Download or read book Breath written by James Nestor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

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Download or read book Stop What s My Choice written by Chick Barnes and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how difficult life is or appears to be, as long as you have control of your mind, you can choose how to deal with your problems. This book will teach you an incredidly effective self-help process that will enable you to take control of your life so you can deal with most any stress related problem that comes along. This information is easy to understand, easy to learn and easy to remember. Once you read the book, the information will be there for you for the rest of your life.

Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book The Mind Illuminated written by Culadasa and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mind Illuminated is a comprehensive, accessible and - above all - effective book on meditation, providing a nuts-and-bolts stage-based system that helps all levels of meditators establish and deepen their practice. Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice manual builds on the nine-stage model of meditation originally articulated by the ancient Indian sage Asanga, crystallizing the entire meditative journey into 10 clearly-defined stages. The book also introduces a new and fascinating model of how the mind works, and uses illustrations and charts to help the reader work through each stage. This manual is an essential read for the beginner to the seasoned veteran of meditation.

Download or read book Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies written by Charles H. Elliott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover new medications for easing symptoms Fight anxiety and win the war against your worries! Think you worry too much? You're not alone - over 25 million Americans suffer from some form of anxiety. Help is here in this friendly guide, which offers sound advice on identifying anxiety triggers through taking self-tests, improving your eating habits, relaxing, and finding support for you and your loved ones. Praise for Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies "In Overcoming Anxiety For Dummies, Elliot and Smith have provided a timely and informitive description of the reasons why people become anxious and what they can do about it." - Steven D. Hollon, PhD. Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Download or read book Love Notes A Steamy Second Chance Emotional Rockstar Romance written by Savannah Kade and published by Griffyn Ink. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, one mistake, and TJ’s rock god days may be over forever. Wilder’s lead singer has made the cover of the tabloids again. Only this time it’s not for his crazy girlfriends or wild parties, it’s because of the horrific car accident that may leave him unable to ever walk—or sing—again. Furious at the world, TJ has run off every caretaker his brother can find, until old family friend Norah agrees to take TJ on as a favor. Her own life has been lived in dull black-and-white since the accident that took her young husband and son. She understands what it’s like to lose everything in one moment. Only the world didn’t destroy TJ, he did it to himself. They may want each other, but can Norah forgive a man as reckless as the one who took her family? She can’t trust TJ to do anything but the wrong thing. When a vicious surprise tries to steal Norah’s carefully crafted stability, she may just have to trust TJ. Can this beauty tame the beast? Love Notes will steal your breath and leave you flushed. This steamy second chance romance will have you staying up way too late and rooting for the wounded hero. Or will her past be their undoing? Fans of Rosalind James and Shannon Stacey will love this richly crafted romance. Can he become the hero that she needs? Love Notes is the third book in this steamy, contemporary series by Maggie Award winner Savannah Kade. Fall hard for the boys in the band. Read Love Notes now.

Download or read book A World Without Email written by Cal Newport and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller! From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox--and unleashing a new era of productivity. Modern knowledge workers communicate constantly. Their days are defined by a relentless barrage of incoming messages and back-and-forth digital conversations--a state of constant, anxious chatter in which nobody can disconnect, and so nobody has the cognitive bandwidth to perform substantive work. There was a time when tools like email felt cutting edge, but a thorough review of current evidence reveals that the "hyperactive hive mind" workflow they helped create has become a productivity disaster, reducing profitability and perhaps even slowing overall economic growth. Equally worrisome, it makes us miserable. Humans are simply not wired for constant digital communication. We have become so used to an inbox-driven workday that it's hard to imagine alternatives. But they do exist. Drawing on years of investigative reporting, author and computer science professor Cal Newport makes the case that our current approach to work is broken, then lays out a series of principles and concrete instructions for fixing it. In A World without Email, he argues for a workplace in which clear processes--not haphazard messaging--define how tasks are identified, assigned and reviewed. Each person works on fewer things (but does them better), and aggressive investment in support reduces the ever-increasing burden of administrative tasks. Above all else, important communication is streamlined, and inboxes and chat channels are no longer central to how work unfolds. The knowledge sector's evolution beyond the hyperactive hive mind is inevitable. The question is not whether a world without email is coming (it is), but whether you'll be ahead of this trend. If you're a CEO seeking a competitive edge, an entrepreneur convinced your productivity could be higher, or an employee exhausted by your inbox, A World Without Email will convince you that the time has come for bold changes, and will walk you through exactly how to make them happen.

