Your Best Self Series
Written by Brenda Shoshanna and Daniel J. Martin
Narrated by Brenda Shoshanna and David Kresser
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Titles in the series (39)
- Your Best Self: Stop the Fighting In Your Relationship
Even though it is painful, many are unconsciously addicted to the fighting that occurs in their relationship. The fighting creates a false sense of closeness and excitement and makes us feel as if the other person really cares. Some use the fighting to test the love of their partner. For others, who are afraid of closeness, the fighting keeps real intimacy away. Without a good fight, a relationship can feel dull. But fighting ultimately leads to hurt, pain and distance. Stop The Fighting In Your Relationship will show you how to stop the fighting, and how to take new steps towards the closeness, love and the sense of being valued that you really want.
- Your Best Self: Dissolving Anger
Unchecked anger produces anxiety, depression and difficult relationships, and weakens your health as well. There is an easy way to dissolve anger, to reclaim your serene self. DISSOLVING ANGER will show you a quick and effective way to release anger on the spot, and to allow you to live life calmly, with peace of mind.
- Your Best Self: Ultimate Stress Control
There are many temporary ways to relieve stress , but they only last for a short time. Ultimate Stress Control goes to the root of the matter and offers a new way to handle your feelings. Rather than repress, escape, or cling to feelings, you will discover that you are always senior to stressful feelings. Ultimate Stress Control shows you how to safely allow all feelings into your life—and how to let them go. As you do so, strength, clarity and energy will return, and the stress that ruled your life will become a thing of the past.
- The power of goals: The secret to getting everything you want
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What if I told you your ability to set goals is the secret to getting everything you always dreamed of? Or that your personal and professional life can be exactly how you decide? Wouldn’t you like to have the power to reach all your goals? The Power of Goals is a concise, practical guide that will help you to clearly define: What you “really” want in life. Why you want it. How you can get it. Achieving your aims is possible, and much easier than you think. Your aims are the basis and structure that dictate your success, and this book will show you how to build a solid foundation. Thanks to The Power of Goals: You’ll strengthen your self-esteem. You’ll tackle your problems more effectively. You’ll be able to overcome greater difficulties. You’ll respond better to everyday challenges. and much more. When you work out what you really want and you can draw up a “guaranteed” plan for getting it, you’ll feel unstoppable and your life will change forever. Get The Power of Goals TODAY and achieve your aims TOMORROW.
- Your Best Self: Worry Free
WORRY FREE offers a new, daring way of encountering difficulties. It provides a unique process which allows you to work with the problem within. You will come to see that the cause of our upset is never what you think—and that, in fact, there is no need to be disturbed by any person, problem or circumstance. The process presented here will help put an end to anxiety and hopelessness, and lead you back to the incredible strength and wisdom within. Specific exercises and instructions will show you how to use the process in your everyday life.
- Your Best Self: Zen and Your Life
Zen and Your Life offers a brand new look at how to bring happiness and calm into your life. Zen practice explores the unexpected causes for upset, and how to remove it from your life, and this book will offer you a prescription for true medicine. By helping you return to your natural self, you will find the healing and happiness you most need.
- Your Best Self: Living with Loss
Losing a loved one can be one of the most difficult times of life. Some may find it impossible to move on. LIVING WITH LOSS shows you how to find healing. You will learn what is needed to complete the relationship, forgive, find peace, and honor all you have gained. You will learn that this can be a time of reflection, and of tremendous growth. And ultimately, you will learn that while you will never forget them, you can also move on.
- Your Best Self: Daily Habits of Spiritual Renewal
We often focus on habits that enable us to be effective, productive, to earn wealth. But what about our spiritual life? Shouldn’t this be fostered with as much discipline as every other area of our lives? Daily Habits of Spiritual Renewal encourages a new way to approach life: by taking a little while each day to carve out time and space, you can make room for renewal, inspiration, compassion and connection. Slowly, you can change how you perceive life around you. As your focus changes, appreciation and gratitude will grow. Your relationships—and your life—will slowly become fulfilled in ways you could not imagine.
- Your Best Self: Entering Zen Practice
The question of What Is Zen has gripped individuals throughout the centuries. This simple, powerful and ancient practice is needed more badly than ever today. You will learn the basic foundations of practice, how to return to your original sanity, balance, and joy in life. Your ability to take clear action will be restored as your natural wisdom grows daily. And before you know it, you will walk right through the open door.
