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Who Am I? How Shall I Live? What Should I do? How do we find within ourselves the answers and the courage we need to live an authentic life? Author and coach Robert Rabbin shares his insights about accessing the still space beyond the mind—the place we aim for when we’re trying to sort out the deep questions of our lives.

Robert Rabbin is the author of the audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in the Shimmering Light of Your True Self. This audiobook is a profound and inspiring collection of essays on meditation, self-inquiry, awareness, freedom, authenticity, and more. It’s an uplifting guide through the process of questioning, re-framing, and deepening awareness that will help you align with your own infinite nature—one of enduring happiness and peace.

This conversation, recorded in late 2017 shortly before Robert’s death, he talks about finding our way to the wisdom, clarity and authentic direction that lies inside us. He speaks about two kinds of change—the change we try to impose on life, and the change life imposes on us. And he shares his thoughts on dissipating fear by getting to the root of it through the process of inquiry. He inspires us to access the still space beyond the mind—the source of our deepest inner wisdom and clarity.

Stay tuned after the conversation—Robert shares an excerpt from The Sacred Hub audiobook.

In January 2012, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had a few months to live. However, in keeping with his contrarian nature, he thrived well past the predicted use-by date. He passed away in December 2017.

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The Sacred Hub is an inquiry into what it means to be both fully human and fully divine. Robert Rabbin invites readers to consider living a consciously awakened life with both personal integrity and spiritual awareness. This timely book is very practical, completely accessible and very compelling. Highly recommended!”

author, "Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of Who You Are"

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Many people who’ve experienced panic attacks try to protect themselves from their anxiety. They tell themselves “don’t think about it;” they resist it; they try to force themselves to feel better; they feel shame and embarrassment and try to keep it a secret from others; and they try to medicate it away with alcohol, nicotine, and other substances. These all make the anxiety worse. Fortunately, anxiety expert Dr. David Carbonell offers a way out for people with panic attacks—whether the attacks are part of panic disorder, social phobia, specific phobias, or some other anxiety disorder.

Today we’re sharing some helpful information from Dr. David Carbonell, anxiety expert and author of the audiobook Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick. In this audiobook, Dr. David Carbonell explains the vicious cycle of habitual responses that lead to debilitating attacks. This audiobook offers detailed instructions to help you halt this process and free yourself from the cycle of panic attacks.

In this episode, Dr. Carbonell explains the cycle of panic and talks about how resisting anxiety actually fuels fears.

David A. Carbonell, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is the founder and director of the Anxiety Treatment Center, Ltd., a small group of psychologists which offers treatment of all manner of fears and phobias at several locations in and around Chicago.

Dr. Carbonell is also the author of The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Anxiety Disorders Association of America; the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; the Association for Contextual and Behavioral Science; the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy; the Illinois Psychological Association; and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation.

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Dr. Carbonell has written a wonderful, inspiring and comprehensive guidebook for winning over panic attacks. While panic attacks are terrifying for the sufferer, they take over territory in a person’s life by playing a very simple but powerful game. In Panic Attacks Workbook you will find the solid and clever strategies
needed to win this mental game and take back your life.

Author of "Don't Panic"

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There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. According to spiritual teacher Jeff Foster, there is one solution. In this episode we offer an excerpt from Jeff’s popular audiobook Falling in Love with Where You Are. Jeff helps us discover a deep YES to our lives, no matter what we’re going through.

The audiobook, Falling in Love with Where You Are, will help you to accept your life joyfully, no matter what you’re going through. You’ll see crisis as an opportunity to heal, pain as an intelligent messenger, and your imperfections as perfectly placed. Jeff will guide, provoke, encourage, and inspire you on your lonely, joyful, and sometimes exhausting pathless journey to the home you never, ever left: the present moment.

In this episode, Jeff Foster speaks about our universal fear and anxieties, revealing that tragedy is inevitable, and so is grace. We hope you’ll find comfort and inspiration in this meditation on love, loss, and your own intrinsic worth. You are not nearly as limited as you may have been led to believe by those who have not yet come alive!

