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We are all interconnected and dependent on each other to shape the world in which we live. Yet even though technology has allowed us to digitally share our lives with more people than ever, the result has been a growing pattern of personal isolation, alienation, and division. Why is this? “We are seeing the manifestation of collective trauma,” says luminary Thomas Hübl. “The profoundly complex challenges we face demand a new level of human collaboration.”In Attuned, Hübl shares a visionary guide to healing our struggling world. Attuning to a person, group, or organisation means coming into resonance by listening mindfully to the inner sensations, feelings, images, and information that arise. At the core of the book is the “relational field”? A vast matrix of energy through which information is shared within, around, and between us. In each chapter, you'll find insights and practices for perceiving and tuning in to oneself and others and ultimately contributing to the healing of this field. By embracing our interdependence, we can activate what is needed to respond to and evolve through the challenges of our age. “It may take only a small number of us,” explains Hübl, “to establish a new level of collective coherence? To share our light, heal our wounds, and realise the unawakened potential of our world.”

Partnership is rough. In This Messy, Gorgeous Love, married Buddhist teachers nico and devon hase help readers thrive in long-term relationships, well after the honeymoon shine has faded. This nuts-and-bolts guide offers a pathway to deep intimacy in the real world, where partnership is difficult but genuinely worth it. “If you're struggling, you can use that struggle to open your heart and connect with your partner,” write nico and devon in this refreshingly candid guide. Through heartfelt guidance - complete with practices, exercises, and reflections - readers will learn to:• Face relationship challenges with presence instead of perfectionism• Develop meditative skills to hold emotions with awareness• Communicate effectively during inevitable ups and downs• Get real without losing connection• Find each other again and againInstead of chasing an idealised relationship, “fixing” their partner, or losing themselves, readers will discover how their current committed relationship can become a vehicle for opening their heart, clarifying their mind, and awakening to deeper truths. This book isn't about everlasting happiness - it’s about building something even better: a partnership where you can be happy in love, thrive in conflict, and have honest fun together, all while embracing the beautiful mess that makes your connection uniquely yours.

We live in a world of more - work more, earn more, do more - when most of us actually need less. We intuitively know we need less stress, less anxiety, less burnout, but we don’t always know how to make those tangible shifts in our lives. In Protect Your Energy, Zabie Yamasaki helps us connect to our bodies and our inner wisdom to make the powerful changes we need to reclaim control of the thousands of ways our energy is drained and depleted each day. Protect Your Energy helps us compassionately learn to listen to the messages our bodies are sending us through our nervous system and to do less instead of more. With evidence-based practices drawn from Polyvagal Theory, as well as yogic philosophy and personal experience, Zabie shares practical wisdom to help us turn inward to effect small but vital changes that make living in our fast-paced culture more sustainable. Protect Your Energy offers reflections to help us understand both where we are and where we want to go, and it’s filled with restorative and accessible practices to help us understand our energy drains, set and hold supportive boundaries, unwind burnout, and much more. As Zabie shares, “The truth is sometimes what our nervous systems need is less. You hold the wisdom, beauty, and power you need to find relief. And amid all of the noise, your connection to your body and nervous system is your most important teacher.”

It’s no secret that our attention is fractured. We look for distraction anytime we have a spare moment or feel bored or uncomfortable. We yearn to be fully immersed in the moment - whether for deep work or pleasure - but we have almost forgotten how. The Practice of Attention opens the door to reclaim our focus, so we can be more present with those we love, be more immersed in our work and play, and ultimately live more fully. Beloved artist and teacher Cody Cook-Parrott invites us to join them in building practices that heighten our attention. Beginning with an exploration of what we’re avoiding when we distract ourselves, Cody offers an Attention Audit that helps us understand where we place our focus (and where we lose it) throughout the day and week. After getting a clear understanding of where we are, we can create a schedule and a life with more focus. Being present requires practice, and Cody encourages us to find the practices that resonate most with us, exploring movement, creativity, spiritual practice, being of service, and more. Themes of cultivating curiosity and devotion and letting go of perfectionism and people-pleasing are woven throughout. Shifting our attention has profound power on how we experience ourselves and those around us. Cody writes, “This is my wish: that you feel less pull toward your screen and more pull toward your life.”