- Your Best Self: Zen Parenting
Parenting can sometimes seem difficult, filled with power struggles day by day. ZEN PARENTING can help offer a new approach, and help make parenting fun. As you alter your perspective and come to learn that your children are your teachers, it will become easier to create a safe, open space for both you and your children to grow. You learn how to honor and respect your children’s unique journey in life, as well as your own.
- Your Best Self: Becoming All You Are Meant to Be
It’s easy to feel as though you are not living your true purpose in life, or becoming all you are meant to be. It can be difficult to even know how to discover what that is. So much of life is run by the need for security, approval and belonging, that is unusual to take time out to discover a different way. BECOMING ALL YOU ARE MEANT TO BE provides steps to take, questions to answer, insights and guidance to show you how to discover that which is most meaningful to you.
- Your Best Self: Undoing Fear
Fear can run your life, both consciously and unconsciously. But you can turn fear around, dialogue with it, and let it go for good. Undoing Fear shows you how to loosen the grip fear has over your life. You will learn to stop giving it your energy and believing in it. You learn how to reclaim your insight and your own inner strength.
- Your Best Self: Becoming Mindful
When we give ourselves permission to stop racing around and to be aware of the current moment, our entire lives can change. Becoming Mindful will show you a process which will introduce mindfulness, and put you on the road to improving the quality of your life, health, relationships and life.
- Your Best Self: Courage to Love
COURAGE TO LOVE will help you see what is needed for love to grow in your life. You will learn how to plant the seeds of love and pull out the weeds of misunderstanding, hurt and disappointment. It will show you a way to build a foundation for happiness in all aspects of your life, and how to allow the perfect relationship to walk through the door and into your life.
- Your Best Self: Developing a Grateful Mind
Depression and gratitude cannot live in the same mind at the same time. DEVELOPING A GRATEFUL MIND shows how to leave the dissatisfied, complaining mind behind and live with gratitude and happiness all day long.
- Your Best Self: How to Slow Down
It’s too easy to race around, to not even pause to catch our breath, in this increasingly faster world we live in. The speed gives us a feeling of being alive, of not missing a thing. But sooner or later the pressure builds and burns us out. Although we’re busy all the time, we may not be seeing clearly, and not enjoying our life. HOW TO SLOW DOWN offers some concrete ways to step off the merry go round, restore yourself, and find out what is meaningful to you. It will encourage you to nourish yourself, and to truly enjoy your life.
- Your Best Self: True Conversation
You carry most of your conversations with yourself, around and around in your own mind. In this world of monologue, you can become stuck. It can become hard to really hear the other. A TRUE CONVERSATION will show you how to open yourself to the world of dialogue, to true connection, healing, and aliveness. As you become more present and more available to real encounters, you will find not only deep meaning, but an end to loneliness.
- Your Best Self: How to Forgive
Although we are told to forgive and often try to, anger and revenge can seethe within. Amazingly, most of us go through life without ever being taught how to forgive. HOW TO FORGIVE shows the incredible benefits of forgiveness and offers a process to rid yourself of grudges and hurt. It will show you how to easily forgive others—and yourself. As you take these specific steps, you will feel lighter, free yourself of toxic situations, and allow true healing to begin.
- Your Best Self: True Wealth
We spend most of our lives searching for and accumulating what we think will make us happy, content and safe. Yet, the more we gain, the more we want. Why can’t we sate our inner hunger? It is partly because we live life unaware of the endless gifts we are constantly receiving, unaware of how to appreciate them. We live with a sense of inner greed and poverty, rather than with gratitude. TRUE WEALTH will offer a path towards opening your eyes and helping you experience a true sense of fulfillment and joy.
- Your Best Self: Alone No More: The Myth of Loneliness
Loneliness is fast becoming an epidemic in our new, isolating tech age. Despite endless social media activity, many feel alone. ALONE NO MORE uncovers the true source of loneliness, and offers a unique and simple path to feeling truly connected, wanted and of real value, no matter where you are.
- Your Best Self: How Zen are You in Love?
What is Zen and what does it have to do with having happy, life-giving relationships? HOW ZEN ARE YOU IN LOVE? will teach you the zen approach to joyous, true relationships. It will help you look inward and outward, removing the veil and showing you how to attract the perfect partner for you.
