Mind, Body, Spirit

Don't get stressed out, get the stress out! Best-selling author Mike George's 1,001 Ways to Relax is a chunky, charmingly illustrated volume packed with quick fixes like visualization and aromatherapy, as well as big-picture solutions such as eliminating clutter, overcoming bad habits, and creating more harmonious relationships with family and friends. Organized by theme, the book looks at the most common sources of tension and pressure, and offers practical solutions that bring self-assurance, tranquility, and acceptance.

Goldie Hawn teaches caregivers how to help shape their child's brain for a lifetime of resilience and happiness. Readers learn the steps to empower children to manage and reduce their own stress. In implementing this model, caregivers also experience positive effects of mindfulness, compassion, and kindness.

Driven by her lifelong interest in the practice of mindfulness and her commitment to the welfare of children everywhere, Goldie Hawn established the Hawn Foundation to support research into developing ways of helping children become healthy and eager learners who can reach their full potential. The program developed by her foundation, MindUP, now used by educators around the world, teaches children how their minds work and how their thoughts and feelings affect their behavior. It gives them the social and emotional tools to help them deal with stress and negative feelings, calm their minds, remain focused, develop compassion and empathy for others and, ultimately, be happy.

After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks of a hypercompetitive business, but had also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.

Eventually Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain. 10% Happier takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives. (From back cover).

Small changes add up. In this practical and encouraging guide, you’ll learn how even small changes can increase your mental well-being. By making one small, achievable change every week – from listening to music to eating brain-boosting foods, expressing gratitude, practicing meditation, and exploring the outdoors – you can reinforce the foundation of your overall health and happiness: your brain. 52 Small Changes for the Mind offers a holistic plan for lasting health with simple tips for living more mindfully every day. (From back cover.)

By summarizing in short, easy-to-read “keys” the theory and brain science that underpin our ability to form relationships, Daniel Hughes skillfully reveals how we can become better friends, spouses, siblings, and children. For anyone interested in how to develop meaningful new relationships or how to deepen and enrich their current ones, this book makes sense of it all. Foreword by Babette Rothschild.