Download or read book This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared written by Alan Lew and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “journey of spiritual transformation” (Publishers Weekly) award winning author Rabbi Alan Lew follows the practices and rituals of the Jewish High Holy Days and guides readers through heartbreak, contemplation, and re-birth. There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leaving us reeling and heartbroken, as we stumble back to our faith. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. This is a period of contemplation and repentance, comparable to Lent and Ramadan. Yet, for Rabbi Alan Lew, the real purpose of this annual passage is for us to experience brokenheartedness and open our heart to God. In This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, Lew has marked out a journey of seven distinct stages, one that draws on these rituals to awaken our soul and wholly transform us. Weaving together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, Jewish fables and stories from his own life, Lew lays bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. He reveals the path from terror to acceptance, confusion to clarity, doubt to belief, and from complacency to awe. In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, This Is Real And You Are Completely Unprepared enables believers of all faiths to reconnect to their faith with a passion and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year.

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Download or read book Mindful Leadership written by Christopher Johns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is liberating, and the development of leadership in health care organisations is vital. In this timely and exciting textbook, Christopher Johns addresses the most vital aspects of health care development and education, and reveals the tensions of becoming a leader within health care organizations. Being able to understand and work towards resolving these tensions is essential in becoming an effective leader. To be an effective leader, however, requires an awareness and acceptance of circumstances that is best termed 'mindfulness'. Equipped with the theoretical and practical-know-how to drive forward health reform and ensure quality, this book will enable health care students and practitioners to become reflective and genuinely mindful leaders.

Download or read book Wise Words written by Philip A. Grisolia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many books written solely to entertain their readers, Wise Words is virtually certain to enlighten, encourage, educate and enrich you while youre being entertained.

Download or read book The Art of You written by James McCrae and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Art of You offers great insights and steps on how to cultivate creativity. This is essential reading for anyone looking to share their unique experience, to foster deep connections, and to inspire others.” —Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author From conscious creativity leader James McCrae comes a guide to reclaim creativity as a sacred path to healing, awaken your sense of wonder, execute your craft, and reclaim the artist within. Creativity is not a rare skill to be accessed by a privileged few. It is your nature, a sacred practice that awakens your inner child and offers medicine to the soul. Sometimes we become disconnected from this inner magic, but The Art of You unlocks the secrets of the creative process. Whatever form your art takes—writing, painting, music, business, performance, marketing, technology, or social media content—this guide will help you actualize your unique higher purpose, turn your imagination into reality, and transform both yourself and the world around you. The Art of You is centered around “the yin and yang of creativity,” a signature framework for understanding and mastering the creative process. Inspired by the ancient practice of Taoism, yin and yang represent equal and opposite universal energies: stillness and action, the inner world and the outer world. Presented in an engaging visual style with word art, poems, memes, illustrations, and rituals, The Art of You is designed to help you find creative alignment, purpose, and flow. The first half is yin (creative BEING), which focuses on topics like cultivating intuition, the power of imagination, learning from creative guides, and transmuting emotion into inspiration. The second half is yang (creative DOING), which focuses on developing your craft, finding your unique style, launching projects, growing an audience, and practicing creativity for social impact. In a world of increasing uncertainty, creativity is more important than ever. “Art is alchemy,” James McCrae says. “It transmutes pain into beauty. When we create art, we open a tiny portal to the soul that brings light to a world of darkness. In doing so, we give others permission to do the same.” At its core, creativity isn’t only about making art. It’s about being an independent thinker. You don’t need tremendous talent; you just need the courage to question conventional wisdom and trust your creative nature. It’s time to share your vision with the world.

Download or read book Take Your Soul to Work written by Erica Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily meditations for business and nonprofit leaders focus on different qualities, emotions, and aspirations, from discipline and compassion to impermanence and callousness, sharing uplifting quotes and stories by business figures and artists of diverse faiths.

