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Godsfield Companion: The guide to poses, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to yoga, its history, philosophy and how to incorporate the practice into your everyday life.Expert yoga practitioner Lucy Lucas offers fresh insight into the history, philosophy and science of yoga, helping you to truly understand its ancient wisdom.Includes more than 50 step-by-step sequences.CONTENTSChapter 1: What is Yoga?Including The history of yoga and Yoga philosophyChapter 2: How Yoga WorksIncluding How we move and why it matters, How yoga impacts upon the brain and A guide to posesChapter 3: How to Live Your YogaIncluding A practice for hip strength and mobility, A gentle flow for boundaries and Letting in more of the good

Godsfield Companion: The guide to principles, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to mindfulness: its benefits, the science and how to use it to improve your relationships, work life and mental health.Mindfulness expert Dr Patrizia Collard outlines the principles of mindful living and how it can help all of us to improve our wellbeing.CONTENTSChapter 1: Awakening to MindfulnessIncluding Understanding mindfulness, Opening up to a new way of living and Breaking habits with mindfulnessChapter 2: Relationships and Mental WellbeingIncluding Mindfulness for secure relationships, Mindfulness & parenting and Improving relationships with all beingsChapter 3: Food and SleepIncluding Mindful eating, Mindfulness for connecting with sleep and Meditation to reduce cravingsChapter 4: The Gifts of Later LifeIncluding Mindful ageing, Inspirational elders and Connecting with lossChapter 5: Your Ongoing JourneyIncluding Mindfulness and invoking joy, Mindful art and craft and A mindfulness journey, week by week

Godsfield Companion: The guide to principles, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to mindfulness: its benefits, the science and how to use it to improve your relationships, work life and mental health.Mindfulness expert Dr Patrizia Collard outlines the principles of mindful living and how it can help all of us to improve our wellbeing.CONTENTSChapter 1: Awakening to MindfulnessIncluding Understanding mindfulness, Opening up to a new way of living and Breaking habits with mindfulnessChapter 2: Relationships and Mental WellbeingIncluding Mindfulness for secure relationships, Mindfulness & parenting and Improving relationships with all beingsChapter 3: Food and SleepIncluding Mindful eating, Mindfulness for connecting with sleep and Meditation to reduce cravingsChapter 4: The Gifts of Later LifeIncluding Mindful ageing, Inspirational elders and Connecting with lossChapter 5: Your Ongoing JourneyIncluding Mindfulness and invoking joy, Mindful art and craft and A mindfulness journey, week by week

Godsfield Companion: The guide to principles, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to crystals: their history, powers and how to incorporate them into your day-to-day life.Crystals expert Lauren D'Silva provides practical insight into choosing the right crystals for you and how their many healing properties can enhance your daily life. Alongside information on attuning with your crystals and energy safety, there is also a comprehensive crystal directory detailing common names, suggestions for use and handling instructions.Includes a directory of over 100 crystals.CONTENTS INCLUDES:Chapter 1: About CrystalsIncluding A brief history of crystals, Chemical composition and How does crystal healing work?Chapter 2: Energy SafetyIncluding Grounding, Centring and Considerations when using crystals for healingChapter 3: Tuning Into CrystalsIncluding Choosing your crystal and Attuning to a crystalChapter 4: Caring for Your CrystalsIncluding Cleansing crystals, Charging crystals and Creating an altarChapter 5: Crystals and Your EnergyIncluding Crystals and your chakras, Crystals and your aura and A chakra healing visualisation

Godsfield Companion: The guide to principles, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to chakras, their associated features and how strengthening and healing each chakra can lead to improved health, energy and wellbeing.Chakras specialist Thimela A. Garcia provides easy-to-follow practices to help open up your chakras, optimise the flow of energy and boost your wellbeing.CONTENTSChapter 1: What are Chakras?Including Introduction to chakras, The history of chakras and Morning ritualChapter 2: The Energy BodyIncluding The aura and the seven bodies, How to protect your aura and Awakening kundalini energyChapter 3: The ChakrasIncluding Aspects of the Chakras, The five elements and A detailed guide to all seven chakrasChapter 4: Energy Healing Including Colour therapy, Crystal healing and Energy and aura-cleansingChapter 5: Chakras in Daily LifeIncluding Meditation, Yoga and Positive affirmations