The universe is alive - and it has a memory just like you. Known as the Akashic Records, this vibrational archive of every soul and its human journey stands to guide you. Once only accessible to highly trained spiritual masters, now the Records are available to anyone. In an updated edition of this trusted resource on the Akashic Records, master teacher Linda Howe brings fresh insights to her groundbreaking method of the Pathway Prayer Process for accessing this reservoir of information. With a brand-new introduction, updated examples, an added glossary of terms, and answers to frequently asked questions, Howe opens the door for a new generation to discover their soul’s destiny, addressing urgent issues of our time. You will work with Masters, Teachers, and Loved Ones to cultivate a rich relationship with the Records and learn to unleash your highest potential. “As each of us is led to our own inner light, truth, and wisdom, we uncover an arsenal of courage to step out into the world in the ways only we can do,” writes Howe. “We bring to the moment the truth as we recognize it. We continue to grow into loving ourselves, others, and all of creation.” Grounded in the success stories of people whose lives have been touched by the Records, this comprehensive guidebook will help you confidently read the Records for yourself - or another - and find inspiration for your spiritual path.

Most of us live in our heads and miss out on experiencing our bodies as a portal to the present moment and true happiness. In this guide, Banafsheh Sayyad offers a transformative healing path to reconnect with yourself as a being of love, ground your spirituality in your body, and embrace ease, joy, and freedom. This work isn’t about professional dance techniques. Instead, Sayyad shares how dance can help you honour the body as the physical expression of the soul: miraculous, wise, and full of wonder. Through her healing modality, Dance of Oneness - a fusion of Taoist, Sufi, and Divine Feminine wisdom with flamenco, tai chi, Persian dance, and Sufi whirling - Sayyad guides you to release blockages, activate your light body, and rediscover your vitality and purpose. For the first time in a book, readers are initiated into whirling as a portal to higher dimensions and profound transformation. “Dance of Oneness invites you to live your life as a dance that brings you into unity with all, through embodied love,” offers Sayyad. “True embodiment is about experiencing yourself as a channel of light to help heal the earth.” With wisdom teachings, embodiment practices, insights from Rumi’s inspirational poetry, and Sayyad’s own story out of Iran and into the freedom that dance spirituality gave her, Dance of Oneness invites you to open to the flow of love and embrace a soul-filled life.

We know the environment is in trouble—and we’re seeing direct effects on human health as a result. Only when we restore our natural connection with the earth can we help to heal it and ourselves. This is the premise of Grounded, a clarion call and revolutionary guide from author Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow. Based on current trends, it’s estimated that over 90% of the earth’s soils could become degraded by 2050, affecting food production, flooding, and clean water supplies. This isn’t a doomsday prophecy—it is our realistic future if we don’t take action now. In this revised and updated edition, McMorrow provides tools and practices to transform ourselves, our socioeconomic systems, and the environment that sustains. It’s time to ground ourselves, returning to a cyclical, regenerative style of living, eating, loving, and dying. “Being grounded involves rooting within ourselves to expand in the world,” explains McMorrow. “It means navigating from a place of power, clarity, creativity, and balance.”Explore the ecological and spiritual basis of our existing climate crises—including what’s happening with our soil and carbon cycles—to understand how we’ve gotten into our current state. Grounded gives us the wisdom and guidance to do the sacred work of reconnecting with the divine feminine and initiating transformation to address our carbon legacy and save our planet (and ourselves).