Download or read book Thinking Through Translation with Metaphors written by James St.Andre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking through Translation with Metaphors explores a wide range of metaphorical figures used to describe the translation process, from Aristotle to the present. Most practitioners and theorists of translation are familiar with a number of metaphors for translation, such as the metaphor of the bridge, following in another's footsteps, performing a musical score, changing clothes, or painting a portrait; yet relatively little attention has been paid to what these metaphorical models reveal about how we conceptualize translation. Drawing on insights from recent developments in metaphor theory, contributors to this volume reveal how central metaphorical language has been to translation studies at all periods of time and in various cultures. Metaphors have played a key role in shaping the way in which we understand translation, determining what facets of the translation process are deemed to be important and therefore merit study, and aiding in the training of successive generations of translators and theorists. While some of the papers focus mainly on past metaphorical representations, others discuss recent shifts in both metaphor and translation theory, while others still propose innovative metaphors in a bid to transform translation studies. The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of works centrally concerned with metaphors of translation.

Download or read book Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design written by Stephen Temple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in design education for beginning students to become self-actualized as skillful designers. With chapters written by beginning design instructors, Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design addresses issues that contribute to deficiencies in teaching creativity in contemporary beginning design programs. Where traditional pedagogies displace creative thinking by placing conceptual abstractions above direct experiential engagement, the approaches presented in this book set forth alternative pedagogies that mitigate student fears and misconceptions to reveal the potency of authentic encounters for initiating creative transformational development. These chapters challenge design pedagogy to address such issues as the spatial body, phenomenological thinking, making as process, direct material engagement and its temporal challenges, creative decision making and the wickedness of design, and the openness of the creative design problem. In doing so, this book sets out to give greater depth to first design experiences and more effectively enable the breadth and depth of the teacher–student relationship as a means of helping your students develop the capacity for long-term self-transformation.

Download or read book Client centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the Nineties written by Richard Balen and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This voluminous book of 47 chapters offers a good cross section of what is burgeoing in the field of client-centered and experiential psychotherapy on the threshold of the nineties. it does not represent a single vision but gives the floor to the various suborientations: classics Rogerians; client-centered therapists who favor some form of integration or even eclecticism; experiential psychotherapists for whom Gendlin's focusing approach is a precious way of working; client-centered therapists who look at the therapy process in terms of information-processing; existentially oriented therapists... Remarkable is that - for the first time in the history of client-centered/experiential psychotherapy - the European voice rings through forcefully: more than half of the contributions were written by authors from Western Europe.Several chapters contain reflections on the evolution--past, present, and future--of client-centered/experiential psychotherapy. The intensive research into the process, which had a central place in the initial phase of client-centered therapy, is given here ample attention, with several creative studies and proposals for renewal. In numerous contributions efforts are made to build and further develop a theroy of psychopathology, the client's process, the basic attitudes and task-oriented interventions of the therapist. The chapters dealing with clinical practice typically aim at the description of therapy with specific client populations and paricularly severely disturbed clients. And finally a few fields are introduced which are new or barely explored within the client-centered/experiential approach: working with dreams, health psychology, couple and family therapy.

Download or read book Psychotherapy and the Spiritual Dimension written by Alfred E. Marlowe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION presents a comprehensive view of the history and practices of the major spiritual traditions and their relationship with the modern psychotherapeutic schools. The book is designed to provide a solid grounding in both the spiritual and the psychotherapeutic traditions for the benefit of mental-health professionals and lay-persons alike. The author maintains that modern-day therapists may need to expand their notions of cure, arguing that conventional ideas of adjustment therapy may well be inadequate to meet the demands of twenty-first-century consciousness evolution.

Download or read book Complete Idiot s Guide to Understanding Buddhism written by Gary Gach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment has never been easier than with this updated guide to Buddhism.432 pp.

Download or read book The 10 Undisputed Laws of Fitness Success written by Kawan Karadaghi and published by Kawan Karadaghi. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can’t Get Fit. Ever looked at yourself in the mirror and told yourself you can’t get fit? Have you ever heard those four words from someone when you described your vision to them? Are you interested in learning how fitness can affect every other facet of your life? Are you willing to set and follow some fundamental rules that will lead you to success? This book actually explains how fitness works, what you need to do, and why there's such a gap in fit and mediocre physiques. Why are there some individuals who experience outstanding success while others fall short? Stand in the mirror and be proud of what you see. Reading this book and applying the principles can help you get there by helping you understand the science of fitness so you can learn the hidden principles that lead to positive changes in your life. Fitness fads, trends, and diets come and go, however, the laws in this book are unchanging. Failure in fitness happens when programs, trainers, and gurus try to break the laws of natural processes that result in coming up short. There are laws in nature and the universe, fitness is not any different. Observe the Laws. Apply the Principles. Break the Rules. Succeed. By the end of this comprehensive book, you will be able to: -Learn what it takes to succeed once and for all. -Improve Your Strengths and Weaknesses. -Master the Fundamentals of Fitness and Success. Who is Kawan Karadaghi? After ten thousand hours of training, getting ten personal training certifications, and becoming the owner of six gyms, Kawan Karadaghi, a master personal trainer and the author of this insightful book, came into an eye-opening realization. He understood that the same laws that people follow in a fitness journey, can also be applied in every other aspect of life - be it a professional matter, a personal life issue, or a self-development aspiration. Kawan Karadaghi’s book focuses on the accepted elements that exist naturally in every human and serve as the foundation to build your life. It explains how incorporating these fitness laws into your life can help you make the most of these characteristics and attain fulfillment in all life fields.

