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Spirituality & Mindfulness

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If you are looking for a quick (but effective) moment of reconnection with your inner self, you will find it in the next few minutes. Press play, breathe and relax!

Meditation

Everybody knows how the Law of Attraction works – positive thoughts bring positive results into a person’s life, while negative thoughts bring negative experiences. But why? In “The Magic of Manifesting,” the introductory book to his Law of Attraction series, Japanese metaphysician Ryuu Shinohara goes a bit deeper and explains the fundamentals one needs to understand in order to apply manifestation effectively. 

The Magic of Manifesting

Get inspired, build great plans, reach your goals, live happier!

Self-Help & Motivation

Watch your thoughts – claims a famous saying – for they become your actions, which, in turn, become your character and destiny. In “Switch On Your Brain,” Dr. Caroline Leaf uses Bible verses and scientific studies to demonstrate that this link between thoughts and destiny isn’t far-fetched. In addition, she gives a 21-day prescription for a detoxed thought life!

Switch On Your Brain

The best microbooks on Emotional Intelligence to make you overcome obstacles in your personal and professional life.

Emotional Intelligence

Have you ever felt like your thoughts were too loud and out of your control? In “Winning the War in Your Mind,” American pastor Craig Groeschel rummages through the Bible to teach you how to quiet and restrain them. “Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts,” he claims. “What we think shapes who we are.”

Winning the War in Your Mind

One of the most grueling tasks in today’s world is letting go of our worries, anxieties, and fears. In this enlightening book, Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us how to find relief from the noise that fills our minds and respond to the wondrous world around us with more awareness and appreciation.

Silence

Love is a topic numerous philosophers have contemplated. However, not many of them offered controversial ideas, such as Osho did in ‘’Love, Freedom, Aloneness.’’ This book gives an expansive definition of love, which includes the notion of freedom from attachment and sexual repression, self-love, and appreciation of aloneness.

Love, Freedom, Aloneness

In “Awareness,” controversial 20th-century-mystic Osho explains that the key to living a fulfilled life is to heighten your awareness. According to Osho, most people spend life in a state akin to sleep—he describes how you can wake up and make the most of your life.

Awareness

Written by Matthew Sockolov, the founding teacher of One Mind Dharma, “Practicing Mindfulness” is a brief introduction to the practice of mindfulness and its benefits, as well as a nicely structured collection of 75 essential mindfulness exercises, each of them broken down into several actionable steps and designed for specific situations or emotions.

Practicing Mindfulness

Test new diets, routines, workout regimens and see what best suits your body and mind

Health & Diet

Margarita Alcantara’s “Chakra Healing” is everything its subtitle claims to be: “a beginner’s guide to self-healing techniques that balance the chakras.” Nicely designed, the book includes exercises, helpful illustrations and a variety of techniques, all packed in accessible “bite-size advice that requires no previous knowledge.” Our microbook gives an overview of them all – the chakras, the methods, the main ideas.

Chakra Healing

Published in 2002, “Power vs. Force” is a highly idiosyncratic work which attempts to unearth “the hidden determinants of human behavior.” In it, “healing psychiatrist” and spiritual teacher David R. Hawkins embarks on a quest to organize our understanding of the nature of pure consciousness, and reveals a method by which one can instantly determine the ideological validity and truth/falsehood of any fact or statement.

Power vs. Force

Drawing from a variety of spiritual traditions and the depths of a personally experienced “inner transformation,” “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle is, self-professedly, a guide to spiritual enlightenment. The book advocates severing the ties with your incessantly wandering pain-addicted mind to access the power of the present moment – the only place where life is actually happening.

The Power of Now

Love and friendship are the backbone of happiness, and no one could argue otherwise.

Sex & Relationships

The third book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, “How to Love” by Zen Buddhist guru Thich Nhat Hahn is a succinct, simple guide to the mysteries and beauties of love. Written in brief, self-sufficient chapters, this pocket-sized gem covers everything from the nature of mutual affection to its essence, from the four elements of love to the six mantras that enhance and deepen it.

How to Love

The result of countless hours of discussions between the Dalai Lama and American psychologist Howard C. Cutler, “The Art of Happiness” deftly combines the Buddhist understanding of the issues pertaining to mental health and human wellbeing and the current scientific perspective on the same matters. A perennial bestseller, the book is both a wide-ranging analysis of happiness and a self-help guide to attaining it.

The Art of Happiness

Personal Development

Nature, other people, the world around us and the universe – these things are not separate from us, but rather connected to us by a flow of energy. To be in harmony with the world around us, we need to access our deeper self – and once we have achieved this harmony, we will be able to make all our dreams come true by influencing the energy around us.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“You Can Heal Your Life” is one of the classics in New Thought and self-help books. Hay talks about the power of positivity and of realizing the power you hold in your own life. She believes that every thought determines the future.

You Can Heal Your Life

“The Daily Stoic” provides 366 mediation exercises for every day of the year. While many people associate the word “stoic” with emotionlessness, Stoicism is actually a philosophy that guides you to live an actionable, good life. Struggling with your job or relationships? The Stoics definitely have some pearls of wisdom that can help you navigate life successfully.

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