Alternative Psychology

Mindfulness practice can help you reduce stress, improve performance, manage pain, and increase wellbeing. These are the reasons why elite athletes, performing artists and business leaders are taking up the practice, and why it is being introduced into the world's most successful companies, banks, business schools – even the US Army. David Michie introduces mindfulness practice and offers innovative solutions to common obstacles.

To really turn back the clock, you need to stimulate collagen production—an essential ingredient that helps your body prevent sagging, wrinkles, and loss of plumpness. And this audiobook is specifically written to help you stop aging in its tracks and make your body an efficient collagen-producing machine.

Do you want to meditate, but have given up because sitting still is uncomfortable or you have an overactive brain/ADHD? Look no further! Meditation can be an incredibly valuable practice that can increase your peace of mind, happiness, and even help you achieve your wildest dreams. It’s also one of the best, proven ways to help with symptoms of ADHD. But how can you possibly achieve a meditative state when your brain and body just seem to be fighting you the whole time?

A meditação te deixa mais produtivo porque você consegue aproveitar melhor o tempo. Para cada minuto de meditação, você vai ganhar cerca de nove minutos, como Chris Bailey—autor de O projeto da produtividade e Hiperfoco—mostra neste guia informativo e bem-humorado, que ensina como meditar para melhorar a produtividade.

Are you tired of being misunderstood, silenced, or expected to carry the world on your shoulders? Do you feel weighed down by anger, pain, or generational patterns you can’t seem to break? Shadow Work for Angry Black Women is the transformative guide you’ve been waiting for. Designed specifically for Black women, this book combines ancestral wisdom, self-care practices, and the powerful 369 Manifestation Method to help you reclaim your power, heal emotional wounds, and embrace your true self.

Author Corinne Zupko undertook her study of psychology out of necessity when debilitating anxiety threatened to derail her life. Seeking ways to do more than temporarily alleviate her symptoms, Corinne began to study A Course in Miracles (ACIM), mindfulness meditation, and the latest therapeutic approaches for treating anxiety. In From Anxiety to Love, she shares what she learned and gently guides you through the process, helping you undo anxiety-based thinking and fostering mindful shifts in your thoughts and actions.

In this compassionate and powerful healing guide, Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of the triumphant best sellers Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love & Healing, provides listeners with healthy ways to respond to life's adversities.

From the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind comes Daily Mediations for Calming Your Anxious Mind, a collection of more than 60 daily mindfulness-based guided meditations to help you engage with the present moment, manage stress and anxiety, and rediscover the joy in living. Each guided meditation contains an easy-to-learn visualization exercise, affirmation, or activity, with meditations grouped into four sections.

For the past 17 years, Dr. Stuart Eisendrath has piloted research into the therapeutic effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on people experiencing clinical depression. Since then, by helping people recognize that they don't have to change the content of their thoughts but can find relief simply by changing how they relate to their thoughts, Eisendrath has seen dramatic improvements in people's symptoms and quality of life nearly every day.

Dive into five hours of guided meditations that are all about boosting your focus, clearing up your mind, and helping you stay attentive for longer. Welcome to Peaceful Valley Institute. We're passionate about crafting meditation and hypnosis sessions that are designed to give your mind a little extra push, making you think more clearly and sharply.

This audiobook is nothing but the pure, beautiful sounds of rain. No thunder, no talking, and no surprises. Relax and close your eyes as you let the experience of Pure Rain Sounds wash over you and feel the stress melt away.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

If you are interested in learning the best ways possible to improve mental health then you need to listen to Exercise for the Brain: 70 Neurobic Exercises to Increase Mental Fitness Prevent Memory Loss. This audiobook is in a fashion that is easy to understand and the author himself has used quite a number of the techniques outlined in the text to his own benefit. As more and more people seek better ways to retain and improve their memory this audiobook is well timed.

Why sometimes do even the smallest events send us into a downward spiral? Whether we're aware of it or not, our feelings and outlook are constantly shaped by learned patterns, or habitual modes of being. These have the power to dictate our sense of wellbeing and our very perceptions of our lives and the world around us. These modes - distinct orchestrations of how we think and feel, how we act and interact - can open us up to delight and wisdom or preoccupy us with fear and despair, driving and distorting our experiences like invisible puppeteers of the mind.

I constantly fought everything going on in my life with my mind. Day to day stressors like traffic, the mean lady at the gas station with the bad breath that I had to see every morning, and the long hours put in at work were enough to drain me. My boss, with his long nose hair, breathing down my neck about my productivity level was enough to deplete a person every day. I could not even enjoy a second of my day because I was lost in worry and stress over what was going to happen next and what I could do to control it.

By the end of this book, you should have the necessary mental tools for becoming assertive, rather than aggressive, and calm when necessary. If you’re tired of being controlled by this unpredictable emotion, take matters into your own hands and listen to this useful guide.

DO NOT DESPAIR. You are not alone in your plight to lose weight. It is truly one of the most difficult things to accomplish. But these stories, written by a certified nutrition counsellor, personal trainer, and lifestyle coach, will help you figure out what is holding you back. Learn to examine your actions, despite your best intentions.

This book was written as a co-production of a special child and his father. It is based on extensive research on ADHD and its variations. A novel methodological non-drug-based treatment successfully implemented on the author's son is presented here in conjunction with global education related issues. "It is important to perform the diagnosis as early as possible, when irregular behavior is observed either by the parents or by the education system." "Food has a significant effect on the level of attention disorder. Therefore, it is vital to monitor your child's diet." "Parents should learn ...

Dr. Lisa M. Shulman, a neurologist, describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science behind the mind-altering experience of grief. Part memoir, part creative nonfiction, part account of scientific discovery, this moving book combines Shulman's perspectives as an expert in brain science and a keen observer of behavior with her experience as a clinician, a caregiver, and a widow.

What if the key to personal transformation isn’t hidden in a temple or a therapist’s office—but in two revolutionary systems of thought that have been waiting patiently for you to notice them? The Spiritual Human is two books in one, combining the practical fire of The Fourth Way: A Beginner’s Guide with the visionary depth of Anthroposophy for Beginners. Together, they form a complete guide to becoming what you were meant to be: conscious, balanced, and whole. This is not light reading for lazy minds. It’s a map for seekers who are serious about waking up. Learn why Gurdjieff ...