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The structure of your brain changes constantly in a dynamic, unfolding process that you yourself can help direct to create the life you want. Neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson offers the "Steadying Your Mind" meditation to tap the full creative power of your attention and strengthen the neural circuitry that supports focus and clarity.Sounds True Practices are short downloadable audio sessions selected from our most popular courses.

God is real. Everything we say about God is made up. How to Be a Holy Rascal is a rousing guide for the spiritual adventurer ready to go beyond "isms" and ideologies and live in the world as a liberating force of compassion, joy, justice, and love.

The new science of embodiment tells us that “body sense,” or interoceptive awareness, is a crucial factor for our wellbeing across the span of our lives. In this eye-opening and wide-ranging book, body image expert Dr. Susan Sands unpacks the research to make a bold call to aging women to find safe harbor from the ravages of age right where they strike the deepest—in the body.

How can we learn to quiet the noise within and around us long enough to hear when our soul is offering us guidance? With Soul Shift Sessions, Rachel Macy Stafford teaches us how to heed and respond to these life-giving messages. In her first audio program, Rachel helps us recognize how, in our rush to adhere to overbooked schedules, check tasks off to-do lists, and be everything to everyone, we often depart from what really matters to us. Rachel offers her most inspiring teachings, then accompanies you as you move toward greater peace, purpose, and joy as your authentic self.

Dr. Lani Leary was among the first researchers to recognize the body's energy field and its healing potential. Her original edition of Healing Hands taught a generation of caregivers how to use their natural energy to support physical and spiritual wholeness. In this expanded audio edition, Dr. Leary explains the significance of the Human Energy Field and offers four meditations for identifying, gathering, and conveying the inner healing force you can use to help yourself and others.

Fears of aging and death can destroy one's love of life. Ram Dass provides an uplifting alternative attitude in this eye-opening learning session. Listen as the internationally acclaimed author and teacher probes both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, offering profound wisdom tempered with reality.

Get ready for a roller-coaster ride for your senses as Harriet Lerner, Mollie Katzen, and Susie Bright unleash their ideas about America's favorite taboos in Food, Sex, and Relationships. With combined book sales of over seven million copies, these three best-selling writers are at the height of their powers as they cast light in the shadowy corners of the human mind.

Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation reveals the revolutionary power of tonglen through a dialogue between two hearts and minds forged in very different cultures - and yet deeply joined in the simple practice of compassion.Take a front-row seat as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and American-born Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön reflect on anger, joy, fear, and the union of spirituality and social activism.

We know that hope is a powerful ally in challenging times - but can we consciously "practice" hope and learn to rely on it as a constant guide? In Navigating Hope, Caroline Myss helps us to turn life's difficulties into a voyage of transformation. With her trademark blend of down-to-earth practicality and inspired mysticism, she offers an "itinerary for the soul" to help us thrive of uncertainty and transition.

What if you could be happier, right now, without radically changing your life? As nationally recognized happiness expert Nataly Kogan teaches, happiness is not a nice feeling or a frivolous extra. It’s a critical, non-negotiable ingredient for living a fulfilling, meaningful, and healthy life - and it's a skill that we can all learn and improve through practice. In Happier Now, Nataly shares an illuminating, inspiring, and science-based guide to help you build your happier skills and live with more joy, starting now.

Friendships are precious. They’re vital. They matter. Yet today’s culture often sets us up for disconnection and isolation. In Modern Friendship, journalist Anna Goldfarb has created the definitive manual to help anyone with floundering friendships to form and sustain authentic connection with the most meaningful people in their lives.

Known and loved worldwide for his teachings on mindfulness and compassion, Thich Nhat Hanh was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr. In Peacemaking, this beloved Zen master returns to the theme that first brought him to the world's attention: peace and how to embody it.

Imagine standing in front of a room full of strangers - and feeling absolutely at ease with yourself and in command of what you have to say. Yes, you can end your fear of public speaking, teaches Lee Glickstein, and become a powerfully effective speaker at the same time. In Be Heard Now!, you won't learn any mechanical techniques or oratorical tricks. What you will learn is how to stop "performing" to audiences and how to start connecting with them.

Kelly McGonigal presents a breath-centered meditation for opening to and accepting positive change. Proceed with mindfulness and compassion, and you have just set in motion a revolutionary method for personal change that is supported by both the latest science and traditional wisdom. Sounds True Practices are short downloadable audio sessions selected from our most popular courses. Affordably priced and ideal for beginners, they're a powerful

The Healing Power of Love meditation directs your own luminous spirit of loving-kindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need. This guided meditation with Jack Kornfield helps awaken the "master healer" within you as you heal the injuries to heart and mind, allowing the body to follow. Sounds True Practices are short downloadable audio sessions selected from our most popular courses.

By all appearances, Zainab Salbi has had an impressive life. Growing up as the daughter of Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot, she eventually became a celebrated humanitarian and activist. Yet, as she was helping thousands of women in war-torn countries, Salbi’s personal life was coming to a crisis. In Freedom Is an Inside Job, Salbi explores her own riveting journey to wholeness - and how embarking on such a journey enables each of us to create the world we want to live in. After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if she wanted to confront and heal the shadows of the world, she needed to face her own shadows first.

The world throws a lot of obstacles in our path, especially for women. But often the toughest is the one that lives rent-free in our heads: the Inner Critic. With the Getting Damn Good at Life audio course, life coach Andrea Owen delivers her field-tested plan for taking back the energy that you’ve been spending on self-judgment, comparison, and internal shaming. “Here’s the secret: that Inner Critic? It’s supposed to be helping you,” reveals Owen. “But it’s been hijacked to keep you in a box that smothers your true self. Time to get it back on your side.”

The universe responds to our feelings. This idea is crucial in manifestation—but when we try to put it into practice, things fall flat and we feel stuck. We can become afraid of what our fear is manifesting or defeated when our feelings aren’t positive enough. If your emotions aren’t flowing and your manifestation practice just isn’t working, Sherianna Boyle has good news: you can achieve a loving mastery of your emotions that will help you create the life you want.

The expression of gratitude has profound and immediate effects on our physical, emotional, and spiritual well being. Our lives are transformed simply through the daily practice of taking note of our blessings. In Giving Thanks, best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant gently guides you into a state of remembrance itself through meditation and visualization exercises, awakening you to each of the gifts that surround you, but often go unnoticed.

For thousands of years, these questions - which span all major spiritual traditions - have served as beacons for spiritual seekers: Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? What is my gift to the family of the Earth? As he guides us through these questions, Muller weaves poetry with true stories of love, courage, grief, and transformation in order to show how beauty and wisdom come to us at unexpected times.