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Where is your mind right now? Are you thinking about the future? Or maybe your mind is in the past? When you are mindful, your mind is focused on right now. Psychologist Dr. Susan Albers offers advice about living in the now and staying in the present moment from her audiobook Eating Mindfully.

Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food is an audiobook that helps you change the way you 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 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 her tips for staying in the present moment, which is the foundation of mindfulness. If you want to practice mindful eating, or just be more mindful in general, these tips can help.

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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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Have you ever tried to avoid mental burnout or relieve stress by exploring how to open up to joy? Creating happiness in your everyday life is just a small part of MBSR, or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, a method developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. With a history of helping patients with anxiety, chronic pain, panic, depression and more, MBSR is the perfect tool to relieve stress by living more fully in the present moment.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from MBSR Every Day: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction by Dr. Elisha Goldstein and Dr. Bob Stahl. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of mindfulness, this audiobook offers practical advice you can incorporate to ease the pressures you face in your daily life. If you’re struggling with worry or simply hoping to uncover deep hidden truths, this book will provide the help you need to respond to stress with non judgmental awareness, meditation techniques, and wise perspectives.

In this episode, Dr. Bob Stahl dives into the scientific benefits behind creating joyful habits, practicing mindfulness, and learning how to open up to joy. Despite the ways our brains are wired to focus on the negative and take us away from the present moment, it is possible to shift your gaze to the positive and create a habit of joy that flows into all of your life.

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Spiritual teacher Jeff Foster is the author of the popular audiobook Falling in Love with Where You Are. He studied astrophysics at Cambridge University and holds meetings, retreats, and private sessions around the world, pointing people back to the deep acceptance inherent in this moment. In this excerpt from his audiobook, he encourages us to embark on an experiment and acknowledge what is here in this moment. He suggests we release our conclusions about life, our ideas about the past and future, and begin to notice the sensations, feelings, thoughts that are present, right here and right now.

This excerpt is from the popular audiobook Falling in Love with Where You Are by Jeff Foster. This audiobook invites you to discover a deep YES to your life, no matter what you are going through; to see crisis as an opportunity to heal, pain as an intelligent messenger, and your imperfections as perfectly placed. Jeff reminds us, “Even in your glorious imperfection, you were always a perfect expression of life, a beloved child of the universe, a complete work of art, unique in all the world…”

In this episode Jeff Foster suggests an experiment to discover what is fresh and alive in this moment, followed by “A Poem for No-One.”

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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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Anxiety is an epidemic in our modern world. Almost everyone experiences anxiety at some time. But studies now show there is a direct link between anxiety and how you respond to emotions. Today, psychologist Dr. David Kelmanski, author of the audiobook Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life, talks about how to outsmart your anxiety using mindfulness and emotion regulation. Together they can provide a powerful framework for helping people gain mastery over anxiety.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life: Using the Science of Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness to Overcome Fear and Worry, written by psychologist Dr. David Klemanski and Joshua Curtiss. This audiobook is a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide for managing the thoughts and feelings that cause anxiety, worry, fear, and panic. Using easy, clinically proven mindfulness practices, you’ll learn to manage your emotions and lessen your anxiety.

In this episode, Dr. Klemanski and Joshua Curtis explain mindfulness and emotion regulation, and how, together, they can help you outsmart your anxiety.

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.”

— Dr. David Klemanski and Joshua Curtiss
authors of “Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life

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Today we’re sharing a guided meditation created for women to help you open your heart and attract the love you want. If you want to feel more loving, enjoy more love in your life, or attract the right romantic partner, the guided meditations in the audiobook Blissful Heart: Guided Meditations to Open Your Heart, Feel Radiant and Find Love will help you open your heart so you can feel a sense of inner optimism and receptivity towards love.

In this episode we’re going to help you relax, open your heart, and go on a peaceful inner journey to experience deep self love. We’re sharing an abridged meditation from the audiobook Blissful Heart: Guided Meditations to Open Your Heart, Feel Radiant and Find Love. This audiobook, written by love and dating coach Ronnie Ann Ryan, is a collection of ten inspiring guided meditations to help you find love.

If you are driving or operating machinery, please listen to this episode at another time. Listen to this meditation only when you can give it your full attention and have no other responsibilities to attend to.

Love Coach Ronnie Ann Ryan, MBA, Certified Coach, works with 
successful women over 35 who have a hot career, but a chilly love life. 
She helps confused, frustrated, and timid singles build confidence and discover proven dating strategies that lead to love.

The author of four books and hundreds of articles, she is sought by the media and has been interviewed or featured by the BBC, ABC, NBC, and Fox News, NPR, Fox News Magazine Online, Huffington Post, eHarmony, MORE.com, DigitalRomance.com, YourTango.com.