Godsfield Companion: The guide to principles, practices and more

A comprehensive guide to chakras, their associated features and how strengthening and healing each chakra can lead to improved health, energy and wellbeing.Chakras specialist Thimela A. Garcia provides easy-to-follow practices to help open up your chakras, optimise the flow of energy and boost your wellbeing.CONTENTSChapter 1: What are Chakras?Including Introduction to chakras, The history of chakras and Morning ritualChapter 2: The Energy BodyIncluding The aura and the seven bodies, How to protect your aura and Awakening kundalini energyChapter 3: The ChakrasIncluding Aspects of the Chakras, The five elements and A detailed guide to all seven chakrasChapter 4: Energy Healing Including Colour therapy, Crystal healing and Energy and aura-cleansingChapter 5: Chakras in Daily LifeIncluding Meditation, Yoga and Positive affirmations

God’s Diet: A Short and Simple Way to Eat Naturally, Lose Weight, and Live a Healthier Life

Dorothy Gault-McNemee is a medical doctor who had tried every diet she could find to control the weight gains that had plagued her throughout her life. As the founding physician of a busy health clinic, she also saw that overweight patients who were suffering from a variety of diseases were far worse off than those who had their weight under control. As a result, Dr. Gault-McNemee began to examine what we eat and what our slimmer, healthier ancient forebears ate. They didn't have processed foods and access to sugar; they weren't consuming alcohol and foods that had been mixed with artificial ingredients they couldn't pronounce. They were eating what God put on this earth: meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, grains, and nuts. And thus was God's Diet born. In other words, if you can't pick it, pluck it, pull it from the earth, or scale it, don't eat it. If you pick up a can or a package of food that includes even one ingredient that you can't identify, don't eat it. Dr. Gault-McNemee also cautions that far too many foods contain sugar as an additive, from cereal to bread to canned vegetables. Prepare foods simply and avoid sugar, but while you're at it, have a steak and a baked potato with butter and sour cream. In God's Diet, Dr. Gault-McNemee has compiled numerous case studies from her own practice; inspiring advice from people like herself, whose lives have been changed for the better; information on vitamins, minerals, and cholesterol; and menu-planning advice and delicious recipes. The doctor has also prepared three lists of foods: those which you can eat all you reasonably want, those you should avoid, and a "swing list" of foods that you may enjoy occasionally and with limitations. God's Diet enables you to lose weight simply and naturally without having to remember any complex diet regimen. By incorporating simple habits into our lives -- paying attention to food labels, drinking eight to ten glasses of water a day, and exercising reasonably -- we can easily and radically change the way we live, while becoming healthier and living longer. Never has there been a simpler or more logically thought out weight-control guide. There is nothing to count or exchange, no special foods to buy. Everything you need to live a slimmer, healthier life is in your supermarket, if you follow the advice of Dr. Gault-McNemee, whose vast experience with fad diets and overweight patients led her to conceive this brilliant little book. This truly is the last diet book you'll ever buy. Remember, if God didn't make it, don't eat it!

Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind (Discovering The Mind Ser.)

This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings. Kaufmann drastically revises traditional conceptions of Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, showing how their ideas about the mind were shaped by their own distinctive mentalities.Kaufmann's version of psychohistory stays clear of gossip and is carefully documented. He offers us a radically new understanding of two centuries of intellectual history, but his primary focus is on self-knowledge. He is in a unique position to perform this task by virtue of being, according to Stephen Spender, "the best translator of Faust"; and in Sidney Hook's view, "unquestionably the most interesting and informative writer of Hegel in English."The foremost interpreter of Kant, Lewis White Beck, has called this book on Goethe, Kant, and.Hegel "fascinating" - a work which "will stir up a good many people by telling them things they have never heard, and providing an alternative to what is the accepted reading of that part of the history of philosophy. The story of how personality affects philosophy has never been better told." We are shown how Goethe advanced the discovery of the mind more than anyone before him, while Kant was in many ways a disaster. Hegel, like others between 1790 to 1990, tried to reconcile Kant and Goethe.Kaufmann shows this is impossible He paints a large picture, but he is always highly specific and details the major contributions of Goethe and Hegel as well as the ways in which Kant's immense influence proved catastrophic.

