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Jan Chozen Bays, MD - physician and Zen teacher - has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.

A famous spiritual astrologer shares how to uncover the secrets hidden in your birth chart that hold the key to your future. “This is required reading for anyone on the spiritual path to fulfilling their soul’s destiny.”—Harold Bloomfield, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of How...

The Swedish firm Hästens enjoys an outstanding international reputation for creating the finest beds in the world, as evidenced by a client list that includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to actual crowned heads of state. Its luxurious, handcrafted, top-of-the-line Grand Vividus sells for as much as $750,000. Now the family business lovingly run by fifth generation and CEO Jan Ryde sells its beautiful beds in fifty countries around the world. In When Business Is Love, Jan shares his leadership philosophy and explains how any business, in any field, can operate on the basis of love.

Jan Magner and Christiane Turner have successfully combined the ancient art of Feng Shui, Treasure Mapping, and the modern study of achievement known as Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP). Let them be your Guides on an adventure to CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Explore your life by learning how to make a Feng Shui Treasure Map! Learn how to COMPLETELY transform limiting beliefs that stop you from reaching your goals, through quick and easy NLP processes and visualizations!

The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food--and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of...

What’s in a label? Are we the product of our upbringing or do we have a natural propensity towards good or evil? The eternal question of nature vs nurture is at the centre of Dr Diane Buckley’s world. A talented freelance forensic psychologist who has never quite found the key to engaging with people on a casual level, she is drafted in to examine a grisly murder – a body found in a children’s playground.

Daniel and Clara are two people caught in loveless marriages, each feeling trapped by the monotony and emotional distance that defines their relationships. Their worlds collide when they meet at work, and what begins as a subtle attraction quickly escalates into a passionate, secret affair. For...

"This is the story of things that should not happen to a person but sometimes do, and this time did." Come with Jackie, her mother, her family inside an intensive care unit where over four and a half months, and beyond, Jackie survived a major medical event, an emergency bilateral lung...

Willkommen bei Nachspielzeit im Sportbüro, dem Podcast von CNV-Medien. Wir sind Denice May und Jan Unruh aus der Sportredaktion (der Cuxhavener Nachrichten und Niederelbe-Zeitung) und nehmen euch mit in unsere Welt des Lokalsports. Wir sprechen über die Geschichten hinter den Ergebnissen, über Menschen, die uns begegnen, kuriose Erlebnisse und natürlich über das, was uns im Sportbüro gerade beschäftigt. Also: Was passiert eigentlich, wenn der Spielbericht geschrieben ist und die Arbeit trotzdem weitergeht? Genau darüber wollen wir reden. Das ist unsere Nachspielzeit. Anstoß ist immer ...

Nachdem sich seine Freundin von ihm getrennt hat, ist der 30-jährige Stefan nun Single. Seine Freunde Hannes und Max wollen ihn aufmuntern und schließen eine Wette mit ihm ab. Stefan hat ein Jahr Zeit, um in einer festen Beziehung zu sein. Schafft er es nicht, bezahlt er ein komplettes Partywochenende zu dritt auf der Reeperbahn. Doch es ist schwierig, eine passende Frau zu finden.

Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, really exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not. His discussion considers four main facets of the idea of the real world, ranging from the existence of a separate external and internal world (comprising various mental states congregated around a self), to the existence of an ontological foundation that grounds the existence of all the entities in the world.

Born in 1150 to a noble Swedish family and coming of age at a monastery under the tutelage of a Cistercian monk and a former Knight Templar, young Arn Magnusson is sent to fulfill his destiny beyond the cloister walls. But the world awaiting him is a place at odds with his monastic ways. And when the murder of a king engulfs Western Götaland into a whirlwind of intrigue and ruthless power plays, headstrong and naive Arn is forced to leave the woman he loves behind and take up arms to battle infidels in the Holy Land. 

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Jan Zalasiewicz gives a brief introduction to the fascinating field of geology. Describing how the science developed from its early beginnings, he looks at some of the key discoveries that have transformed it before delving into its various subfields, such as sedimentology, tectonics, and stratigraphy.  

Investors traditionally view low-risk stocks as safe but unprofitable, but this old canard is based on a flawed premise; it fails to see beyond the monthly horizon and ignores compounding returns. This book updates the thinking and brings reality to modelling to show how low-risk stocks actually outperform high-risk stocks by an order of magnitude. Accessible and easy to implement, the plan presented here will help you construct a portfolio that delivers higher returns per unit of risk and explains how to achieve excellent investment results over the long term.   

14 Minuten ist ein Podcast für fortgeschrittene Deutschlerner (B1 / B2). Neue Folgen immer am Freitag. 14 Minuten lang. Deutsch lernen mit interessanten Themen. Kostenlose Transkriptionen auf www.14minuten.de

The Berenstain Bears live in a big treehouse down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country. Papa Bear, an oafish, bumbling carpenter; wise Mama Bear, a housewife and perfectionist; and their children, Brother Bear, Sister Bear and Honey Bear, will teach young listeners about life with good-natured wisdom, love, and gentle humour. With over 260 million Berenstain Bears books sold worldwide, The Berenstain Bears Collection will bring the stories of this popular family to a new generation of listeners.

We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. 

What if addiction, dissociation, and other manifestations of trauma were not framed as diseases or disorders, but rather as adaptive methods of regulating the autonomic nervous system (ANS)? This book takes that approach, and guides listeners through twenty embodied practices that promote the rewiring of the ANS. By integrating the latest neuroscience from Stephen Porges's Polyvagal Theory with Eugene Gendlin's embodied felt sense, Jan Winhall's Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is a paradigm-shifting, deeply somatic approach to healing trauma and addiction.

When spirited Verity Bowman is left a sizeable legacy by her uncle on condition that she spends six months 'in a wholly rational manner', neither she nor her long-suffering attorney Charles Congreve have any idea where it will lead them. Nor, it has to be said, does anyone else. Set in Newmarket and London, A Rational Proposal is the first in the Furze House Irregulars series featuring women of spirit, women of courage, women who don't see why, in this male-dominated Regency era, they should not also play their part in bringing wrongdoers to justice.

Swami Sri Yukteswar, the great yoga master and guru of Paramhansa Yogananda, lived in India from 1855 until 1936. In his book, The Holy Science, he speaks about the natural love of the heart and how it can be awakened.