Personal Practice

What does it mean to be both devout and modern? To live a life shaped by Jewish law while thriving in a world of technology, academia, and cultural diversity? Modern Orthodox Judaism for Beginners is your roadmap to understanding a faith that embraces tradition without retreating and engages with modernity without surrendering. Master the foundations of Jewish law. What is Halakha, and why does it still shape Jewish life today? Discover how it governs everything from ethics to daily routines, guiding everything from keeping kosher to handling workplace dilemmas. Faith and reason go hand in ...

'Enhancing Your Relationships Through The Practice Of Self-Discipline' is a potential book that covers the topic of maintaining healthy relationships and practising self-discipline. You will be able to know how self-discipline can contribute to building and maintaining healthy relationships, as well as provide practical advice and strategies for developing self-discipline in all areas of life. The book emphasizes the importance of effective communication, mutual respect, and trust in relationships and highlights the role of self-discipline in achieving these elements. Additionally, it ...

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

The first practical guide to applying the ancient healing art of Hawaiian shamanism to our modern lives. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation - in contrast to the widely known way of the warrior, which emphasizes solitary quests and conquest by power. Now, even if you can't get out into the wilderness or undertake a long apprenticeship with a shaman, you can learn to practice the art of shamanism.

When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was 10 years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister. She eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which conducts the state's search-and-rescue operations when people go missing in the wilderness.

The world is a very religious place. Wherever you look, people are worshipping, praying, believing, following, even dying for their faith. But what does it mean to be religious? Are all religions the same? Do they all call on the same God simply using different names? Are their beliefs and practices simply cultural expressions of the same spiritual longings? This audiobook presents each of the world's five major systems of faith, carefully outlining the history, doctrines, beliefs, and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Whether you're struggling with racing thoughts, emotional tension, or long-term insomnia, this trauma-informed self-hypnosis program offers a safe, natural path back to deep and restorative rest. Unlike rigid sleep routines or performance-based techniques, these guided sessions are designed to help you unlearn the stress of not sleeping, and recondition your body and subconscious mind to rest with ease.

Chronic Niceness affects multitudes, causing severe anxiety and depression, crippling self-esteem, and undermining and destroying relationships. Anxious to Please reveals the primary psychological cause of Chronic Niceness: Anxious Attachment. Anxious Attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict. Nice People take what they're given rather than asking for what they want, often sacrificing relationship, careers and their own integrity.

A creative life isn’t about willpower. It’s about practice. What if the secret to a deeply fulfilling life wasn’t found in rigid goals or sheer willpower—but in the rhythm of your daily practices? In The 9 Practices, Christopher Downing explores a revolutionary approach to personal growth—one built on intention, creativity, and sustainable momentum. Through engaging storytelling and practical insights, he reveals how crafting a set of personal practices can help you align with your values, overcome resistance, and navigate life’s inevitable ups and downs.

Whether you're striving for better health, a more productive career, or a happier personal life, the secret to lasting change lies in the smallest of habits. In this empowering book, you'll learn how to harness the science of habit formation to create tiny, manageable actions that seamlessly integrate into your daily routine.

Love has the power to wound us . . . and the power to heal us. And modern love is complicated. Which is why the ability to cultivate healthy relationships is the key to joy, peace, and a meaningful life. In Love Every Day, relationship expert and bestselling author Dr. Alexandra Solomon offers 365 daily practices to cultivate a curious and compassionate approach to your relationships with others, as well as your relationship with yourself.

At the end of my day, I review the day; I don't judge it, I simply review it. I look over the entire day, all the episodes, all the events, all the conversations, all the meetings, and then as I see it clearly in my mind's eye, I rewrite it. I rewrite it and make it conform to the ideal day I wish I had experienced.

This small book can change everything if you let it. It's Up to You is based on the twelve principles in the author's Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow: tending to our own gardens, focusing on solutions not problems, letting go of preconceived solutions, changing our minds, acting instead of reacting, giving up judgments, giving up trying to control, discovering our own lessons, doing no harm, quieting our minds, treating every encounter as the holy, and discerning our mind's own truth.

Creating a Life of Emotional Freedom: A Practical Guide to Healing, Resilience, and Authentic Living is a transformative guide designed to help you break free from the emotional baggage that holds you back. Whether you’re struggling with past wounds, limiting beliefs, or a lack of emotional resilience, this practical book offers actionable steps to heal, grow, and embrace a more authentic life. With clear explanations, relatable examples, and empowering exercises, this book provides a roadmap for achieving emotional freedom and lasting joy. You'll learn how to let go of the past, build ...

This manual is for singles and couples who are not only interested in the theory of Integral Relationships as outlined in my previous two books Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men, and Sex Purpose Love: Couples in Integral Relationships Creating a Better World, but also in the deep understanding that can only be gained through embodied practices and experiences. It is for those who realize that to become fully human means to develop the capacity to be simultaneously whole in ourselves AND part of healthy, sustainable love relationships and nuclear families, who then form the foundation...

The Supernova Multiplier provides expert guidance to the revolutionary wealth management model that has transformed the lives and businesses of financial professionals worldwide. The innovative Supernova method enables financial advisors to rapidly grow their business, efficiently manage time, and maximize client satisfaction. The Five Stars of the Supernova model - Segmentation, Organization, Planning, Acquisition, and Leadership - provide financial advisors with the tools and knowledge to propel their practices to new heights of performance.

Spinal breathing pranayama is one of the most important practices in all of yoga, producing positive effects in our health, well-being, and every aspect of our daily living. Moreover, this simple daily practice purifies and opens us to our ecstatic inner realms, taking us on an exciting journey to inner space. The consequences of this journey are as practical as they are profound.

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Empower yourself through living in the present moment and letting go with mindfulness. In this audiobook, you will find out how to take charge of your life and make the decision to live the way you would like. By choosing to live a life with more meaning, one that makes you better connected, you are off to a great start toward the mindfulness that you seek. The peace you will gain while learning to live a life of mindfulness is priceless.

A decade in the classroom. Now available to everyone. “A beautiful blend of psychology and soul. If you’re tired of hustle culture and ready to feel rich from the inside out, this is your new essential guide.” What if abundance isn’t something you earn—but something you remember? In a world that tells us to hustle harder and consume more, FLOURISH invites you to slow down, look inward, and rediscover the wealth already within you. This isn’t just about finances—it’s about mindset, meaning, and the quiet power of enough. Used for over a decade in classrooms, coaching circles,...

This wonderfully fresh and revelatory book invites you to create a personal yoga practice that seamlessly melds health and well-being with spiritual insight, Earth stewardship, and cultural transformation. Wilderness guide and yoga instructor Rebecca Wildbear came to yoga after a life-threatening encounter with cancer in her twenties. Over years of teaching and healing, she devised the unique and user-friendly practice she presents in Wild Yoga. In this book, she guides you in connecting to the natural world and living from your soul while also addressing environmental activism.