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The
Latest Books
October
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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As Far as the Heart Can
See
Mark Nepo
PB AUD28.00
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Poet, philosopher,
author and master of metaphor, Mark Nepo has assembled
a collection of soulful stories about staying
awake and staying close to what is sacred that
go straight to the heart.
Each vignette relates
a deep musing, dream, or abiding parable that
speaks directly to living a life of presence by
returning us to the hidden wholeness in which
all things are connected.
You are invited to
enter into the marrow of story by working with
the journal questions for reflection, questions
for either discussion or meditation that are offered
at the conclusion of each chapter.
Mark Nepo is a consummate
storyteller with a rare gift for making the invisible
visible.
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The Way of the Happy Woman
Sara Avant Stover
PB AUD23.00
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Ancients lived in accordance with
daily, seasonal, and yearly rhythms by necessity.
But modern life overrides these cycles - from
weather and food to work and recreation. Because
they are inherently cyclical and instinctually
caregivers, women are especially affected.
Millions of women trying to do it
all, all the time, end up feeling depleted and
defeated. In these pages Sara Avant Stover shows
how simple, natural, and refreshingly fun practices
can put women back in sync with their own cycles
and those of nature.
When we honour spring's seedlings,
summer's colour, fall's harvest, and winter's
quietude, we harmonize our inner and outer worlds.
Stover's suggestions nurture the body, invigorate
the mind, and lift the spirit, yielding the same
benefits as a getting-away-from-it-all retreat.
Illustrated yoga poses, inviting
recipes, and innovative journaling, meditation,
and brainstorming techniques make reconnecting
to the essential easy -- not just for a weekend
or week but year-round and lifelong.
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The Seed
Jon Gordon
HC AUD27.95
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The Seed takes you on a quest for
the meaning and passion behind work. Josh, an
up-and-comer at his company, is disenchanted with
his job.
Challenged by his boss to take two
weeks to decide if he really wants to work there,
Josh takes off for the country, where he meets
a wise farmer who gives him a seed and a promise:
find the right place to plant the seed, and his
purpose will be revealed.
Through Josh's journey cross-country
journey, you'll find surprising new sources of
wisdom and inspiration in your own business and
life.
Nobody captures the deeper meaning
of business like Jon Gordon, and The Seed is his
most searching and significant book yet. Whatever
your profession, take this insightful look at
the purpose behind work, and plant The Seed of
inspiration in your life!
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Becoming Animal - an
Earthly Cosmology
David Abram
PB AUD33.95
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David Abram's first book, The Spell
of the Sensuous was hailed as "revolutionary"
by many and has become a classic of environmental
literature. Now Abram returns with a startling
exploration of our human entanglement with the
rest of nature.
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable
losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly
evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation
to the living land. For too long we've inured
ourselves to the wild intelligence of our muscled
flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies
that hold the living world at a distance. This
book subverts that distance, drawing readers ever
deeper into their animal senses in order to explore,
from within, the elemental kinship between the
body and the breathing Earth.
The shapeshifting of ravens, the erotic nature
of gravity, the eloquence of thunder, the pleasures
of being edible: all have their place in Abram's
investigation. He shows that from the awakened
perspective of the human animal, awareness (or
mind) is not an exclusive possession of our species
but a lucid quality of the biosphere itself, a
quality in which we, along with the oaks and the
spiders, steadily participate.
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Mind and Emotions
Matthew McKay et al
PB AUD32.95
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We all have our own ways of handling
stressful situations without letting emotions
get the best of us, but some ways of coping work
better than others. Short-term fixes that help
us avoid or numb our emotions may temporarily
alleviate sadness and anger, but can also end
up causing anxiety, depression, chronic anger,
and even physical health problems.
If you struggle with overwhelming
emotions and feel trapped by unhealthy patterns,
this workbook is your ticket out.
Mind and Emotions is a universal
treatment program for all emotional disorders
that helps you discover which of the seven problematic
coping styles is keeping you trapped in a cycle
of emotional pain. Instead of working on difficulties
like anxiety, anger, shame, and depression one
by one, you'll treat the root of all your emotional
suffering at once.
Drawing on evidence-based skills
from cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance
and commitment therapy, and dialectical behaviour
therapy, this workbook offers all the techniques
you need to manage unwelcome feelings in effective
and productive ways.
You will be able to learn and practice
the most effective coping skills: clarifying and
acting on your core values; mindfulness and acceptance;
detaching from negative thoughts; self-soothing
and relaxation exercises; assertiveness and interpersonal
skills and gradually facing your strong emotions.
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A Lamp in the Darkness
Jack Kornfield
HC and CD AUD32.95
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Where can we find illumination
and support when we most need it? "Inside
each of us is an inner light that I call
'The One Who Knows'," writes Jack Kornfield.
