Each month,
except for January, Phoenix Rising Books features
20 new titles sourced from publishers both in
Australia and overseas.
The selection covers
the leading edge material across holistic (mind,
body and soul) subject area.
This page has the
ten new books for the month.
My Spiritual Autobiography
H.H. the Dalai Lama
HC AUD30.00
My Spiritual Autobiography
offers an insight into H.H. the Dalai Lama's interior
world, and does so with great skill, sensitivity
and openness.
The Dalai Lama sees
himself first and foremost as a human being, secondly
as a monk and thirdly as the political leader
of Tibet. You will read many unknown stories from
his childhood, his formation as a monk and his
gradual development as a leader of his people.
He provides a view
of his daily spiritual practise, you are invited
to listen in on the dialogue he has been pursuing
with other religions, with non-believers and with
scientists in his search for ethical and environmental
principles, and shown how he brings a sense of
goodness and conscience to political life around
the globe.
He explains how he
transforms himself through spiritual means in
order to have a positive effect on the world,
and he encourages us also to help change things,
by working on ourselves first of all.
Spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh
and Harvard nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung combine
the timeless wisdom of Buddhism with nutrition
science to deliver a guide to end a struggle with
weight for good.
Common sense tells us that to lose
weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But
somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss
program with good intentions but cannot stay on
track. The authors offer practical tools, including
personalized goal setting, a detailed nutrition
guide, and a mindful living plan, to help you
uncover the roots of your habits and then guide
you to transform your actions.
It is the awareness of the present
moment, the realization of why you do what you
do, that enables you to stop feeling bad and start
changing your behaviour. Savor brings to the surface
the rich abundance of life available to us in
every moment.
The Writing Warrior
Laraine Herring
PB AUD28.95
As any one who writes for pleasure
or as a vocation will know there are times when
you are faced with feelings of self-consciousness
and self-doubt about your work. In this guide,
Laraine Herring offers advice to writers who want
to become more comfortable with their writing,
face their inhibitions, and gain the confidence
to release their true voice.
Utilizing the breath, a vigorous
movement practice designed to break up stagnation
with the body and the mind, and writing exercises
aimed both at self-exploration and developing
works-in-progress, Herring offers a clear path
to writing through illusion.
You will learn how to remove obstacles
in your writing and develop techniques to help
you relax into your own voice; discover ways to
enter into a compassionate, non-judgmental relationship
with yourself so that you can write safely and
authentically from a place of absolute vulnerability;
and discover the interconnectedness of your personal
writing process and the community as a whole.
The Writing Warrior will not only
help you find ways to develop your writing, but
also ways to develop yourself.
Learn Like A Leader
Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly
Kaye, Ken Shelton (Editors)
PB AUD33.00
Each year, a group of best-selling
authors, thought leaders and management experts,
among them James Collins, Peter Block and Spencer
Johnson, meet to explore leadership and share
their defining moments.
As this annual meeting of the minds
became a tradition, one theme quickly emerged:
great leaders seize the opportunity to learn,
over and over again.
These remarkable stories form the
basis of Learn Like a Leader, a close look at
why some people overcome setbacks, attain fulfilment
and soar to the top, while others never fully
reach their potential.
The book offers powerful lessons
reflecting key learning moments in the lives and
careers of each of the contributors. Learn Like
a Leader portrays the power of storytelling in
teaching, training and mentoring.
Play- How it Shapes the
Brain
Stuart Brown
PB AUD27.95
We've all seen the happiness in
the face of a child who's playing in the school
yard. Or the blissful abandon of a golden retriever
racing with glee across a lawn. This is the joy
of play. By definition, play is purposeless and
all-consuming. And, most important, it's fun.
As we become adults, taking time to play feels
like a guilty pleasure, a distraction from 'real'
work and life.
But as Dr Stuart Brown illustrates,
play is anything but trivial. It is a biological
drive as integral to our health as sleep or nutrition,
and the mechanism by which we become resilient,
smart, and adaptable people. In fact, our ability
to play throughout life is the single most important
factor in determining our success and happiness.
