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The
Latest Books
July
2011
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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.
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Living With Your Heart
Wide Open
Bob Stahl and Steve Flowers
PB AUD25.95
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The way we talk to
ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments.
These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us
feel unworthy and incomplete.
What if what you really
need is not higher standards for yourself, but
greater self-compassion? As you read you'll discover
how mindfulness and self-compassion can free you
from the thoughts and beliefs that create feelings
of inadequacy and learn to open your heart to
the loving-kindness within you and in the world
around you.
Based in Western psychotherapy
and Buddhist psychological principles, this book
guides you past painful and self-limiting beliefs
about yourself and toward a new perspective of
nonjudgmental awareness and acceptance of who
you are, just as you are.
You'll receive gentle
guidance in mindfulness and compassion practices
that will lead you away from unproductive, self-critical
thoughts and help you live more freely and fearlessly,
with your heart wide open.
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You Are Not Your Brain
Jeffrey Schwartz
HC AUD27.95
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Two neuroscience experts explain
how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive
thoughts and actions and change bad habits for
good.
For the past six years, Schwartz
has worked with psychiatrist Rebecca Gladding
to refine a program that successfully explains
how the brain works and why we often feel besieged
by bad brain wiring.
Just like with the compulsions of
OCD patients, they discovered that bad habits,
social anxieties, self-deprecating thoughts, and
compulsive overindulgence are all rooted in overactive
brain circuits.
The key to making life changes that
you want-to make your brain work for you-is to
consciously choose to "starve" these
circuits of focused attention, thereby decreasing
their influence and strength.
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The Right-Brained Business
Plan
Jennifer Lee
PB AUD29.95
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Millions of artists, entrepreneurs,
crafters, and solopreneurs dream of making a living
doing what they love. But turning their vision
into a viable business plan can feel like fitting
a square peg into a round hole.
Jennifer Lee, Artizen Coaching founder,
knows what it's like to make the entrepreneurial
leap - and how to do it successfully. The key
is showing "square pegs" how to use
- rather than stifle - the imagination and intuition
that makes them creative in the first place.
Lee's illustrated, colorful worksheets
and steps are playful yet practical, enabling
readers to get down to the essential business
of defining their vision, funding, marketing,
networking, and strategic planning. Both budding
and seasoned business owners will benefit from
Lee's wonderfully original approach.
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Maximise Your Coaching
Effectiveness with ACT
Richard Blonna
PB AUD59.95
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Thousands of cognitive behavioral
psychologists from around the world rely on a
method called acceptance and commitment therapy
(ACT) to help their therapeutic clients get "unstuck"
from these barriers and improve their level of
functioning.
In Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness
with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, you'll
learn to help your coaching clients harness these
powerful psychological techniques to identify
their passions, set values-based professional
and personal goals, and realize their full potential.
By guiding your clients through
ACT-based exercises in mindfulness training and
values clarification, you'll help them accept
aspects of their situations that can't be changed,
coexist with fear and other painful emotions,
and commit to taking the actions that will lead
them to success.
Maximize your coaching effectiveness
by: adapting powerful psychological techniques
to fit your life-coaching practice; learning simple
exercises you can do with clients to help them
get unstuck; getting tips for assessing clients,
assigning homework, and sparking motivation; helping
clients master mindfulness to overcome fear, worry,
and procrastination.
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Moon Phase Astrology
Raven Kaldera
PB AUD30.00
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The Moon's ever-changing phases
offer a way to deepen our understanding of our
natal Moon sign as well as the Moon's day-to-day
influence on our emotional tides.
Through its 8 phases and its wandering
dance through each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac
- from the Infant's Moon (the New Moon in Aries)
to the Storyteller's Moon (the Full Moon in Gemini)
to the Prophet's Moon (the waning Balsamic Moon
in Aquarius) - the Moon shares its story in 96
different ways.
Telling the stories of the heart
of all 96 Moon phase and Moon sign combinations,
Raven Kaldera explains the creative gifts and
emotional challenges bestowed upon those born
under each Moon archetype as well as how to nurture
the positive traits and improve - or at least
discourage - the negative ones.