"Awakening to this wisdom can help
us find our way through pain and suffering
with courage, grace, and tenderness."
For anyone seeking answers
during a time of trial or confusion, he
now offers A Lamp in the Darkness, a new
book-and-CD programme filled with spiritual
and psychological insights, hope-giving
stories, and special guided meditations
to navigate life's inevitable storms.
With deep understanding and
compassionate warmth, Jack Kornfield illuminates
a safe-and sane-pathway through difficulty,
as we explore practices created for times
of crisis but applicable and useful throughout
our daily lives.
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Frequency- the
Power of Personal Vibration
Penney Peirce
PB AUD28.00
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Because we see the world from
a physical perspective, we often don't notice
what's right in front of us: that our spirit,
thoughts, emotions, and body are all made
of energy. Inside us and everywhere around
us, life is vibrating. In fact, each of
us has a personal vibration that accurately
communicates who we are to the world and
helps shape our reality.
Frequency shows you how to
feel your personal vibration, improve it,
and use it to shift your life from ordinary
to extraordinary. A simple shift in frequency
can change depression to peace, anger to
stillness, and fear to enthusiasm.
Frequency gives you a reassuring,
step-by-step roadmap into a positive state
of awareness that Peirce calls The Intuition
Age.
By learning to use frequency
principles, methods based on the way energy
actually functions, you can keep your energy
level high and productive, receive subtle
information directly from the environment
via "empathic resonance," and
quickly free yourself from negative or low
vibrations.
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The Three Waves
of Volunteers and the New Earth
Dolores Cannon
PB AUD36.00
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This is a fascinating narrative
that reveals the cosmic forces that have
been in play over the past 66 years. Help
has come from the outside to preserve the
human race. Dolores Cannon, through her
hypnosis work has discovered three waves
of these volunteers.
Some have come direct from
the "Source" and have never lived
in any type of physical body before. Others
have lived as space beings on other planets
or other dimensions. Because all memory
is erased upon entry to the Earth dimension,
they do not remember their assignment.
Thus these beautiful souls
have a difficult time adjusting to our chaotic
world. These souls have a vital role to
play as they help all of the rest of us
ascend to the New Earth. Dolores Cannon,
a regressive hypnotherapist and psychic
researcher who records "Lost"
knowledge, was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
in 1931.
She was nearly fifty years
old when she began experimenting with hypnosis
and past life regression. The results were,
to say the least, quite spectacular! She
is the author of more than twenty-five books.
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Diamond Heart Book
5
A.H. Almaas
PB AUD39.95
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From one perspective, we
can see ourselves merely as human beings
struggling in a crowded and chaotic world
of suffering. This book opens our eyes to
a different reality, one that turns our
familiar world inside out.
We need only explore, with
curiosity and love, our true potential as
human beings in order to discover infinite
depth and creativity in our lives as we
act and interact in the world.
When time and space expand
their meaning, we come to know ourselves
as having infinite dimensions of being and
qualities of spirit, and uncover new mysteries
about ourselves, one another, and the reality
we live in.
This is the last of the five-volume Diamond
Heart series of transcribed and edited talks
given by A. H. Almaas to inner-work groups
in California and Colorado.
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Untie the Strong
Woman
Clarissa Pinkola
Estees
HC AUD33.30
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"Call her Our Lady, La
Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother-or one
of her thousands of other names," says
Dr. Estés. "She wears hundreds
of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness
of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans.
Thus she comes to us in billions of images,
but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate
Heart.
In Untie the Strong Woman,
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites
us to reconnect with "the fierce and
loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but
never tame-she who flies to our aid when
the road is long and our hearts are broken,
ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of
our creative souls."
In her first book in more
than a decade, Dr. Estés illuminates
Our Lady through blessings, images, and
narrative, including: stories of connecting
with the Blessed Mother, including "Meeting
the Lady in Red," and "Untie the
Strong Woman"; blessed Mother's many
images from around the world, including
"Litany of The Mother Road: A Chant
of Her Incandescent Names;" "A
Man Named Mary;" and "The Marys
of Mother Africa"; the wild side of
her love, including "Massacre of the
Dreamers: The Maiz Mother;" "Holy
Card of Swords Through the Heart;"
and "Guadalupe is a Girl Gang Leader
in Heaven"
The Blessed Mother is often
'Friend to the friendless one' and Mother
to all-yet too many of us have been estranged
from her for far too long."
Untie the Strong Woman opens
a channel to this sacred and nurturing force-"breaking
through walls that have held us back from
her presence, and instead, inviting us to
shelter under her starry green mantle."
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For
music, DVD's and audio book releases go to Page
2 of the New Releases for October 2011
For
Hay House Publishing releases - visit this page
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