As lifelong meditators and mindfulness teachers, we confess we were almost embarrassed when we stumbled onto a 5-15 second shortcut to transcendence. This idea ran counter to everything we knew about meditation before we began our research. But, yes, it is possible. It only requires accessing the powerful emotion of awe in ordinary, everyday life. The changes in our lives have been profound, and after seeing the results repeated again and again in our thousands of patients, clients, an...

This award winning book is written as a conversation—questions and answers, back and forth between two central characters who are brothers trying to heal their relationship. One of the reasons this format is helpful is because the book teaches us a new way to communicate by allowing us to listen in on this very personal conversation.The story between the brothers is tender, honest, vulnerable and funny at times. It is an easy read with many profound lessons. It teaches us a unique ...

Learn how to microdose mindfulness using the AWE method for increased happiness and reduced anxiety and stress.Think about the last time you were truly in awe - perhaps on a walk or whilst watching a musician perform live - maybe you felt goosebumps or you lost your sense of time? Unbeknownst to you, some pretty incredible things were happening inside your body. Your fight-flight-freeze response became less active and activity decreased in your brain's default mode...

In this 2023 interview with Justine Willis Toms, psychotherapist Jake Eagle and physician Michael Amster explore the emotion of awe and how we can receive its powerful benefits in our everyday life. They tell us awe gives us a break from processing and judging unwanted events, and gives us the capacity to see through them. We can access the larger picture without traveling to the Grand Canyon or overlooking Niagara Falls; it’s available to us in our everyday life and we can tap into it wit...

The completely updated edition of this classic includes powerful methods for freeing oneself from negative self-talk, self-defeating behaviors, and limiting beliefsYour gremlin, that inner critic that narrates your life, interprets your every experience. He has nothing good to say about you or anything you do. Just when you feel you’ve out-argued him, he changes his strategy. Grapple with him and you become more enmeshed. What he hates is simply being noticed. That’s the first step...

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah WinfreyFrom the host of Iyanla: Fix My Life and #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Meantime comes a powerful companion workbook to help you move from heartbreak and confusion to healing and love.Are you feeling stuck, anxious, or emotionally drained? Are your relationships falling apart—or simply falling short? You may be living...

Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence. It is written in the words of a woman who came from Lebanon to Canada at the age of sixteen and experienced what it was like to have fate push her to a place where she didn't belong. It is written in the voice of every person who has felt unheard, mistreated, misjudged, or unseen.The book contains over 200 one-page refle...

Liberate yourself from the limitations and judgments imposed by your inner critic, and develop “soul qualities” to experience freedom and vitalityWhether we call it the inner critic or the superego, most of us have a judge within who nags us and is constantly on our case. Byron Brown provides a comprehensive guide to understanding how the inner critic works as well as practical, positive suggestions for breaking free of it. Using straightforward language and everyd...

The needs of the self-aware are different. Many of us are overly empathic, and many are extra sensitive to certain foods, medicines, situations, and people.If you have physical or emotional ailments, are overweight, have allergies, or are inexplicably lethargic, unfocused, or feeling lost, there is a reason. Your energetic sensitivities likely have caused you to take on the pain, unhappiness, and other disease of the people around you. Self-Care for the Self-Aware provides a solutio...

With exercises, practical tools, and inspiring stories, Deeper Dating will guide you on a journey to find the love—and personal fulfillment—you long forLose weight. Be confident. Keep your partner guessing. At the end of the day, this soulless approach to dating doesn't lead to love but to insecurity and desperation. In Deeper Dating, Ken Page presents a new path to love. Out of his decades of work as a psychotherapist and his own personal struggl...

Everyone values honest communication, yet few people possess the requisite skills in both their personal and professional lives. Susan Campbell provides simple yet practical awareness practices — culled from her thirty-five-year career as a relationship coach and corporate teamwork consultant — that require individuals to ?let go? of the need to be right, safe, and certain. Such questions as ?In what areas of my life do I feel the need to lie, sugarcoat, or pretend?? help guide the reader ...

INFPs, one of the personalities within the Myers-Briggs Inventory, often feel alienated from the rest of the world. They can see a different universe—one that is far more interesting and ideal than the realities of "ordinary life." Although there are struggles to being an INFP, there are also lots of perks. This book tells the stories of an INFP, giving a personal narration about what its like to be this unique—and often misunderstood—personality type. The book also covers the INFPs' cogni...