- Your Best Self: The Stress-Free Marriage
Many of us associate marriage with stress. There are so many expectations, needs and demands you inevitably place upon your partner.THE STRESS FREE MARRIAGE offers tools and insights for developing a marriage that is harmonious. You will learn ways of nourishing the relationship, and of spotting and eliminating the toxic elements before they take hold.
- Your Best Self: The Courage to Be Who You Are
Within all of us is a disowned self, a part we are hiding, that has not yet fully come to life. Often that part has the power to make your life full. THE COURAGE TO BE WHO YOU ARE describes why you reject parts of yourself and the effect this has on your life. It also shows how to reconnect with these parts, nourish them and how to live a life that is happy and complete.
- Your Best Self: The Emergency Technique, Stopping Panic When It Starts
When in the midst of an emergency, inner or outer bells are ringing, lights flashing, emotions running. You are flooded with fear, anger, and more and have no idea how to gain control. THE EMERGENCY TECHNIQUE: STOPPING PANIC WHEN IT STARTS offers wonderful, simple, steps which will calm you down immediately, bring clarity to the situation and also provide a new, beneficial perspective on what is going on. As you practice these eight simple steps, your life becomes grounded and you have a new way of handling panic, emotions, and everything else.
- Your Best Self: Finding the Perfect Partner
We all want to find the perfect partner. We think that when we do, our lives will be full and complete. FINDING THE PERFECT PARTNER explores why that perfect partner is not yet here. How are you keeping it away? And why is there something wrong with everyone you meet? As you do the exercises in this book, you will discover that the perfect partner is a few steps away, always right where you are.
- Your Best Self: Living With Change--and Loving It
Many of us live our lives trying to prevent change. We do all we can to keep things the same so we can have a sense of security. But this can make us stuck, holding on too tightly, resisting all that comes along. LIVING WITH CHANGE--AND LOVING IT offers a better way to be with change. You will find out how to see change as a gift, one which helps you grow and which can bring adventure into your life.
- Your Best Self: Reclaiming Your Attention
Although we do not realize it, our attention has been hijacked. It is a true art to learn how to manage our attention, and to stay on task. RECLAIMING YOUR ATTENTION explores the very nature of attention, how it effects so many aspects of your life, including your health. The book teaches you how to call your attention back to you, as well as how to eliminate obsessions. What you pay attention to matters. Here you will learn how to choose to pay attention to that which enhances your life.
- Your Best Self: Relationships as Spiritual Practice
Relationships often cause disappointment, leading to upset and suffering. That is because you do not realize that every person brought to you is your teacher, bringing many wonderful gifts along with them. When you learn how to approach relationships as a spiritual practice, everything turns around. You can remain stable and happy under all conditions, as you learn what it truly means to give and to love.
- Your Best Self: The Miracle of Mindful Relationships
Mindfulness produces miracles in our relationships. Mindfulness can change the way we see ourselves and our partners, and heal long-standing problems in our interpersonal dynamics. THE MIRACLE OF MINDFUL RELATIONSHIPS teaches you the process of achieving mindfulness, and shows you how to apply it to relationships. You will then be lifted from old patterns, and become able to allow change and growth in your relationships. You will learn to give and receive fully and to accept the wonderful gifts your relationships have waiting for you.
- Your Best Self: Spiritual Self Care
Most of us value time spent taking care of our bodies: showering, exercise, eating good food. The same is true with taking good care of ourselves psychologically: learning how to reach goals, communicate and find what we want in life. However, most of us are not aware of the enormous importance and value of spiritual self care. SPIRITUAL SELF CARE shows how to connect with your higher self, your spirit, and how to find a sense of meaning in life. As we alter our focus and broaden our perspectives, a whole new life is awaits us.
Brenda Shoshanna
Brenda Shoshanna, PhD, is a practicing psychologist, therapist, workshop leader, and author. She has written many books, including Zen Miracles, Why Men Leave, and Journey Through Illness and Beyond, winner of the NABE Award for Best Book of the Year in the Category of Health. She is also the relationship expert on iVillage.com and runs workshops nationally on all aspects of psychology, Zen, and relationships. Dr. Shoshanna lives in the New York area. Visit the author online at BrendaShoshanna.com.
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