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- Book Review: Worry - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review As far as we know, plants and animals don't do it. Worry is a human "skill." And it comes in different forms. Some kinds indicate diagnosable conditions, such as depression, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Others, such as shyness, are built in from birth, and some seem ...
Views: 646 - Book Review: Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Catherine Whitmire's book of contemporary and historic Quaker voices reads like an antidote to consumer-driven despair. We all know the spiritual downfall of compulsively acquiring material goods (or what Quakers refer to as "cumber"); how it leads to a frantic-paced ...
Views: 1205 - Book Review: Teachings on Love - by Submitted on May 10, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review For venerated Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, love is more than an emotion. Drawing on millennia of Buddhist wisdom and his own therapeutic methods, Teachings on Love further develops his practical notion of interbeing in terms of love. If all things are interrelated, ...
Views: 729 - Book Review: Unleashing the Ideavirus - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Treat a product or service like a human or computer virus, contends online promotion specialist Seth Godin, and it just might become one. In Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin describes ways to set any viable commercial concept loose among those who are most likely to catch ...
Views: 670 - Book Review: Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Why do so many seemingly successful professionals hit the wall in middle age, and decide to either radically scale back their careers or set off in an entirely new direction? Clinical psychologist Steven Berglas, a specialist in success-induced burnout, believes it stems from ...
Views: 1276 - Book Review: The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Wouldn't it be nice to have a handy collection of highlights from the Dalai Lama's writings and teachings? Renuka Singh, a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, brings together a sampling of his words for each day of the year in The Path to Tranquility. In her selections you ...
Views: 1019 - Book Review: If Life Is a Game, These are the Rules - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Before Cherie Carter-Scott discovered her true calling as a writer of inspirational books, she worked as a teacher. As she reads, her experience and talents as an instructor are evident. She carefully outlines her rules and lessons, frequently slowing her cadence to verbally ...
Views: 797 - Book Review: Living The Seven Habits: Stories Of Courage And Inspiration - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of ...
Views: 1111 - Book Review: Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you're a woman over 40, you are undergoing physical and emotional changes, declining metabolism, fat deposits at your waistline, decreased energy, mood swings, food cravings--do we need to continue this list? Now pile on chronic, long-term stress (which the author terms ...
Views: 669 - Book Review: How to Meditate - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Meditation "is an ageless human experience that has been discovered and explored and used in every period and every culture that we know about," writes Lawrence LeShan, a psychotherapist and scholar. LeShan discusses the psychological and physiological effects of meditation, ...
Views: 849 - Book Review: Emotional Alchemy : How the Mind Can Heal the Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review According to ancient legends, alchemists use a magical philosopher's stone to transmute lead into gold. In Emotional Alchemy, Tara Bennett-Goleman shows readers how they can use this alchemist metaphor to transform emotional confusion (lead) into insightful clarity (gold). And ...
Views: 829 - Book Review: Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performanc - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Where you start reading this book will probably say a lot about your current station in life. New parents will probably skip right to chapter 12 and the section subtitled "Tips for Exhausted Parents of Newborns, Infants, and Children." Drowsy office workers might go for ...
Views: 1147 - Book Review: Meditation as Medicine: Activate the Power of Your Natural Healing Force - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Long-term meditators experience 80 percent less heart disease and 50 percent less cancer than nonmediators, according to a large body of studies. Meditation has been shown to improve sleep and reduce chronic pain. Not all meditation is equally effective, however. Dharma Singh ...
Views: 892 - Book Review: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review "Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in her introduction to Kitchen Table Wisdom. "It is the way wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worth remembering." Remen, a physician, therapist, ...
Views: 842 - Book Review: Contemplative Prayer - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This little gem of a book, newly issued with a foreword from the great Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (who knew Merton in the 1960s) beautifully distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation. Written close to the end of Merton's life, this book ...
Views: 749 - Book Review: The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Wouldn't it be nice to have a handy collection of highlights from the Dalai Lama's writings and teachings? Renuka Singh, a student and friend of the Dalai Lama, brings together a sampling of his words for each day of the year in The Path to Tranquility. In her selections you ...
