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Meditations To Change Your Brain
Author: Richard Mendius
Format: Online
Author Richard Mendius
Narrator Richard Mendius
Duration 3h 46m
The structure of your brain changes constantly in a dynamic, unfolding process that you yourself can help direct to create the life you want. This is the exciting premise of Meditations to Change Your Brain, a breakthrough three-CD program from neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, PhD, and neurologist Richard Mendius, MD. Course objectives: Use meditatio...
View BookAuthor: Rick Hanson
Format: Online
Author Rick Hanson
Narrator Rick Hanson
Duration 3h 40m
Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is now proving that happiness is a skill that you can develop. Course objectives: List some enduring benefits of happiness. Describe the negativity bias of the brain. Summarize how our brains can make us happy and also create suffering. Practice guided exercises for tapping...
View BookAuthor: Derren Brown
Format: Online
Author Derren Brown
Narrator Derren Brown
Duration 14h 40m
Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawi...
View BookThe Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood
Author: John Lewis-Stempel
Format: Online
Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 6h 32m
For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks, and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny...
View BookAuthor: Richard Holloway
Format: Online
Author Richard Holloway
Narrator Richard Holloway
Duration 5h 13m
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. In The Last Bus, he presents a positive, me...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
Format: Online
Author Matt Haig
Narrator Matt Haig
Duration 5h 11m
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we...
View BookSoulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche
Author: Bill Plotkin
Format: Online
Author Bill Plotkin
Narrator Rob Grgach
Duration 14h 16m
Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over forty practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.
View BookIllness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag
Format: Online
Author Susan Sontag
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
Duration 4h 40m
In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it i...
View BookThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body In the Healing of Trauma
Author: Der Kolk Bessel Van
Format: Online
Author Der Kolk Bessel Van
Narrator Sean Pratt
Duration 16h 17m
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
View BookWhen the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Author: Gabor Mate
Format: Online
Author Gabor Mate
Narrator Daniel Mate
Duration 13h 17m
Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer's disease? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'? Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mat‚'s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body...
View BookAuthor: Ruby Wax
Format: Online
Author Ruby Wax
Narrator Ruby Wax
Duration 7h 14m
A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. Neil...
View BookCaptivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
Format: Online
Author Vanessa Van Edwards
Narrator Vanessa Van Edwards
Duration 7h 28m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People written and read by Vanessa Van Edwards. Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Or that you had a formula for charisma? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards...
View BookWe: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere
Author: Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
Format: Online
Author Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
Narrator The Authors
Duration 9h 43m
WE is an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change. Change which we can all effect, one woman at a time. Change which provides a crucial and timely antidote to the 'have-it-all' Superwoman culture and instead focusses on what will make each and every one of us happier and more free. Change which provides an answer to the nagging se...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Sabbage
Format: Online
Author Sophie Sabbage
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 47m
'I have cancer. Cancer does not have me.' Sophie Sabbage was diagnosed with late stage 'incurable' lung cancer in October 2014. She was 48 years old, happily married with a 4-year-old daughter. Since that day - when doctors told Sophie that her prognosis was poor - she has been on a remarkable journey of healing and transformation that has reshaped...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
Format: Online
Author Matt Haig
Narrator Matt Haig
Duration 4h 30m
What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons t...
View BookAuthor: Dr. Kwame Mckenzie
Format: Online
Author Dr. Kwame Mckenzie
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 2h 35m
We all have low moods from time to time. Usually, the mood passes after a few days and we get back to our normal way of living. We may say that we have been 'depressed', 'down in the dumps', 'fed up' or have had the 'blues'. But low moods like this are not what doctors call depression. Instead, they use the term to describe a more severe illness wh...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h
An exclusive edition of the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 series for gardeners everywhere. Gardening can be both a challenge and a joy. Get it right, and it can provide boundless pleasure; get it wrong, and it is a source of infinite frustration. Help is at hand, however, in this specially recorded 'Gardeners' Question Time' compilation, in which...
View BookGet Up and Do It: Essential Steps To Achieve Your Goals
Author: Beechy & Josephine Colclough
Format: Online
Author Beechy & Josephine Colclough
Narrator The Authors
Duration 59m
Sometimes our goals seem like unobtainable fantasies, but the key to success is making motivational thinking part of everyday life. In Get Up & Do It! Beechy and Josephine Colclough explain how to develop a plan to achieve your goals by planning, practising and adopting positive thinking, as well as motivational and other problem-solving skills...
View BookThe New Testament: Revised English Bible From BBC Radio 4
Author: BBC Audiogo
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 15h 33m
These readings of the New Testament are taken from the 1989 Revised English Bible, which was translated directly from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern English to produce a Bible that was at once accessible and authoritative. Part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992, they are read...
View BookUnderstanding Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Author: Mckenzie Kwame Dr
Format: Online
Author Mckenzie Kwame Dr
Narrator Jane Steel
Duration 4h 40m
Part of the 'Family Doctor' series and published in association with The British Medical Association, this is a valuable resource for anyone who suffers from anxiety. It is also helpful for those studying or for people who may be in contact with someone who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks. Chapters include: causes, symptoms, theories and typ...
View BookAuthor: Professor Richard Lindley
Format: Online
Author Professor Richard Lindley
Narrator Belinda Liversedge
Duration 2h 55m
In the United Kingdom, over 110,000 people have a stroke for the first time each year. This audiobook, published in association with the British Medical Association, is a clear and accessible way to understand strokes. Part of the Family Doctor series.
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