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Mindfulness has been proven to help reduce anxiety, depression and stress while strengthening emotional stamina. Today mental health therapist Sheri Van Dijk introduces the basic techniques regarding how to to be present in the moment with mindfulness practice. The beauty of mindfulness is its accessibility—you can practice anywhere and anytime. In twenty minutes, you can feel clearer, calmer and more centered, regardless of what’s going on around you. And if you find yourself in the middle of an emotional storm, can you use mindfulness to get your bearings? Yes!

In this episode, we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions and Balance Your Life, written by Sheri Van Dijk. This audiobook helps you cope with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly with a toolkit that utilizes dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. If you’re ready to change the way you respond to stressful situations, then the skills in this audiobook will help you develop the inner resilience to weather any emotional storm and avoid needless suffering.

In this excerpt, mental health therapist Sheri Van Dijk introduces the basic techniques regarding how to be present in the moment with mindfulness practice. She discusses where to start, and what mindfulness will do for you. You will be introduced to three different mindfulness exercises, all of which are carefully tailored to help you become more present and receptive in the moment. You’ll learn:

These simple exercises will help you learn how to practice mindfulness—anywhere, anytime.

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You can practice mindfulness in an infinite number of ways, because anything you do, you can bring mindfulness to―breathing, watching television or reading a book, having a conversation with someone, driving, eating, walking―the list is endless.

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Are your emotions causing you anxiety? Emotions can be quite beneficial, but sometimes, emotions can have unwanted consequences, especially when they cause us fear or anxiety. Today, Psychologist Dr. David Klemanski talks about the latest and most effective techniques available to reduce and eliminate anxiety, including how to overcome anxiety with mindfulness.

Today we’re excited to share an exclusive interview with psychologist Dr. David Klemanski about his audiobook Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life. This audiobook is a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide for managing the thoughts and feelings that cause anxiety, worry, fear, and panic. Using easy mindfulness practices, you’ll learn to manage your emotions and lessen your anxiety.

In this conversation, Dr. Klemanski offers his insights on how to overcome anxiety with mindfulness. He also offers some helpful tips to begin dealing with anxiety. If you’re ready to take steps to skillfully manage anxiety, then you’ll appreciate this informative interview.

David H. Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, is a psychologist and professor at New York University where he teaches, researches, and co-directs the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing. He specializes in the classification and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, and his research is focused on mindfulness and emotion regulation in anxiety and depression.

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If you truly want to outsmart your anxiety, you will find this audiobook valuable. We will teach you how and when to pay attention to your anxiety, how to react with less intensity to your anxious emotions, and what to do when you feel as if you are overwhelmed by anxiety.

authors of "Don't Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life"

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Why do we practice meditation? When we practice meditation, what do we hope will change? In our own way, each of us is seeking liberation. If you’re seeking a life of greater introspection, freedom and love, then we hope you find inspiration in Robert Rabbin’s thoughts on the power of meditation. Robert Rabbin is the author of audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in the Shimmering Light of Your True Self.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in the Shimmering Light of Your True Self by Robert Rabbin. This audiobook is an inspiring collection of essays on meditation, self-inquiry, awareness, freedom, and more. It’s an uplifting guide through the process of questioning, reframing, and deepening awareness that will help you discover your own infinite nature–one of enduring happiness and peace.

In today’s episode, Robert Rabbin shares his thoughts on the power of meditation. He points out that as meditation cultivates a growing awareness within us, we experience peace. Our chronic restlessness subsides, and a way of seeing and knowing arises which is not confused by thought.

Robert Rabbin began his professional journey in 1985, after spending 10 years living and working with meditation master Swami Muktananda. He developed an international reputation as a radically brilliant speaker and public speaking guru, as well as a distinguished self-awareness facilitator, leadership adviser, and personal mentor. He authored eight books and more than 250 articles on authentic living and public speaking, leadership, self-inquiry, spiritual activism, and meditation.

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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Spiritual teacher Jeff Foster asks: “What will you do with this one precious, fleeting gift of life?” The answer, he says, is simple, because life is short. Do whatever makes you feel passionately alive. Find a way—however much you have to struggle at first to discover your passion and move toward the deepest truth of yourself.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Jeff Foster’s audiobook, Falling in Love with Where You Are: A Year of Prose and Poetry on Radically Opening Up to the Pain and Joy of Life. You’ll find yourself able 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 will inspire you to honor your unique talents and abilities, and to discover your passion and reach for the deepest truth in yourself. To trust prosperity and passion over profit, comfort and the approval of others. Breaking out of the known can be terrifying. You’ll be swimming in the unknown, but you will feel passionately alive. 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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Friend, if you are experiencing stress, sorrow, physical or emotional pain in your life right now, it doesn’t mean that your life is going wrong or that you have failed. You may just be healing in your own original and unexpected way.

