Collection: Spirituality & Religion

The New York Times best seller that has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world gain freedom from emotional pain and stress, achieve what they want in life, and discover the truth of who they truly are

The Sedona Method is a simple, powerful, and easy-to-learn technique to let go of unwanted and limiting thoughts and emotions in the moment, empowering you to make clearer, stronger choices and perform at your best.

What makes the Sedona Method such a powerful tool that really works is that it is a process you can use anytime, anyplace to improve any area of your life and uncover the joy that is right within you. It is a quick yet highly effective way to expand your sense of inner security and well-being, even in today's challenging and demanding world. The Sedona Method will help you:

• Free yourself from long-standing emotional challenges such as fear and anxiety, anger, depression, shame, and trauma
• Enjoy deep feelings of inner peace and feel more happiness in everyday life
• Put an end, once and for all, to the struggle to quit smoking, drinking, overeating, and other impulsive, addictive, self-defeating behaviors
• Experience dramatic shifts in self-esteem and self-confidence so you can enjoy a satisfying career, build greater wealth, create fulfilling personal relationships, and much more
• Effortlessly find the courage to take meaningful action towards being, doing, and having the most exciting things life has to offer
• Finally uncover and live as the pure, self-radiant Beingness that you are.

Letting go is a crucial survival skill. In this book, you'll learn how to recognize and then let go of the emotions that prevent you from making sound decisions and achieving your goals and aspirations. You'll learn that feelings are only feelings. Feelings are not facts, they are not who you are, and you can easily let them go.

The Sedona Method will show you step by step how to tap your natural ability to release, allowing you to produce results that often seem miraculous. These claims may sound extravagant; but if you are open, you can attain an inner mastery and happiness you never dreamed possible. This can all be yours because the Sedona Method is not another "should" or external "fix." It is a practical way to transform yourself from the inside out, easily and permanently.

For more than four decades, the Sedona Method has proven itself to be an exceptional tool for both personal and corporate effectiveness and wellness, with several independent studies confirming its value. Hale Dwoskin and these life-changing techniques have also been featured in Rhonda Byrne's popular works The Secret and The Greatest Secret.

"Through my work with Chicken Soup for the Soul and through my Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders above the rest for the ease of its use, its profound impact, and the speed with which it produces results. The Sedona Method is a vastly accelerated way of letting go of feelings like anger, frustration, jealousy, anxiety, stress, and fear, as well as many other problems-even physical pain-with which almost everybody struggles at one time or another."

-From the foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)

Remote viewing is the mental ability to perceive and describe places, persons, or events at distant locations in the past, present, and future. This book describes the science and theory of the remote-viewing phenomenon. The reality of the remote-viewing phenomenon is not in dispute among a large body of respected researchers both inside and outside of academia who have published an extensive collection of high-quality investigations over the past few decades. But profound mysteries remain. This volume breaks new ground by resolving some of remote-viewing s greatest enigmas. In these pages, new research and new theories explain why remote viewing works, and why it is scientifically possible. These investigations utilize remote-viewing methods that are derivative of those used for decades in well-documented U.S. government funded psi research sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (D.I.A.). Filled with descriptions and analyses of highly original experiments, here is an investigation into the fascinating characteristics of time and physical reality using remote viewing as a tool of exploration, offering evidence that the past, present, and future truly exist simultaneously. The idea of differing future and past time lines is not just science fiction.

Frauds, myths, and supposed mysteries about humanity's past are moving targets for anyone committed to the scientific investigation of human antiquity. It is important for anyone interested in the human past to know, for example, that there is no evidence for a race of giant human beings in antiquity and no broken shards of laser guns under Egyptian pyramids. Debunking such nonsense is fun and useful in its own way, but more important is the process by which we determine that such claims are bunk.

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology, Tenth Edition, uses interesting--and often humorous--archaeological hoaxes, myths, and mysteries to show how we can truly know things about the past through science. It is not just a book about how we know what isn't true about the human past--it's also about how we know what is true.

Celebrate Jewish culture with this fun collection of facts and stories!

Jewish traditions aren't just something they sing about in Fiddler on the Roof. Explore them all with this delightful book of essential Jewish foods, philosophers, pop culture, and more. It's sure to be way more satisfying than the typical encyclopedia--but probably not as exciting as finding the perfect bagel.

• Discover cultural touchstones--From babka to Mel Brooks, learn fascinating facts about the writers, entertainers, delis, and Yiddish phrases that shine a light on Jewish culture through the ages.
• Find what fascinates you--Paging through this book is a pleasure, whether you choose to read it cover to cover or use it as a quick reference guide.
• Give the perfect present--This encyclopedia's lighthearted tone and charming illustrations make it a great gift for Chanukah, housewarmings, and more.

