The Ancient Power of Crystals
The new guide from PHILIP PERMUTT, "Britain's leading crystal expert" (Daily Mail). Discover how CRYSTALS have helped people throughout HISTORY and learn ways to EMBRACE this age-old WISDOM in your everyday life. The Ancient Power of Crystals offers an exciting journey through time. Find out how early humans employed crystals to form tools and start fires then travel forward to learn how crystals have shaped countless technological advances leading to the modern day--and what this might look like in the future. Discover legends about crystals and how different cultures have applied their own beliefs to them, and learn about Lemuria and the powerful healing quartzes of this long-lost civilization, including how to identify and harness the energies of different varieties. Work with crystals to connect with past lives and spirit guides, and to channel deep wisdom from within to help you understand your current situation and path ahead. Finally, explore the origins of crystal healing, including traditions from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, and learn how to incorporate healing practices into your everyday life to deal with common conditions, such as stress. This is an essential guide for anyone who is interested in how crystals have changed the world--and how crystals can transform their own life, too.
Happiness Triggers. The Science of Moving from Happiness to Empowered Joy. Second Edition
Yoshuku
A practical, beautifully illustrated guide to the ancient Japanese art of manifesting and pre-celebration, full of wise guidance on how to slow down, tune into the rhythms of the universe, and fulfill your destiny.During a particularly tough season of life, a Buddhist monk told Azumi Uchitani that the most beautiful sakura cherry blossoms emerge in the spring following the fiercest typhoons; it's only because of the storms that the trees endure, invigorate, and develop deeper roots to survive. This is true for humans, too - while we are on our journeys to blossom, we will face hardships, but those are the very opportunities for growth that we need to lean into.Azumi reveals how Japanese wisdom, life philosophy, and traditional customs of yoshuku, or "pre-celebration," can uplift and enrich not only the lives of those who practice it but everyone around them, too. Yoshuku celebrates gratitude for what you are yet to have when you: cultivate your wishprepare your mindplan seasonal celebrationsperform daily ritualshonor the journeyLearn how to integrate ancient rituals with a modern lifestyle, immerse yourself in harmony, and uncover the secrets of acceptance in order to manifest your soul's wishes.
Full Gas Forever
'What Ed Clancy doesn't know about cycling isn't worth knowing' - Sir Chris Hoy'Unless you've worked out how to stop time, you're going to need this book' - Ned Boulting 'A timely reminder that age is no reason to slow down' - Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas AN EXPERT GUIDE FOR ROAD CYCLISTS LOOKING TO DEFY THE YEARS AND RIDE FASTER AND FURTHER Getting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide. Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and fitness writer, flexibility expert and midlife cyclist Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fourth or fifth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following: - exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness.- off-bike preparation- ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet- recovery strategies- injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining.- dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly- specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance. Whether you're looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.
The Art and Science of Connection
2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNERA groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health--the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected--to truly flourish.Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness advice is focused on achieving and maintaining good physical and mental health. But Harvard-trained social scientist and pioneering social health expert Kasley Killam reveals that this approach is missing a vital component: human connection.Relationships not only make us happier, but also are critical to our overall health and longevity. Research shows that people with a strong sense of belonging are 2.6 times more likely to report good or excellent health. Perhaps even more astonishingly, people who lack social support are up to 53% more likely to die from any cause. Yet social health has been overlooked and underappreciated--until now.Just as we exercise our physical muscles, we can strengthen our social muscles. Weaving together cutting-edge science, mindset shifts, and practical wisdom, Killam offers the first methodology for how to be socially healthy. An antidote to the loneliness epidemic and an inspiring manifesto for seeing wellbeing as not only physical and mental, but also social, The Art and Science of Connection is a handbook for thriving.In this essential book, you will: Learn a simple yet powerful framework to understand, evaluate, and bolster your social health.Discover the exact strategy or habit you need, as well as research-backed tips, to cultivate and sustain meaningful connection now and throughout your life.Glean actionable insights to develop a sense of community in your neighborhood, at work, and online from a spirited group of neighbors in Paris, the CEO of a major healthcare company, and an artificially intelligent chatbot.Get an insider look at the innovative ways that doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, architects, government leaders, and everyday people are catalyzing a movement toward a more socially healthy society.The Art and Science of Connection will transform the way you think about each interaction with a friend, family member, coworker, or neighbor, and give you the tools you need to live a more connected and healthy life--whether you are an introvert or extrovert, if you feel stretched thin, and no matter your age or background. Along the way, Killam will reveal how a university student, a newlywed, a working professional, and a retired widow overcame challenges to thrive through connection--and how you can, too.