Download or read book In Tune with Miracles written by Kidest OM and published by Infinite-Life Teachings. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to develop and embody a miracle mindset. Whatever types of experiences you desire to attract into your life, you do so through the mindsets you bring to form in your own field of perception. Miracle mindedness and the ability to readily receive and experience miracles in your life is a function of your miracle mindset. Merging fields of study in consciousness, perception, various sciences, and metaphysics, In Tune with Miracles: Cultivating Miracle Consciousness offers you a perspective and practice on the accessibility of all that you would define as miraculous. The book rests on the primary premise that miracles are the norm and their apparent absence in your experience the exception. In Tune with Miracles: Cultivating Miracle Consciousness includes 44 attunements configured specifically to allow you to create the perceptual changes necessary to bring about your innate and natural capacity to live a life that is intricately and abundantly filled with miracles. In Tune with Miracles: Cultivating Miracle Consciousness is your practical guide to cultivating miracle mindedness and embodying the miracle mindset. Get your copy today. Dive into the living stream of information and energy offered in these pages to understand what structures of perception allow you to not only witness but participate in the frequent emergence of miracles in your personal reality. Miracles are the norm, and miracles are always here and available to be experienced.

Download or read book The World s Great Wisdom written by Roger Walsh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world’s great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World’s Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions’ understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world’s accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.

Download or read book Zen Bunnies written by Gautama Buddha and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of Buddhist wisdom from the great teachers . . . plus cute bunny photos. Join some cuddly bunnies for encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thích Nhất Hanh and the Buddha himself in Zen Bunnies. Don’t let the adorable bunnies fool you—they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom to share in the form of quotes and verses. These timeless verses will continue to be helpful and relevant to your life for years to come. Meditate along with these verses daily. Learn from the bountiful bunny to be true in body and mind. And let your inner Zen Bunny guide you to enlightenment.

Download or read book Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance written by Christina E. Newhill and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-century of psychotherapy research has shown that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success. This unique book provides a systematic framework for negotiating ruptures and strains in the therapeutic alliance and transforming them into therapeutic breakthroughs. Cutting-edge developments in psychoanalysis and other modalities are synthesized with original research and clinical wisdom gleaned from years of work in the field. The result is a practical and highly sophisticated guide that spells out clear principles of intervention while at the same time inspiring therapists toward greater creativity.

Download or read book Meditation For Dummies written by Stephan Bodian and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an inward journey for a happier, healthier, more productive life Meditation is a great way to reduce stress, increase energy, and enjoy better health. It is believed to result in a state of greater calmness and physical relaxation, and psychological balance. Plus, practicing meditation can change how you relate to the flow of emotions and thoughts in your everyday life. This fun and easy guide has long been a favorite with meditation newcomers . . . and now it's even better. Meditation For Dummies offers a newly recorded CD featuring more than 70 minutes of music and guided meditations that are keyed to topics in the book, from tuning in to your body, transforming suffering, and replacing negative patterns to grounding yourself, consulting the guru within, and finding a peaceful place. The book also discusses the latest research on the health benefits of meditation, along with new advice on how to get the most out of meditation in today's fast-paced world. Includes new information on the recent research on the causes of happiness and how meditation can improve mood Features a set of suggested meditations for becoming happier Examines new research on brain changes in people practicing meditation New, revised, and refreshed content throughout, including insight into the best meditation apps, electronic content, and websites Praised by Deepak Chopra as "a useful guidebook filled with clear instructions and helpful hints," this hands-on, friendly guide gives you everything you need to begin experiencing the many benefits of meditation. CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.