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Wellbeing and Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Mindfulness for Dummies

Breathe deep, declutter your mind, and start leading a healthier, happier life The worry won't stop. You're feeling stressed out, the day-to-day seems overwhelming, and it seems difficult to do the simplest things. How can you escape this continual negative feedback loop? Mindfulness is the answer. 

Mindfulness:  Your Step By Step Guide to a Happier Life

Mindfulness is the popular practice that helps you to appreciate your life, and to live with more joy and less stress.

Practicing Mindfulness:  Finding Calm and Focus in Your Everyday Life

Given the current uncertainty and changes throughout the world, all types of readers will find this guide to be useful--from those practicing mindfulness for the first time to meditation veterans. This practical guide to mindfulness contains reflections, actions and practices that will help you to: Reduce anxiety and stress Calm and quiet the mind 

Mindfulness for Students : Embracing Now, Looking to the Future

Life can be tough. With so many decisions to make at such a critical time, it's easy to feel weighed down. What's more, there is the pressure to gain good grades, to find a good job, to be a good person.

My Year of Living Mindfully  (Streaming Video)

In the midst of a global mental health crisis, millions of people have turned to mindfulness. But does it actually make us happier and healthier? In a world-first experiment, journalist Shannon Harvey recruited a team of scientists to put mindful meditation to the test. But what began as a year-long self-experiment soon became a life-changing experience.

The Mindfulness Movement (Streaming Video)

THE MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT profiles the growing number of people who believe mindfulness - a peaceful quality of attention developed by focusing on the present moment in a non-judgmental way - can create a healthier, happier world.

Wellbeing

Activating happiness: a jump-start to overcoming low motivation depression or just feeling stuck

It's not just big choices that can radically change our lives—sometimes it's the small ones. Activating Happiness offers powerful, evidence-based strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments.

Happiness : Fortune, Success and the Human Spirit

What is true happiness? This perennial question preoccupies many experts, including biologists, psychologists, sociologists and theologians, but their findings usually confirm what we already knew: that happiness is one of the most sought-after but elusive commodities.

Own Best Friend:  Eight Steps to a Life of Purpose, Passion and Ease

Are you ready to truly live your rock star life? When stress plays a bigger role in your life than happiness, and when there's no time for you or the things you love, it's time to make a change!

Hacks for Life and Career:  A Millennials Guide to Making it Big

Being a millennial is not easy. While the average millennial struggles with low remuneration and motivation, there are others who become Instagram influencers and earn oodles of money and fame. This book aims to provide life hacks that can help millennials face the world professionally and personally.

Mindset, Health and General Wellbeing (streaming video) 

We have seen how perceptions influence the way we view the world. Dig into the research that shows how perceptions influence our health and well-being. Put everything you have learned together to see how stress, thinking patterns, mindset, exercise, and close relationships all affect how you think about yourself -- and the world.

Positive Psychology:  A Science of Happiness (streaming video) 

Positive psychology is a relatively new field that emphasizes the value of positive emotions such as joy, satisfaction, and happiness -- in other words, mental wellness. Uncover the elements of positive psychology and how 21st-century psychology offers strategies for increasing your well-being.

Meditation

Mindfulness and Meditation:  Your Questions Answered

Although mindfulness and meditation have been practiced for millennia, modern neurobiologists and psychologists are only just beginning to understand their full potential for improving physical and emotional well-being. 

Opening to Meditation

Drawing on her wide experience in studying spiritual teachings from around the world, Lang has put together a gentle, guided approach to meditation that is very easy to implement. In Opening to Meditation, she demonstrates that meditating is as simple as breathing.

Psychology of Meditation

Our understanding of the nature and applications of meditation, especially mindfulness meditation, has been expanding almost as rapidly as the empirical evidence from neuroscience and intervention studies that have become available in the research literature.

Meditation Made Easy

An easy-to-follow guide to the stress-busting, tension-taming practice of meditation.

Meditation Made Simple : Weekly Practices for Relieving Stress, Finding Balance, and Cultivating Joy

Meditation is a diverse practice with hundreds of schools, philosophies, and techniques. But it doesn't have to be complicated! You don't need to study for years or practice for hours a day. You can start getting the benefits of meditation right now -- in just minutes.

Resilience

How to Bounce Forward

How to Bounce Forward teaches how adversarial growth can ignite growth in innovation, productivity and boost profitability.

Resilience for Dummies

Activate your natural ability to thrive with Resilience For Dummies. Stress, anxiety, and exhaustion are all-too-common features of our crazy-paced, curveball-throwing contemporary existence, and it's sometimes hard to see how we can make it from one week to the next intact. But there's a solution to the struggle: resilience!

Resilience : Navigating Life, Loss, and the Road to Success

Resilience is an inspirational story about how to rise to the top in a man’s world, triumph over adversity, lead a fulfilling life, and live each day with purpose and gratitude.

Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge and Claim What Matters

For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors.

The Rejection That Changed My Life:  25+ Powerful Women On Being Let Down, Turn It Around and Burning It Up At Work

The perfect book for anyone who needs inspiration after dealing with rejection, failure, or is searching for a new beginning in the workplace. Featuring fascinating interviews with more than twenty-five women, this book provides an exciting new way to think about career challenges, changes, and triumphs.

Strengthening Mental Resilience (Streaming Video)

Our mind has the power to make or break our ability to recover from adversity. While we can't completely control what we think, we can control  how we understand and react to those thoughts. Explore the important relationships between your thoughts, belief systems, and core values, and learn why psychological flexibility is the foundation of mental resilience.

 

Self-Care

Complete Guide to Self Care : Best Practices for a Healthier and Happier You

The Complete Guide to Self Care features 100 accessible activities that help you reconnect with your body, mind, spirit, and surroundings, and leave you feeling refreshed and ready to face the world again. 

The Practice of Self-Care  (Streaming Video)

Does self-care sound uncomfortably self-focused and egotistical to you? If so, remember that caring for yourself is a crucial component of your own resilience, as well as giving you the energy and ability to help others. 

Relaxing Yoga for Self-Care (Streaming Video)

This yoga practice (whether sitting or lying down) releases your body's tension and encourages you to connect to your physical experiences on a deeper level. You'll learn movements and breathing techniques that can be used during an average day at a desk or in a car. You'll learn to let the breath carry the pose and find that union between body, mind, breath, and spirit.

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