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Falling In Love With Where You Are offers a simple but radical invitation: Stop waiting for the world to make you happy. Stop making your inner joy dependent on external things that are out of your control. Discover the natural happiness that you are and have always been, that doesn’t depend on life’s ever-changing ‘content.’

Author of the Audibook, "Falling in Love with Where You Are"

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In our modern society, weight concerns, obesity rates, and obsession with appearance have changed the way we look at food—and not necessarily for the better. If you have ever snacked when you weren’t hungry, used guilt as a guide for your eating habits, or cut calories even when you felt hungry, you have experienced “mindless” eating firsthand. Psychologist Dr. Susan Albers offers breakthrough mindfulness-based approaches in her audiobook Eating Mindfully. These practices help people to take charge of cravings so they can eat when they are hungry and stop when they feel full.

Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food is an audiobook that helps listeners change the way they approach mealtime. Dr. Albers’ mindfulness-based psychological practices to help you take charge of cravings so that you can eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full. The audiobook includes a section that focuses on the occasional mindless eater and emphasizes that mindful eating isn’t only for those on diets or for those who have severely problematic eating habits – it’s for everyone.

In this episode, Dr. Albers shares an excerpt from her audiobook which explores the basics of eating mindfully, and the benefits it can have on your life. Learn about the Buddha’s insights into mindful eating, and discover the power of eating―and living―mindfully in your own day-to-day life. No matter where you are in your journey toward mindful eating, this book will be an invaluable resource, and you will gain insight into how mindfulness can provide you with the skills needed to control the way you eat—leading to a healthier, happier life.

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In this new edition of Eating Mindfully, Susan Albers gives more advice to those who truly care about what they eat. If you want to be healthy and care about a healthy planet, this is a book that will help you.

founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace

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Are you on the cusp of a brand new story? If you can feel change brewing, if you want that change to be painless and almost instantaneous, Bob Litwin — a leading performance coach on Wall Street and a World Champion tennis player — offers a faster, more effective way to lasting change. In this conversation, Litwin discusses how to harnesses the power of your personal story and create positive change in any area of your life.

We all have a story of our lives—a narrative we tell ourselves about who we are. Often the stories we tell limit our lives. But what would happen if you started telling yourself a new story? How can you make change easy? Tell a new story! Bob Litwin’s audiobook, Live the Best Story of Your Life: A World Champion’s Guide to Lasting Change offers 33 personalized coaching sessions that will help you reach new levels of success in every area of your life. His groundbreaking technique of changing your story is a fast, easy and effective way to create lasting change.

How many times have you heard people say that change is hard, or painful? In this episode, Bob Litwin shares his insights on how to easily create positive change — simply by telling a new story. If you want to realize your own unique and powerful potential, lasting change is only a story away!

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What is your story? What is the Old Story you want to jettison and the New Story you want to live? Don’t know? This audiobook will help you findnd out. Let’s explore together.
Get ready to enjoy the ride. What do you have to lose?

Live the Best Story of Your Life

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Psychologist Dr. Randy Paterson is the author of the audiobook How to be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use. In today’s illuminating conversation he shares a surprising, counter-intuitive approach to self-help — one that can help you to feel happy and move in the direction of a life of contentment.

In his popular audiobook How To Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use, Dr. Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which—if followed—are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you have a powerful way to reliably increase your happiness.

In this episode, Dr. Paterson discusses the unusual technique of flipping the question and asking: “If I wanted to, how would I make myself miserable?” The answer to this question can help you identify ways to break out of old, unhealthy patterns. Surprisingly, valuable insight into how to feel happy can be found by using this unique approach.

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What bad habit would you like to change? How many times have you tried to break free of it? Why is it that for all our good intentions and heroic willpower we’re often unsuccessful, and end up right back where we started? How can we overcome bad habits for good? Dr. Amy Johnson shares her insights to help you break any habit—once and for all—without using willpower. Dr. Johnson is author of the audiobook “The Little Book of Big Change: The No Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit.”

