Full Catastrophe Living is a manual for developing your personal meditation practice and learning how to use mindfulness to promote improved health and healing in your life. It is based on John Kabat-Zinn's highly acclaimed stress reduction programme, used in medical centres worldwide.

It provides easy-to-follow meditation techniques, a details eight-week practice schedule and dozens of success stories to show you how to use mindfulness to cope with a wide range of problems, including medical symptoms, physical and emotional pain anxiety and panic, time pressures, relationships, work and events outside the world.

This new edition has been revised and updated to include the latest research in support of mindfulness-based programmes and their effectiveness for stress reduction, symptom regulation and emotional balance. it is a practical guide for anyone, well or ill, who seek a greater level of health and well-being.

There is no longer any doubt that the way we think affects our bodies: countless scientific studies have shown this to be true.  For former pharmaceutical scientist Dr David Hamilton, the testing of new drugs highlighted how profoundly the mind and body are connected.  Time and time again, the control group of patients in drug trials improved at similar rates to those who actually received the medicines.  Astounded, Dr Hamilton decided to change the direction of his work to explore the relationship between the mind and body.

This bestselling acclaimed book was first published 10 years ago.  In it, Dr Hamilton explores the effects of visualization, belief and positive thinking on the body, and shows how using our imagination and mental processes can stimulate our own defences and healing systems to combat disease, pain and illness.

In this new edition, Dr Hamilton has added four new chapters to discuss the latest cutting-edge information and extraordinary new techniques.  These include using imagery to stimulate the immune system – a method that can benefit cancer patients, undergoing conventional treatment – effectively using the mind to speed up rehabilitation from stroke, and powerful visualisation strategies to help facilitate recovery from injury and illness.

David Hamilton is a former scientist from within the pharmaceutical industry. Now a bestselling author, he travels throughout the world, offering talks and workshops to help people to understand the power of the mind on the body.

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What goes on in the brain when we meditate?  Are we biologically programmed to need religious and mystical experiences?  Can the benefits of meditation be measured?

In The Blissful Brain Dr Shanida Nataraja explores the extraordinary research that shows practices such as meditation, tai chi and yoga are not only helpful in reducing stress; they may actually be crucial for good health and optimal brain functioning.

From the effects of meditation on blood pressure and depression to the latest insights from brain imaging studies, in this book reveals the scientific evidence that proves meditative practices should be at the very heart of our healthcare system.

Dr Shanida Nataraja has a PhD in Neurophysiology from University College, London and held a post-doctoral research position at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore.  She is a senior medical writer at a medical education agency and is a regular meditator and yoga practitioner. 

When pharmaceutical scientist Dr David Hamilton observed the results of tests on new drugs, he noticed that patients receiving the control placebo pills reported the same level of improvement as people receiving the actual drug. Seeing this result repeat itself time and time again, he became fascinated by the mind-body connection and started to research the work of scientists, mystics and healers working in this field. The result is this ground-breaking book, in which Dr Hamilton explains how the mind and emotions can influence the wellbeing of our body and even the structure of our DNA.

In this edition of David's influential book, he has added information from recent scientific studies and the latest extraordinary evidence about:

. the physical impact of meditation on the body

. why sending thoughts of healing to a person helps them to heal

. how the power of love impacts the growth of cells in the body

. how our thoughts and feelings affect how quickly we heal.

Mindfulness is more than a set of tools to help manage the stresses of life; it's also about enhancing your overall wellbeing. In Mindfulness for Life, bestselling author and mindfulness teacher Oli Doyle shows you how living in the present moment can help in all areas of your life, including work, relationships, family life, creativity, memory and decision making. The easy-to-follow plan is broken down into six-week segments, with each week focused on a basic mindfulness principle. This book is also accompanied by daily online exercises to help your mind work more effectively and build your confidence.

TAKE A BREAK FROM YOUR MIND AND STEP INTO THE PRESENT MOMENT WITH MINDFULNESS FOR LIFE.

This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within its pages are the secrets to making all your dreams come true.  In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distils the essence of his teachings into seven simple yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.

‘A must-read for anyone who missed The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran’

How much love do you have for yourself? Not the narcissistic ‘Aren’t I wonderful’ kind of love, but the essential regard for self that empowers you and helps you navigate through life. The type of love that enables you to feel safe and secure in who you are and inspires you to make choices that are good for your authentic self.

When scientist David Hamilton realized that his own lack of self-love was sabotaging him in hundreds of subtle ways and more than a handful of major ways, he devised an experiment using himself as the guinea pig. For more than a year David studied the latest research into brain chemistry, neuroscience, and psychotherapeutic and personal development techniques. He realized that self-love was as much about biology as psychology – that self-worth is in our genes, but trained out of us. The biological drive to seek connection with others often leads us to try to be ‘someone else’ to win love and approval. But the brain can be reprogrammed, and David devised 27 powerful exercises that he tested on himself and presents in the book to help you:

• Increase your own level of self-worth
• Connect powerfully with your authentic self
• Attain a greater sense of happiness and general wellbeing
• Create stronger and more real connections with others

One of the world's great meditation teachers offers guided exercises that will bring both beginnings and experienced practitioners into closer touch with their bodies, their inner selves, their families, and the world.  In this revised edition of the classic text, five new meditations show readers how mindful consumption and mindful actions can help prevent suffering and water the seeds of compassion; how to be in touch with our buddha selves; and how to deepen our relationships with our parents.  Compassionate and wise, Thich Nhat Hanh’s healing words help us acknowledge and dissolve anger and separation by illuminating the way towards the miracle of mindfulness.

