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Leap Before You Look is a collection of short, guided catalysts to shift you "out of your mind" to the infinite possibilities of the present moment. What's more, these 30 "two-minute" shortcuts will allow you to embody this realization in your daily life, from one minute to the next, wherever you may be.

When we experience an emotional crisis, memories of the event are channeled through unique brain pathways where they remain hidden yet profoundly affect our feelings and actions throughout life. In Clearing Your Past, award-winning author and therapist Lynne Finney shares recent discoveries about memory and trauma and her own experience healing childhood sexual abuse to teach a direct way to uncover and heal the painful memories from your past.

Who is currently running your life? The answer—mostly unbeknownst to us—is that none of us operates from a single self. Instead, we unconsciously move between different personas or defender selves, formed in childhood to help protect us from perceived threats that tell us we’re not good enough. In many cases, the defender serves a useful purpose, but it can also be defensive and highly reactive to any experience of criticism. The Reckoning is a journey of awakening designed to surface the beliefs, habits, biases, fears, and rationalizations of our defenders that prevent us from being our best.

We often think surrender means defeat - yet Dr. Judith Orloff has learned that surrender is the key to a powerful, effective, joyous way of being. "Surrender allows us to let go of our compulsion to overthink, doubt our intuition, and hold back from our complete experience of living," teaches Dr. Orloff. With The Ecstasy of Letting Go, she presents a practice-based audio to help us apply the insights of her best seller The Ecstasy of Surrender to our everyday lives.

Stress is a normal part of life, but too much stress can wera us out and lower our resistance to illness. On Stress Relief, Dr. Martin L. Rossman provides clinically proven techniques for managing both the internal and external causes of stress. "These practices often yield immediate, positive results," explains Dr. Rossman.

Creativity, offers Thomas Moore, can make your life sacred. On Thomas Moore on Creativity, the bestselling author of Care of the Soul opens a doorway to a life rich in the blessings of everyday creativity. With a sweeping command of history and art, Moore transports us to the age of the great philosophers, who saw creativity as a direct link to God.

Do you have a job - or a vocation? A career, or a calling to a special destiny? In this thought-provoking program, Thomas Moore shares his vision of what we can do to restore fullness and depth to this dispirited dimension of our lives. Moore uncovers the sacred roots of work life, and shows how, even in this age of technology, it remains a direct path to discovering who we really are.

The Inuit, Maori, and many other cultures have no word for art in their languages. For them, all life is art. Now you can discover for yourself the pleasure and purpose of the creative spirit you were born with and become the artist you were born to be - with Artlife. The everyday objects of our ancestors - their baskets and clay pots, dyed blankets and stone tools - were made not only to fulfill functions but also to express meaning. Making art was inseparable from living.

Given the undeniable reality of a cancer diagnosis, how can you create joy, health, and hope? In Cancer as a Turning Point, Volume II, 11 inspiring authors, many of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses, reframe the healing process in a positive, creative, and spiritual light. Central to this collection is a revisioning of cancer as the wisdom disease - the illness that can teach us how to live.

In Appetites, best-selling author Geneen Roth looks beyond her 15 years of pioneering work with women, food, and body image to ask the greatest of questions: What truly nourishes the human spirit? Through the lens of her own life experience, Roth examines the core of spirituality and the feelings and behaviors that can mask it. What happens when deep inner need is answered only with external "satisfaction"?

We access great power when we cooperate with the movement of life, teaches Eckhart Tolle. In Intelligence Beyond the Mind, Tolle compares the voice of the thinking mind with the non-conceptual pace of awarenesshe calls "unconditioned consciousness." When we break free from egoic thinking and it enddless problems and complaints, he explains, we stop working against life and instead relax into the natural flow of universal love.

While it may be true that nobody is perfect, it is also true that each one of us is inherently whole - and the pathway to healing begins with this recognition. So teaches Cyndi Dale in Healing Through the Chakra,s an exploration of the healing potential of the body's subtle energy system and our ability to work with illnesses directly at the source.

Wealth advisors and spiritual practitioners Spencer Sherman and Brent Kessel take us on a journey to discover what they call radical sufficiency. When we learn to approach our lives with a genuine sense of "enoughness", we begin to naturally appreciate who and what we are and are freed from the fear and disappointment that have driven our lives previously.

The path to freedom from depression is well-traveled - and filled with unexpected rewards. Dr. James Gordon challenges the common medical model of depression as a strictly physical disease that is best treated with drugs - instead, he sees it as a wake-up call that our lives are out of balance. This guided visualization establishes two healing resources: Helping you create your safe place and introducing you to your inner wisdom guide.

With How to Have a Kid and a Life, popular journalist and Good Morning America parenting expert Ericka Sóuter shares her tips for being a happy, whole person while still being a great, and sometimes just good enough (which is plenty fine), parent.

Is it possible to experience - and sustain - a state of being in which all of our desires and needs are realized? Can we all taste "perfect wisdom"? On Realizing Unconditioned Awareness, we join Peter Fenner to begin to discover, rest in, and enjoy what he calls our "ultimate nature", a space of contentless awareness in which nothing needs to be done and nothing needs to be thought about or understood.

Dr. Andrew Weil tells us that meditation is a way of engaging the relaxation response, as well as a way of decreasing chronic, nervous driving of the cardiovascular and digestive systems. In this beginner-friendly talk, he clarifies what meditation really is, how and why it works, and ways we can take advantage of this simple yet powerful practice in our own lives.

An "everyday leader" can be anyone - especially you. Ash Beckham presents an inspiring and research-backed guide on the eight essential qualities for healing division and making a positive impact in your workplace, home, and community: Empathy, Responsibility, Courage, Grace, Individuality, Humility, Patience, and Authenticity.

The word revolution implies fundamental change. It also means a full return to one's original starting point. In The Art of Spiritual Leadership in Business, William C. Miller invites you to return to your inner spirit to lead from your deepest life purpose and the intrinsic values that you hold.

A job or your destiny? Designed to help job seekers align their outer careers with their inner values, The Beginner's Guide to Finding Your Perfect Job offers a radical new approach to career change for our times. Author Rick Jarow - founder of the national "Anti-Career" Workshop seminars - reveals the seven principles of career transformation that can help you move beyond self-limiting thoughts and patterns "so the work you do in the world reflects your integrity, passion, and sense of purpose."