Going Beyond 'The Talk': Relationships and Sexuality Education for those Supporting 12 -18 year olds

With helpful and accessible advice, this is an informative guide to open communication with adolescents about relationships and sexuality. Highlighting the value of positive sexuality education and going beyond a single 'talk', it covers potential challenges and how to address them, offering developmentally appropriate guidance for 12-18-year olds.

Going Down Screaming: Will America Follow Hitler and Stalin, In Removing the Useless Eaters To Save The Majority?

A history of the nursing home industry, coupled by a short history of the school system. There two events are the crux of the story describing the elderlly and their values, the young and their lack of values. Subsequently when the crises of America comes to fore, (too many seniors, too few young)the outcome of life for the elderly will be determined by the children of today. It can only end in euthanasia. The lack of sufficient young to pay the bills for the elderly was created by the abortion act in Roe vs Wade, which ironically enough is now working against those who agreed to the abortion law, and now are dependent on that low census generation to spare them.

Going Global: Bad Witches

Learn about three powerful witches from mythology and literature—Circe, Baba Yaga, and the White Witch.

Going Home

Hugo is in the hospital and missing his home, until the sounds from the zoo next door take him to far away places. A book that encourages the imagination.

Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-denial, and Overcoming Anorexia

As a culture, we are fascinated, or perhaps morbidly transfixed, by the spectacle of anorexia. But even after twenty-five years of pop psychology, TV movies, celebrity magazines, and feminist tracts, how much do we really understand it?

Going Long: Legends, Oddballs, Comebacks & Adventures (Runner's World)

For more than 40 years, Runner's World magazine has been the world's leading authority on running—bringing its readers the latest running advice and some of the most compelling sports narratives ever told. From inspirational stories such as "A Second Life"(the story of Matt Long, the FDNY firefighter who learned to run again after a critical injury) to analytical essays such as "White Men Can't Run" (a look at what puts African runners at the front of the pack), the magazine captivates its readers every month.Now, for the first time, the editors of Runner's World have gathered these and other powerful tales to give readers a collection of writing that is impossible to put down. With more than 40 gripping stories, Going Long transcends the sport of running to reach anyone with an appetite for drama, inspiration, and a glimpse into the human condition.

Going Long: Training for Triathlon's Ultimate Challenge, 2nd Edition

Internationally recognized triathlon coach and best-selling author Joe Friel teams up with ultra-endurance guru Gordon Byrn in Going Long, the most comprehensive guide to racing long-course and Ironman-distance triathlons. Combining science with personal experience, Friel and Byrn prepare anyone, from the working age-grouper to the podium contender, for success in triathlon's ultimate endurance event. Whether you are preparing for your first long-course triathlon or your fastest, Going Long will make every hour of training count. 40 sport-specific drills to improve technique and efficiency Updates to mental training Key training sessions, workout examples, and strength-building exercises A simple approach to balancing training, work, and family obligations A new chapter on active recovery, injury prevention and treatment Going Long is the best-selling book on Ironman training. Friel and Byrn guide the novice, intermediate, and elite triathlete, making it the most comprehensive and nuanced plan for Ironman training ever written. Going Long is the best resource to break through an Ironman performance plateau to find season after season of long-course race improvements.

Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause

Half of the population—the female half—is getting healthcare based on medical myth rather than evidence. Going Menopostal is Amy Alkon&’s mission to change that.This book started with a flash—Alkon&’s first hot flash. Drenching night sweats, insomnia, and brain fog soon followed—along with shame at feeling bewilderingly enraged at everyone and everything. Alkon, an award-winning science columnist and author, wanted to turn to her doctor. But there was a problem: More than half of the medical care we get in the US may not be &“based on, or supported by, adequate evidence,&” according to the US National Academy of Medicine. Knowing this, Alkon began a deep dive into the research on menopause and perimenopause––the 3 to 10 years leading up to menopause when women&’s symptoms are widely ignored, dismissed, and misdiagnosed (despite doctors having every intention of helping their patients). She was shocked by what she found: Most gynecology departments lack even one doctor with training and expertise in menopausal and perimenopausal medicine, and they expect their maternity and general reproductive health specialists to treat these conditions outside their scope of practice without informing patients––a violation of medical ethics. Perimenopause is wrongly viewed and treated as &“menopause lite&”––a time of lowered estrogen levels––when estrogen levels actually soar, making many women miserably symptomatic. Few doctors know that symptomatic perimenopausal women actually tend to lack progesterone, and that replacing it with safe, FDA-approved progesterone would alleviate their insomnia, hot flashes, and other suffering and counteract cell overgrowth that can lead to breast and endometrial cancer. Many doctors deny estrogen to their menopausal patients, unaware of current research showing that estrogen not only alleviates symptoms but protects against cardiovascular disease (soon to kill 1 in 3 women), bone fractures, metabolic syndrome, and more. Findings from studies done largely on middle-class white women are wrongly applied to black women and other women of color, ignoring crucial differences, such as generally lower triglyceride levels in black women that can make heart disease harder to detect. This meticulously researched book is written in clear, everyday language that you don&’t need the slightest science background to understand (along with Alkon&’s signature dark humor). Alkon equips you with the exact words to confidently ask critical questions and motivate your doctor to partner with you and treat you appropriately––instead of giving you the &“treatment&” her favorite bus driver got: told by her doctor to &“just wait out&” her raging insomnia, night sweats, and hot flashes. Alkon&’s ultimate goal: Empowering all women with the science and strategies they need to get the evidence-based care they expect and deserve.