Download or read book Stop Your Grace written by Jun Eleven and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she saw him for the first time, on the night of the full moon, he was the wild wolf and plundered her beauty at no allowance.When she met him again, he was the Duke of the United Kingdom."From now on, when I stand you cannot sit, when I lie down you must sit on me and move yourself!""No revealing clothing, no contact with any other male except me......" "..."All of the rules restricted her freedom. And at last, she couldn't stand him any longer, she shouted： "Stop, Duke! I've had enough with this!""You want me to stop? Sweetie, if you stay with me, you only can let me 'do not stop'..."Damn it, she's had the bad luck of her life to mess with the wolfish Duke..." This is Book 4 of Stop,Your Grace!（5 books）

Download or read book Don t Feed the Monkey Mind written by Jennifer Shannon and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious “monkey mind,” stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave. Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch—endlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you can’t switch off the “monkey mind,” but you can stop feeding the monkey—or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear. Written by psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon, this book shows you how to stop anxious thoughts from taking over using proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques, as well as fun illustrations. By following the exercises in this book, you’ll learn to identify your own anxious thoughts, question those thoughts, and uncover the core fears at play. Once you stop feeding the monkey, there are no limits to how expansive your life can feel. This book will show you how anxiety can only continue as long as you try to avoid it. And, paradoxically, only by seeking out and confronting the things that make you anxious can you reverse the cycle that keeps your fears alive.

Download or read book 7pm to 7am Sleeping Baby Routine written by Charmian Mead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your baby sleep through the night – without any tears. The early months with a new baby are exciting and magical, but they can also be emotional and exhausting if sleep is disturbed night after night. Baby sleep expert Charmian Mead's flexible plan, developed from work with hundreds of families, is designed to encourage baby to sleep a full twelve hours a night, naturally, by as early as six weeks old, without any tears. She'll show you gentle ways to encourage your baby to: · Take active and effective feeds during the day · Stay awake and playful in the day (not night!) · Feel full and content day and night · Sleep twelve hour stretches at night with no dream feed Whether you are breastfeeding, bottle-feeding or a bit of both - and even if you have twins - Charmian's approach will make sure your baby stays awake and playful during the day and not at night!

Download or read book Untouched written by Sara Humphreys and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of The Amoveo Legend SHE SHOULD BE SEEN, BUT NEVER TOUCHED... Kerry Smithson's modeling career ensures that she will be admired from afar, which is essential since mere human touch sparks blinding pain and terrifying visions. EVERY GOOD MODEL NEEDS A HEAVENLY BODYGUARD... Dante Coltari is hired to protect Kerry from those who know who she is—or more importantly what she is—and want her dead because of it. Nothing could have prepared him for the challenge of keeping her safe. But, strangely, his lightest touch brings her exquisite pleasure rather than pain, and Dante and Kerry have an otherwordly connection that might just pull them through. The Amoveo Legend Series: Unleashed (Book 1, The Amoveo Legend) Untouched (Book 2, The Amoveo Legend) Untamed (Book 3, The Amoveo Legend) Undone (Book 4, The Amoveo Legend) Unclaimed (Book 5, The Amoveo Legend) Undenied (e-Novella) Praise for the Amoveo Legend series: "Sizzling sexual chemistry that is sure to please."—Yankee Romance Reviews "A moving tale that captures both the sweetness and passion of romance."—Romance Junkies, 5 Blue Ribbons "Fascinating...the characters haunted my dreams...I'm dying for the sequel."—Long and Short Reviews Best Book

Download or read book The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging written by Dr Mike Moreno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The 17 Day Plan to Stop Aging, Dr Mike Moreno - author of the bestselling sensation The 17 Day Diet- offers an incredible four-cycle plan designed to help you prevent or even reverse the symptoms of aging. There are nine systems in your body that must all be in good working order for you to function at your peak at any age: circulatory, respiratory, nervous, immune, digestive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, reproductive and urinary systems. Dr Mike is giving readers all the strategies for longevity that they need, from the exact nutrients that can keep the body running at its peak to easy tips for integrating more movement into every day, following the same plan of 17-day cycles that has worked so well for people on The 17 Day Diet. Designed to work with any lifestyle, The 17 Day Plan to StopAging shows how to use nutrition, physical fitness and mental exercise to keep your systems in excellent condition. The steps are simple. The results are real.Highlights include: specific foods to eat to properly manage your digestive system; physical activities that will decrease the medical age of your cardiovascular and respiratory system; cognitive exercises to keep your mental systems young and sharp; products, ingredients and regimens that will decrease inflammation in the body, which, according to the latest research out of Harvard School of Public Health can improve everything from heart health and cognitive ability to joint pain and one's general sense of happiness.

