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Using inspirational dialogue combined with music, each of the six meditations in the series serves as a remedy for a specific complaint. The meditations are designed to release negativity and eliminate stress. Used regularly, the meditations promote a positive attitude which will support a deeper sense of peace and well-being.

In Move Your Mind, acclaimed actor, entrepreneur and mental health advocate Nick Bracks delivers the practical tools and lessons that will help you make small but measurable daily changes to foster positive, lasting improvements to your mental health.

This audiobook chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life. Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern steel town, he went on to become one of the world's foremost heart surgeons. His drive for perfection in his profession took him to the world-renowned Harefield Hospital, the foremost heart surgery centre in Birmingham, Alabama and the newly-created Cardiothoracic Centre in Oxford. Then in 2019 in Wuhan he was the first Western doctor to learn about Covid-19 before the virus was identified.

Escape from tension and stress with these enjoyable and easy relaxation, deep breathing and meditation techniques. The first practice is a classic relaxation technique from the yoga tradition known as yoga nidra or psychic sleep. Gillian’s soothing voice guides into a healing semi-hypnotic state then rotates your awareness around your body, systematically letting go of tension. The second practice introduces a relaxing yoga breathing technique which helps to deepen your natural breathing and release stress.

Great advice on exercise and nutrition for a healthy lifestyle. Are you living a fairy tale? If you are really serious about getting the best body, the best nutrition and the best antiaging methods, once pudgy young woman, now bodysculpting champion Donna Aston will show you: why 95 percent of people who lose weight regain it and then some, how low-fat dieting is the greatest scam going, and why those empty processed carbohydrates go straight to the fat bins on your hips.

In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives.

No disease sparked as much dread in the 18th century as smallpox. The virus killed millions across the globe, carrying off one in every five victims and disfiguring survivors with tell-tale pitted scars. But one mysterious method offered hope: inoculation, the practice of piercing the skin to insert a drop of infected matter and induce a mild case of smallpox. Those inoculated safely were protected from the ‘Speckled Monster’ and stayed immune for life. Only one problem remained: convincing people to accept the treatment.

If you suffer from chronic headache or migraine, you know that headaches can rule your daily life as you try to avoid triggers, cope with pain, manage unexpected attacks and spend hours trying different cures and searching for an answer. You've had all the scans, taken all the tests, but still don't have a definitive answer as to why you are constantly dealing with frequent, severe headache pain. Without an answer, the medical profession often ends up treating the symptoms with the long-term use of medication, which can end up making your headaches worse.

In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines ‘madness’ in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries. We travel from the psychiatric institutions of modern India to scientific studies of the brain in Victorian England. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental therapies of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States.

Did you know that true power comes from within, harnessing strength from vulnerability? Informed by her personal journey with health and wellness, and drawing on her experiences as an actor, yoga teacher, personal trainer and health coach, Isabelle Cornish is on a mission to help inspire others to step into their power.

The information in this audiobook is real-life stuff that we can all relate to. Working one on one with clients for almost 20 years has given Donna Aston firsthand and extensive knowledge of the complex issues involved in dieting. Knowledge is an imperative part of the formula for successful fat loss. Losing It will teach you the difference between those who succeed and those who fail, helping you to identify the obstacles standing between you and the body you want.

A fun and simple way to disengage from the pressures of the outside world and find a place of peace internally. With the aid of color breathing and guided imagery, these meditations will enliven your spirit and inspire your heart. Each of the 12 individual color meditations will evoke a particular emotional response and can be used as a tool to transform sadness to joy, anger to peace, or fear to love.

Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in the brain. However, the gap between brain science and clinical practice is wide, and many clinicians find neuroscience to be tedious, overly technical and laborious to learn. Clinical psychologist and best-selling author Jennifer Sweeton details the eight main areas of the brain affected by mental illness, how brain changes show up in the therapy room as symptoms and behaviours and the types of therapies and psychotherapeutic techniques research has shown can heal the brain.

A candid and beautifully written wrinkles-and-all meditation on the middle years, with all their dilemmas and challenges.... In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a 50-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth and experience? The Middlepause offers hope and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, it delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife's challenges.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Two deeply supportive meditations from leading writer Stephanie Dowrick are combined here with the exceptional music of singer-composer Tony Backhouse. Working collaboratively, these two outstanding artists offer a unique ineer experienc of consolation, peace, joy and hope.The first meditation is an invitation to open to grace.

Forget the fad diets - this program integrates mindfulness, eating with intention and interval-based movement to help you live an inspired, healthier and longer life. In Think Eat Move Thrive, Dr. James Rouse and Dr. Debra Rouse offer a simple piece of advice that goes a long way: stop looking at your habits and body as obstacles and start looking within. By replacing quick fixes with mindfulness techniques and simple practices, you'll feel better immediately and find lifelong wellness.

A powerful, heartbreaking and informative search for answers, to what can be done to prevent those—often young men suffering from intense psychological pain—who have the strength to go against all survival instincts, and actually kill themselves. It examines relevant research, philosophy, literature, first-hand accounts by bereaved parents (including that of the author), and in-depth interviews.

While society as a whole is becoming increasingly conscious of mental health, and the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has made the issue ever more salient, the idea of asking for professional help has largely remained taboo. In this empathetic and practical guide, drawing on some of the latest studies in the field, psychotherapist Donna Maria Bottomley examines these anxieties and argues that therapy should be just as acceptable as going to the doctor for a check-up or booking your car into the garage, and needn’t be our last resort.

Through his work as a lifestyle-medicine practitioner, Dr Mark Rowe has come to see how the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of our wellbeing all impact on our health and our ability to stay well. Getting all these elements working in an interconnected, synergistic way forms the essence of vitality, or ‘the VitalityMark’ as Dr Rowe has come to define it. The Vitality Mark helps you to identify the gaps in your wellbeing and offers a programme to make sustainable improvements that will increase your vitality over time and put the bounce back in your step.