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Practical, proven steps show how to transform 40 common self-defeating behaviors, including procratination, envy, obsession, anger, self-pity, compulsion, neediness, guilt, rebellion, inaction, and more.
A practical guide to surviving and thriving in a world gone mad Do
you ever feel torn between finding refuge and staying informed and
engaged? Have you ever felt too stressed out to meditate? Too
anxious to roll out your yoga mat or pray? The truth is, when the
world gets chaotic and confounding, we need spiritual practice more
than ever. That's when our souls need sustenance. That's when we
need to recharge and ground ourselves to take on the challenge.
This concise, compassionate guide is filled with tools and
techniques for accessing the sanctuary within you. They'll give you
spiritual support at a moment's notice, in whatever time you have,
with whatever attention you can spare. Expert teacher Philip
Goldberg draws on authoritative texts and teachers from every
spiritual path, especially the empirical methods of the Yoga
tradition-as well as contemporary psychology and scientific
research. The result is a wide range of techniques to relieve the
mind and body, refresh the spirit, and gird us for constructive
action. You'll get insightful instruction in practices ranging from
deep meditation to cognitive reframing to "spiritual space
management," from silently communing with nature to actively
engaging with others. And you'll find detailed guidelines for
creating a spiritual routine-along with an inventory of
supplementary practices-that suits your needs and lifestyle. This
breezy, thorough, pragmatic book will help you find refuge and
healing from the crazy times we're living in-and it will prepare
you for taking robust steps to help restore sanity in the world
around you.
The essential guide to navigating the paradoxes of the spiritual
path, whether you have been on it for 30 days or 30 years. Full of
travel trips for those who think for themselves, this book helps
readers come to grips with their spiritual dilemmas and arrive at
fresh insights through the best kind of guidance -- that which
springs from their own self-awareness. Regardless of their chosen
paths, readers will discover their personal spiritual truths with
the aid of this guide.
Often called the definitive book on intuition, this groundbreaking
work explains what intuition is and how to make the most of this
natural gift. Making decisions and solving problems with purely
rational tools is inadequate in our complex world. Goldberg shows
how to complement reason with the extraordinary power of hunches
and gut feelings. By de-mystifying this vital subject, he brings it
into the realm of practical, everyday use. "An excellent job of
showing the central role intuition plays for great scientists and
imaginative thinkers."-"Peter Senge, Ph.D., Sloan School of
Management." "Remarkable insight and originality."-"American
Library Association"
This straightforward guide explains how Chemistry, Respect, Enjoyment, Acceptance, Trust, and Empathy are the pillars that support a strong, successful relationship-and how couples can repair those pillars, protect them against the long-term wear and tear of stress, boredom, and bickering, and build a lasting, satisfying love.
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now. The past lives on in everything we think, feel, say, and do. Medical studies show that adults who've had adverse or traumatic past experiences are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Now, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Bloomfield, bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, offers practical, scientifically proven techniques that can help you heal the wounds of the past; transform feelings of pain, shame, and blame into high self-worth; and reawaken to the magic and joy of being alive.
"In February 1968 the Beatles went to India for an extended stay
with their new guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It may have been the
most momentous spiritual retreat since Jesus spent those forty days
in the wilderness. "
With these words, Philip Goldberg begins his monumental work,
"American Veda," a fascinating look at India's remarkable impact on
Western culture. This eye-opening popular history shows how the
ancient philosophy of Vedanta and the mind-body methods of Yoga
have profoundly affected the worldview of millions of Americans and
radically altered the religious landscape.
What exploded in the 1960s actually began more than two hundred
years earlier, when the United States started importing knowledge
as well as tangy spices and colorful fabrics from Asia. The first
translations of Hindu texts found their way into the libraries of
John Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. From there the ideas spread to
Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and succeeding generations of
receptive Americans, who absorbed India's "science of
consciousness" and wove it into the fabric of their lives.
Charismatic teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa
Yogananda came west in waves, prompting leading intellectuals,
artists, and scientists such as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell,
Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, John Coltrane, Dean Ornish, and
Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, to adapt and disseminate what they
learned from them. The impact has been enormous, enlarging our
current understanding of the mind and body and dramatically
changing how we view ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
Goldberg paints a compelling picture of this remarkable
East-to-West transmission, showing how it accelerated through the
decades and eventually moved from the counterculture into our
laboratories, libraries, and living rooms. Now physicians and
therapists routinely recommend meditation, words like "karma "and
"mantra "are part of our everyday vocabulary, and Yoga studios are
as ubiquitous as Starbuckses. The insights of India's sages
permeate so much of what we think, believe, and do that they have
redefined the meaning of life for millions of Americans--and
continue to do so every day.
Rich in detail and expansive in scope, "American Veda" shows how we
have come to accept and live by the central teaching of Vedic
wisdom: "Truth is one, the wise call it by many names."
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