Download or read book Choice Point written by Harry Massey and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the companion book to his film Choice Point, Harry Massey uses the insights of some of the world’s most creative thinkers and top achievers – to provide readers with practical strategies for transforming their lives and making positive contributions to the world. How do you improve your life and also make a positive contribution to others? Harry asked this question of some of the most creative thinkers and highest achievers of our times – including Sir Richard Branson, James Caan, Gregg Braden, Larry Dossey, and Peter Buffet. In this, the film’s companion book, he has distilled their answers down to three core strategies for success: seek to understand your world, attract with a harmonious purpose, and, as Gandhi famously said, be the change you want to see in the world. This book provides the tools for change, for putting this wisdom into practice in your own life.
Download or read book Choice Points written by John Davidson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our choices. The choices we make can work for our against what we want to create in our lives. What role does self-knowledge and the quality of our awareness have in positioning successful choices? By learning to stand still, and listen within, we can connect with deeper sources of knowing out of which our choices are consciously cradled. Connecting these ways give rise to a new obedience and attentiveness to the present moment. And as we wake up to inhabiting our lives fully present, our choices become bridges to our highest potential. Making choices is a skill, and we must see from new dimensions the defining features in our current reality to connect to what is standing in need of us. This e-book will present to you the anatomy of the choice point, and a nine step process for navigating these topics.
Download or read book The Choice Point written by Joanna Grover and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a scientifically proven method to overcome obstacles and make choices that lead us closer to our goals—featuring a foreword by Martina Navratilova. When we choose to go to the gym at 6am, keep running that marathon, or stay up late to study, we are making conscious, value-based decisions that help us fulfill our goals. But even though we know that daily good choices add up to healthy routines and strong results, these days it’s just too easy to surrender to negative thoughts and old habits. How can we not? Enter Functional Imagery Training (FIT). Grounded in science, FIT helps us lengthen our Choice Point: that moment when we say to ourselves, “Am I going to make the healthy decision, or am I going to choose to take an action that I know will undermine my success?” Merging mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and cognitive behavioral therapy into a user-friendly model—the first non-academic book of its kind—The Choice Point grants us control of the decisions that define us. Jonathan Rhodes, a British psychologist, helped develop FIT, and Joanna Grover, an experienced therapist and coach, was the first person in the U.S. to be certified in FIT. Together, they work where science meets imagination to achieve peak performance, and their tools help us get to the root of our motivation. They’ve trained Olympians, C-Suite executives, and elite forces in the military to hack their autopilot systems and break records in their respective fields. The Choice Point is the roadmap they’ve built along the way, leading us from passengers to drivers of our own minds.
Download or read book The ACT Matrix written by Kevin L. Polk and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are an ACT practitioner or mental health professional, this eagerly awaited resource is an essential addition to your professional library. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy that has been successful in treating a variety of psychological issues, such anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, eating disorders, and more. In contrast to other treatment options, ACT has proven extremely effective in helping clients who are “stuck” in unhealthy thought patterns by encouraging them align their values with their thoughts and actions. However, the ACT model is complex, and it’s not always easy to use. Traditionally, ACT is delivered with a focus around six core processes that are often referred to as the hexaflex: cognitive defusion, acceptance, contact with the present moment, observing the self, values, and committed action. Each of these core processes serves a specific function, but they are often made more complex than needed in both theory and in practice. So what if there was a way to simplify ACT in your sessions with clients? Edited by clinical psychologists and popular ACT workshop leaders Kevin L. Polk and Benjamin Schoendorff, The ACT Matrix fuses the six core principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a simplified, easy-to-apply approach that focuses on client actions and behavior as workable or unworkable, rather than good or bad. Most importantly, you’ll learn how this innovative approach can be used to deliver ACT more effectively in a variety of settings and contexts, even when clients are resistant or unmotivated to participate. This is the first book to utilize the ACT Matrix model, and it is a must-read for any ACT practitioner looking to streamline his or her therapeutic approach.
Download or read book The Weight Escape written by Ann Bailey and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skip the diets and calorie counting—the bestselling author of The Happiness Trap reveals how mindful eating is the key to long-term weight control and well-being Using the mindfulness-based method called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Happiness Trap author Dr. Russ Harris, psychological practitioner Ann Bailey, and scientist Joseph Ciarrochi present a holistic approach to well-being and weight loss. Focusing on the mental barriers that prevent us from setting and achieving our goals, they go beyond meal plans and calorie counting to explain how you can apply mindfulness to your lifestyle and eating habits. Through practical exercises and personal stories they show you how to: • Set goals and give direction to your life • Overcome destructive habits and exercise self-control • Deal with cravings and stressful situations • Develop self-acceptance This book contains the tools you need not only to get the weight-loss results you want but to maintain a healthy weight—and a healthy sense of well-being—for the rest of your life.
Download or read book The Happiness Trap written by Russ Harris and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
Download or read book The Paradox of Choice written by Barry Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.
Download or read book Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages written by Shriram Krishnamurthi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been succe- fully applied to a wide variety of real-world situations including database m- agement, active networks, software engineering, and decision-support systems. New developments in theory and implementation expose fresh opportunities. At the same time, the application of declarative languages to novel problems raises numerous interesting research issues. These well-known questions include scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and imp- mentation of declarative systems, and in turn bene?t from this progress. The International Symposium on Practical Applications of Declarative L- guages (PADL) provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and implementors of declarative languages to exchange ideas on current and novel application - eas and on the requirements for e?ective use of declarative systems. The fourth PADL symposium was held in Portland, Oregon, on January 19 and 20, 2002.