Views: 711(3 votes) - Book Review: The GOOD BOOK: READING THE BIBLE WITH MIND AND HEART CASSETTE: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Biblical studies have historically been consigned to theological schools and church groups. In The Good Book, Peter Gomes, pastor of Harvard University's Memorial Church and a professor of theology, has written a vivid, common sense and wise analysis of what the Bible means ...
Views: 775 - Book Review: Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Clearly, one of the most complicated and devastating experiences of life, next to the death of a loved one, is the death of a relationship. Daphne Rose Kingma offers a process and a way of examining relationships that is not only healing and helpful through the process and ...
Views: 1197 - Book Review: There Is A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With his usual mix of enthusiasm, optimism, and anecdote, Dr. Wayne Dyer is back again to emphasize that we are in control of our life experiences. Quoting everything from the Bible to The Tao of Pooh, he returns continually to his central point: with truth and self-awareness, ...
Views: 812(4 votes) - Book Review: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Qigong (ch'i kung) is the modern incarnation of a Chinese energy art that goes back over 2,000 years. With superior scholarship and scientific acumen, The Way of Qigong covers the entire range of theory and practice, including relaxation, meditation, massage, therapeutic ...
Views: 1248 - Book Review: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This is the book for you if you've ever had the urge to tell off your boss, quit your job, hurl your Palm Pilot into the trash, and move to a farm. Written by bestselling stress consultant and psychotherapist Dr. Richard Carlson Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, it advocates the ...
Views: 727 - Book Review: Until Today!: Devotions For Spiritual Growth And Peace Of Mind - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This book of 365 daily devotionals supports the time-honored adage, "Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?" The charismatic spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant knows how easy it is to stay stuck in "old sentiments, resentments, beliefs, decisions, agreements, ...
Views: 791 - Book Review: The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Janet Luhrs provides a thoughtful and practical guide to simplifying our busy lives. Luhrs stresses that living simply is not about being frugal, living on a tight budget, or a modest income. Rather, living simply is being fully aware of what you're doing and why you're doing ...
Views: 890 - Book Review: Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When Sue Bender proudly announced to a friend that her first book, Plain and Simple had made it to the New York Times bestseller list, her friend immediately shot back, "But what number on the list are you?" Bender was shocked, realizing that nothing we accomplish seems like ...
Views: 1330 - Book Review: The Invitation - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One night, after an unsatisfying evening at a party, author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the start of The Invitation. By the light of her streetlight, she began, "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of ...
Views: 731 - Book Review: The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Bruce WilkinsonAmazon.com Review Even well-versed Biblical scholars might be perplexed if asked about Jabez, a little-known man listed in 1 Chronicles, chapter 4. Yet his simple petition is the cornerstone of The Prayer of Jabez and has become a call to live a more "blessed life" for countless readers. ...
Views: 1368 - Book Review: Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Julie MorgensternAmazon.com Review In Organizing from the Inside Out, author Julie Morgenstern used three main strategies to whip a living space or office into shape: "analyze, strategize, attack." Using the same system, Morgenstern now shows readers how to get rid of chaotic schedules in order to live more ...
Views: 1822 - Book Review: Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Over the last fifty years, life has become more complicated. Longer working hours, intensified by grueling commutes and more traffic, the increased cost of housing, food, and health care, rising credit card debt, and the combined responsibilities of work and childcare in ...
Views: 1567 - Book Review: Traveling Light Releasing The Burdens You Were Never Intended To Bear - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review From beloved award-winning author Max Lucado comes Traveling Light, refreshing words wrapped around the biblical passages of the 23rd Psalm to reenergize weary spiritual travelers. In his inimitable, pastoral voice that both soothes and exhorts, Lucado gently unpacks the ...
Views: 664 - Book Review: Creative Visualization: The Complete Book on Tape - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review When it comes to creating the life you want, Shakti Gawain literally wrote the book. Now considered a classic, Creative Visualization teaches readers how to use their imaginations to manifest their deepest desires. In a straight-talking narrative, Gawain uses the first part to ...
Views: 742 - Book Review: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Are you an HSP? Are you easily overwhelmed by stimuli? Affected by other people's moods? Easily startled? Do you need to withdraw during busy times to a private, quiet place? Do you get nervous or shaky if someone is observing you or competing with you? HSP, shorthand for ...
