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Calm: Working through life's daily stresses to find a peaceful centre
by Fearne CottonFrom the bestselling author of HAPPY and the HAPPY PLACE PODCASTTHE FOLLOW UP TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HAPPY: FINDING JOY IN EVERY DAY AND LETTING GO OF PERFECT'Calm for me is less about thought and much more about feeling. It is a stillness that allows my lungs to expand like hot air balloons. It is an acceptance of the noise around me. It is a magic alchemy that might last a second or a whole day, where I feel relaxed yet aware; still yet dynamic; open yet protected . . . '***In today's always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling 'noise'. It is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from work, family life or school and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of social media. As a result, mental health illnesses are on the rise in every age group, and more of us than ever before yearn for silence, peace and calm.CALM is Fearne's mission to find the simple things that can inch us away from stress and over to the good stuff. Including expert advice, conversations with wise friends from all walks of life, easy ideas to try, activities to complete - and the little things that have made a difference to her own, sometimes-bumpy life - this book is a friendly reminder that Calm is a place that exists in us all, we just have to find our way back to it.Read by Fearne Cotton. This audiobook includes a PDF that features Fearne's illustrations and exercises.
Calm
by Iben HaveA short but engaging look at how to cultivate a sense of calm in our busy world.In Calm, sound and media researcher Iben Have explores how to cultivate a feeling of calm using digital technologies, sound, routines, and mindfulness training, and our own bodies and minds. Professor Have delves into the science behind human perception and sensory experience to discover that our perceptual experiences are not based on culture alone, but are rooted in a deeper, shared human phenomenon. While creativity generally requires calm, our need for peace and quiet varies greatly. Some people need lots of stimulus, whereas others feel most alert in tranquil environments. By determining the right stimulation zone, Professor Have outlines how we can perform and feel our best, existing mindfully and in the present.In Reflections, a series copublished with Denmark's Aarhus University Press, scholars deliver 60-page reflections on key concepts. These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.
Calm: Thoughts and Quotations for Every Day
by Summersdale PublishersImmerse yourself in the words of the world’s best writers, leaders and thinkers with this beautiful book of motivational words and quotes. Inspire your heart, free your mind, and bask in the glow of positive thinking.
Calm: Thoughts and Quotations for Every Day
by Summersdale PublishersImmerse yourself in the words of the world’s best writers, leaders and thinkers with this beautiful book of motivational words and quotes. Inspire your heart, free your mind, and bask in the glow of positive thinking.
Calm: A Bedside Companion
by Michael Acton SmithWe have spent decades optimizing our waking hours, but what about the precious hours after we doze off (or try to)? Packed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, the life-changing tips in this book will show you how to find the perfect soundtrack for dozing off, how to create ideas while you are asleep, how to start a sleep journal to explore dreaming, and the best recipes for drinks and food that will make you drowsy.As the most active time for our brains and the most important element to a calmer, happier life, sleep has become the topic of our times. Drawing on the success of Calm, the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation, Michael Acton Smith writes the ultimate handbook for healthy sleeping.Beautifully illustrated and packed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, these life-changing tips such as how to make your room sleep-friendly and how to use sleeping to improve learning, this book will tell you everything you ever needed to know about sleep but were too tired to ask. At once a bedside companion and a sleeping aide, The Magic of Sleep will be your solution to a better sleeping life, improving each of your waking hours.- Reduce your sleepless nights by finding the perfect soundtrack for dozing off.- Learn the new science of sleep, including how to create ideas while you’re asleep.- Get to know your own subconscious by starting a sleep journal and exploring lucid dreaming.- Discover the best recipes for drinks and food that will make you drowsy.It’s time to optimize sleep.
Calm: A Bedside Companion
by Michael Acton SmithBased on the popular iPhone app, a visually exciting, practical, and playful interactive guide to twenty-first century meditation that provides simple tools, tricks, and habits to find tranquility and focus, improve creativity and productivity, achieve better mental and physical health, and ultimately transform your life.Achieving mindfulness doesn’t require a huge lifestyle shift or special training. It’s about mastering simple habits that work with the demands of your busy life. It uses the abilities you’re born with: creativity, spontaneity, and awareness of the world around you. There are no rules to follow or break. Everyone can achieve calm—including you.In Calm, Michael Acton Smith combines fascinating neurological research, ancient wisdom, and real-life experiences to demystify meditation and show you the many simple ways to be mindful everyday. Crafted to resemble a journal, filled with beautiful and inspiring artwork, and divided into eight life-balancing sections—Nature, Work, Creativity, Children, Travel, Relationships, Food, and Sleep—Calm can help you change your perspective and rediscover the pleasures of the world. Each section blends fascinating research, creative prompts, activities, instructions, and insights that will stimulate your senses and inspire you.Calm can be used multiple times a day or whenever you need it to find a little peace. Take a walk without a fixed destination, savor a piece of chocolate on the tip of your tongue, plant a seed, doodle aimlessly, turn off your mobile phone for five short minutes. Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Calm your mind—and change your world.