OPEN YOURSELF TO THE TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE OF THE POWER OF NOW

Hugely successful and internationally bestselling author Eckhart Tolle guides us through a challenging but extraordinarily rewarding journey to find THE POWER OF NOW.  We learn that we can find our way out of psychological pain; authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now; the silence and space all around us is one of the keys to entering inner peace.  In the Now, the present moment, problems do not exist.  In the Now, we discover that we are already complete and perfect.

Meditation helps us to defuse stress, experience greater tranquilly, find a sense of wholeness strengthen our relationships and face our fears.

Meditation helps sharpen focus, lower blood pressure and reduce chronic pain.

Meditation helps protect the brain against ageing and improves or capacity for learning new thing.  And it’s as easy as sitting down and taking a breath.

The power of meditation is the most effective, appropriate guide to this transformative skill.  Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques, Sharon Salsberg, distilling 30 years of teachings experience, shows how to start and maintain an effective meditation practice.  With clear lessons on concentration, mindfulness, and loving kindness laid out in the book and CD you’ll see the potential to transform your life in 20 minutes a day.

It’s not religious, it’s not navel-gazing.  Meditation will help you engage in the world and will help you find resilience, peace clarity and balance.

Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe will set you free on a visual journey of self-discovery.  Set against a surreal backdrop of intricate ink illustrations, you will find nine metaphysical lessons with dreamlike instructions that require you to open your heart to unexplained inner landscapes.  From setting fire to your anxieties to sharing a cup of tea with your inner demons, you will learn how to let go and truly connect with the world around you.

Whether you need a little inspiration or a completely new life direction.  Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe provides you with the necessary push to find your true path-and a whimsical adventure to enjoy on the way there.

Is a highly accessible guide, combining the Dalai Lama’s eastern spiritual traditional with Dr Howard C. Cutler’s western perspective.  They apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to every facet of life and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedom.  For the many who wish to understand more about the Dalai Lama’s approach to living, there has never been a book which brings his beliefs to vividly into the real world.

The 10th anniversary edition of this international bestseller A New Earth will change your life.

Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth is a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement, leading readers to new levels of consciousness and inner peace.

Taking off from The Power of Now, which was a number one bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritual evolved place to live.

Shattering modern ideas of the ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium and illuminates a path to health and happiness that every reader can follow.

Ruby Wax shows us just how our minds can send us mad as our internal critics play on a permanent loop tape.  She has been on a tough, but enlightening journey through depression which has taken her from the Priory to now having an MA from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy.

Here she helps us to all understand why we sabotage our sanity, how our brains work and how we can rewire our thinking to find calm in a frantic world.

Helping you become the master, not the slave of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.

In societies that encourage us to compete with each other, compassion is often seen as a weakness.  Striving to get ahead, self-criticism, fear, and hostility towards others seem to come more naturally to us.

The compassionate mind explains the evolutionary and social reasons why our brains react so readily to threats – and reveals how our brains are also hardwired to respond to kindness and compassion.

Research has found that developing kindness and compassion for ourselves and others builds confidence, helps us create meaningful, caring relationships and promotes physical and mental health.  Far from fostering emotional weakness, practical exercises focusing on developing compassion have been found to subdue our anger and increase our courage and resilience to depression and anxiety 

Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain.  He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War 1, but first used the term “synchronicity” in a 1930 lecture in reference to the unusual psychological insights generated from consulting the I Ching. A long correspondence and friendship with the Noble Price-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli stimulated a final, mature statement of Jung’s thinking on synchronicity, originally published in 1952 and reproduced here.  Together with a wealth of historical and contemporary material, this essay describes, and astrological experiment Jung conducted to test his theory.  Synchronicity reveals the full extent of Jung’s research into a wide range of psychic phenomena.

The concept of archetypes and the idea of a collective unconscious are two of Jung’s most famous and exciting ideas, In this volume, taken from the Collected Works and appearing in paperback for the first time, Jung describes and elaborates upon these two central concepts of his psychology.  Included are essays on specific archetypes, a study of the process of individuation, and an account of mandala symbolism.  The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is profusely illustrated with many illustrations in full colour.

Mindfulness – a way of paying attention to whatever arises from moment to moment, in yourself, others and the world around you – enhances reliance by enabling people to more quickly renew themselves.  Offsetting stress and reducing the risk of burnout.  Fusing the ancient art of mediative practice within scientific research, this approach develops self-awareness and an empathic understanding of other, raises emotional intelligence and enables employees to build more resonant relationships both inside and outside the workplace.

In addition to describing the latest neuroscience research into the effects of mindfulness training, the book lays out a details 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training course that has been specifically customized for the workplace.

For executives and employees, The Mindfulness Workplace offers insights into the process and potential benefits of mindfulness training.  For processionals interested in individual and team effectiveness, it suggests ways to significantly advance workplace dynamics and provides the hands-on tools and advice needed to implement lasting change.