Ronnie has helped thousands of women build confidence, feel more in control and overcome obstacles find lasting love. Visit her website to learn more.

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The meditations in Blissful Heart were created for women to help you clear and open your heart as much as possible, so that you cultivate a consistent sense of inner optimism and receptivity towards love. The more you live your life in a loving way, the more loving energy returns to you from the Universe, helping you to attract a loving partner.

Author, Blissful Heart: Guided Meditations to Open Your Heart, Feel Radiant and Find Love

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In these challenging times, many of us are constantly engaged in difficult or stressful tasks. In order to get deep sleep, it’s important to be able to shift out of your active, goal-directed state into a relaxed, winding-down state. Psychologists Colleen Carney and Rachel Mamber, authors of the audiobook Goodnight Mind, share a powerful technique they call “the Buffer Zone.”

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night’s Sleep. This audiobook addresses the effects of rumination―or having an overactive brain―on your ability to sleep well. Written by two psychologists who specialize in sleep disorders, the book contains helpful exercises and insights into how you can better manage your thoughts at bedtime, and finally get some sleep.

In this episode Drs. Carney and Mamber offer helpful advice for how to get deep sleep by creating a “buffer zone” — deliberately shifting gears from a busy day to relaxing and winding down for sleep.

Rachel Manber, PhD, co-author of the audiobook Goodnight Mind, is professor at Stanford University and director of the Insomnia and Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. She has treated hundreds of patients with insomnia, many of whom also have other medical or psychiatric disorders, and has trained physicians, psychologists, and nurses to treat insomnia without medication.

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Have you ever thought about how your body produces deep sleep? If you seem to not get deep sleep, or enough deep sleep, perhaps you are worried that your body’s system for producing deep sleep is broken or has malfunctioned. Luckily, this is rarely the case. In fact, you will be relieved to learn that there are things that you can do to help your sleep system work better for you.

Authors, Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night's Sleep

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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.  

In this episode, you’ll learn about the focusing technique and how it can help you with emotional self-healing.

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

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If you want to relax, let go of stress, and find a soothing sense of inner peace, we’ve got a great episode for you today.
We’re sharing a gentle guided meditation for letting go from the audiobook Guided Meditations for Letting Go, by Your Great Journey. This guided meditation uses relaxation, mindfulness, and visualization to help you recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness, quiet a noisy mind and discover a tranquil inner oasis.

This abridged guided meditation is from the audiobook Guided Meditations for Letting Go, by Your Great Journey. This audiobook is a collection of eight gentle, peaceful and restorative guided meditations, approximately 20 – 25 minutes each. They are designed to help you relax and let go and briefly slip away from life’s demands to experience a tranquil inner oasis. They are ideal for anyone who wants to:

In this episode, we’re going to help you relax and and let go of stress with a guided meditation that utilizes relaxation, mindfulness and visualization to help you recover a sense of inner quiet and spaciousness. This episode offers a shorter version of a meditation from the collection Guided Meditations for Letting Go.

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 any 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 do not have other responsibilities to attend to.

Enjoy!

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Worry convinces us there’s danger, and then tricks us into getting into fight, flight, or freeze mode — even when there is no danger. Today, Dr. David Carbonell, clinical psychologist, anxiety expert and author of the best-selling audiobook The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It shares advice on new ways to respond to worry and anxeity, rather than trying to eliminate them.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the popular audiobook The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It , by Dr. David Carbonell. This audiobook shows how worry and anxiety hijack the brain, and offers powerful “counter-intuitive” strategy to help you put worry in its place and break the cycle of worry, once and for all.

In this episode, Dr. Carbonell discusses how easy it is to be fooled by our thoughts— especially worry and anxiety — and offers a more effective approach than trying to eliminate them.

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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The Worry Trick

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We all face grief and loss, but if we can turn towards it, and listen to it, it may reveal hidden gold. Spiritual teacher Jeff Foster is the author of the popular audiobook Falling in Love with Where You Are. He studied astrophysics at Cambridge University and holds meetings, retreats, and private sessions around the world, pointing people back to the deep acceptance in this present moment. In this excerpt from his audiobook, he shares profound insights about what can be found at the very bottom of grief and loss.

Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook Falling in Love with Where You Are by Jeff Foster. This audiobook invites you to discover a deep YES to your life, no matter what you are going through; to see crisis as an opportunity to heal, pain as an intelligent messenger, and your imperfections as perfectly placed. “Even in your glorious imperfection,” Jeff reminds us, “you were always a perfect expression of life, a beloved child of the universe, a complete work of art, unique in all the world…”

In this episode Jeff Foster shares profound insights about the “hidden gold” that can be found at the very bottom of grief and loss. We hope you’ll find comfort in his inspirational words!

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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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