Calm AF: Laid-Back Advice for Getting the Better of Anxiety, Coping with Stress and Staying Chilled Every Day
by Sam BaxterEasy ways for feel-good daysLife sucks sometimes. It does. But it’s possible to make it suck a lot less. If you find yourself weighed down by stress, anxiety or burnout, this guidebook is going to set you on the path to feeling calm and cool as can be. With these clear and simple tips on how to relax and reset your body and mind, you’ll improve your mood at home and at work, and you’ll be ready for any situation that might test your tranquillity.
Calm AF: Laid-Back Advice for Getting the Better of Anxiety, Coping with Stress and Staying Chilled Every Day
by Sam BaxterEasy ways for feel-good daysLife sucks sometimes. It does. But it’s possible to make it suck a lot less. If you find yourself weighed down by stress, anxiety or burnout, this guidebook is going to set you on the path to feeling calm and cool as can be. With these clear and simple tips on how to relax and reset your body and mind, you’ll improve your mood at home and at work, and you’ll be ready for any situation that might test your tranquillity.
The Calm Birth Method: The Practical Guide for Modern Mamas to Create a Calm, Positive Hypnobirth
by Suzy AshworthDiscover tried-and-tested techniques to help you relax during labour, so that you can work with your body for an empowering, positive birth.Birth is a natural and normal event and, while it can be unpredictable, this book will show you how you can make it a gentle and enjoyable experience. In The Calm Birth Method, hypnobirthing expert Suzy Ashworth helps you to build confidence in your body and its abilities, and shares practical techniques to support you so that, no matter what happens, you feel prepared.Walking you and your birth partner through the whole process of birth preparation, Suzy explores: •Why many women feel so scared of giving birth and how to eliminate these fears during pregnancy •How relaxing your mind and body during birth transforms your physiology •Practical tools and techniques to promote deep relaxation and mindfulness •How to unify birth partners and care providers, to ensure the birthing environment is stress-free and has the most conducive set up for a calm and relaxing birth •Breathing techniques and visualizations to help with the sensations of birthTake the power back into your own hands so that you can learn to trust your body, and look forward to welcoming your child into the world with confidence.
The Calm Birth Method (Revised Edition): Your Complete Guide to a Positive Hypnobirthing Experience
by Suzy Ashworth Liz StanfordA revised edition of the authoritative guide to reducing the stress and pain of birth through relaxation techniques.Discover tried-and-tested techniques to help you relax during labor, including mindfulness, breathing exercises, and visualization, so that you can have an empowering, positive birth. Birth is a natural and normal event and, while it can be unpredictable, this brand-new edition of the authoritative guide will show you how you can make it a gentle and enjoyable experience. Now with two new chapters, The Calm Birth Method helps you to build confidence in your body and its abilities, and shares practical techniques to support you so that, no matter what happens, you feel prepared and can maintain a calm and positive mindset. Walking you and your birth partner through the whole process of birth preparation, experts Suzy Ashworth and Liz Stanford explore: · why many women feel so scared of giving birth and how to eliminate these fears during pregnancy · how relaxing during birth transforms your physiology · practical techniques to promote deep relaxation and mindfulness · how to unify birth partners and care providers, to ensure the birthing environment is stress-free Take the power back into your hands so you can learn to trust your body, and look forward to welcoming your child into the world with confidence.
