In Discovering Your Spirit Animal, shamanic healer Lucy Harmerpresents a practical approach to understanding spirit animals andapplying their power to specific situations in daily life. Writtenin clear, simple language and featuring compelling stories andanecdotes, the book explains what a spirit animal is, describes itspurpose, and shows that understanding the “medicine” of one’sspirit animal—assimilating its qualities and characteristics—allowsone to apply the lessons and messages they convey and use them forpersonal transformation. Lucy Harmer notes that particular animalsthat cross one’s path or appear repeatedly nearby probably want usto share in their medicine, their teaching, their energy, and theirspirit. Discovering Your Spirit Animal provides guidance for meeting andgetting to know one’s spirit animal through easy exercises andshamanic techniques. Lucy Harmer explains how to discover thestrengths, qualities, and skills one shares with one’s personalspirit animal, enablin

First developed as a short manual for students in a yearlongmeditation course, Presence Meditation offers a step-by-stepprogram for increasing self-awareness through simple but revelatoryexercises. The practice of presence meditation involves becomingpresent to whatever is going on and letting things be just as theyare. This awareness is characterized by open attention and neutralobservation, which increases the capacity to observe withoutjudging, enables transformation without forcing, and opens the wayto a more immediate sense of meaning and joy in life. AuthorJens-Erik Risom begins by describing the purpose of meditation andthe “four introductions” (rootedness, attention to breathing,fullness of feeling, and witness awareness), and then presents thegradual steps for achieving presence, deepening neutrality, openingto trust, sensing spaciousness, and more. There are many books about meditation on the market, from Westernauthors like Eckhart Tolle to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. But manypeople

Book De*ion The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent witmake difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id-- but somehow it slipped your mind. Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life andthought of the man whose discovery of psychoanalysis revolutionizedour attitudes towards mental illness, religion, sex, and culture.This documentary cartoon book plunges us into the world oflate-nineteenth-century Vienna in which Freud grew up. We explorehis early background in science, his work as a therapist, hisencounter with cocaine, and his theories on the unconscious,dreams, the Oedipus Complex, and sexuality. We meet his family, his friend and enemies, and his patients --The Rat Man, Anna O., Little Hans -- and we get an insider's viewas the psychoanalytic movement is launched. The zany art andprobing text do an extraordinary job of simplifying Freud withouttrivializing him.

A new addition to the popular Perfect Health Libraryseries--now available in paperback. Ayurveda, the ancient Indianscience of life, is ideally suited to help with the problem ofinsomnia, in which the mind is known to play a considerable role.In this volume, Dr. Chopra shows readers how to fall asleep easily,feel rested upon arising, identify and eliminate the imbalancescausing insomnia, and more.

In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, DawnPrince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism tothe moment, as a young woman, when she entered the Woodland ParkZoo in Seattle and became immediately fascinated with the gorillas.By observing them and, later, working with them, Prince-Hughes wasfinally able to emerge from her solitude and connect to livingbeings in a way she had never previously experienced. More than a story of au tism, Songs of the Gorilla Nation is apoignant, beautifully written exploration of the rich landscape ofhuman emotion and the ways we learn to love.

Stirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior andemperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personalityof a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing thatsuffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic detachment inthe face of inevitable pain, loss and death.

Everyone has a list of favorite movies, but few people trulyunderstand how much these movies reveal about our personalities.Cinescopes invites readers to find their ten favorite movies in aglossary of more than 3,000 popular films and then offersspectacular insights into what our most-loved films reveal aboutourselves. Using a unique blend of pop psychology, astrology, andcinematic analysis, Cinescopes profiles sixteen different types ofmovie fans, complete with their own unique strengths, weaknesses,secrets, and characteristic behaviors. Along the way, you'll alsodiscover how you measure up to other kinds of movie buffs,including your best and worst relationship matches, your personalnemesis, and even other movies you may enjoy. Cinescopes is awonderful conversation starter and a delightful gift forpop-culture enthusiasts of all ages.

Chi is the invisible energy of life that flows in and aroundus throughout the universe. Used skillfully, it can have aremarkable effect on health and vitality—to the degree that you’dbe tempted to call it magical, if it weren’t so completely natural.Here is a perfect introduction to chi that explains in a direct andsimple way what it is and why it is essential to a healthy andvital life. It provides an easy-to-understand explanation of chi,and then helps readers recognize, develop, and strengthen their ownchi through specific breathing techniques and basic exercises, alldemonstrated by the author. There are many books on chi development through t’ai chi and qigongpractice, but this one goes deeper to enable you to understand thefundamental principles as you cultivate it. This book is areference for alternative health professionals such asacupuncturists and shiatsu therapists and their patients, as wellas for anyone who practices t’ai chi, qigong, aikido, and otherchi-based martial arts.

Lost in Love? Let an ordinary deck of playing cards uncover your romanticdestiny. Regardless of whether you’re wondering about the cute divorcé inthe next office, working through an issue with your longtimepartner, or convinced last night’s blind date may really be theone, here is your guide to the laws of love. Using a deck ofplaying cards and The Oracle of Love, anyone can learn how tospread out the cards and read them like a pro. The Oracle of Love will help single women: ? Size up the character of the new men in their lives ? Predict the future of new alliances ? Determine what went wrong in past relationships And it will show women in established relationships how to: ? Better understand their partners ? Enjoy the many phases—including the ups and downs—of longtimeunions ? Deepen the love and compassion between them Whether you’re well versed in the ancient wisdom of the cards, anewcomer to d