Feel like you're always rushing but never catching up? Are you doing more, but enjoying it less? The frantic pace and pressure of modern life can take a serious toll on your happiness and your health'but there is one way to step off the treadmill without giving up your career or your activities. The answer lies not in sacrificing your work productivity or your lifestyle but rather in changing your attitudes. By using simple exercises to slow down your mind and focus on the present moment, you can actually achieve greater productivity and creativity-all while maintaining a calmer, healthier state of mind.

"Slowing Down to the Speed of Life" helps you:

Slow down your life without downsizing your lifestyle

Enjoy the increased creativity and productivity that flow from inner calm

Free yourself from the stressful influence of other peoples' habits, attitudes, behaviors, and moods

Attain a sense of satisfaction with your life'and be happy! This book speaks right to the heart of the matter: how to get more satisfaction in life from less rushing around. Many people will change their lives dramatically by reading this great book."
--George Pransky, Ph.D., co-founder of Psychology of Mind and author of "The Renaissance of Psychology"

Between work, play, family, and friends, most of us feel like we're speeding along at 100 miles an hour. Our lives are full, yet we don't feel fulfilled. One solution is to slam on the brakes and adopt a radically simpler lifestyle. But, as psychologist Joe Bailey demonstrates in this essential guide, you don't have to give up everything to slow down your life. In over thirty-five captivating, instructive stories, Bailey shows just how easy it is to transform your way of thinking-and wave good-bye to aggravating bosses, rocky relationships, stress-induced illnesses, and other symptoms of life in the fast lane. You'll discover how to:

• Enjoy each moment and stop worrying about the past or the future

• Gain insight by trusting your instincts

• Increase your productivity and achieve success-without stress

• Disregard the negative emotions of people around you

• Attain a deep-rooted sense of fulfillment and inner contentment

Read this deep and insightful approach to observing children and their development and be refreshed At a time when educational labeling and "educationally difficult" children are made more and more uneasy in their behavior, this books makes a strong request that we develop a more accepting, less judgmental way to embrace children. The book serves as a guide to parents and teachers for dealing with children. It offers ways to "read" so called disorders tot he benefit of the child and those responsible for the child. Koehler challenges the current trend of diagnostics and labels, offering a spiritually deepened view of why a child behaves as she does. Every parent and teach will benefit from this book.