Download or read book Logic Programming written by Danny De Schreye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-11-08 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes tutorials, lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming, including theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation, nonmonotonic reasoning, and logic programming and the Internet. The International Conference on Logic Programming, sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, includes tutorials, lectures, and refereed papers on all aspects of logic programming, including theoretical foundations, constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, language design and implementation, nonmonotonic reasoning, and logic programming and the Internet.
Download or read book Stochastic Global Optimization written by Gade Pandu Rangaiah and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 1. Introduction / Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- ch. 2. Formulation and illustration of Luus-Jaakola optimization procedure / Rein Luus -- ch. 3. Adaptive random search and simulated annealing optimizers : algorithms and application issues / Jacek M. Jezowski, Grzegorz Poplewski and Roman Bochenek -- ch. 4. Genetic algorithms in process engineering : developments and implementation issues / Abdunnaser Younes, Ali Elkamel and Shawki Areibi -- ch. 5. Tabu search for global optimization of problems having continuous variables / Sim Mong Kai, Gade Pandu Rangaiah and Mekapati Srinivas -- ch. 6. Differential evolution : method, developments and chemical engineering applications / Chen Shaoqiang, Gade Pandu Rangaiah and Mekapati Srinivas -- ch. 7. Ant colony optimization : details of algorithms suitable for process engineering / V.K. Jayaraman [und weitere] -- ch. 8. Particle swarm optimization for solving NLP and MINLP in chemical engineering / Bassem Jarboui [und weitere] -- ch. 9. An introduction to the harmony search algorithm / Gordon Ingram and Tonghua Zhang -- ch. 10. Meta-heuristics : evaluation and reporting techniques / Abdunnaser Younes, Ali Elkamel and Shawki Areibi -- ch. 11. A hybrid approach for constraint handling in MINLP optimization using stochastic algorithms / G.A. Durand [und weitere] -- ch. 12. Application of Luus-Jaakola optimization procedure to model reduction, parameter estimation and optimal control / Rein Luus -- ch. 13. Phase stability and equilibrium calculations in reactive systems using differential evolution and tabu search / Adrian Bonilla-Petriciolet [und weitere] -- ch. 14. Differential evolution with tabu list for global optimization : evaluation of two versions on benchmark and phase stability problems / Mekapati Srinivas and Gade Pandu Rangaiah -- ch. 15. Application of adaptive random search optimization for solving industrial water allocation problem / Grzegorz Poplewski and Jacek M. Jezowski -- ch. 16. Genetic algorithms formulation for retrofitting heat exchanger network / Roman Bochenek and Jacek M. Jezowski -- ch. 17. Ant colony optimization for classification and feature selection / V.K. Jayaraman [und weitere] -- ch. 18. Constraint programming and genetic algorithm / Prakash R. Kotecha, Mani Bhushan and Ravindra D. Gudi -- ch. 19. Schemes and implementations of parallel stochastic optimization algorithms application of tabu search to chemical engineering problems / B. Lin and D.C. Miller
Download or read book Distributed Constraint Logic Programming written by Ho-Fung Leung and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first attempt to combine concurrent logic programming and constraint logic programing. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, a novel computation model, called the multi-Pandora model, which is designed on the basis of the Pandora model, is presented. In the second part, the distributed implementation schemes for Parlog, Pandora, and multi-Pandora are presented. Finally, the author presents the distributed constraint solvers for finite domain constraints, as well as the distributed constraint solvers in the domains of real numbers and Boolean rings which can be incorporated into the schemes presented in the second part to handle the ?ask?- and ?tell?-constraints.
Download or read book A Model of the Universe written by Storrs McCall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He shows that this theory can illuminate a wide variety of hitherto unresolved philosophical problems: these include the direction and flow of time, the nature of scientific laws, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the definition of probability, counterfactual semantics, and the notions of identity, essential properties, deliberation, decision, and free will.
Download or read book Agency and Joint Attention written by Janet Metcalfe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The puzzle that motivates Agency and Joint Attention is how people are able at one and the same time to maintain their own sense of autonomy, taking responsibility for their own actions and distinguishing them from the actions of others, while still being able to understand, appreciate, and coordinate their thoughts and actions with other people.
Download or read book Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages written by I.V. Ramakrishnan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Programming, PADL 2001, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA in March 2001. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 40 submissions. Among the topics covered are Mu-calculus, specification languages, Java, Internet programming, VRML, security protocols, database security, authentication protocols, Prolog programming, implementation, constraint programming, visual tracking, and model checking.
Download or read book Progress in Artificial Intelligence written by Pedro Barahona and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portuguese Association for Arti cial Intelligence (APPIA) has been re- larly organising the Portuguese Conference on Arti cial Intelligence (EPIA). This ninth conference follows previous ones held in Porto (1985), Lisboa (1986), Braga (1987), Lisboa (1989), Albufeira (1991), Porto (1993), Funchal (1995) and Coimbra (1997). Starting in 1989, the conferences have been held biennially (alternating with an APPIA Advanced School on Arti cial Intelligence) and become truly international: English has been adopted as the o cial language and the proceedings are published in Springer’s LNAI series. The conference has recon rmed its high international standard this year, largely due to its programme committee, composed of distinguished researchers in a variety of specialities in Arti cial Intelligence, half of them from Portuguese universities. This has attracted a signi cant international interest, well expressed by the number of papers submitted (66), from 17 di erent countries, 29 of which are by Portuguese researchers. From the 66 papers submitted, about one third of them (23) were selected for oral presentation and have been published in this volume. The review process enabled the selection of high quality papers, each paper being reviewed by two or three reviewers, either from the programme committee or by their appointment. We would like to thank all of the reviewers for their excellent and hard work.
Download or read book Preferring Justice written by Eric Cave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is about the sense of justice that limits what individuals can do in pursuit of their ends and opens them to exploitation. It shows how flawed agents choosing under partial information advance those of their ends having nothing to do with justice by maintaining such a disposition.