Download or read book Brief Cognitive Hypnosis written by Jordan I. Zarren and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART I: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND ESSENTIAL TOOLS. Introduction: Brief Cognitive Hypnosis A Powerful Tool for Brief Psychotherapy. 1. Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship. 2. The Waking State Reframing Model. 3. Change Language: General, Waking State, Trance State, and Post-Trance State Reframing. 4. Trance Induction: Design, Choice, and Administration. 5. Self-Hypnosis for Continued Problem Resolution. 6. Common Factors in Dysfunctional Behavior and the Creation of Double Binds. 7. Dysfunctional and Therapeutic Rituals. PART 2: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. 8. Irritating Habits as Dysfunctional Outdated Coping Skills. 9. More Complex Habits As Ways of Dealing with Anxiety and Stress. 10. Panic Disorders and Other Complex Anxiety-Based Behaviors. 11. Medical Problems Including Pain, Preparing For Medical Procedures, Self-Healing, and Coping With Treatment Side-Effects. PART 3: SMOKING CESSATION AND KEYS TO CHANGE. 12. A Single Session Smoking Cessation Program. 13. Review: Keys to Change.

Download or read book Stop Weighting written by Ramya Subramanian and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramya, the confident superstar and influencer of today, was once a naive and self-conscious teenager, who suffered bullying and body shaming. Just as any other insecure adolescent would, she began a long and tortuous journey to become 'thin'. Ludicrous crash diets, intense workouts at the gym and an all-pervading sense of inferiority afflicted her for nearly a decade. In the midst of this, Ramya was catapulted into fame at an early age when she got her first break as a television anchor. But with the media attention came all the toxic side-effects of being a celebrity. Until she decided to take back control over her life. Today, Ramya is healthier and happier than she has ever been. In Stop Weighting we find out how she achieved this. Digging into stories, mistakes and life lessons, the book draws from the highs and lows of Ramya's personal fitness journey with the hope that it will help others to lay the groundwork for their own. She busts the myths around fitness and helps readers establish safe and sustainable methods to become healthier without false promises or crazy diets. Surprisingly deep even in its light, funny and conversational tone, the book is integrated with tables and exercises making it a holistic guide to discovering a healthier, fitter and happier you.

Download or read book The Inventor of Nothing written by Thejendra Sreenivas and published by Thejendra Sreenivas. This book was released on with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever blamed or criticized God for something bad that happened to you? Do you feel like confronting and taking Him to task for all the rubbish that's happening around you? Are you baffled by the collective silence of our benevolent gods from all the rival religions? If yes, then don’t waste time seeking answers from any Religious Experts, Enlightened Professors, Top Economists, Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Eloquent Politicians, or by reading their superb bestsellers. All the answers you need are available right here in this awesome book. Enlighten yourself with the Technical, Political, and Business justifications of our Creator for the existence of saints, savages, atheists, wars, diseases, religious headaches, corruption, natural calamities, business failures, media maniacs, ethnic cleansing, recessions, silent gods, terrorism, racism, crime, politics, lies, and 1001 other problems you see worldwide daily. Become a Buddha and discover the mysterious secret behind his supreme serenity. Never blame poor God again!!!

Download or read book Stop What You re Doing and Read After Dark Ghost Stories Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books. M.R. JAMES' GHOST STORIES SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELL M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than a tinge of dread in the hands of the original master of suspense. DRACULA 'The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key in the lock; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt...I shall not remain alone with them. I may find a way from this dreadful place, away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!' Young lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business for a mysterious Count. Months later in England, beautiful Lucy Westenra falls ill and dies, inexplicably, as if from a severe loss of blood. Lucy's friends, including Jonathan's fiancée Mina and the intrepid doctor Van Helsing, must begin a desperate battle against a powerful, ancient evil, in Bram Stoker's definitive gothic tale.