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The way children cope with the small things in life builds a foundation for dealing with the bigger problems later on. In ‘Everyday Resilience’, you can learn how to help kids deal with increasing challenges of friendship issues, academic pressure and self-doubt. With rising mental health issues amongst children and young people, it has never been more important to nurture resilience. acked with every day scenarios and practical steps, ‘Everyday Resilience’ provides every parent with tools to nurture strength in young lives.

Supporting a young person who is self-harming feels like a minefield. Why are they doing it? And why can’t they just stop? Self-harm goes against every innate instinct of self-protection and survival, and remains a distressing and difficult issue for parents and carers. Uncovering the wide and varied reasons and ways young people self-harm, this book offers fresh insights into how to prevent, understand and respond to self-harm. Michelle Mitchell provides parents and carers with the practical help and comfort they need.

Determined to find out what happens when we die, Josh Langley takes listeners on an extraordinary journey to uncover the secrets to the age-old question pondered by all of humanity. Visiting crematoriums, conducting out-of-body experiments and entering conversations with the deceased, you’re invited on this daring and intriguing afterlife investigation for a humorous and compelling ride. Following Langley’s lifelong obsession with the afterlife, his surprising and thought-provoking conclusions will leave you spiralling long after the last word.

Body Scan Relaxation is an essential technique to master for anyone wishing to learn relaxation, meditation, or simply to take a mental vacation from everyday worries. This audiobook is designed for efficiency, making use of proven techniques to help you achieve relaxation in a quick and easy way. Use the body scan relaxation whenever you need to get a mental break from everyday worries, or if you wish to achieve relaxation faster.

Pain can take a cruel toll on everyday life, be it chronic back pain, headaches, pain linked to fibromyalgy or arthritis, or acute pain from injury or disease. This series of exercises is designed to help you cope with pain in adequation with medical treatment if available, by providing you with proven techniques for pain management through relaxation. One exercise focuses specially on headache relief; other techniques of visualization will help you get rid of pain-increasing tension and gain better control of your pain response for relief.

One in five people live with chronic pain and most feel misunderstood and unsupported. Dr Dawn Macintyre was one of those people. In "Living with Chronic Pain", she shares her journey from a full life to one characterised by pain and shame – and back again- as she reclaims her thriving self. Interwoven with insight into the emotions and challenges faced, as well as practical advice for changes and support to help sufferers, Dawn provides her perspective as both a sufferer of chronic pain, and a health practitioner.

"Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics" is a work by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal "Imago" (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion.

Sleep problem is the number one problem for a growing number of men and women in our country. American worker productivity is high and continues to rise. According to a cross-national study released earlier this year by the International Labor Organization, American workers are the most productive in the world. This very high productivity at work could have some consequences like sleep problems, stress and anxiety related disorders, phobias, depression symptoms, burnout, difficulties to lose or gain weight, migraines and recurring headaches, addictions, digestives problems, chronic fatigue, stress related skin problems, and physical pain.

"Psychopathology of Everyday Life" is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration, the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition.

Did you know that images of the mind shape how we think, feel and behave? The way we frame scenarios has the power to impact our attitude and actions. But what if we could consciously choose to cast things in a positive light? Equipping you with the tools you need to harness the power of mental imagery, "Imagine" will help you achieve your goals and reach your full potential. With Dr Lydia Ievleva’s extensive experience incorporating mental imagery with a wide range of athletes, business and health professionals, her tried and tested advice will allow you to take back control.

"Das weibliche Gehirn" ist ein Buch, das sich mit der neuesten Forschung auf dem Gebiet des weiblichen Gehirns beschäftigt. Ein komplexes, aber äußerst interessantes Thema! Das Werk ist eine Pflichtlektüre für alle Frauen (und Männer übrigens auch), die mehr über das Verhalten, den Hormonbalance und das Überdenken von Frauen erfahren wollen.

"Das männliche Gehirn" ist ein Buch, das sich mit der neuesten Forschung auf dem Gebiet des männlichen Gehirns beschäftigt. Mit einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz erforscht Louann Brizendine, wie sich das männliche Gehirn vom weiblichen unterscheidet und warum Männer, generell gesehen, abenteuerlustiger und wettbewerbsfähiger sind als Frauen. Eine Pflichtlektüre für alle Männer (und Frauen übrigens auch), die mehr über das stereotypische, männliche Verhalten erfahren wollen.

Lao Tsu, also known as Lao Tzu or Laozi, is an ancient Chinese philosopher and sage, and an absolutely central figure in Asiatic culture. He is known as the author of the "Tao Te Ching" or "Daodejing" and the founder of Taoism. In traditional China, Taoism is a way of living in harmony with the Tao, "way", "path", or "principle", something that is both the source of, and the force behind, everything that exists. Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements, because his style is designed to elicit critical thinking through ambiguousness.

Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain).

"How to Meditate for Beginners" contains some practical exercises to achieve perfects moments of meditation: 20 practical tips for quieting the mind, meditation practices with walking meditation, chakra meditation, preparation for great guided meditation, mantra meditation, an exercise to concentrate on a simple visual object, practice visualization exercise, practice mindfulness, some exercises to practice a body scan, five more things to know for meditation, ten tips for meditation, a step-by-step guideline for successful meditation, exercises for breathing and relaxing, and a practical exercise for visualization of the pyramid of colors.

Half lecture, half commentary: explore the concept of the self and the Supreme Being. In a simple form, understand the beauty of raja yoga meditation, and how spiritual awareness is necessary to link the self and God. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an international organisation working at all levels of society for positive change. Established in 1937, it now carries out a wide range of educational programmes for the development of human and spiritual values.

Use these relaxation exercises to get all the benefits of a whole night of healthy sleep. They will teach you all the best techniques to efficiently calm your mind and quickly fall into a state of deep relaxation. Listen to these exercises whenever you feel you will need help to fall asleep, or as part as a nightly practice to overcome sleep pattern problems.

"Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement" is the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency. "Within Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement" Hilton addresses the factors in achieving success by utilizing the powers each of us has within us.

Philipp Ruland hat ein bewegtes Leben hinter sich: Als Kind und Jugendlicher erlebte er Gewalt, Missbrauch und ein transgenerationales Trauma. Erst als er seine Ängste nicht mehr mit Alkohol unterdrücken kann, beginnt er eine Therapie. In jahrelanger Arbeit lernt er, mit seinen Traumata umzugehen, sie zu heilen und wird nach seiner Tätigkeit als Rechtsanwalt, selbst Psychotherapeut. Mittlerweile schöpft er aus seinen eigenen Erfahrungen, um seinen Patient:innen Mut zur Heilung zu geben.

Eine mitreißende Erzählung über die Reise zum eigenen Ich Leonie Maßmann berichtet über ihre abenteuerliche Weltreise auf einem kleinen Segelboot. Und davon, was es heißt, seinen Traum zu leben – mit allen Höhen und Tiefen.