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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.

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.

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...

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.

The Seabreeze Inn is ready to welcome guests for a grand harvest celebration, unveiling the vintage beach house’s stunning renovations for the season’s most anticipated gathering. Locals and returning guests come together for an unforgettable evening filled with warmhearted Thanksgiving harvest feast traditions. Join the family for a host of autumn adventures, including a new discovery pertaining to the history of the Seabreeze Inn. But just as the festivities begin, unexpected surprises threaten to derail the celebration.

Wir sprechen über Beziehung als Spiegel der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Nähe, Konflikte, Intimität und Verletzlichkeit - aufrichtig, ungeschönt, mit Humor für das, was Paare sonst lieber verschweigen. Wenn Bindung alte Wunden berührt und Liebe zum Übungsfeld für Bewusstsein wird. Mehr über uns & unsere Arbeit: www.samadhia.de www.jangemkow.de Intro : Serena Gruß Musik: Eren Solak

Jan Liin Jessen ist Däne, ausgebildeter Lehrer und hat einen Masterabschluss in Pädagogik.Er unterrichtet seit 1990 Deutsch und deutsche Geschichte. Die meisten Ferien verbringt er in Deutschland, und Berlin ist ein häufiges Reiseziel.

Wir (Michel & Jan) Lesen die Buchreihe zur Serie Game of Thrones, Das Lied von Eis und Feuer. Nach jedem Kapitel setzen wir uns zusammen und tauschen uns dazu aus. Unsere Gedanken zum Buch, unseren Vergleich zur Serie und ob wir jetzt endlich zu Leseratten werden, erfahrt ihr hier. Außerdem haben wir die Tribute von Panem Reihe zu unserem neuen Projekt gemacht

Willkommen bei GEOGLITCH: MENTAL! Manchmal liegt der Fehler nicht im System da draußen, sondern direkt in unserem Kopf. 🧠 Dies ist der Reality-Check für deine Psyche. Als Erweiterung des GEOGLITCH-Kosmos analysieren wir hier die Bugs in unserem eigenen Verhalten – von chronischer Aufschieberitis bis zum Gedankenkarussell – und suchen nach dem Update für einen entspannten Alltag. Keine Wellness-Oase, kein „Good Vibes Only“, sondern ehrliche Strategien, die funktionieren. Wir sortieren das Chaos und setzen es neu zusammen. ⚡️ Ein GEOGLITCH Original. 💚 Folgen & Gedanken ...

Ein ehrlicher Podcast über Männer, Beziehungen, Rollenbilder und die unbequemen Wahrheiten dazwischen. „Nicht alle Männer, aber…“ spricht aus, was viele denken, sich aber selten trauen zu sagen - direkt, reflektiert und ohne Bullshit. Gespräche, Meinungen und Perspektiven, die anecken dürfen. Für alle, die genug haben von Floskeln und bereit sind, wirklich hinzuschauen.

This book explores how hope operates as an ambivalent force in relation to issues of sex and gender, power, and identity in both our private and public lives.

The food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and tell individual eaters to fix these problems by buying local, artisanal food from small farmers—a solution most Americans can't afford.

Still grieving the death of her mother, 29-year-old Akiko is single and lives in self-imposed isolation in Tokyo. Then one evening, she unexpectedly runs into Kento, her first love from school. Kento now leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, only venturing out at night.

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...

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures.

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.

The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and...

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.

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.