical reasoning and a
framework of ideas that offers fresh
interpretations of familiar words like
strength, laziness, and
groundlessness. Chödrön is the type
of person you'd like to have with you in
an emergency, and to deal with the
extremes of daily life. In her absence,
The Places That Scare You will do
nicely.
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The
Miracle of Mindfulness
By Thich Nhat
Hanh
Miracle of Mindfulness is a sly
commentary on the Anapanasati Sutra,
the Sutra on Breath to Maintain
Mindfulness. "Sly" because it doesn't
read like a dry commentary at all. One
of Thich Nhat Hanh's most popular books,
Miracle of Mindfulness is about
how to take hold of your consciousness
and keep it alive to the present
reality, whether eating a tangerine,
playing with your children, or washing
the dishes. A world-renowned Zen master,
Nhat Hanh weaves practical instruction
with anecdotes and other stories to show
how the meditative mind can be achieved
at all times and how it can help us all
"reveal and heal." Nhat Hanh is a master
at helping us find a calm refuge within
ourselves and teaching us how to reach
out from there to the rest of the world.
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 Peace Is Every
Step: The Path of Mindfulness in
Everyday Life
By Thich Nhat
Hanh
"Next time you are caught in a traffic
jam . . . sit back and smile . . . a
smile of compassion and loving
kindness." While such sappy Zen advice
from a Buddhist monk, a Vietnamese
resident in France following his exile
in 1966, could send Western seekers of
enlightenment into overdrive,
fortunately most of the suggestions
offered in this slim guidebook are of
more substance. In a series of vignettes
and short passages, e.g., "Cooking Our
Potatoes," Nhat Hanh outlines techniques
for living mindfullly, that is, in the
present. Emphasizing that all things are
interconnected on personal and political
levels, he notes, for example, that the
wealth of one society is based on the
poverty of others. This book of
illuminating reminders bids us to
reorient the way we look at the world,
turning away from a goal-driven,
me-first modality toward a humanitarian
perspective.
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 The Long Road
Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking
Meditation
By Thich Nhat
Hanh
Tuck The Long Road Turns to Joy
in your pocket and turn your walk into a
joyful meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh
teaches "walking just for walking."
Learn to enjoy each step and each
breath, to regain peace in difficult
moments. Photographs of walking
meditation from around the world are
included.
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 Take
Your Time: How to Find Patience,
Peace & Meaning
by
Eknath Easwaran
What would it be like to never be
hurried? Could you drop the word
busy from your vocabulary? What if
your family, friends and colleagues
could experience you as attentive,
focused and sensitive. Eknath
Easwaran says "a life of artistic
beauty is within the reach of
everyone." Start 2007 using the
suggestions in this book and
discover the rewards of living
soulfully. ~MLS
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 Open
Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative
Dimension of the Gospel
by Thomas Keating
For those wanting to discover the
Christian, contemplative heritage,
look no further than Thomas
Keating. He is a founder of the
Centering Prayer movement and of
Contemplative Outreach. Thomas is a
Cestercian monk who is a modern
spiritual master dedicated to
introducing people to contemplative
prayer. He is also a world leader
in fostering understanding among
mystics of every religious
tradition. ~MLS
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  The
Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and
Science of Happiness
by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed
the limitless benefits of meditation.
But how does it work? And why? The
principles behind this ancient practice
have long eluded some of the best minds
in modern science. Until now.
In this groundbreaking work,
world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey
Mingyur Rinpoche invites us to join him
in unlocking the secrets behind the
practice of meditation. Working with
neuroscientists at the Waisman
Laboratory for Brain Imaging and
Behavior, Yongey Mingyur provides clear
insights into modern research indicating
that systematic training in meditation
can enhance activity in areas of the
brain associated with happiness and
compassion. He has also worked with
physicists across the country to develop
a fresh, scientifically based
interpretation of the Buddhist
understanding of the nature of reality.
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