Break the Cycle: A Comprehensive Guide to Overcome Chronic Relationship Struggles Few things are more frustrating than repeating the same fight with your partner. Playing out the same disagreement about money, parenting, sex, or household chores may leave you exhausted, cut off from the person you want to feel close to. While conflict in any relationship is inevitable, healing is possible. With In Each Other''s Care, Stan Tatkin shares a hands-on repair manual that will help you discover how arguments get triggered, why they keep happening, and what you can do to get better at communicating what you want without the drama.Drawing on his vast experience as a couples therapist, Tatkin uses the concept of secure functioning?a two-person psychological system of teamwork, full collaboration, and cooperation based on fairness, justice, and mutual sensitivity. This form of unionizing ?takes time to learn,? Tatkin says. ?And still, the rewards are awesome and make the effort worthwhile. Secure functioning benefits you, your partner, your family, your friends, everything, and everyone.?Throughout In Each Other?s Care, Tatkin offers targeted lessons, sample dialogues, and heartfelt wisdom. Through this life-changing practice, you will be able to:? Identify the source of unhappiness in your relationship? Learn techniques for preventing problems before they occur? Heal the emotional wounds of the past? Transform conflict and struggle into win-win outcomes? Renew broken connections and return to intimacyWhether you?ve been in a relationship for years or are just beginning the journey, In Each Other?s Care is a wonderfully supportive guide that will show you how to work through even the most contentious topics with compassion and respect.

Beloved teacher Jack Kornfield shares stories on navigating our human experience with wisdom and care?for ourselves and our world.At a time of collective anxiety, injustice, and suffering, this book helps us listen with compassion to the pulse of the world and to one another. Beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield guides us toward our basic goodness. He encourages us to remember our loving awareness, free ourselves and others from hatred and fear, and pave a path with heart where we all belong.Through stories, poems, and fables, Kornfield shows us that the way to build a wise society within ourselves and for our world is through remembering our interconnectedness. He reminds us to respect the world and ourselves even in the face of the incomprehensible. He invites us to envision a generous world and therefore change it. He guides us to heal our bodies and bring healing to the earth. He teaches us that being of service is an endless source of happiness, and to remember that death also brings rebirth.Accessible, timely, and heartfelt, the book offers a variety of perspectives, from Kornfield?s personal stories and the teachings of the Buddha to poetry from Mary Oliver and timeless legends. Throughout, Kornfield reminds us that the inescapable pain and beauty of our human experience is what can ultimately connect us. ?Let yourself be tender with the world,? writes Kornfield, ?The world is your lover in a way that almost nothing else is. It''s always here. You can go out right now and kiss the earth.?

A Revolutionary Guide for Understanding and Changing the Way We ConnectEmpathy is undergoing a new evolution. In a global culture, we can no longer afford to identify only with people who seem to be a part of our group. “We are all connected on a neurobiological level far more than we have previously realized,” says Dr. Helen Riess. “Consciously or not, we are in constant, natural resonance with one another’s feelings.”With The Empathy Effect, Dr. Riess shares a definitive resource on empathy: the science behind how it works, new research on how empathy develops from birth to adulthood, and tools for building your capacity to create an authentic emotional connection with others in any situation. Here, she will guide you through her breakthrough E.M.P.A.T.H.Y.® program, a powerful seven-step system to learn how to:Recognize and promote empathic behavior in yourself and othersParent and teach empathy in kids—including guidance for every stage of developmentExplore empathy through art and literature—and discover the power of creative expression to expand our emotional experienceLead with empathy by combining compassion with efficiency through group empathy skills and shared mind intelligenceReverse scapegoating by recognizing our shared humanity with those we usually keep at a distance “Nourishing empathy lets us help not just ourselves,” says Dr. Riess, “but also everyone we interact with, whether for a moment or a lifetime.” The Empathy Effect is a life-changing book that will revolutionize the way you understand yourself, relate to your loved ones, and connect to every person in your life.

