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You are only a few months away from living a more relaxed and healthy lifestyle. This basic 12-week program describes step-by-step techniques for slowing down your pulse and respiration, and increasing your circulation. You'll learn four components of effective meditation: breath counting, mantras, and yanta meditation.

Depression can be severe and debilitating, or it can be rather mild - of the variety that many people have, but never even bother to address. But what all depression has in common is that to some degree it takes the joy, the laughter, and the sweetness out of life. And sometimes depression can virtually destroy your whole quality of life. You may even know the root causes of your depression. But that doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to correct.

Being friends with some animals can be very dangerous, but Dave is the kind of person that actually knows what the animals are thinking and can magically relate to them. How many animal friends will Dave make? This story describes the love and friendships that a young boy enjoys with his animal friends. How being kind to each other makes love for animals and animals' love for human beings so much powerful and magical.

Rescuing a Broken America explains why Americans are so divided, how the destruction of liberty occurred, who is behind it, and how we can stop this destruction of our freedoms. Over the past 100 years, global forces have actively worked to change the worldview of Americans and create what they now call "global governance". Indoctrinated unknowingly, we have moved from a liberty and constitutionally focused worldview to that of government control of the individual. There is hope.

These three guided meditations take you deep into your energetic body where you purify and heal. Meditation and yoga teacher Alejandro Chaoul guides the three meditations, which are accompanied with a supplemental PDF to support the practice. In the first meditation, the energetic landscape of your body will be cleansed starting at the root chakra and ascending through the crown chakra. In the second meditation, you stimulate the subtle energy within the chakras to create vitality in the body and sharpen your awareness.

Connecting to your breath in meditation is a way to cultivate the garden of love and joy in our hearts. In Meditations to Renew and Thrive, long-time meditation teacher Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, guides you to connect at the deepest level with the positivity within your heart.

In this series, you will encounter various arguments for God’s existence. Dr. Garcia will begin by making a case for the existence of God, and considering whether the case actually supports the conclusion. A philosophical argument, appeals to various reasons. As in a court, we must first begin with a claim, we then argue our case and draw various reasons to support our position. In this current study, the claim is that God exists, and our arguments will seek to support this claim.

Ali Walker reveals that instead of seeking happiness in the future, we can focus on awareness in each moment, training ourselves to generate calming, positive, and uplifting thoughts and emotions. Drawing on her research and her work with clients, Get Conscious breaks down the four elements of self-awareness and provides strategies for mastering them. Included are case studies, rituals, exercises, and activities to help you tune into your inner wisdom and let self-awareness guide you to come alive.

The Crowning Philosophy of Investment offers a "New Paradigm," a modern way of thinking that can turn you into a super successful investor in any desired area. This work provides a guiding light as well as a modern road-map for successful investing, requiring the development of a correct beingness, as well as a proper knowledge base as the very first step, followed by timely execution of a prepared master plan, which would eventually lead to a fruitful basket of remarkable benefits and phenomenal profits. The world at large, whether financial, business, marital, or spiritual surrenders to you the moment you start thinking and acting like an investor with a giant slogan: Investing is the ultimate road to higher realms!

Most of us have a little drama in our romantic relationships - an argument here, a miscommunication there. No big deal. But when that drama consumes your relationship or when your relationship ends in dramatic fashion, you might be at risk for Post-Dramatic Relationship Syndrome! You won't read about this in psychology texts or in medical books, but Maholmes shows how PDRS can affect women of all ages and from all walks of life.

Life is like a bouncing ball - there are ups and there are downs! Give the gift of truth, inner knowledge, and wisdom to someone special in your life - sports enthusiasts, husbands, fathers, brothers, lovers, boyfriends! And don't forget the women in your life too! A necessary, enlightening, and practical book for all! The stories and interviews of famous athletes are covered in this publication with intimate conversations about their own lives!

In this introduction to the major Middle Eastern values and behavior patterns reflected in Jesus' life in the NT: the birth, ministry, suffering, death, and resurrection appearances of Jesus come to life. It refines the model proposed by the 1993 document "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church" for applying the Bible to daily life.

In two presentations, Dr. Riley addresses the grieving process and describes steps for grief recovery. The use of a loss-graph and relationship-graph foster healing of emotional hurts and other issues that remain from unfinished emotional grieving. Safe exercises for a person to work alone or with a grief partner are described. In these talks, Dr. Riley provides many helpful examples as well as an outline for personal use.

Well known author, priest, seminary educator, Rev. Donald Cozzens explains why everyone should speak the truth in love for the betterment of all. Clearly and concisely he shows the importance of the laity, religious and clergy at all levels to express their deepest beliefs and to listen carefully to those who might have a different set of convictions. The Church from his perspective is that it is the last

Negative Nine is intended to plant the seed of the negative numbers concept in the minds of children 0-10. Follow this "negative" negative number as he quests for his place on the great number line. Children will learn the basic concept of negative numbers along with valuable lessons in perseverance. Opposites abound as you pass zero into the realm of negatives, leaving the positive numbers behind. See if you can find them all!

Guilt is an almost inevitable part of the human experience, yet we are sometimes at a loss to know how to heal the guilt within us. Can we bear it gracefully? Can we release it? Can we avoid poisoning our relationships with guilt that we have not processed appropriately? Yes, we can, Sr. Carole tells us. But we must begin by accepting it and understanding its roots in our childhood, in our expectations of others and ourselves.

This audio reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education today. Standards and standardized tests, writing and student achievement, accountability systems, interventions for under-performing students, standards and the arts, motivation, leadership issues, plus many more topics are addressed in this handbook for educators.

Standards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

Three things make the difference in becoming a leader and being led - product quality, customer service, and productivity. While managers have made great strides in the first two factors, improving productivity remains a major challenge for many organizations. John H. Zenger, a leading authority on organizational change and high performance systems, discusses practical methods to help an organization shed its past, raise its standard for higher performance, and give employees specific tools required to excel in the workplace.

Fr. Donald Senior, cp, paints a picture of Mary as the premier disciple of Christ. He gives his listeners a deeper look into the life of Mary by focusing on the Gospel writer's individual, yet diverse, portraits of her within the historical biblical context. By studying the various Marian passages that are within the Gospels, along with parallel passages of Jesus, he weaves a multi-faceted approach to Mary, both in the New Testament and in the Christian life.