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Proyecto Gratitud: Veinte encuentros para iluminar tu vida
By Laura Szmuch. 2018
Hay ciertas sabidurías que se captan respirando, abriendo, soltando, conectando y volviendo a soltar. Son saberes que no entran en…
el formato aprendido. Para recibirlos hay que desarmar el molde y dejar que se forme uno nuevo. No hay nada que hacer, en realidad. Solo permitir, pedir guía, solicitar asistencia... y ella llega. A lo largo de veinte encuentros, Laura Szmuch nos invita a conectar con nuestra "parte sabia", esa que nos permite una mirada apreciativa sobre nuestra vida, a pesar los desafíos que se nos presentan. Proyecto Gratitud es una experiencia de descubrimiento, un viaje interior que nos lleva a gestar una apertura de conciencia. Con un estilo poético y una calidez que surge de cada línea, la autora nos acompaña a valorar lo que habitualmente pasamos por alto y a sentir gratitud por lo que fue, es y será. El libro es también una propuesta práctica. En los encuentros hay consignas simples, meditaciones guiadas, reflexiones, ejercicios y sugerencias para que el lector experimente la gratitud en su vida cotidiana. Cada uno hará su propio recorrido en el tiempo que le lleve. En palabras de la autora: "No hay apuro. No hay horario. Los relojes no existen. Los calendarios no tienen más vigencia. Para este tipo de conocimiento solo hay un mar donde sumergirse y esperar a que los mensajes lleguen".Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer
By Samantha D. Gottlieb. 2018
In Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine, medical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil—developed against the most common sexually-transmitted…
infection, human papillomavirus (HPV)—was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates—about adolescent sexuality and pediatric vaccinations more generally. Prior to its market debut, Gardasil seemed to offer female empowerment, touting protection against HPV and its potential for cervical cancer. Gottlieb questions the marketing pitch’s vaunted promise and asks why vaccine marketing unnecessarily gendered the vaccine’s utility, undermining Gardasil’s benefit for men and women alike. This book demonstrates why in the ten years since Gardasil’s U.S. launch its low rates of public acceptance have their origins in the early days of the vaccine dissemination. Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine addresses the on-going expansion in U.S. healthcare of patients-as-consumers and the ubiquitous, and sometimes insidious, health marketing of large pharma.While the big bad corporation has often been the offender in many of the world's greatest environmental disasters, in the…
case of the mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune the culprit is a revered institution: the US Marine Corps. For two decades now, revelations have steadily emerged about pervasive contamination, associated clusters of illness and death among the Marine families stationed there, and military stonewalling and failure to act. Mike Magner's chilling investigation creates a suspenseful narrative from the individual stories, scientific evidence, and smoldering sense of betrayal among those whose motto is undying fidelity. He also raises far-reaching and ominous questions about widespread contamination on US military bases worldwide.The Bhagavad Gita
By Eknath Easwaran. 1961
In the Bhagavad Gita, Prince Arjuna asks direct, uncompromising questions of his spiritual guide on the eve of a great…
battle. In this expanded edition of the most famous --and popular -- of Indian scriptures, Eknath Easwaran contextualizes the book culturally and historically and explains the key concepts of Hindu religious thought and the technical vocabulary of yoga. Chapter introductions, notes, and a glossary help readers understand the book's message. Most importantly, this translation uses simple, clear language to impart the poetry, universality, and timelessness of the Gita's teachings.Mindful Medical Practice
By Patricia Lynn Dobkin. 2015
This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding…
depth and meaning to a clinicians' work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives.Women's Mental Health
By Nazilla Khanlou, F. Beryl Pilkington. 2015
This book focuses on the social and societal context of women's mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it…
pays particular attention to how women's mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their relationships and interacts with the larger societal context (such as prevailing gender equality policies, income distribution, role burden, peace and security). Specific attention is given to the positive aspects of women's mental health (such as agency, resilience) and how women's personal relations across diverse domains (such as family, work, neighbourhoods) are constructed and influenced by, and in turn influence, broader societal structures/ policies/ opportunities. A unique feature of this book is that, at the end of each chapter, there is a Response section written by a non-academic such as a community member, practitioner or policy maker in which the invited authors respond to the chapter texts in the form of narrative, poetry, and/or prose, according to their various backgrounds, interests, and experiences. Clinical EFT Handbook Volume 1: A Definitive Resource For Practitioners, Scholars, Clinicians And Researchers (Clinical Eft Handbook Ser.)
