Modern Medicine

Ayurveda is a centuries-old practice that aims to achieve optimal health and well-being. Who doesn’t want that? We live in a fast-paced, stressful world, and the ability to slow down and focus on yourself is vital. But sometimes, it’s difficult to know how to do that. Ayurveda gives you a pathway to achieve the best level of health possible, and it’s a lot easier than you might think! If you have no idea where to start, “Ayurveda for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Embracing Ancient Wisdom for Modern Well-Being and Balance” is for you.

As a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and host of the chart-topping podcast Mindful in Minutes, Kelly Smith is no stranger to the wide-ranging health benefits of meditation. And she discovered she needed them more than ever when she became a mom for the first time. Suddenly finding herself coping with sleepless nights, disheartening physical changes, uncontrollable worries, and near constant sensory overload, Kelly found solace in the same thing she always had: her daily meditation practice.

Dr. Melody Glenn didn’t expect to find herself working with addiction patients when she started out in medicine. Like most physicians she’s encountered, she harbored a set of conscious and unconscious beliefs about addicts—she even sometimes resented them. Once she realized how effective harm reduction treatments like methadone could be, she set out to discover why these treatments weren’t used more broadly. This led her to Dr. Marie Nyswander.

Daily life can feel like a fast-paced treadmill, leaving little time to unwind, recharge and do what brings us joy. Meditation is a powerful way to hit the pause button, increase your energy and start to enjoy life more. The Effortless Mind is renowned meditation teacher Will Williams’ must-have guide for modern-day meditators. Suffering from chronic stress and insomnia, Will undertook years of research and training with leading experts from around the world, which led him to find the cure he was looking for in Vedic meditation.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than 20 years after her death, with devastating consequences....

Medicines are arguably the most highly regulated - and cost-inflated - products in the United States. The discovery, development, manufacturing, and distribution of medicines is carried out by an ever more complex and crowded set of industries, each playing a part in a larger “pharmaceutical enterprise” seeking to maximize profits. But this was not always the case. The Price of Health is the reveals the story of how the pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis.

Olivia Gordon decided to find out how, exactly, modern science saved her son’s life. Crossing medical memoir with popular science, The First Breath is an investigation into the pioneering fetal and neonatal care bringing a new generation into the world, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago.

In the fugue of deep meditation, Jaya Devi tumbles outdoors into a muggy south Florida dawn. Sliding on a pair of orange flip-flops, she cuts across a dirt path skirting the ashram lawn. She glances down as a fat black snake slithers up her bare leg, wrapping itself tight. Astonished, she pauses, exemplifying the yogi’s art of non-reaction, breathing and assessing. Here, we enter into the wild wisdom-experience of a modern yogi who uses each moment as fuel for personal transformation.

Originally written over 13 years ago, the teachings in this book have transformed the lives of people across the world, and, despite the passing of time, the advice has never been more pertinent. Having lived an extraordinary life spanning across Eastern and Western cultures, Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche, world-renowned meditation master and abbot of the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the UK, Kagyu Samye Ling, shares how simple Buddhist practices can help us all to train our minds so that we can find happiness and achieve our true potential.

Sit back, relax, meditate, and enjoy the ride. Yes, Stoicism is a philosophy. Better yet? One that can be easily be applied and can change your life forever. This audiobook contains a detailed explanation of the philosophy of Stoicism in an understandable and relatable manner. It will actively attempt to describe Stoicism in such real-life situations that the application of its ideologies will seem very achievable. This is because Stoicism is very easy in application.

Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Yet, many Americans don't realize that these choices are illusory at best. The available options in food, healthcare, education, transportation, and even online presence are largely constructed by corporations. At What Cost confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith.

A concise distillation of practical health principles based on the ancient healing system of Tibetan medical science, The Eight Principles of Good Health offers a truly holistic perspective on health care. These eight principles are mainly centered around nutritional and lifestyle practices, and not Tibetan medicine herbs, as a healthy diet and lifestyle are the most important and effective aspects of therapeutic healing.

The Dyslexic Healer, the tale of the journey of a contemporary healer, brings ancient shamanic healing skills into modern times. One morning while making breakfast, a spirit guide prompts Susie, a dyslexic artist with a healing practice, to shut down her life as she knows it. She accepts this mission and experiences her family and adventures in Sedona, Lakota sweats, and Australia.

Nourish Your Body: 10 Tips to Help You Live a Holistic Lifestyle Embark on a transformative journey towards holistic living with "Nourish Your Body: 10 Tips to Help You Live a Holistic Lifestyle." This comprehensive guide invites you to explore the profound interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit, offering practical insights to enhance your overall well-being. In this book, you'll discover: The Power of Whole Foods: Learn how to fuel your body with nutrient-dense foods that promote vitality and health. Hydration Essentials: Understand the importance of staying hydrated and strategies ...

We each create so much unnecessary suffering for ourselves. We may not be able to prevent the feeling, but we do have the power to control our reaction to it. We will all experience heartbreak at some point in our lives. People leave when we want them to stay. We feel rejected, abandoned. Broken Hearted is a practical guide to help you better understand your emotions and to take that first step to a more aware and abundant life. This isn’t an audiobook only for those following the path of Buddhism, but rather one for the spiritually inclined.

Jeremy Colledge has embarked on a tour de force of all the major healing modalities and spiritual practices, finally settling on a reboot of an ancient Chinese exercise system called Zhineng Qigong. Dr. Pang Ming built this system from ancient understandings and launched it into the 20th century. Jeremy has taken this Eastern teaching and presented it here, along with many other ideas and exercises, giving them Western relevance.

Looking for your inner oasis in the desert of modern life? Learn how you can use mindfulness and meditation to improve your life! Now, you don’t have to travel to remote forests or tropical islands to find your inner peace. This comprehensive mindfulness and meditation guide will allow you to reinvent yourself and find happiness - at the comfort of your home. Unlike other mindfulness books that only include the benefits of meditation and mindfulness, this practical inner peace audiobook will offer you a step-by-step, easy-to-follow guide on how to achieve inner peace.

This simple but powerful meditation will enable you to deeply connect with the love and compassion that exists inside yourself for the purpose of deep healing.

This book is an effort toward sensitizing the public toward the vast subject that is depression. The public even now lacks information and ideas about the real truth behind depression and its impacts. This book covers the many aspects of depression so that a listener can form a knowledge base about depression and look at it from a fresh perspective. If you are interested in looking beyond the stigma of depression or know someone who might be depressed, we hope this book comes to help in dealing with the issue with care and caution.

This is a historical, nonfiction, true story and addresses necessary changes that must be implemented, maintained, and enforced in worldwide healthcare provider professional training programs and hospitals. The book exposes abuses and enslavement policies and attitudes in health care training programs and hospital administrations worldwide and offers simple and genius remedies to eradicate these deleterious policies and slave owner attitudes of hospital administrators.