Show a little chutzpah and pick up a copy of this amusing and informative Jewish encyclopedia today!

Think about that for a Minute is a Bible Study unlike any you've ever read before! Taking a different scripture each day and looking at it from a completely new angle, letting the Word of God truly transom your life one day at a time. Easy enough for a middle schooler to read and deep enough to keep even a seasoned Pastor's attention, this daily Bible study will encourage you, bless you, and grow your hunger for the Word of God! Each lesson can be completed in under 5 minutes, so you can get in to the presence of God anytime, anywhere. The Bible tells us in Psalms 1 that if we meditate on His Word day and night, we will prosper in EVERY season of our lives! That is the goal and purpose of this book. It truly is as easy as picking a scripture each day, and think about it for a minute! So with a daily scripture, daily challenge, and a prayer, in 40 days you will have a deeper understanding of the Love God has for you, AND you will have stepped into a promise God made to you, to live a blessed life by simply, thinking about THAT for a Minute!

Esta obra resulta de vários anos de pesquisa e prática da Tradição Astrológica e oferece ao estudante uma abordagem sólida e coerente à Astrologia. Capacitá-lo-á com as ferramentas e os conceitos basilares para que domine a linguagem da astrologia.

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.

Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero's journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero's journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.

Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:

• Mindfulness & yoga
• Somatic psychology
• EMDR therapy
• Parts work therapy
• Relational therapy

Revive Your Heart is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a conversation with one of the world's most recognizable voices on Islam, Nouman Ali Khan.

This collection of essays is disarmingly simple, yet it challenges us to change. To revise our actions, our assumptions and our beliefs so we can be transformed from within, as well as externally.

It aims to help modern Muslims maintain a spiritual connection with Allah and to address the challenges facing believers today: the disunity in the Muslim community, terrorists acting in the name of Islam, and the disconnection with Allah.

These challenges and more are tackled by Nouman Ali Khan, with his profound engagement with the Qur'an, in his trademark voice that is sought out by millions of Muslims on a daily basis.

About the Author

Nouman Ali Khan is a Muslim speaker and the CEO and founder of Bayyinah Institute, an Arabic studies educational institution in the United States. Currently, he is recognized as one of the world's most influential Muslims, not only in the West. His deep and profound bond with the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book, is at the heart of his work and the focus of his teachings, which manage to reach out to millions of Muslims from many different countries.

The definitive text on Reiki-for students, practitioners, and Masters alike-from one of the most respected Reiki teachers today.

Reiki is a holistic system for balancing, healing, and harmonizing all aspects of the person-body, mind, emotions, and spirit-encouraging deep relaxation and the release of stress and tension, and promoting awareness and spiritual growth. This comprehensive manual provides much-needed support for students and teachers who want to follow the best practices.

Covering Reiki levels 1, 2, and 3, this book conveys information in an accessible, structured, and interactive way to enhance the reader's understanding, knowledge, and experience of the practice. The final section of the manual contains reference material specifically for students who wish to become professional practitioners, and for Masters who want to broaden their training. This section also offers the foundation for additional courses or workshops on topics such as health and safety and managing a successful practice.

The Reiki Manual can be used:

• as student preparation before a Reiki class;
• as a textbook during Reiki courses;
• as post-course reading, or for reviewing what has already been learned (it includes revision questions and revision activities);
• by Reiki practitioners to help them practice in the best, most professional way;
• and by Reiki Masters as a guide to devise and deliver a Reiki course.

  More extensive than any other Reiki book on the market, The Reiki Manual will be referred to by lay readers as well as devoted students for many years to come!

A hands-on approach to working with the healing powers of plant spirits

- Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous healers and shamans

- Illuminates the matrix where plant intelligence and human intelligence join

- Reveals that partnering with plants is an evolutionary imperative

Indigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. Now scientific studies are verifying this understanding. Plant Spirit Healing reveals the power of plant spirits to join with human intelligence to bring about profound healing. These spirits take us beyond mere symptomatic treatment to aligning us with the vast web of nature. Plants are more than their chemical constituents. They are intelligent beings that have the capacity to raise consciousness to a level where true healing can take place.

In this book, herbalist Pam Montgomery offers an understanding of the origins of disease and the therapeutic use of plant spirits to bring balance and healing. She offers a process engaging heart, soul, and spirit that she calls the triple spiral path. In our modern existence, we are increasingly challenged with broken hearts, souls in exile, and malnourished spirits. By working through the heart, we connect with the soul and gain access to spirit. She explains that the evolution of plants has always preceded their animal counterparts and that plant spirits offer a guide to our spiritual evolution--a stage of growth imperative not only for the healing of humans but also the healing of the earth.