Calm Birth, Revised: Prenatal Meditation for Conscious Childbirth
by Robert Bruce Newman David Chamberlain Sandra BardsleyThe "trauma of childbirth" is a commonly heard phrase, but one that Calm Birth authoritatively counters. A resource for pregnant women and birth workers looking for empowering mind-body practices for a healthier kind of birth, this edition, revised with updated research and new material, shows how we can restore childbirth to its sacred status. The Calm Birth method, based on successful programs of the Harvard Medical School and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, combines three proven practices--relaxation, meditation, and healing--with current scientific knowledge to nurture the expectant mother's natural ability to give birth in true harmony with her body and her baby. Newman contextualizes the multilayered method within the existing literature of mind-body medicine and meditation science, as well as the meditation traditions from which two of the methods originate. In eight inspiring case studies of women who have experienced calm births, the author complements the thoughts of renowned experts including Carlos Castaneda and Carolyn Myss. With 25% new material, this revised edition contains a new foreword by Sandra Bardsley, updated research in the fields of meditation, birth, and the prenatal period, two new birth stories, three new chapters, and new photo documentation.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Calm Brain: How to Relax into a Stress-Free, High-Powered Life
by Gayatri DeviIn a world filled with too many choices, oppressive technology, and relentlessly overbooked schedules--how do we achieve the calm we so desperately need? Our ancestors used the fight-or-flight mechanism to protect themselves from predators. Today, we use it to fend off daily crises. The result is chronic stress and a learned inability to be calm which, in turn, makes it impossible for us to perform at our peak. Now, Dr. Gayatri Devi shows how we can cultivate empowering, enduring calm by tapping into our body's vagus nerve--and utilize our hardwired, natural relaxation system. If you are suffering from migraines, neck pain, gastrointestinal upsets, sleeps deprivation--or are just trying to work through life's difficulties--Dr. Devi shows that you don't need more drugs, you need A Calm Brain. "For anyone who wants to take charge of the 21st century while remaining calm, focused, and productive--this is the book for you." --Henry S. Lodge, New York Times bestselling author of Younger Next Year
Calm Breath, Calm Mind: A Guide to the Healing Power of Breath
by Geshe YongDong LosarDiscover ancient Tibetan breath practices for calming your mind and improving your health in this plain-English guide.Over millennia, many Eastern traditions have developed practices that use the powerful healing energy of breath to treat physical, emotional, and mental problems. In Chinese, this energy is called chi; in Sanskrit it is called prana; and in Tibetan it is called lung. Lung is life-giving energy that moves through our bodies. A lack or imbalance of lung can create illnesses of body and mind or cause emotional struggles such as confusion, anger, and sadness. In this book, Geshe YongDong Losar, a scholar and monk in the ancient Bön tradition of Tibet, guides us through time-tested practices to help balance our lung. His deep knowledge—garnered through years of study and practice—renders the practices simple and achievable, creating a clear path for us toward greater calmness, strength, and clarity. &“Over and over I have personally witnessed, both in myself and in my students, the breath&’s clear potential to heal and deeply transform lives. I truly believe that in the future such practices will play an important role as a medicine for preventing and treating physical, emotional, and mental maladies. I am glad that Geshe YongDong is making these practices widely available, and I&’m sure that by doing so, he is bringing benefit to countless lives.&” —from the foreword by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
The Calm Center
by Steve TaylorDiscover the Essence of Who You Really Are These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self. By encouraging you to see the limitations of your everyday, conditioned personality, Steve Taylor empowers you to step outside of it so you can breathe the fresh air of freedom. His words will guide you on a journey through the landscape of wider awareness, pointing out the obstacles and landmarks along the way to enlightenment. A profound modern spiritual text with the power to transmit awakening, The Calm Center will help you open to the deepest and highest experiences of a life fully lived.
Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year: A little book of festive joy
by Beth KemptonThis is a book about Christmas. But it's also a book about belonging, connection, self-care, joy and ordinary magic.Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year offers inspiration for a new kind of holiday season - one where you radiate calm and cultivate delight. Spanning late November to early January, Calm Christmas embraces the festive build-up, the celebrations and the turn of the year in a holistic, nurturing way. Beth Kempton will whisk you away from the frenetic energy of the high street and invite you to come sit awhile by the fire, pausing to explore what a more mindful festive season could mean for you. Full of personal stories, tips and advice for slowing down, staying calm and connecting with others, it offers a welcome retreat from the pressure to create 'the perfect Christmas'. At its heart Calm Christmas is about a book about wellbeing in winter, which will encourage you to use this time of natural hibernation to germinate new dreams and nurture a beautiful life in the year ahead. Instead of entering January exhausted, further in debt, and already regretting broken resolutions, you will begin the New Year with precious memories, feeling rested, rejuvenated and inspired.This atmospheric book will lead you through the darkness of winter, back to the enchantment of an authentic and meaningful Christmas and New Year.
Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year: A little book of festive joy
by Beth KemptonThis is a book about Christmas. But it's also a book about belonging, connection, self-care, joy and ordinary magic.Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year offers inspiration for a new kind of holiday season - one where you radiate calm and cultivate delight. Spanning late November to early January, Calm Christmas embraces the festive build-up, the celebrations and the turn of the year in a holistic, nurturing way. Beth Kempton will whisk you away from the frenetic energy of the high street and invite you to come sit awhile by the fire, pausing to explore what a more mindful festive season could mean for you. Full of personal stories, tips and advice for slowing down, staying calm and connecting with others, it offers a welcome retreat from the pressure to create 'the perfect Christmas'. At its heart Calm Christmas is about a book about wellbeing in winter, which will encourage you to use this time of natural hibernation to germinate new dreams and nurture a beautiful life in the year ahead. Instead of entering January exhausted, further in debt, and already regretting broken resolutions, you will begin the New Year with precious memories, feeling rested, rejuvenated and inspired.This atmospheric book will lead you through the darkness of winter, back to the enchantment of an authentic and meaningful Christmas and New Year.
Calm Cure: Heal the Hidden Conflicts Causing Health Conditions and Persistent Life Problems
by Sandy NewbiggingDo you have health, money, relationship or career problems that just won’t go away?In Calm Cure, bestselling author Sandy C. Newbigging explains that most of us are so preoccupied with trying to deal with the symptoms of our issues that we never get around to discovering and resolving their underlying causes. Discover: •The surprising hidden causes of your health and life problems •Why other things you’ve done to create positive change haven’t worked long-term •Why you keep recreating the same patterns over and over again •The 3-step Calm Cure technique to help your body heal and improve key areas of life, including emotions, relationships, career, finances and moreIncluding a directory listing the most common mind-based causes of 101 physical conditions, Calm Cure will empower you to move freely towards greater health, wealth, happiness and success, while being a positive presence in the world.‘Calm Cure is a beautiful oasis of relief for the restless and frustrated mind, as it brings about resolution to the hidden conflicts that keep us from living in harmony, happiness and peace.’ Sonia Choquette, author of Your 3 Best Super Powers
CALM for Moms: Worry Less in Four Simple Steps
by Denise MarekMotherhood is stressful, but international award-winning speaker and worry management expert Denise Marek is here to tell you that you can stress less by learning to worry wisely! With her proven CALM method, a four-step process that has helped many individuals and organizations around the world connect with their inner peace, overcome their fears, and take the risks that are essential for success, mothers can tackle the stress of parenting. Whether you suffer from chronic worry about finances, family difficulties, your children&’s happiness, or even your teen getting home late, the CALM process can teach you how to handle it all. The process is simple: Challenge negative assumptions that create unnecessary worry.Act on your worry to overcome fears and reduce the physical and emotional effects of stress.Let go of worries beyond your control and upsetting feelings like mom-guilt, mom-shaming, and fear.Master your mind and guard against negative thinking by planting new, positive thoughts. With the science behind the CALM process, now tailored specifically for mothers, and with relatable stories, puzzles, fun exercises, jokes, and easy-to-implement strategies packed in a single stress-busting book, CALM for Moms gives the gift of worry-free parenting.
Calm in Your Pocket: Tips and Advice for a Calmer You
by Anna BarnesTake a little calm with you wherever you go Filled with practical tips, life-affirming statements and helpful suggestions for soothing activities, this beautiful pocket-sized book will help you to feel more at ease in the world and better equipped to deal with the things that really matter.
The Calm Journal: Tips and Exercises to Help You Relax and Recentre
by Anna BarnesFilled with calming quotes, centring statements and soothing tips and exercises, this journal encourages you to record and reflect upon your most serene moments and experiences. Guiding you through different aspects of your life, this book will help you find daily moments of calm, allowing you to take charge of your own well-being.
The Calm Journal: Tips and Exercises to Help You Relax and Recentre
by Anna BarnesFilled with calming quotes, centring statements and soothing tips and exercises, this journal encourages you to record and reflect upon your most serene moments and experiences. Guiding you through different aspects of your life, this book will help you find daily moments of calm, allowing you to take charge of your own well-being.