Views: 1560 - Book Review: The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays ...
Views: 2159 - Book Review: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Third Edition - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case, that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't ...
Views: 1650 - Book Review: My Utmost for His Highest - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily ...
Views: 1158 - Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--and it's all small stuff - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is ...
Views: 1220 - Book Review: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review This manual-style book instantly dives into Eckhart Tolle's principles of "living in the moment," which could be a jarring experience for readers who haven't read his preceding book, The Power of Now. For the initiated, though, this makes an excellent companion guide--rich in ...
Views: 1121 - Book Review: Wherever You Go, There You Are - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Jon Kabat-ZinnAmazon.com Review In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation ...
Views: 1192 - Book Review: The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Although the sheer size of this dense workbook might cause initial hyperventilation--280 full-size sheets of text--take heart (and a deep breath!): the many self-assessment tools and calming techniques presented in this fifth edition can help overcome anxiety and promote ...
Views: 1043 - Book Review: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Jon Kabat-ZinnAmazon.com Review Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba the Greek in which the ...
Views: 2463 - Book Review: When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Much like Zen, Pema Chodron's interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism takes the form of a nontheistic spiritualism. In When Things Fall Apart this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound terms of Tibetan Buddhism that are germane to ...
Views: 1079 - Book Review: You Can Heal Your Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review If you haven't seen Hay House's Lifestyles series of gorgeous gift books, there is no better way to acquaint yourself than with publisher/author Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. A bestseller for many years, You Can Heal Your Life has been republished with bright, beautiful ...
Views: 1102(5 votes) - Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes ...
Views: 729 - Book Review: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from John AOVAmazon.com Review With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, ...
Views: 698 - How to Get Lots of Money for Anything, Fast! - by Submitted on May 07, 2009 from Stephen Martile“Do not try to figure out how to achieve your goal. It’s not part of the basic or super achievement process.” ~ Stuart Lichtman I just started reading and applying the concepts in this book about two and a half weeks ago. I was so excited by the results so far that I had to share them with ...
Views: 3570 - Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Mary Jane Hurley BrantLoss of those we love is our most painful reality. In Christopher Buckley's newest book, Losing Mum and Pup, we come to journey with him in the aftermath of both his parents dying within less than 11 months of one another. We come to understand, more deeply, the forever ache of that loss. The ...
Views: 1452(7 votes) - Parking Lot Rules: A Book Review - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Samantha GregoryThe other day I got a copy of Parking Lot Rules and 70 Other Ideas for Raising Amazing Kids. This guidebook for raising amazing kids contains practical advice for today’s parents no matter if you are single or married. In the hustle and bustle of life it’s easy to allow time and grown-up ...
Views: 1253 - Dracula - Professor Van Helsing, the Old Savior - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2009 from Fred JonesProfessor Van Helsing is an old and knowledgable person in Bram Stoker's famous novel, Dracula. He was Dr. John Seward's old Professor and a person on whom Dr. Seward had up to his last bit of deepest trust. In the course of the novel, Prof. Helsing proved to be the intellectual power that ...
Views: 2496 - Do Self Help Books Help? - by Submitted on Mar 23, 2009 from Steve GillmanWhat if self help books just help the self which creates your problems in the first place? I'll get back to that in a moment. First I want to say that many such books certainly can be helpful. A book on how to speak in front of a crowd can help with that, for example, and a book on how to eat or ...
Views: 794 - Reinvent Yourself: Refuse to Settle for Less in Life and Business (the eCourse) - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorAre you too busy trying not to lose in life and business to learn how to win? Leverage your time and energy the right way to create more of what you want to experience. “From this moment on, I refuse to settle for less than what I want!” Do you relate to this? Do you know what to do to make it ...
Views: 1726 - How To Publish & Market a Book Without Jumping Off a Cliff - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2009 from Karyn MaierReviews - How To Publish & Market a Book Without Jumping Off a Cliff, by Carol Adler So you’ve written a book, or hope to write one some day, and you’re lost in the maze that book publishing has become. You want to be educated and knowledgeable about the entire process, but where can you ...
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