Exploring the influences each Moon
archetype has on us as it passes, the author reveals
which Moons are the most difficult, what innate
qualities each Moon brings out in us, and what
we can do to honour each Moon.
Including evocative quotes illuminating
the nature of each Moon, Kaldera shows how to
use your natal Moon's astrological sign and phase
to find your "hidden Moons" - the shadows
cast by passing Moons - and predict how current
and approaching Moons will affect you.
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The Presence Process
Michael Brown
PB AUD30.00
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Why is it so difficult to
simply be present? The reason is that our
deeply suppressed emotional imprints from
childhood distract from an awareness of
the present moment. We're not broken and
don't need to be healed but rather, our
discomfort needs to be integrated.
The Presence Process is a
journey that guides you into taking responsibility
for your emotional integration. It is a
way to consciously grow up and become responsible
for determining the quality of your personal
experience.
The book teaches you how to
exercise authentic personal responsibility
in a practical manner and reveals the mechanics
that shape the way you feel about your life.
It offers a simple, practical approach to
accomplishing and maintaining personal peace
in the midst of globally accelerating change,
discomfort, conflict, and chaos.
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Falling Into Grace
Adyashanti
HC AUD37.95
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Adyashanti asks us to let
go of our struggles with life and open to
the full promise of spiritual awakening:
the end of delusion and the discovery and
expression of our essential being.
After 15 years as a spiritual
teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler
the teaching, the greater its power to initiate
this awakening.
He shares what he considers
fundamental insights to open ourselves to
that mysterious element that enters in the
hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution
in the way that we perceive life.
Wherever you may be on your
own spiritual path, you will find down-to-earth
guidance on breaking the trance of ego,
experiencing the raw energy of emotion,
cultivating inner stability, transcending
the world of opposites, and more.
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Mermaid Magic
Lucy Cavendish
PB AUD34.95
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Dive into the inspirational
realm of water, and discover the healing
powers of mermaids, magic and the marine
environment. From the authors of The Book
of Faery Magic comes an enchanting new adventure
into the power and beauty of water and the
oceanic realm.
Brimming with sea magic, inner
journeys, fun recipes and rich research,
Mermaid Magic will help you develop your
own deep connection to the element of water.
Work with the ocean and its
creatures, learn about tides and lunar phases,
divine your future with sea oracles, absorb
the healing energies of sacred wells and
springs, become an eco warrior, and discover
the beauty of mermaid lore and legends and
how to call on the mermaids for love and
transformation.
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Outwitting the
Devil
Napoleon Hill and
Sharon Lechter (Editor)
PB AUD33.30
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Lechter (co-author of Rich
Dad, Poor Dad) says this 73-year-old manuscript
"provides the keys for each of us to
outwit the Devil in our own lives"
and chart a course for success.
It opens with a compelling
memoir of how Napoleon Hill, as a successful
writer, was asked by Andrew Carnegie to
interview top tycoons and distil their knowledge
into a philosophy of personal achievement.
Hill followed his huge 1937
bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, with this
book, which has remained unpublished until
now because his wife feared a reaction from
organized religion to a book consisting
of an interview with the Devil and also
in light of world events in the late '30s.
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Eating Mindfully
Susan Albers
HC AUD22.95
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This book introduces and adapts
the concepts of mindfulness and acceptance
to the observation and management of eating
habits.
The result is a series of
exercises and meditations that reinforce
healthy habits and lead to greater tranquility
at meals.
It describes the four foundations
of mindful eating: mindfulness of the mind,
the body, the feelings, and the thoughts.
It doesn't encourage a diet of deprivation,
but instead provides a checklist for the
wide variety of mindless eating approaches,
which include fasting, dieting, and restricting
certain foods, rapid eating, eating when
not hungry or when tired, and food rituals.
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For
music, DVD's and audio book releases go to Page
2 of the New Releases for July 2011
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