By Stephanie Marohn, Dawson Church. 2013
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques or "tapping") is used by an estimated 10 million people worldwide. Yet a lack of standardization…
has led to a field in which dozens of forms of EFT, with varying degrees of fidelity to the original, can be found. This led to the establishment of Clinical EFT, the form of EFT taught in the original EFT Manual and associated materials, and validated in over 20 clinical trials. In this volume, the most noted scholars, researchers and clinicians in the field compile a definitive outline of the EFT protocol, as it is applied in medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and life coaching. This first volume covers • Biomedical and Physics Principles • Psychological Trauma • Fundamental Techniques of Clinical EFT. This series of handbooks is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand EFT as validated in research, science, and best clinical practice.Toward Post Ageing
By Scott D. Wright, Katarina Friberg Felsted. 2014
This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the…
ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a post-human vision for a post-biological future. The book presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to those that propose to extend longevity and ultimately, claim to transcend ageing itself--moving toward a transhumanistic domain and more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.5-Minute Mindfulness
By Heidi E. Spear, David B. Dillard-Wright. 2012
Mindfulness is just a moment away! You don't need to hide yourself away on a mountaintop for decades to achieve…
enlightenment. You can do it right in your own home, at work, even in the car on your daily commute. All it takes a 5 minutes - and an open mind. With "5-Minute Mindfulness", readers find quick and easy ways to calm their minds, soothe their psyches, and sustain their spirits. These potent, portable practices, meditations, postures, and exercises can be done anywhere, anytime - mini-enlightenments that can create a lifetime of joy, peace, and serenity. Show More Show LessCómo vencer la ansiedad, el estrés y los ataques de pánico
By Vincenzo Fabrocini. 2016
* La ansiedad perturba el ánimo y lo llena de temor, preocupación, incertidumbre, recelo, aprensión y espera. Sus causas son…
muy diversas conscientes o inconscientes * En este libro se proponen muchas terapias, que se pueden alternar, de forma que los distintos efectos se unan para un mismo fin * Para superar la ansiedad es necesario recorrer varios caminos: aquí encontrará una treintena de métodos biológicos que afectan al pensamiento (técnicas biomédicas) y a la acción (técnicas biofísicas). Sígalas cada día durante por lo menos dos semanas * No tenga miedo: si se ciñe a las indicaciones que se dan, ninguna de las terapias entraña riesgos para su salud. De todos modos, si prefiere someterse a ellas con más seguridad, puede solicitar el consejo de un especialista * Después de dos semanas, si no se siente mejor, rehaga el plan terapéutico. No olvide que probar una y otra vez era el lema de Galileo Galilei, padre de la investigación científica moderna Vincenzo Fabrocini, cirujano, publicista y licenciado en filosofía y letras, se dedica a la divulgación y difusión de terapias complementarias de la medicina oficial. Es presidente del comité de bioética La Torre de Turín. Ejerce de consultor medicolegal y realiza diagnósticos terapéuticosThe Psoriasis Cure details author Lisa LeVan's drug-free therapy for eliminating both the symptoms and root causes of psoriasis. The…
book begins with a clear explanation of exactly what psoriasis is and what its possible causes are. It then examines how today's commonly prescribed treatments for psoriasis may adversely affect you health. The book goes on to provide you with guidelines for LeVan's complete program. This book does not offer a quick fix for psoriasis. What The Psoriasis Cure does provide is a commonsense approach that, if followed, will help you rid your body of this condition with virtually no harmful side effects. Isn't it time to take control of your psoriasis? With The Psoriasis Cure in hand, you can.Zen Masters of Japan
By Richard Bryan Mcdaniel. 2013
Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread…
eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of China, this book concentrates on Zen's significant passage through Japan. More specifically, it describes the lineage of the great teachers, the Pioneers who set out to enlighten an island ready for an inner transformation based on compassionate awareness.While the existing Buddhist establishment in Japan met early Zen pioneers like Dogen and Eisai with fervent resistance, Zen Buddhism ultimately perservered and continued to become further transformed in its passage through Japan. The Japanese culture and Japanese Buddhism practices further deepened and strengthened Zen training by combining it with a variety of esoteric contemplative arts-the arts of poetry, the tea ceremony, calligraphy, and archery. Zen Masters of Japan chronicles this journey, and shows how the new practices soon gained in popularity among all walks of life-from the lowly peasant, offering a hope of reincarnation and a better life; to the Samurai warrior due to its casual approach to death; to the ruling classes, challenging the intelligentsia because of its scholarly roots. A collection of Zen stories, meditation, and their wisdom, Zen Masters of Japan also explores the illusive state of 'No Mind' achieved in Japan that is so fundamental to Zen practices today.Back to Life After a Heart Crisis
By Jamie Colby, Marc Wallack. 2010
A Wall Street Journal Top Pick of 2010 A top surgeon teams up with his wife, a veteran network news…
anchor, to offer a comprehensive plan for overcoming a heart trauma. A well-known and internationally recognized surgical oncologist, Dr. Marc Wallack kept fit by training as a marathoner. He was the rock of his family, at the top of his career, and an expert on health who practiced what he preached-until he suffered angina symptoms while on a run. Two days later, after discovering his arteries were 95 percent blocked, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery and found himself unprepared for the emotional fallout of his recovery. In Back to Life After a Heart Crisis, Dr. Wallack and his wife, journalist Jamie Colby, offer their moving personal story along with a one-of-a-kind, prescriptive guide to reclaiming your life after confronting the issues of mortality and vulnerability raised by a traumatic heart event-whether it be a heart attack or a surgical procedure. Brimming with inspiration and encouragement, this unique book shows readers how to regain emotional strength in tandem with healing physically by working through eight important milestones-from sleeping through the night to surviving doctor's appointments to taking on a huge physical challenge. With sidebars and tips for caregivers, Back to Life After a Heart Crisis helps patients and their loved ones heal hearts and minds and feel vibrant and full of life again.Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health: A Multicultural Perspective
By Miguel A. Perez, Helda Pinzon-Perez. 2016
A cross-cultural scientific examination of common complementary, alternative, and integrative health practices Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health: A Multicultural Perspective…
provides a critical analysis of non-allopathic healing practices, including their uses, limitations, and scientific basis. The evidence-based discussion explores complementary, alternative, and integrative health (CAIH) across various cultural and ethnic groups both in the U.S. and internationally, to give you a greater understanding of the different modalities--including a literature-backed examination of proven methods and questionable practices within a cross-cultural framework. Each chapter highlights the scientific analysis of the practices relevant to each group, and guides you toward independent analysis of the risks and benefits of the practices discussed. Emphasizing the student as a future health professional, this book includes case studies, examples, questions, and discussion problems that underscore the role of health educators in educating consumers about CAIH practices. . This book provides a solid background in CAIH for the health professional, through rigorous scientific investigation and a multicultural perspective and. helps medical professionals understand the risks, benefits, and evidence behind these practices so they can provide the best in patient care. Readers will: Understand the concepts underlying complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine Compare the use of alternative healing among various cultural and ethnic groups Delve into the scientific bases of the most commonly-used modalities Explore CAIH within the context of the Affordable Care ActBuddhism in Ten
By Annellen Simpkins, C. Alexander Simpkins. 2003
More than any other introduction to Buddhism, Buddhism in Ten provides readers with the understanding and tools they need to…
live a deeper and fuller life along Buddhist principles. Ten lessons, each inspired by an aspect of Buddhism, show how to incorporate this Eastern philosophy into your daily life. Each lesson is enhanced with several exercises-some physical, some mental, and some spiritual.The lessons include:Understanding yourself through the Eight-fold PathPracticing mindfulness and meditationOvercoming cravingsIntegrating Buddhism into your workPracticing compassion and loving kindnessLiving a happy, enlightened lifeThe books in the Ten Easy Lessons series offer easy, practical, how-to programs that complement the primarily informational books in the Simpkins' Simple series.Arthritis and Common Sense: With Illustrations And Menus (Cedar Bks.)