Your Daily Reset
Reflect, rebalance, and recharge with this essential guide for finding peace and calm when life feels like too much, with practices for every day of the year It can be easy to find yourself in negative spirals of thought and emotions. Feeling stressed or overwhelmed with life's challenges, from work to family to relationships, can put anyone in a bad headspace. For everyday worries, peak-anxiety moments, and everything in between, you need the right tools to help you break free from unhelpful patterns. In Your Daily Reset, you will learn to reverse and rewire your negative thinking patterns with a new exercise every day based in the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Designed to be picked up at any time of the year and with room to write and assess your progress, this book offers daily guidance to help you through tough moments and set you up for success. Prepare for a happier, healthier year with this easy-to-use guide that will become a daily companion you can rely on.
Walking with Your Spirit Totem Animals
From Shawn Leonard, Indigenous medium and host of Spirit Talker, comes a guide for assembling your unique team of spirit totem animal guides to be your personal guides through your life. We are deeply connected to the animal nation, and through the four stages of life--Childhood, Youth, Adulthood, and Elderhood--there are four sacred animal totems that guide us energetically using their sacred medicine. In Walking With Your Spirit Totem Animals, Mi'kmaq medium and host of Spirit Talker Shawn Leonard invites readers on a profound journey into the mystical world of animal totems. His insightful guide reveals how specific animal totems, that are personal to each and every one of us, support us. Leonard intertwines personal anecdotes with spiritual teachings, illustrating how these animal guides have appeared in his own life--his totems are Buffalo/Bison, Eagle, Polar Bear, and Owl--and provided wisdom at each stage. The book includes comprehensive discussions on the Medicine Wheel and practical tools such as prayers and meditations to help readers connect with their own animal totems. Leonard also incorporates reflections on the connection between pets and their spiritual roles, messages revealed through animal dreams, and encounters with the animal nation in the astral realm.
How to Manifest
A groundbreaking, science-backed approach to manifesting the life of your dreams At age nineteen, Lacy Phillips's life was a mess, and in desperation, she turned to a book on manifesting. She followed the book to a T, then sought out everything else she could find on manifesting and followed that, too. There was only one problem: None of it was working. Eventually, Lacy threw away all those manifestation books and began paying close attention to her own patterns and inner wisdom. She noticed what was going on internally that allowed her to manifest in some areas but not in others. Over the course of several years, she developed her own unique formula for manifestation, later teaming up with MDs and healers to make her system as effective and science-backed as possible. After radically changing her own life through this process, Lacy started teaching it to friends and individual clients. As their lives began to transform, their networks started to seek her out, too. Soon there was a massive tribe of manifesters out there living the lives of their dreams. Weaving together stories from Lacy's own journey and those of her clients while offering clear, practical, step-by-step guidance in a warm, no-nonsense tone, How to Manifest reveals the real secret to manifestation: We do not manifest from our thoughts. We manifest from our subconscious beliefs. This is, in essence, the opposite of most other manifestation processes. While they say you must train your thoughts to remain positive, How to Manifest teaches you how to transform your subconscious beliefs about what you do and do not deserve and what is possible for you. It helps you take advantage of neuroplasticity to rewire your subconscious mind to align with your greatest, most authentic desires. And this is exactly how you will be able to attract those desires into your life. Lacy has already helped tens of thousands of people achieve their dreams through her To Be Magnetic program. Now it's your turn. Discard the complicated techniques, rituals, and formulas that are not getting you anywhere, and start manifesting the life you most desire--and deserve.