A pacha philosopher?s guide to recover agency and belonging through the medicine of nature, cultural connection, and ancestral wisdomHave you felt disconnected from your family story and traditions, lost for a sense of home and belonging? While circumstance may have forced this detachment, a new path is yours to forge, one that leads you back to what is rightfully yours.Reclaim your agency and purpose?especially from cultural forces that have caused you to feel deficient, inadequate, and invisible. Lorena knows this path, as her personal wounds related to war, financial hardship, and intergenerational trauma have become portals through which she reconnected to her own medicine. Here, she offers the key to personal and collective healing, helping readers move through anxiety and shame, rediscover their own inner wisdom, and access the tools to interweave their dreams with their deep roots.Reconciling with our ancestors? traditions and weaving ourselves back into our history is a therapeutic endeavor that deserves to be embarked upon with respect and authenticity. ?Ancestral knowledge, at its core,? says Lorena, ?has communal threads linked to Nature. All of us can come back to these basic roots.? With a focus on ancestral wisdom and relationship with nature, Lorena provides an integrated experience for facing the jaguar?a powerful symbol of courage and purpose?through mirroring and embodiment practices. By cultivating personal medicine and sharing it with others, we can all live the life we deserve.

A science-backed approach to shift your most precious resource?your energy?to stop feeling depleted and reconnect with your inherent genius.Many of us misdirect our energy?doing too much and feeling like it is not enough. Clinical psychologist Dr. Diana Hill offers a method to reclaim your energy and revitalize your relationships, health, work, and community.Instead of more productivity tips, Dr. Hill invites us to use Wise Effort to connect with our ?genius energy?: our unique and inherent strengths that show up in our talents and gifts. It propels you forward when used in the right amount and toward your values.When we misdirect this energy, our very genius becomes our problem. Think of the super-helper who supports everyone else but doesn?t help themself, or the high achiever at work whose patterns backfire in relationships. Misguiding your energy burns you out and leaves you depleted. Understanding and working wisely with your genius energy empowers you to reclaim it as a life-giving force.Integrating science-backed practices from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with contemplative and body-based wisdom, you will learn how to guide your genius energy wisely in multiple areas of your life. You will get curious about what''s keeping you stuck, open up to the difficult thoughts and feelings that limit you, and focus your energy where it matters most. With the Wise Effort method, the genius at the root of your problems becomes your solution to feeling connected, brave, and truly alive.

The Kundalini Yoga tradition speaks of a call to the Divine that awakens ?the Original Light of the soul.? In gatherings across the globe, Snatam Kaur and her fellow musicians have shared that radiance through sacred chants. With Original Light, this beloved devotional singer guides us into the heart of the path, with the Aquarian Sadhana as a foundation to understand the tradition''s daily principals, morning practices, and sacred chanting experiences.Kundalini, the universal life force, has for centuries been shrouded in misconception and lore. But in fact, Snatam Kaur assures us that, through Kundalini Yoga, the capacity to experience it is within all of us?a natural and limitless source of physical health, stillness, joy, energetic strength, and loving connection with others and all of creation.Original Light was written for those seeking a compassionate and supportive guide to creating a vibrant and sustainable daily spiritual practice. Here, Snatam shares with honesty and gentle humor her own stories, challenges, ?aha? moments, and many practical pointers gained from her lifelong journey.Readers first explore the philosophy and foundational principles of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and then learn the five morning practices of the Aquarian Sadhana, including:? The Wake-Up Routine?establishing a sacred space, bathing and purification, healthy diet and elimination guidelines, and more? Jap Ji?from 15th-century sage and founder of the Sikh tradition, Guru Nanak, this sacred recitation is both a map and a direct expression of our union with the Divine? Kundalini Yoga Kriyas?nine energizing posture and movement sets for creating a somatic space for your spirit? Aquarian Sadhana Mantras?seven devotional chants as the sun rises to open the doors of liberation and experience bliss and ecstasy through sacred sound? Gateway to Divinity?the closing transition stage that integrates your own spiritual tradition and helps you to focus your energies and set your intentions for the day aheadFor those of all faiths, Original Light provides an ideal introduction and resource to improve our health, find greater freedom and stillness within, and illuminate each moment of the day.

