One of the best ways to be the best you is to empower yourself with knowledge of your body and health. Our selection of reading materials are hand picked to provide you with life and body essentials to enrich your mind and body both. Every book in our collection will provide you the tools and inspiration to better yourself, physically and mentally.
Enrich your mind and body alike.
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Juicy Tomatoes: Guide to Ripe Living by Susan Swartz
Juicy tomatoes know that experience is an asset, not a liability and that wisdom and power are a lot sexier than a flat stomach. They don’t apologize for their age and they don’t hide their spunk and savvy. Sure, there are regrets, losses, and laugh lines, but juicy tomatoes don’t look back. Long after breaking barriers for women in their youth they are remaking the image of midlife and beyond.
The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50 introduces you to over 100 such women, some well known and some as regular as the friends you call for coffee and comfort. They have clout and daring and humor and the reason they stand tall is not simply because they take their calcium. In candid interviews with the author they tell how they forged ahead and kissed those aging stereotypes goodbye.
The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50 will inspire you, tickle you, and may even spur you to find your own juice.
Daily Relaxer by Matthew McKay, PHD & Patrick Fanning
offers simple, daily practices that can really change your life-the most effective techniques distilled from the best-selling Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, the stress-management classic recommended by therapists worldwide. Whether it’s deep breathing, progressive relaxation, or mindfulness meditation, you can learn each of these tension-relieving activities in just five minutes and start practicing them right away with amazing results.
Millions of people have used these techniques to relax and tame stress-you can, too! No matter how overwhelming your day is, these simple exercises will help you calm down and enjoy the wonderful gifts that each new day has to offer.
Leave Your Mind Behind by Matthew McKay, PHD & Catharine Sutker
offers a collection of light-hearted practices readers can use to learn to observe their thoughts without getting caught up in them. Each practice is grounded in a component of the new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) called cognitive defusion: the process of de-fusing or not identifying or becoming one with your thoughts. Sometimes downright strange-imagine yourself hearing your thoughts in the voice of a headless monster!-these activities don’t seek to stop or control problematic thinking. Instead, they work to show readers how to observe thoughts without judgment and learn to live with the confounding and marvellous word-making, story-telling machine that is the human mind.
Starting with a simple setting that can easily be accomplished with few special preparations, readers will learn, step-by-step, how to make a deep and meaningful connect with their partner’s body. Using a combination of strokes from the most time-honored massage traditions, they will learn to be mindful of where their partner holds stress and tension. As the massage continues, readers will enter into a profound nonverbal dialogue with their partner, learning much from the simple act of contact with another body. All of the techniques are illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Elegant and refined, this book is a perfect gift for a special someone or a friend in love.
Connecting Through Touch by Peggy Morrison Horan
Starting with a simple setting that can easily be accomplished with few special preparations, readers will learn, step-by-step, how to make a deep and meaningful connect with their partner’s body. Using a combination of strokes from the most time-honored massage traditions, they will learn to be mindful of where their partner holds stress and tension. As the massage continues, readers will enter into a profound nonverbal dialogue with their partner, learning much from the simple act of contact with another body. All of the techniques are illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Elegant and refined, this book is a perfect gift for a special someone or a friend in love.
Five Good Minutes by Jeffrey Brantley, MD & Wendy Millstine
The 100 simple practices found in Five Good Minutes® are designed to help even the busiest person start the day right. Using just five minutes of mindfulness, relaxation, or imagery techniques during their morning routines, readers can set their intentions and greet the day feeling calm, centered, and energized.
What difference can five minutes make in the crazy, nonstop course of a sixteen-hour day? For people feeling overwhelmed with responsibility, bored with the same tired routine, or frustrated about how to create meaning in their lives, a little time well spent can lead to extraordinary changes. This book shows readers how to dramatically improve their lives in just a few moments each day. The concept is powerfully simple: Readers take the time each morning to be fully present, to set a clear intention for themselves, and to really engage in any of 100 fun and easy-to-follow practices. Soon they will discover that amazing things can happen in just five minutes.
The book provides guided imagery, relaxation, mindfulness, and meditation practices-fun activities that relieve stress and create meaning and purpose in the reader’s day. These practices help readers feel good, get motivated, and become inspired to change their lives for the better. Over time, these activities become guideposts readers will return to throughout the day, providing energy and inspiration when they need them most. In other words, the time readers of this book take for themselves in the morning might just be the five good minutes that change their lives.