Charm Casting
Written with warmth and humor, professional charm caster Tina Hardt presents an accessible guidebook that takes you on an enchanted journey exploring the hows and whys of assembling casting kits with an affable array of knickknackery that is uniquely personal and dynamic. Long before the advent of the kitchen junk drawer and trinket gumball machines, shamans, healers, and seers would cast and read bones, shells, stones, coins, and nuts. It was held that where and how these pieces landed could reveal great insight into the human condition and our eternal selves. Life's mysteries were explored, and the energetic veil between the living and the dead deferentially parted. Learn how to assemble, find meaning, and explore your future by casting an oracle made from bits and baubles attuned to your personal energies. Tina Hardt offers a fun-drenched adventure filled with exercises, checklists, charts, and creative activities. Charm casting increases your intuition and psychic abilities--not to mention your star quality! Guidance on life's desires, including love, family, career, spirituality, and more, are explained.
Chasing the Dark
A gripping narrative that uses the case files of Tony Cornell and the Society for Physical Research to examine our interactions and obsessions with all things paranormal. Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality. A member of the UK's Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Cornell's role as an investigator of so-called "spontaneous cases" saw him returning time and again to the unsettling spaces that exist just on the periphery of our ordered, tidy, and rational lives, and which we all do our best to ignore: Ghosts. Spirits. Premonitions. Psychic powers. Glimpses of other worlds that throw into question everything we take for granted about life, death, and material existence itself. This page-turner draws on Cornell's casefiles, which survive as uniquely untapped repository of stories reported by ordinary people, as well as correspondence between some of the great intellectuals of the 20th century--including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Marie Curie. By applying logical rigor to the investigation of events that could not be explained by conventional science, the SPR drew notable figures to its ranks as it gathered the most meticulous records ever compiled on hauntings, spiritual possessions, and other enduring mysteries. Award-winning journalist Ben Machell mines the extensive archives of the SPR for the first time to reveal the untold history of the secretive organization, and to understand our interactions and ceaseless fascination with the unexplained.
Music Between Your Ears
Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being.Why does music influence how we feel so deeply--and what are the scientific mechanisms behind this phenomenon? In Music Between Your Ears, Dr. Samuel Markind explores the intriguing relationship between music and brain function. Using evolutionary theory, he illuminates the pivotal role that music plays in human survival and procreation. From communication and caregiving to social bonding and partner selection, music has molded the human species and continues to shape our lives in remarkable ways.This book combines insights from neuroscience and psychology with helpful drawings and vivid examples to present compelling evidence for music's life-enhancing potential. Dr. Markind highlights the brain's instinctive capacity for music: from newborns' natural affinity for rhythm and melody to the effect that music has on brain development throughout the lifespan. Music also helps people learn at any age and in any condition, so it can improve speech, movement, and memory in both healthy individuals and those suffering from illness or injury. Dr. Markind encourages readers to engage actively with music. Whether through singing, dancing, or instrument playing, the benefits of active participation are profound and accessible to everyone, regardless of musical background. This book, filled with straightforward and practical suggestions, is an inspiring guide for anyone seeking to enrich their life through music.Music Between Your Ears shows how the act of engaging with music can profoundly impact your mental, physical, and emotional well-being. And the benefits of music go far beyond entertainment--they're essential to the very fabric of what makes us human.
I Am Shakti
I Am Shakti is the bold and powerful manifesto our world needs now more than ever. Spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and Ayurvedic matriarch Maya Tiwari introduces a new perspective of the universal feminine power, Shakti, that every woman can reclaim to generate health, harmony, and prosperity in life. She has devoted her heart and soul to sharing the philosophy and method that saved her life. Drawing on historical and current events, Vedic wisdom, and her personal story of falling victim to patriarchal violence, Maya shows what happens when the primordial fear of the feminine becomes a weapon of mass destruction. I Am Shakti is an impassioned plea for women to make one small shift from our thwarted otherness to embracing our Shakti nature to fight for justice, compassion, cooperation, love, and nourishment for all.