Going Om

With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national bestseller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice. Unlike books on yoga that provide instruction on technique, Going Om is a unique collection of personal narratives from celebrated authors. This anthology of original material values the quality of writing over the authors' flexibility. Ira Sukrungruang shares his heartbreaking struggle as a 375 pound yoga student discovering self-worth on his mat; Gloria Munoz explores the practice of stillness with lyrical elegance in the midst of her busy mind; Neal Pollack's signature sarcasm leads to surprising turns at yoga class with his dad; Elizabeth Kadetsky uses yogic wisdom while coping with her mother's devastating Alzheimer's.

Going Om: Real-Life Stories on and off the Yoga Mat

With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national bestseller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice. Unlike books on yoga that provide instruction on technique, Going Om is a unique collection of personal narratives from celebrated authors. This anthology of original material values the quality of writing over the authors' flexibility. Ira Sukrungruang shares his heartbreaking struggle as a 375 pound yoga student discovering self-worth on his mat; Gloria Munoz explores the practice of stillness with lyrical elegance in the midst of her busy mind; Neal Pollack's signature sarcasm leads to surprising turns at yoga class with his dad; Elizabeth Kadetsky uses yogic wisdom while coping with her mother's devastating Alzheimer's.

Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor

Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds themselves single. Not to follow this path necessarily, but to remember that there are always many options.'Aged thirty-seven, single and having experienced two miscarriages, Genevieve Roberts found out that her fertility levels were dwlindling. On hearing this news, she made the courageous decision to embark on motherhood solo and eventually became pregnant using a sperm donor.Genevieve describes her initial fear of the prospect of birth without a partner, and the trepidation she felt towards all the responsibility she has taken on. She recounts all the milestones of pregnancy and motherhood that most women share with their partner -- going to NCT classes alone, taking part in birthing workshops with her sister-in-law, her amazement that two people in her pregnancy yoga class are following the same path as her. But ultimately what triumphs is Genevieve's excitement at meeting her daughter. She recalls the first months of parenthood, navigating the love, worry and tiredness of life with a newborn without a partner. She describes the beautiful simplicity of the relationship between herself and her daughter, as she gets to know Astrid without having to consider a partner. Going Solo is for anyone whose life has taken an unexpected twist; for people who are interested in modern families and for those who want to take control of their life and follow their dreams of parenthood. It celebrates the fulfilment that comes from following what makes you happy, and reminds us that beauty may be found when life offers a surprise or a deviation from convention.

Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor

Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds themselves single. Not to follow this path necessarily, but to remember that there are always many options.'Aged thirty-seven, single and having experienced two miscarriages, Genevieve Roberts found out that her fertility levels were dwlindling. On hearing this news, she made the courageous decision to embark on motherhood solo and eventually became pregnant using a sperm donor.Genevieve describes her initial fear of the prospect of birth without a partner, and the trepidation she felt towards all the responsibility she has taken on. She recounts all the milestones of pregnancy and motherhood that most women share with their partner -- going to NCT classes alone, taking part in birthing workshops with her sister-in-law, her amazement that two people in her pregnancy yoga class are following the same path as her. But ultimately what triumphs is Genevieve's excitement at meeting her daughter. She recalls the first months of parenthood, navigating the love, worry and tiredness of life with a newborn without a partner. She describes the beautiful simplicity of the relationship between herself and her daughter, as she gets to know Astrid without having to consider a partner. Going Solo is for anyone whose life has taken an unexpected twist; for people who are interested in modern families and for those who want to take control of their life and follow their dreams of parenthood. It celebrates the fulfilment that comes from following what makes you happy, and reminds us that beauty may be found when life offers a surprise or a deviation from convention.