A depth psychotherapist helps you discover your lost Self in motherhood by reimagining this transition and your place in the collective.All mothers experience a massive identity shift, but as a culture, we?ve lost touch with the myths, stories, and ancestral knowledge that once guided us through this ego explosion. As a depth psychotherapist and new mom, Vanessa Bennett has spent countless hours with female clients, couples, and herself experiencing the struggle and dissolution of Self that comes through the initiation into motherhood. By applying the principles of depth psychology, she?s found the key to disrupting the ?getting through? mentality of motherhood.Depth psychology explores the human psyche?s need to understand its place in the collective and create a differentiated sense of Self, and it?s through this lens that The Motherhood Myth helps us reclaim our sovereignty and find the larger purpose of parenting and partnership. ?By reacquainting ourselves with myths and feminine forces like Demeter and Baba Yaga, those whose traits and stories empower and guide us to understand and reclaim aspects of ourselves that we have lost touch with, lay dormant, or have been purposely cut off by society, we can finally navigate and integrate this tumultuous transition,? says Bennett.Throughout this guide, Bennett offers practical tools to help us discover and embody an unshakable sense of Self. She also provides skills and scripts to increase capacity for conflict, vulnerability, and discomfort.

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose? In the 14 years that he studied Zen, Adyashanti found that most seasoned meditators had used the practice as "an end instead of a means to an end." What he ultimately realized was that only when you let go of all techniques?even the concept of yourself as a meditator?will you open to the art of True Meditation, dwelling in the natural state. True Meditation invites you to join the growing number of seekers who have been touched by the wisdom of Adyashanti to learn:? How to make the "effortless effort" that will vivify the present moment? Meditative self-inquiry and "The Way of Subtraction": how to ask a spiritually powerful question?and determine the real answer? Two guided meditations intended to reveal what Adyashanti calls "your home as awareness itself""We''ve been taught that awakening is difficult," explains Adyashanti, "that to wake up from the illusion of separation takes years. But all it really takes is a willingness to look into the depths of your experience here and now." True Meditation gives you the opportunity to reclaim the original purpose of meditation?as a gateway to "the objectless freedom of being."

?A liberating guide for every woman ready to embrace her own worth, heal deeply, and find fulfillment from within.? ?Wendy Valentine, host of The Midlife Makeover Show and author of Women Waking UpIf you?ve been waiting for your life to start once your relationship status changes, it?s time to rethink things and learn to choose your self first. We often relate to singlehood as a phase that should be rushed and remedied by finding a partner, rather than relating to it as our most potent opportunity for growth. But if the priority is on being chosen over being the one to choose, you?re more likely to keep ending up with the wrong partner. It?s time to break these old patterns and embrace single life with compassion. ?One of the great advantages of spending time intentionally single,? shares expert coach and therapist Megan Sherer, ?is having time to self-reflect, to learn from your past, and to experiment with new ways of being. Key word: intentionally.?Sherer teaches how to fall in love with your own life and be unwilling to waver in the pursuit of a relationship as strong as the one you build within your self. Using personal story as well as potent reflection prompts, somatic exercises, and self-care practices, she shepherds you through the process of moving beyond attachment wounds to new levels of self-awareness to build a rock-solid foundation for your relationship with self. If you have an interest in partnering in the future, you?ll also discover how to do so in a way that allows you to remain true to your self. Here you?ll uncover:? Clarity in defining your desires? How your attachment style has impacted your relationships? Why you keep choosing emotionally unavailable people? What your patterns are and how to clean up old habits? How to manage your nervous system and heal your inner child? The magic of doing the things you thought you needed a partner forIt?s time to move from the disempowered experience of loneliness to an empowered version of singlehood? one filled with joy, adventure, play, passion, and all the other things that you thought you had to wait for the perfect person to experience. You are that person, and that time is now.