Calm Mama, Happy Baby: The Simple, Intuitive Way to Tame Tears, Improve Sleep, and Help Your Family Thrive
by Derek O'Neill Jennifer Waldburger"As a mom, I have absolutely found a connection between my stress or calm and my daughter's mood and behavior. Calm Mama, Happy Baby gives moms practical tools for choosing calm over stress no matter what is happening. These techniques have been a lifesaver for me." —Tiffani Thiessen, actress "A fascinating look at how we are neurologically ‘programmed' to think, feel, and act like our parents. This book shows moms how to avoid passing along habits of stress and negativity, setting their children up for good health, optimal learning, and better sleep." —Anjalee Warrier Galion, MD, Children's Hospital Orange County With constant feedings, teary outbursts, and trying to help your baby sleep through the night, it's no wonder that parents of babies and young children feel overwhelmed. Yet eye-opening neuroscientific research shows that your stress directly affects your child's mood, behavior, and health. The good news is that calm mamas have calmer, happier babies who usually feed and sleep better, too. Drawing on their experience in nearly two decades of working with parents in Hollywood and around the globe, Derek O'Neill and Jennifer Waldburger give parents practical tools for choosing calm over stress no matter what is happening with their child. For any mom who's ever said, "I wish my baby came with instructions," Calm Mama, Happy Baby offers a step-by-step approach for helping you parent intuitively, with confidence. • Discover the negative habits that cause stress and zap your energy • Learn how to understand your baby's communication on all levels• Defuse any parenting situation, from feeding problems and sleep disruptionsto separation anxiety, fussiness, and colic• Explore why becoming a parent brings up unresolved fears and insecurities—and how to put them to rest. When mama is happy, your child is happy, too—and the entire household thrives.
Calm: Mindfulness for Kids (Mindfulness for Kids)
by Wynne KinderTeach your kids how to focus their thoughts and notice the world around them with this fun mindfulness kids activity book.Mindfulness activities are a great way to teach children about their thoughts and feelings and how to understand them--while having fun at the same time.This book is packed with activities--make a mindfulness jar, learn how to appreciate food with mindful eating, and get out into nature and explore the outside world. An illustrated journal section at the back of the book encourages children to make notes about their own thoughts and feelingsCalm: Mindfulness for Kids has everything you need to know about focusing your child's mind to help them enjoy and appreciate things that they take for granted every day, while boosting their confidence and self-esteem. Children are guided through each activity, to make sure they achieve maximum enjoyment and awareness. All children will learn and react to each activity in a different way and parent's notes give advice on how to encourage children to embrace mindfulness in the modern world. Each specially designed activity is flexible for each child's needs and inspires them to seek calmness and tranquility in all situations. Calm: Mindfulness for Kids shows that supporting a child's positive mental health doesn't need to be expensive, time-consuming, or difficult. Activities help children to de-stress, focus, and get moving while having fun.
Calm The Soul: A Book of Simple Wisdom and Prayer
by The Poor Clares'We will never achieve true happiness if we continue to search for it outside the very source of love, which we know is God himself.'In Calm the Soul: A Book of Simple Wisdom and Prayer, The Poor Clares, an enclosed order of nuns based in Nuns' Island, Galway, draw on the fruit of their monastic lives and suggest simple practices to help nourish our souls and find a sense of calm in today's world.With practical advice in preparing for prayer, The Poor Clares look at ways we can slowly build up the amount of time spent in prayer and meditation in our daily lives, to achieve a sense of peace and well-being. They combine reflections on familiar prayers, such as the Our Father and Hail Mary, with meditations on Scripture, and prayers for specific needs such as depression, self-esteem and sickness.An inspiring book of simple spirituality which offers faith and hope to anyone seeking solace in today's world.
Calm the Monkey Mind: A Scientific Approach to Mindful Living
by Dr. Martina Esberger-Chowdhury&‘A powerful and accessible resource for developing mindfulness meditation practice.&’– Jon Kabat-ZinnIn today&’s fast-paced world, it&’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant barrage of information and distractions. This has led to isolation and an increase in mental illness, especially among younger generation. The constant chatter of the &‘monkey mind&’ can leave us feeling exhausted and unable to focus on what&’s important, and what we truly need is practical guidance to navigate this sea of endless chatter.The ancient practices of mindfulness and meditation have transformed—readjusting and evolving to suit our times and needs. This book is a masterful blend of contemporary mindfulness and Buddhism and offers sound advice and techniques to practice meditation regularly and cultivate a more peaceful and focused mind.Calm the Monkey Mind brings the modern mindfulness movement to the fore by sharing accessible and practical ways to deal with common obstacles and reduce stress. This book also explores the science behind mindfulness and meditation with latest research to enhance one&’s overall well-being, making it a must-read for anyone looking to find greater peace and clarity.