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How art heals is a mystery as old as civilization itself. To the first shamans, no remedy was more important than the medicine of the imagination. Now you can learn to access this natural medicine and explore your own soul's capacity for self-healing with Shaun McNiff's Art Can Heal Your Life.

Why do we eat too much? Because we are hungry - but not for more food. In Feeding the Hungry Heart, you will learn how a deep internal hunger for self-respect and fulfillment often translates into compulsive eating. Geneen Roth - a "no more diets" pioneer for more than 15 years - has helped thousands of women look at the real truth about the unconscious motivations that can lead to distorted eating patterns.

Happiness is your birthright and it is readily available at any given moment, teaches Pema Chodron. So, why do we live in such suffering? "The potential for happiness is not based on outer things; they come and go, causing us misery," she begins. "We're always chasing after something, trying to avoid the difficult places. But there are a lot of small sweetnesses that we ignore because they're so fleeting."

Too often we look back at the end of the week and are frustrated that we didn’t make progress on our soul-deep dreams and goals that seem to remain eternally out of reach. Start Finishing presents a 9-step method for success - including identifying your genius, building a success pack of supporters, navigating multiple projects, and overcoming the challenges that come with doing work that matters. Features contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, Jonathan Fields, James Clear, and more.

Is there a true seeker among us who has not endured what St. John of the Cross first called the "dark night of the soul" - a crisis, a betrayal, a sadness seeming without end? In The Way of St. John of the Cross, you will meet this towering figure - mystic, poet, healer of souls, and lover of God - and hear how this great explorer of mystical experience left an unfailing map to guide us through the dark nights of our own lives, one that promises eternal joy to all with the courage to follow it.

Why do we eat? It's more than just a hunger for more food, teaches Geneen Roth. Your relationship with food is a microcosm of your relationship to being alive, and to your beliefs about trust, pleasure, deprivation, and nourishment. Now, Roth offers listeners When Food Is Food and Love Is Love, a deeply spiritual culmination of her groundbreaking work since the best-selling Feeding the Hungry Heart.

Most of us will begin - and end - many relationships in our lives. Why is it so difficult to keep one love for a lifetime? Daphne Rose Kingma's The Breakup Bible is a landmark guide that shares a new view of why we fall in and out of love and why this painful process is not only natural but essential if we are to find true love.

Be yourself. Simple advice - or is it? What does it mean to be oneself fully? How do we discover and live the truth of who we are in our essence? On The Self in Full Bloom, Mukti presents six sessions of deep inquiry and guided meditation intended to support embodied awakening - or the pure expression of both our human and our divine natures. The process of awakening involves dynamic and receptive energetics that color our experience from moment to moment.

What if you turned to meditation for the sheer enjoyment of it? That may sound unlikely, but when we approach the practice with playfulness, receptivity, and excitement, meditation can become one of the most intimate and fulfilling relationships we will ever have. On Beginning Meditation, master teacher Sally Kempton welcomes newcomers to a practice based on embracing the fullness of our experience - and reconnecting with the love, compassion, and wisdom that we are in our essence.

When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. "What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?" begins Pema. "We say 'I'm a failure.'" But what if failing wasn't just "okay"... but the most direct way to becoming a more complete, loving, and fulfilled human being?

In Who Are You?, American-born spiritual teacher Gangaji spells out the bedrock principles of self-inquiry, a cluster of no-nonsense concepts that reveal how to effortlessly step outside limited psychological conditioning and mental constructs into the freedom, expansiveness, and peace of your own true nature.

Just as you can catch another person's cold, you can also "catch" their bad mood, anxieties, or even traumas. Fortunately, your energetic body has an immune system - and with Energy Clearing, acclaimed author Cyndi Dale brings you the key practices and techniques for enhancing the natural healing energies of your subtle anatomy.

In The Personal Mastery Program, he invites you to join him for a complete audio version of this now legendary curriculum about how to fulfill your true personal, professional, and spiritual callings.Breaking Down - and Reshaping - Your Reality. What's the quickest way to get started? It begins with identifying the building blocks of your reality: your "mental chatter" and "mental models."

America's leading medical intuitive fast-forwards you to the future of medicine where energy, health, and spirituality intersect. Dr. Myss shows how this shift is already beginning to take place and how you can access your own power centers, or chakras, to stop wasting energy on events from the past - and start using it for your ultimate development as a human being.

Difficulties are a part of life, but so is the wisdom that helps us overcome them. In Keep Going, Lakota elder and award-winning storyteller Joseph M. Marshall III offers the unique perspective of his people to remind us that the most important and enduring lessons come through the power of perseverance.

If you are a healer, or know someone who is, then you are probably well aware of the enormous challenges of this life path. Choosing to be a healer, teaches Caroline Myss, comes with serious spiritual and energetic demands, and it is crucial to understand and prepare for them.

What’s the difference between a leader who has to rely on coercion and authority, and a leader who actually inspires? It’s not about how many seminars they’ve taken, books they’ve read, or “best practices” they can name. The key difference is embodiment. Embodied Leadership brings the powerful training curriculum developed by Strozzi Institute to audio for the first time. This system - based on neuroscience research, somatic practices, and the martial arts - has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, coaches, and growth-minded individuals.

The Answer Is You brings you inspirational teachings and tools to help you transcend self-limiting beliefs and step into the flow of a universe waiting to support you in the expression of your highest self. Is it possible to find peace amid turmoil? Abundance where others see scarcity? Expansion in a society that would have you contract and withhold the offering of your gifts? Many of us sense that the answer to these questions is an unequivocal yes.

There comes a time when painful events and unforeseen catastrophes become overwhelming, and all purpose in life seems to vanish. In Gifts of a Dark Night, Thomas Moore guides you in how to navigate these difficult periods and discover their true purpose: to push you toward becoming the wiser, more soulful person you were meant to be.

Have you ever tried to add a positive new habit to your daily life, only to end up falling short? If so, you probably didn't have the structure and support critical for making that new behavior really stick. With 40 Days to Positive Change, Dr. Kelly McGonigal provides just that - the helping hand necessary to create the change you most desire in your life.