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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When a powerful emotion overcomes us, our first response may be to run away from the experience through numbing, shutting down, looking for distractions, or becoming angry. However, calming emotions can be achieved by the process of identifying and naming the emotion which can stimulate the left-brain, right-brain circuits and help us to 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 discusses an important first step in calming emotions: developing emotional awareness by learning to precisely identify your feelings.

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.

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If your emotions repeatedly overwhelm you, you may be an emotionally sensitive person. Today we’re sharing a helpful except from the popular audiobook The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You, written by psychologist Dr. Kayrn Hall. Dr. Hall will introduce you to the audiobook and offer a series of questions to help you determine if you are an emotionally sensitive person.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from Dr. Karyn Hall’s audiobook The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You. In this audiobook, Dr. Hall speaks to those of us who are often told to “stop being so sensitive.” If you’ve heard this before, you may have wished it were that easy. Well, now it is. Dr. Hall shares proven-effective cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques designed to help you cope with intense emotions. You’ll learn powerful tools that can help you manage intense emotions before they take over your life.

In this episode, Dr. Hall discusses how learning to manage your intense emotions is key to reducing your suffering and helping you enjoy the gifts of being emotionally sensitive.

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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Worry likes to trick you into thinking there’s danger where there is none, and then urges you to fight, fly, or freeze. In today’s episode, you’ll learn that you CAN break the worrying habit! We’re offering an excerpt from the best-selling audio book The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, written by psychologist and anxiety expert, David A. Carbonell. The Worry Trick shows how worrying and anxiety hijack the brain and offers effective techniques to help you break the cycle of worry—once and for all.

Anxiety is a powerful force. It makes us question our decisions and ourselves, worry about the future, all while filling our days with dread and emotional turbulence. The techniques in this audiobook, rather than encouraging you to avoid or try to resist anxiety, reveal the trick that lies beneath your anxious thoughts, and teaches you why avoiding anxiety backfires and always make things worse.

In today’s episode, Dr. Carbonell shares his funny and wise thoughts on how the worrying habit tricks us. You will learn the difference between doubt and danger, and begin to feel more balanced and in control of your worries.

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People sometimes talk about “fear of the unknown” as if it were a special category of fear. Everything about the future is unknown! It’s not the unknown part that people find scary. It’s when they consider the future and think that they do know what will happen, and that it’s going to be bad. That’s when they get afraid.

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Relax, let go and experience a tranquil inner oasis with an abridged guided meditation from the audiobook Guided Meditations for a Quiet Mind. This guided meditation is designed to help you stop overthinking, calm your mind, and briefly slip away from life’s demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. It utilizes relaxation, mindfulness, and visualization to help you recover a sense of deep inner peace and serenity.

Guided Meditations for a Quiet Mind 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 for a Quiet Mind. Before you start this guided meditation to help you stop overthinking and quiet your mind, 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.

Please enjoy these meditations only in circumstances where you can give them your full attention and have no other responsibilities to tend to. Never listen while driving or operating machinery.

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When you have difficulty managing your emotions, it can feel like you’re losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! If you find it difficult to understand, express, and process intense emotions—and most of us do—we have some helpful information about how to effectively manage emotions.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the popular audiobook Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage & Balance Your Life by Sheri Van Dijk. Sheri draws from her extensive experience teaching dialectical behavior therapy skills (DBT) to offer a comprehensive audiobook that offers an abundance of effective strategies to manage intense emotions.

In this episode, Sheri discusses how faulty beliefs about emotions only make it more difficult for you to manage emotions effectively. She shares some of the more common myths that people believe about the way they feel and why these beliefs are incorrect.

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I work with people on a daily basis who have difficulty regulating their emotions, and I see firsthand the problems it causes in their lives, and all because they didn’t learn certain skills to help them deal with their emotions as they were growing up. The good news is that it’s not too late. If you have trouble managing your anger, sadness, or worry, this audiobook can help you.

Calming the Emotional Storm

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Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the popular audiobook The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing. Focusing is a gentle yet powerful self-awareness technique that lets you tap into your body’s wisdom and make positive changes in your life. It is the process of listening to your body in a gentle, accepting way, honoring the wisdom that you have inside you, and hearing the messages that your inner self is sending you.

The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, was written by Ann Weiser Cornell. This audiobook is a guide to the powerful process of focusing that taps into the body’s wisdom and helps you hear the messages from your inner self.

In this episode, you’ll learn what focusing is how you can benefit from learning focusing.

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The Power of Focusing clarifies an essential human skill many of us have forgotten and takes it a quantum leap farther along its evolutionary path. Here are germinal teachings and deep human wisdom expressed in a way that can improve anyone’s emotions, well-being, and life.

author of, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" and "The Laws of Spirit "

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