By Amy Chillag — 2017
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This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.
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The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation. The focusing technique consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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Whether your anger is a big problem or it just leads to the occasional issue, there are likely things you can do to manage your anger better. On this Friday Fix, I share how to get better at calming yourself down and managing those angry feelings in a healthy way.
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Do you believe that what you see influences how you feel? Actually, the opposite is true: What you feel—your “affect”—influences what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
Goldmining the Shadows is Pixie Lighthorse’s fifth book, and companion to Boundaries & Protection. We all experience hurts, especially early in our lives, that cause us to adapt for protection and emotional survival: that create our unconscious “shadows.
In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in.
Accepting ourselves requires less work, less achieving and less doing than one might think. The path to greater happiness, greater contentment, and greater self-love is the basis for Catherine A. Wood’s debut book, Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy.
Mega-viral poet and activist Yung Pueblo gives an inspiring “Tam Talk.”