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Meditation is one of the most popular forms of complimentary therapy for mental, emotional, and physical conditions on the planet. And when it comes to OCD, its effectiveness is no different. Meditations can help with things such as eliminating intrusive thoughts and learning to let go. Science and medicine are on the side of meditation. But even if you’re still skeptical, what do you have to lose?

A caring, up-close look at suicide with prevention and grief in one best-selling book. Why? They relate more than you realize. Considering how loved ones would grieve might be what keeps someone here. Likewise, grief can become so intense that prevention tools are needed to keep safe those left behind. With a detailed table of contents and bulleted lists, you will use this resource again and again.

Author Hattie Cooper, the blogger behind The Anxious Girl's Guide to Dating, knows anxiety. She has lived with generalized anxiety disorder for years. Hattie shares immediate, easy-to-use strategies for tackling your social anxiety disorder and creating healthy habits. Featuring expert advice from foreword writer and registered psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald, the tools in this book will help you beat your anxiety and reveal your most confident self.

If you're ready to toss the OCD rulebook aside and start living with more freedom than ever before, this book can help you step by step.

In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self or consciousness or the soul or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions. Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes.

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.

True happiness is an "inside job". Look at a happy person's life and you don't see any magic or unicorns. There's nothing in them that isn't also in you. Though external realities can certainly play a role, happiness doesn't spring from what you have, what happens to you, the situation you are in, where you are, or anything else. Happiness doesn't have much to do with money, with achievement, or with possessions, because plenty of people have all three and are still not happy. In this guide, we'll approach happiness not as something you have, but something you actively do.

Self-talk and how to use it is a popular topic in today’s culture, but this guide goes beyond definitions and motivational phrases. It explores the "how" and "why" of negative self-talk to help you master positive self-talk. With positive self-talk, you can find the self-motivation to change your life and ultimately lead you to greater success.

In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially self-psychology and relational psychotherapy) and open for the listener new perspectives on the functioning of the human mind and heart.

This book isn't just another read; it's a journey through mind-blowing scientific discoveries and philosophical debates. From religion to reason, it uncovers the truth. Are you experiencing anxiety about the future? Do you often query whether there is a God? Do you often ponder what the meaning of your life actually is? Do you know beyond any doubt, what truly good education and upbringing really are? Do you relate to any of these questions? If yes, then you really need to read this book. By engaging with religious writers and dogmatics of the past and our modern times, Greg Oliver explains...

What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bio-electrical activity in the brain? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book - part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation - describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.

Alva Noë is one of a new breed - part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist - who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the 200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.

"Enoughness" typically refers to a sense of satisfaction or having an adequate amount of something, whether it's material possessions, accomplishments, or personal fulfillment. We all want to be the best we can be. However, our negative inner critic is the disrupter. The average person will have 60,000 to 90,000 thoughts a day. Of those thoughts, 70-85% of our daily thoughts are negative. So who is this negative inner critic spewing false information in our head and driving our behavior all day and night? Well, my friend, it is you.

After suffering from intense anxiety as a child, Thomas Wakechild spent a lifetime dedicated to the study and management of fear. In Ending Fear: The “7 R” Formula for Fearless Awakening, he combines psychological, sociological, and scientific studies to support his unique “7 R” formula to overthrow your fear-based thought system for good. Once implemented, this proven seven-step system will unlock your mind’s ability to determine what principles will guide your life.

2 books in 1 1 - How to Stop Overthinking: Powerful Tactics and Ways To Transform Your Chatty Mind Into An Ally! Some of the topics that are discussed in this book are: What is overthinking? Understanding how the mind works. How anxiety and depression become the by-products of overthinking. How to stop being a victim of overthinking. Powerful tactics to boost your brain power and stop negative thoughts. What is the flow state of mind, and how to achieve it?With the help of this book, you can overcome those unhelpful, unhealthy, and repetitive negative thought patterns that enter your mind ...

Do you lie awake at night, replaying every conversation? Analyzing every word, every pause, wondering if you did something wrong? Are you constantly on edge, searching for subtle ‘signs’—a sigh, a delayed text, a mood change—even when everything seems fine? Is the stress of overthinking wearing you down? Draining you mentally and physically? Step into a world free of relationship anxiety and overthinking. Discover proven tools to stop toxic thoughts and foster deep, fulfilling connections. Learn simple, transformative techniques for building emotional stability and thriving in love.

No matter how you slice it, love comes in many disguises, with many feelings and confusions. Trying to make sense of love is almost nonsensical, but we keep on searching for ways to express how it makes us feel.

In a world where everything is at our fingertips, the tendency for anxiety, analysis paralysis, FOMO, jealousy, and unneeded comparison to pop up is all too common. Each of these issues has a common foundational root: overthinking. In the modern world, overthinking is the root cause of dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and depression. Recognize when you are overthinking, and your triggers for doing so. You will learn in this step-by-step guide how to begin battling and changing those thought patterns for good.

The average human has 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day—up to 41.6 thoughts a minute. That makes the brain an incredibly busy organ! The National Science Foundation estimates that 80 percent of daily thoughts are negative, and of these, 95 percent are repetitive. It’s no wonder so many of us are stuck in a cycle of negativity and rumination.

In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She shows us, for instance, how the height of our gestures can reveal unconscious bias or how the shape of a student’s gestures can track their mastery of a new concept—even when they’re still giving wrong answers. She compels us to rethink everything from how we set child-development milestones to what’s admissible in a court of law to whether Zoom is an adequate substitute for in-person conversation.