Today’s episode presents a conversation with life coach and social psychologist, Dr. Amy Johnson. Dr. Johnson is the author of the audiobook The Little Book of Big Change: The No Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit. After struggling with anxiety, panic attacks, binge eating and bulimia for years, she discovered a spiritual framework that freed her from her painful habits. The Little Book of Big Change shares practical, cutting-edge, and surprisingly counter-intuitive techniques that don’t rely on willpower. No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it!

In today’s conversation, Dr. Amy Johnson talks about techniques you can use to break any habit for good—without using willpower!

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Each time you feel deeply peaceful, your personal thinking is taking a relative break. Each time you’re in the throes of anxiety, urges or general uneasiness, your thinking has revved back up. This audiobook aims to point you back toward the wisdom that is already within you, so that you can use it as a guide.

Author of the Audibook, "The Little Book of Big Change"

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In this episode, psychologist Dr. Karyn Hall joins us to offer advice for people with dealing with emotional sensitivity. Dr. Hall’s popular audiobook, The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You, offers proven-effective cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques to help those who struggle with intense emotions.

Dr. Hall’s audiobook The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You, presents powerful tools for staying in the present moment, identifying emotional triggers, developing a strong and healthy identity, and experiencing overwhelming or uncomfortable emotions without becoming upset.

In this informative conversation, Dr. Hall talks about the power of mindfulness, and why it is especially helpful for those who struggle with emotional sensitivity. An emotionally sensitive person herself, she shares one of the most effective techniques she’s learned for managing emotions and finding self-acceptance.

Karyn D. Hall, PhD, is the director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center in Houston and a DBT Trainer/Consultant with Treatment Implementation Collaborative. She is the author of The Emotionally Sensitive Person and is on the Board of Directors for National Education Alliance Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA.BPD).

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Being emotionally sensitive can be both your greatest gift and your greatest challenge. Sometimes it’s difficult to appreciate the positives of emotional sensitivity, because experiencing emotions so intensely can be painful and lead to difficult situations.

The Emotionally Sensitive Person

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In this episode, Dr. Judith Siegel offers practical techniques to help us learn how to calm emotional memories so that we can stop overreacting and start feeling in control.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions, written by marriage and family therapist Dr. Judith Siegel. This audiobook helps you identify your emotional triggers, discover a new way of processing impulsive thoughts and feelings, and understand how your emotions can undermine your ability to think rationally in moments of crisis and stress. You’ll learn how to neutralize overwhelming emotions and choose healthy responses instead of flying off the handle.

In this excerpt, Dr. Siegel offers some excellent techniques to learn how to calm emotional memories. These techniques can be used in times of stress or pain to side-step your anxiety and stay in the present moment.

Judith P. Siegel, PhD, LCSW, is associate professor at Silver School of Social Work at New York University. She has published extensively in the field of family therapy and has presented throughout the United States. She has also appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America.

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In this audiobook, I explain how beliefs, emotions, and physiological responses combine to create over-reactions. I examine envy, rejection, criticism, and control—everyday dynamics that frequently trigger overreactions, as well as ways to help you restore calm so that you can access responses that are thoughtful and appropriate. I also suggest ways to challenge beliefs and make peace with the past so that you will be less likely to react to situations that have triggered overreactions in the past.

Stop Overreacting

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In this episode, we’re going to help you relax and relieve stress. You’ll experience a tranquil inner oasis with an abridged meditation from the audiobook Guided Meditations for Letting Go. This guided meditation for letting go utilizes relaxation, mindfulness and visualization to help you recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness.

Guided Meditations for Letting Go is a collection of guided meditations designed to help you relax and let go and briefly slip away from life’s demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. They are perfect for anyone who wants to:

This audiobook is a collection of eight gentle, peaceful and restorative guided meditations, approximately 20 – 25 minutes each.

This episode offers a shorter version of a meditation from the collection Guided Meditations for Letting Go. This meditation will help you relax and relieve stress. Before you begin the meditation, be sure you’re in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. Remember to turn off the phone or other devices that might interrupt you.

Do not listen to this episode while driving or operating machinery. Listen only when you can give the meditation your full attention and have no other responsibilities to attend to.

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