True Self

In 10% Happier, Dan Harris takes listeners on his journey to adopt meditation and practice mindfulness. The story begins with Harris chronicling a personal panic attack on national television while he was filling in as a News Reader for a colleague. According to the Nielsen ratings data, over five million saw his panic attack, which was the result of an extended period of what Harris calls "mindlessness", where he was focused on professional advancement and adventure.

The human being is a complex character, filled with so many emotions and feelings that are hard to describe. It is these emotions and feelings that make us different from each other. We each have our own personality based on what we can control and what we can't control. While certain individuals find it easy to control certain feelings and emotions, some individuals believe that they simply cannot. They just flow with what they feel in the spur of the moment and accept that this is just the way they were born.

Our modern scientific studies contend that we are all incorrigible seekers of bliss or joy. Our minds are wired to be happy. Yet most of us struggle most of the time to be and stay happy. What has gone wrong? According to the author, it is because most of us have not recognized the nature of our true self. We know and recognize our physical self, but it is our informational self that one needs to be familiar with. Knowing its true nature and acting accordingly is the key to achieve good emotional health.

One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unpleasant, often daily inner experiences (mind-body energies) and so we tend to push them away, ignore them, or become unwittingly overwhelmed by them. Yet how we meet and greet these difficult emotions has everything to do with our well-being, resilience, and ability to connect with ourselves and others. Instinctually, we fight against our uncomfortable emotions.

Alcoholism, procrastination, trust issues, egomania, inferiority, and attitude. We all experience these behaviors in life, but for John Zink, he brought them to a new level. Zink spent the first four decades of his life depending on his charismatic personality to get him through. But, at some point, charisma can only go so far before it begins to backfire. In his memoir, John Zink talks about the early trials of his life and how he was able to harness his true ambition to create a multimillion-dollar business and finally settle down into a successful and fulfilling home life.

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message.

Dr. John Chirban helps us assess the degree to which we are, or are not, connected to the True Self - and shows us how we can reconnect. From everyday men and women to notable Americans, including Tom Brokaw, Ron Howard, Maya Angelou, and Sandra Day O'Connor, the stories featured in this book underscore Dr. Chirban's message of the costs of losing the True Self, as well as the rewards of opening the heart to oneself and others.

In her book Put Comfortable Shoes in My Coffin, Jennifer McCloskey and her mother and writing partner Mary Rey Girardi share a treasure trove of small stories with huge heart. Jen has been a motivational speaker and trainer across the country since 1986, and she created this book as a reminder of the numerous heroes surrounding us.

Domestic violence is a real issue in our world that is not gender-specific (some men suffer as victims, too), nor is it something that is limited to a region. This is a worldwide problem. Sadly, not everyone who has become victims of domestic violence make it out alive. While many do get out, the question is, do they stay out?

Every activist started out as a kid‚ and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems‚ often in the middle of extraordinary circumstances. Martin Luther King, Jr., loved fashion and argued with his dad about whether or not dancing was a sin. Harvey Milk had a passion for listening to opera music in different languages. Dolores Huerta was once wrongly accused of plagiarizing in school.

Lost in a dark world of depression and regret,a young woman gives up hope in ever finding happiness. One lonely night in her bedroom, Tammy finally reaches "rock bottom". In a last ditch effort, she decides to pray to a God she never knew existed. The simple prayer launches her into a redemptive process that is chock-full of miraculous incidences and incredible circumstances...a spiritually charged journey you will never forget.

...all begins with thought! What can we accomplish with this faculty? Has it been superseded by intuition as a major human asset?

Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school and make mischief, with his best friend Tom, of course! A young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula - or as he called it, "a spider as big as a dragon." Toddler Zora Neale Hurston took her first steps when a wild hog entered her house and started chasing her!

The sales profession has been around roughly since the Stone Age. Archaeologists have traced hunters trading for the best flint weapons and tools. In Who Says A Fish Can’t Sell?, veteran salesman Jim Cornbleet shares what qualities shape a great salesperson through stories about memorable catches and the ones that got away.

Dr A. Jose Jones is one of the earliest African-Americans to become a certified diver. His exploits and those of the diving clubs he has founded in a previously segregated sport have received international media attention and many prestigious awards. Pathway to Ph.D. is an instructional memoir for those interested in the "how" of humble beginnings to international fame stories. Beginning with his family roots in Washington, D.C., Dr. Jones lays out a roadmap for using the pillars of education, sport, and, through it all, family to forge a successful career.

Almost everyone loves a true story because in being able to relate to a person's personal journey of pain and triumph, we find hope and possibility! In You Deserve It, you will find at least one, if not many personal connections to Marisa Bellami's story that will help you to be open to manifesting a big love in your own life. Marisa opens her heart and soul to you, in order to help you break out of the shackles in your mind that have held you back from having true love.

Earth Hates Me presents a look inside the mind of the modern teenager - from a modern teenager's perspective. Sixteen-year-old Ruby Karp addresses the issues facing every high schooler, from grades to peer pressure to Snapchat stories, and unpacks their complicated effects on the teen psyche.

One of the best mountaineers of our generation finally reveals the details of his many exciting extreme alpine ascents - ascents in which his only equipment is a pair of shoes and a small bag for holding chalk. Clinging to the crevasses in mountain walls, with muscles bulging as he makes his free ascent, Huber has become one of the world's most recognized and photographed extreme alpine climbers. Along with many other legendary ascents detailed here, he and his brother set a new record of 2 hours and 46 minutes on El Capitan, The Nose, Yosemite Park in the fall of 2007 - a climb that usually takes three days.

Every president started out as a kid! Forget the legends, tall tales, and historic achievements - before they were presidents, the future leaders of the United States had regular-kid problems just like you. John F. Kennedy hated his big brother. Lyndon Johnson pulled pranks in class. Barack Obama was bothered by bullies. And Bill Clinton was crazy clumsy (he once broke his leg jumping rope). Kid Presidents tells all of their stories and more in these hilarious biographies. History has never been this much fun!

When a shy girl named Sarah Sierra first joins an after-school program in her neighborhood, she never expects to travel back in time and discover the words of Miguel de Cervantes. But at Still Waters in a Storm, a teacher named Stephen and a group of kids have pushed together tables piled high with books so they can gather round to talk about and translate Cervantes’ classic, Don Quixote de La Mancha. They begin to reimagine Don Quixote as the story of a group of modern-day kids from immigrant families in Brooklyn.