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Meditation: Where to Begin

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

By Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn

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The bible for secular mindfulness!

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

By Jon Kabat-Zinn

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A lovely poetic series of reflections to accompany Full Catastrophe Living...

Meditation For Dummies, with Audio CD

By Stephan Bodian, Dean Ornish

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A wide range of meditation practices suitable for beginners with CD...

Secular Meditation: 32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy - A Guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard

By Greg Epstein, Rick Heller

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From the meditation leader of the Humanist Mindfulness Group at Harvard University....

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness

By Jon Kabat-Zinn, John Teasdale, Mark Williams

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Highly recommended by many therapists, includes a helpful CD...

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Talking Back to Anxiety
  • The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook: 6th Edition

    By Edmund Bourne

  • Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway

    By Susan Jeffers

  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free...

    By Georg H. Eifert, John P. Forsyth

  • The 10 Best Anxiety Busters: Simple Strategies To Take Control Of Your Worry

    By Margaret Wehrenberg

  • Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to be Your Best and...

    By Harriet Lerner

Getting Better at Getting Mad

When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: 10 Simple Solutions for Couples Who Fight

By Matthew McKay, Kim Paleg

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A simple, practical books for couples...

Anger: A Message for Men

By Keith Ashford

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A good book for guys...

Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

By Harriet Lerner

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The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Calm Your Rage and Heal Your Relationships

By Paul Gilbert, Russell L Kolts

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Cultivate compassion and overcome your anger!

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger: Using DBT Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger

By Alexander L. Chapman, Kim L. Gratz, Marsha M. Linehan

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Learn to use CBT for emotional regulation of your triggers and anger.

Mind

Are We Losing Our Minds?

Article By Barb Minett

Date: 5 Feb 2015

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The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

There are some people who can recite the whole Koran. A few memorization freaks can perform all of Shakespeare's soliloquys. But the rest of us have probably been seduced by speed dial and bookmarks. The memory centres of our brain are caving in and Mark Fenske, a professor of neurology at University of Guelph, can tell you how to save yourself from the fog of memory. In an article in the Globe and Mail he proclaims, "Gadgets are making us stupid!" He has also written A Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success. You've heard the proverb "Use it or lose it." Now's the time!

But memory isn't the only loser in today's techno-culture. The brilliant Jaron Lanier, who was one of the pioneers of virtual reality, warns of the dark side of the Internet in You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Once an optimist about the possiblities of creativity in digital culture, he now warns of cyber totalitarianism, homogenization of thinking, and pack mentality.

He decries, "We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good." That's why he's spending a lot of time these days playing ancient instruments. You are not a gadget!

 

 

 

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