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Within every person there is a longing that no amount of food, no career accomplishment, no possession can ever fill, for this is a longing of the spirit: the ever-present reminder that we are each blessed with a vast potential. On Appetites, bestselling author Geneen Roth looks beyond her 15...

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...

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...

A Mind-Body Pioneer Reveals How Your Mind Energizes the Healing Process 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...

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...

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? In his book The Memory Bible, Dr. Gary Small showed that memory loss is not an inevitable consequence of aging and that it is...

Take the Stress Out of Driving with Simple Mindfulness Meditation Practices On Road Sage, you take a seat next to meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein for the driver's education course you never heard in school: the essential techniques of mindfulness meditation, presented especially for anyone...

We are all born with a great dream for our lives, explains cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, a dream which may have been derailed along the way by family and career responsibilities, or submerged by our own choices. In the second half of life, after your roots have gone deeply into the...

When your life feels like one long list of things to do, your true priorities—your most authentic aspirations and dreams for your future—can get lost. On Take Time for Your Life, the inspiring author and life skills coach Cheryl Richardson helps you restore balance and sanity to your daily...

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds). Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturization required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think...

Tragedy happens to everyone. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, a painful divorce, or a serious injury, we must all face personal catastrophe—unavoidable moments that divides our lives into "before" and "after." These events take a heavy toll on everyone, but there are those who have...

In the fourth installment of this powerful audiobook series Working with Presence, Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge discuss how emotional intelligence is an integral part of the "learning organization," and what organizations need to do to continue to grow, learn and succeed. The ideas expressed...

#1 bestselling author Ian Smith, M.D. focuses on simple steps anyone can take to be happy. Happiness isn't the too-brief rush that comes from getting something you've wanted—it's the lasting great feeling that comes from becoming someone you want to be. And someone others want to be with, too...

Creativity is often considered an innate gift, not something that can be learned or optimized. In fact, there is an entire branch of science devoted to dissecting, understanding, and stimulating creativity. Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been...

Before journalist Chelsea Conaboy gave birth, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn, the endless dirty diapers, and the sleepless nights. What she didn’t expect was how different she would feel—a shift in self, as deep as it was disorienting. Something was changing: her brain. New parents undergo major brain changes, driven by hormones and the deluge of stimuli a baby provides. Conaboy delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood.

From a revered psychologist comes a groundbreaking, multilayered mind-body-spirit approach for alternate paths to empowerment and healing If you’ve ever experienced a pivotal life event that felt as though it broke you apart and left you struggling to recover, psychologist Laurel Parnell...

How to Access Your Body's Vast Reservoir of Wisdom and Creativity Every experience occurs first in the body—then our mind interprets, judges, and adds a story to what occurred. "By learning to tune into the energetic experience of our body," teaches Jonathan Foust, "we can access the awareness...

What’s keeping you from reaching your goals—is it time? Money? Support? According to Raphael Cushnir, it’s none of the above. The answer lies in your resistance to a specific set of emotions unique to your life experience. On The One Thing Holding You Back, this emerging voice in...

What would life be like if we lived without anxiety about our imperfections? Is it really possible to accept ourselves so fully? Tara Brach answers with an emphatic "yes" in The Wisdom of Self-Acceptance. Join this clinical psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher as she shows you how to...

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that...