Mindfulness has been causing a real stir recently. Mark Williams and Danny Penman have found a wonderfully effective way of guiding you through meditation practices that start very simply and then build to help you tackle even the worst difficulties you may encounter. Right from the first breathing exercises you will feel a sense of achievement, and you quickly progress to breaking your cycles of anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion. These techniques open the door to improved health, well-being, contentment and new courage. It takes just a few minutes each day to follow this clearly structured, manageable eight-week (but flexible) programme, including a daily meditation from the accompanying CD. Supportive and straightforward, suitable right from beginner level, Mindfulness helps you to find an awareness unclouded by your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Step away from negative self-talk and let a sense of balance, wonder and happiness reappear in your life.
288pp, 153mm x 234mm, Paperback + free CD, 2011
£6.99 £10.99
We think our future is shaped by big events - the decisions we make, the thoughts we have - but this book will show that it is our daily actions, the things we repeatedly do, that are the key. Repeat an action enough times and it will become a habit, but habits lack thought, consideration and presence. To ensure long-lasting, meaningful change our actions need to be filled with a sense of personal meaning, purpose and power - they need to be ritualized.
Creating personal ritual in our lives allows us to bring the presence of the sacred into the everyday. The rituals in this book have been created and designed as symbolic acts providing a framework for anyone to use to create positive change in their lives. The 7 morning rituals are designed to help you 'wake with determination'; the 7 afternoon rituals focus on 'living on purpose'; and the 7 evening rituals focus on 'retiring with satisfaction'.
194pp, Paperback, 124 x 185 mm, 2017
£12.99 £16.99
Based on more than a decade of research, the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes and medical doctors, as well as many hours of personal experimentation, The 4-Hour Body is a radical controlled nutrition and fitness guide for both men and women who want to experience rapid body transformation with maximum results for minimal effort. Timothy Ferriss shows how you can reach your optimum physical potential with as little as four hours of effort a month. He applies his Minimum Effective Dose (MED) principles to create specific exercise and nutrition programmes according to the ultimate goals of, for example, better endurance, fat loss, muscle gain, strength gain, better sex, sleep improvement or general wellbeing. This is an informative and fascinating manual for physical transformation.
592pp, 153mm x 234mm, Paperback, 2011Suitable for adult reading only: contains explicit illustrations and discussion of a sexual nature.
£11.00 £12.99
Here we have an invitation to spend a year focusing on the positive and unlocking the secrets of how to be happier. Each of the 52 sections suggests an activity to experience over a period of seven days. It’s 52 weeks, not January to December, so you can start today. Anyone can choose to be happy and set themselves on a happiness path, and this easy to follow workbook is a great tool to support that journey. For example Week 6 is Hug More, a week to think about the comfort of touch, even just stroking the cat. Have a laugh in Week 22 with Seeing The Funny Side of Life. Enjoy and be happy.
192pp, 235 x194 mm, Paperback, 2017