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For over 30 years, Stephen Levine has helped bring the gift of meditation to those most in need. Merciful Awareness: Natural Pain Management is a direct result of Levine's remarkable experience with the use of awareness techniques in hospices and care centers as a treatment for emotional and physical pain.

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.

When we experience an emotional crisis, memories of the event are channeled through unique brain pathways where they remain hidden yet profoundly affect our feelings and actions throughout life. In Clearing Your Past, award-winning author and therapist Lynne Finney shares recent discoveries about memory and trauma and her own experience healing childhood sexual abuse to teach a direct way to uncover and heal the painful memories from your past.

In Spiritual Gifts of a Painful Childhood, Wayne Muller - author of the national best seller Legacy of the Heart - helps listeners grasp the divine thread that connects sorrow and pain to an awakening of the spirit. This graduate of Harvard Divinity School has devoted almost 20 years to helping the homeless, the sick, and the impoverished.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras suggested that the human soul could be perfected through sublimely composed music. Today, this astonishing concept has come true in clinics and hospitals, where sound is used as medicine to treat the body and mind. On Healing with Great Music, you will explore the phenomenal effects of sound on human physiology.

Health first, then weight. This is part of the liberating new approach to managing our patterns of eating developed by integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Carolyn Ross. The Joy of Eating Well presents their revolutionary program for transforming your relationship with food and fostering harmony in the mind and spirit through greater self-awareness and body acceptance.

In Yoga Wave, one of modern yoga's world-renowned instructors invites you to turn your yoga practice into a communion with the fundamental cyclical principle that nourishes the evolution of all life. With progressions that combine the physical (solar) practices for strength and flexibility with the meditative (lunar) practices for balance and energy flow, she gives you all the tools you need to build and expand your home practice to enhance your vitality, fluidity, and creative energy.

Humor and Healing is Dr. Bernie Siegel's sparkling conversation about the healing power of love and laughter. From how positive thinking helps us lead longer and more productive lives to new findings about the healing power of laughter to miracles of spontaneous remission in terminally ill patients, you will find Humor and Healing to be a life-affirming house call from this respected surgeon and speaker.

Do you experience unaccountable fatigue? Would you like to have more energy for the things you love most? Western science is finally validating what doctors in Eastern medicine have known for centuries: that the human body's life essence, or vital energy, plays a critical role in our general health and well-being. In The Vital Energy Program, pioneering nutritional biochemist Dr. Susan Taylor introduces you to this potent force that can infuse and sustain every aspect of your physical, emotional, and spiritual being.

Would creating a work of art be easier for you if an inspiring spirit were here to guide you? To spark you with endless new ideas? And bless you with the divine energy that is at the heart of all creative endeavors? Here is a map to the joyful place where your partner in creativity resides. Designed for people who create for a living - or who want to - The Marry Your Muse Workshop is the first full-length curriculum devoted to uncovering the art spirit that makes every act of creation possible.

The 5,000-year-old science of kundalini maha yoga uses specific sound syllables known as mantras with the power to restore the flow of prana (vital energy) throughout your body and consciousness. According to the tradition, just listening to these sacred sounds once or more each day can lead to profound changes in your life.

Its sound is unmistakable: soothing, mysterious, primal. According to music therapist and recording artist Kimba Arem, the Australian Aborigines believe the didjeridu re-creates creation through its all-enveloping tone, insuring the cycles of life on earth will continue. With The Healing Didjeridu, Kimba Arem invites you to experience for yourself the remarkable gifts of this 40,000-year-old tool for wellness.

With more than 20 million practitioners in the United States alone, yoga is more popular than ever. For those interested in starting a practice of their own but hesitant about attending a class, Shiva Rea presents The Beginner's Guide to Yoga, the perfect introduction to hatha yoga. Complete with a 60-minute guided session with yoga basics and simple poses, here is an easily accessible how-to program from one of the world's most respected yoga teachers.

What is Yoga Trance Dance? Yoga and dance are two great rivers that lead us back into our bodies and rejuvenate us with prana, the vital energy of life. Yoga awakens the breath, fluidity of the spine, and inner power. Free-form trance dance cultivates natural movement, intuition, and creativity. Now, with Yoga Trance Dance you can experience the benefits of both these traditions in one energized workout.

Although millions of Americans consider themselves relatively prosperous, many are trapped in a poverty that crosses all boundaries of gender, race, age, and income. This poverty has nothing to do with money, teaches Rick Jarow - and everything to do with why you are here in the world. On The Yoga of Work, Dr. Jarow throws into focus a cultural irony that reaches into every office building and business in America: we have confused career with purpose, money with success, and where we work with where we belong.

On Mobilizing the Life Force, medical researcher and bestselling author Dr. Lawrence LeShan presents a powerful case for the mind's essential role in helping the body overcome cancer and other serious illnesses. Drawing from a lifetime of research that helped redefine our understanding of mind-body medicine, he shows how the mind can take direct psychological action in concert with medical treatment, to make the crucial difference in "jump-starting" a compromised immune system.

Spiritual personality. It’s something we all have - an affinity for certain wisdom traditions or inner practices - much like our inclinations toward the food we eat or the clothes we wear. But how do you know if you’re on the path that’s best for you?To answer this question, acclaimed author and teacher Jonathan Ellerby, PhD, presents Your Spiritual Personality.

Just as the body is designed to heal itself, so too are we wired for emotional well-being. Here, Andrew Weil will teach two powerful breathing exercises to help refocus both mind and body for calm and resilience. Also includes an introductory practice in mantra meditation, and exercises for fostering gratitude and forgiveness.

Each day we're exposed to toxins-through the foods we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we use. Even our thoughts and emotions, when negative or repressed, can be as unhealthy as poor diet or sedentary lifestyle. Internationally celebrated yogini Seane Corn has developed a unique program aimed specifically at identifying and removing the physical and emotional impurities that threaten our health and well-being.

How would you like to remember the names of every person you meet? To recall phone numbers and appointments more easily? And to keep those memory powers for a lifetime? With Improve Your Memory Now, this pioneering physician offers you an immersive audio training course designed to boost your memory power from the very first time you use it.