By Dan Dale Alexander. 2018
A startling revelation on arthritis…and what you can do about it in your own home.Here are the results of 12…
years of research by the author, Dan Dale Alexander. In these pages an authority reports on his findings about the disease…he lists successful steps which can be taken to bring relief.Laboratory tests by the author developed a plan and a dietary regime which have brought better health to arthritics and have caused their pains to disappear.The Science Editor of The New York Times has reported that arthritis is a lubrication problem. The Times said, in part, that while both cortisone and ACTH are still more precious than radium it is predicted that both are on the way out as far as arthritis is concerned.Unlike present “cures supposedly caused by costly miracle drugs, this book gives a complete outline of an inexpensive corrective diet which lubricates the patient’s joints and returns arthritis to better health.Mission to Tashkent
By Lt. 2018
Colonel F M Bailey whose extraordinary adventures are told here was long accused by Moscow of…
being a British master-spy sent in 1918 to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia As a result he enjoyed many years after his death an almost legendary reputation there that of half-hero half-villain In this remarkable book which was first published in he tells of the perilous game of cat-and-mouse lasting sixteen months which he played with the Bolshevik secret police the dreaded Cheka At one point using a false identity he actually joined the ranks of the latter who unsuspectingly sent him to Bokhara to arrest himself Told with almost breathtaking understatement Bailey s narrative set in a region once more back in the headlines reads like vintage Buchan one of the best books about secret intelligence work ever written Peter HopkirkThe Hero of Delhi: A Life of John Nicholson, Saviour of India, and a History of His Wars
By Hesketh Pearson. 2018
An Irishman, like so many other great British generals, John Nicholson received a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry at the…
age of sixteen. Apart from one short visit to England, the rest of his life was spent in India. The Afghan and Sikh wars of the eighteen-forties brought out the titanic powers of a character that “flowered in action,” and before he was thirty, “Nikal Seyn” was a legend throughout India, a god to the Sikhs and to certain fakirs who called themselves Nikal-seynites, and a thorn in the side of incompetent and idle officials of the British Government. In an unquiet country where quick movement was the secret of military success against an elusive enemy, Nicholson’s energy, even more than his absolute personal courage, was the factor that made him the most powerful instrument of British policy in India. Passionately sincere, arrogantly self-confident, insubordinate without remorse when he saw cause, and always in the right, Nicholson provoked no ordinary emotions. He was loved, admired, feared, envied, and hated in the most violent degree.The climax of his career was the Indian Mutiny. Very seldom in history have the man and the task matched each other so notably. “Mutiny is like small-pox,” he said. “It spreads quickly and must be crushed at once.” Not all his superiors thought the same, but when he had freed himself from the trammels of authority he saved the Punjab, and so India, by sheer exertion. It is a breathless story of march, surprise, and counter-march, thrusting quickly into the hills and as quickly back to Peshawar, the danger-spot. When that situation was under control he marched to Delhi, where his arrival transformed the rôle of the British troops from besieged to assaulters. The assault succeeded but cost Nicholson his life. He was thirty-four years old, a general, and “the idol of all soldiers.”Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep
By Charlie Morley. 2013
This text is a thorough and exciting exploration of lucid dreaming theory and practice within both Western and Tibetan Buddhist…
contexts. It not only explores lucid dreaming practices, but also the innovative new techniques of mindfulness of dream and sleep, the holistic approach to lucidity training which the author co-created.Find Your Focus Zone
By Lucy Jo Palladino. 2007
Being able to perform any task with full attention has become of the great unspoken-about challenges of modern life. As…
our culture has become more high-speed, techno-stressed, information-cluttered and media-saturated, we are getting pushed out of our focus zones without even realising it. If you work in a modern office, it is likely you are suffering from 'information fatigue syndrome', which means that even naturally bright and creative people are rendered incapable of making swift decisions, problem-solving efficiently or able to maintain appropriate energy levels. Award-winning psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino offers practical solutions for anyone juggling too much, who finds themselves in a state of 'continuous partial attention', seemingly unable to do any one task with full concentration. In order to help people combat the negative aspects of 'always-on' information culture, Palladino has come up with a new set of skills that will help readers beat distraction and win the fight against information overload. She provides eight sets of 'keys' that will unlock your best attention and help you balance adrenaline levels, even when you are under pressure or facing dull tasks. Rooted in sports performance psychology, yet practical and user-friendly, Palladino's cutting-edge methods will help you stay focused and enhance your performance in all areas of daily life where concentration is required.