Going Vegan for Beginners: The Essential Nutrition Guide to Transitioning to a Vegan Diet

Discover everything you need to adopt the vegan lifestylePeople everywhere are going vegan because it's good for the planet, the animals, and personal health. Going Vegan for Beginners helps you cut through all the overwhelming advice out there and get started the right way. Find step-by-step advice, including clear nutrition guidelines, sample menus, and science-backed information to support your health as you transition to this new lifestyle. Whether you're interested in going vegan permanently, or just looking to eat more plant-based foods, this book covers all the essentials and more.Veganism 101—Explore what it means to be vegan, its roots in social justice, and what makes the diet so healthy.Eat what you love—Learn to keep the right ingredients on hand so you can whip up fresh new dishes and vegan-friendly versions of your favorite meals anytime.Vegan on the go—Find out how to stay vegan while eating at restaurants, and with friends and family; traveling; and more.Going vegan has never been easier with this ultimate resource for embracing a plant-based lifestyle.

Going Vegan: A Gentle Introduction to a Plant-Based Diet

A Gentle Introduction to the World's Hottest Food Trend Whether you&’re a committed vegan or just curious about this increasingly popular diet which has so many health and environmental benefits, Holly will take you on a mouthwatering journey while converting to a plant-based diet. Going Vegan includes over one hundred delicious, everyday recipes, as well as practical advice on how and when to change your diet, food swaps, eating out, and shopping economically for plant-based foods. From juices and smoothies that range from the pure and green Reset Juice to the indulgent and creamy Raw Chocolate Heaven; to quick and creative ideas for lunch, such as Cauliflower and Squash Bisque, Roast Veg Buddha Bowl and a Vegan Club Sandwich; hearty, filling main meals, including variations on much-loved staples like Vegan Meatballs, Shepherdless Pie and Lemony Mac and Cheese; and incredibly tasty desserts, Going Vegan dispels any myths that a plant-based diet is too restrictive or difficult to follow and is packed with inspirational ideas for incorporating more vegetables into your diet.

Going Vegetarian: A Healthy Guide To Making The Switch (Food Revolution Ser.)

Going Veggie: The Simple 30-Day Guide to Becoming a Healthy Vegetarian

DISCOVER THE EASY AND SATISFYING WAY TO ACHIEVE A HEALTHFUL, MEAT-FREE, CRUELTY-FREE LIFE IN JUST 30 DAYS!Becoming a vegetarian is not about giving up meat, it's about adopting a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle that will inspire and satisfy you. With Going Veggie, your transition is guaranteed to be easy and painless thanks to the book's step-by-step plan, including: 30-day program to wean you off a meat diet Recipes for delicious, nutrient-packed meals Tricks for acquiring essential proteins using plant-based options Advice on navigating tough spots, cravings and backsliding Tips on how to deal with group dinners and ordering at restaurantsGoing Veggie puts the fun, adventure and motivation into your path to vegetarianism.tric are all in the book.Written by Trudy Slabosz, a popular blogger and longtime vegetarian, Go Veggie! will inspire readers and shows that going veg is going to be great!

Going for the Record

Seventeen-year-old Leah Weiczynkowski, about to begin her senior year of high school, is on the brink of realizing her dream -- playing soccer for the under-eighteen national team, her gateway to the World Cup and the Olympics. Everything she's worked for in her young life has been about this moment. She can't wait to tell her dad, her biggest fan and her faithful chauffeur to games and practices. Unfortunately, her dad, Pete Weiczynkowski, has news of his own. "Going for the Record" addresses Leah's passion for her sport, her love for her father, and her growing recognition of her father's faith and bravery. Loosely based on the author's own experience, "Going for the Record" is a coming-of-age story on a number of levels, as Leah must question everything that's mattered most to her and how she will define herself in the future.