Dr Brown has spent his career studying
animal behaviour and conducting more than 6000
'play histories' of humans from all walks of life
- from serial murderers to Nobel Prize winners.
In Play, he provides a sweeping look at the latest
breakthroughs in our understanding of play and
its implications for our lives, including its
role in child development and the way we parent;
education and social policy; business innovation;
productivity; and even the future of our society.
The book is a fascinating blend
of cutting-edge neuroscience, biology, psychology,
social science, and inspiring human stories of
the transformative power of play and proves why
play just might be the most important work we
can ever do.
Listen to Stuart Brown via the You
Tube Servers
The Awakening Course
Joe Vitale
HC AUD32.95
Joe Vitale has a large following
and his latest book is based on the course
he runs with the same name.
He takes you through the four
stages of empowerment - victim, empowerment,
surrender, awakening. At each level he describes
the consciousness involved, examples via
story and exercises to move through the
blocks.
The central clearing tool,
which he introduces early, is the h'oponopono
prayer. Joe shares the story of how he learnt
about and then worked with the Hawaiian
psychologist who used the prayer with great
outcomes in a mental hospital.
The Choice
Mike Bara
PB AUD27.95
As we get closer to the Mayan
date of December 2012 and many of us are
feeling our individual world's shifting
at so many levels, author Mike Bara has
examined what he considers to be four key
questions: is there any reason for concern
about the apocalyptic prophecies of the
Mayan calendar; is there an underlying physics
driving these changes; how do planetary
alignments and astronomical events affect
your consciousness and what can each of
us do to influence this coming shift in
both conscious and physical reality.
He has also included detailed
descriptions of a revolutionary new theory
of physics; how to use your own inner light
(the power of your mind and spirit) to influence
the physical world and how governments across
the globe are preparing for this decade
of change.
Gods and Diseases
David Tacey
PB AUD35.00
There are many problems in
today's society that cannot be resolved
by the applications of reason, logic or
medical science. These include child abuse,
alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide.
Numerous mental health problems such as
anxiety, depression, and phobias, are rising
dramatically and there seems to be no solution
in sight.
In this book, David Tacey
argues that the solution lies in breaking
free from the confines of modern medicine.
Instead we must turn to spirituality, and
to what Tacey calls 'meaning-making' to
make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing.
Dr Tacey teaches at La Trobe
University, Melbourne.
Change Your Business
with NLP
Lindsey Agness
PB AUD29.95
As a leader or manager in
either the public or private sectors, whatever
your industry or size of organisation, you
can use NLP to improve your business by
changing the mindsets of everyone you work
with.
When tailored for practical
business application, NLP can help you to
identify and deliver efficiencies, hold
onto clients in the midst of increasing
competition, improve morale and increase
organisational performance and results.
Change Your Business With
NLP is a practical guide for managers, showing
how to use NLP techniques to overcome specific
business problems. You will learn how to:
Improve your results as a leader; Build
an exceptional team; Manage change more
effectively; Change your organisations culture;
Create more effective client and customer
relationships; Transform your presentation
skills and increase the overall performance
of your business.
Lindsey Agness is an international
change management consultant and certified
trainer of NLP.
The Soul of Leadership
Deepak Chopra
PB AUD28.00
The Soul of Leadership decodes
the mysterious qualities that have propelled
history's greatest leaders to the top of
the ranks and shrouded them in legend, Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Buddha,
and provides a hands-on approach to understanding
and mastering these qualities.
The 10 Fundamental Principles,
that Deepak Chopra believes all leaders
should follow, include: A leader is the
symbolic soul of the group; Inner qualities
determine the outcome of any situation;
For every need, the right response can be
found; Great leaders can respond to all
situations from the higher levels of spirit;
A leader focused only on external goals
(money, victory, power) will fail.
Using well-known examples
of great leaders and a clear, concise breakdown
of the virtues that a great leader must
possess, The Soul of Leadership demystifies
leadership and empowers readers to become
leaders in their own right - from managing
a family crisis to starting their own business.