Soul initiation is an essential spiritual adventure that most of the world has forgotten -- or not yet discovered. Here, visionary ecopsychologist Bill Plotkin maps this journey, one that has not been previously illuminated in the contemporary Western world and yet is vital for the future of our species and our planet. Based on the experiences of thousands of people, this book provides phase-by-phase guidance for the descent to soul -- the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture. Plotkin illustrates each phase of this riveting and sometimes hazardous odyssey with fascinating stories from many people, including those he has guided. Throughout he weaves an in-depth exploration of Carl Jung's Red Book -- and an innovative framework for understanding it.

Discover the ancient lore, household techniques, and spiritual wisdom that will help turn every day into a time of magic, respect for all, and love of the Goddess, when you get Wheel of the Year by Pauline Campanelli.

Wheel of the Year takes you on a month-by-month journey of discovery through seasonal aspects of Paganism practiced both in recent and ancient times. Just look at a few of the things shared in this gentle, loving book:

• For December: The Magic of Mistletoe; The Ritual Burning of the Yule Log; Magical Uses of Ashes from the Yule Fire; A Ritual for Cutting Sacred Fir; The Pagan Symbolism of Santa Claus.
• For March: Nine Magical Woods for the Beltane Fire; Psychic Skills for Working Magic; Making and Using the Magic (Black) Mirror; Telepathy; The Ouija Board; A Ritual for Opening the Heart Chakra.
• For May: Seeing Faeries; A May Wine Ritual; Symbolism of the Maypole; Sacred Marriages; Hawthorn Protection Amulet.
• For August: Celebration of the Grain Harvest; Ritual for Baking Sacred Bread; Making an Onion Charm; Magical Symbolism of Garlic; Natural Dyes and Inks.
• For October: Apple Traditions; A Hazelnut Charm; The Man in Black; Ritual Costuming and Mask Making; Divination for Samhain.

This is only a small amount of the lore and a few of the many activities you will learn for each of these five months, in Wheel of the Year. The other seven months of the year are covered in depth, too, and each chapter has beautiful illustrations by Dan Campanelli.

Whether you live in a city, suburb, or farm and whether you live by yourself, with a partner, or with a family, Wheel of the Year will reintroduce you to the magic that is all around you.

Thirty-one illustrations to color combine two of the most beautiful aspects of nature -- flowers and butterflies -- with the peaceful qualities of mandalas. Adult colorists can enjoy a contemplative experience while adding their own style to these circular designs of intertwining butterflies and blossoms. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Butterfly Mandalas and other Creative Haven(R) adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

Heal from trauma and find inner calm using somatic therapy

Trauma lives on in both the mind and the body, and focusing on the body-mind connection is a powerful tool for healing. This insightful workbook introduces you to somatic therapy, an approach that helps release emotional and physical stress that is trapped in the body, so you can process your trauma and begin to heal.

• Evidence-based techniques--Learn what somatic therapy is, how it works, and the key methods.
• Somatic therapy in practice--Use writing prompts, bodywork, and breathing exercises to regulate the nervous system and bring the mind and body into balance.
• Feel grounded--Discover how somatic therapy can help you feel calmer, happier, and more anchored.

Release the effects of trauma from your body and mind with somatic therapy.

In the Arena continues the story of Isobel Kuhn, begun in bestselling "By Searching." The title refers to the biblical idea that the Christian is on display, like someone condemned to die in the arena. Isobel was convinced that the trials of her life as a missionary were "arena experiences" which God used not to punish her but to reveal Himself. As she looked back on her life when dying of cancer, she felt that her most valuable lessons had been learned during times of trial.

In the Arena continues the story of Isobel Kuhn, begun in bestselling "By Searching." The title refers to the biblical idea that the Christian is on display, like someone condemned to die in the arena. Isobel was convinced that the trials of her life as a missionary were "arena experiences" which God used not to punish her but to reveal Himself. As she looked back on her life when dying of cancer, she felt that her most valuable lessons had been learned during times of trial.

Nei Gong has been a well-kept secret within the Daoist sects of China for centuries. Based upon the original teachings of the great sage Laozi, it has only ever been taught to close students of the masters chosen as the heads of the ancient orders.

This book provides a breakdown of the entire Nei Gong process, and explains in plain English the philosophy which underpins Nei Gong practice, and which is based on the original teachings of the ancient Daoist priests. The methodology of Sung breathing, an advanced meditative practice which has until now been reserved for 'inner-door' students is described, and the book contains an entire set of Qigong exercises accompanied by instructional photographs and drawings.

This book will be of interest to all practitioners of Qi Gong, martial arts and meditation, and will be a rewarding read for anyone interested in Eastern philosophy.