“Mindful Medicine: 40 Simple Practices to Help Healthcare Professionals Heal Burnout and Reconnect to Purpose” by Jan Chozen Bays

🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Simple mindfulness practices to help health care professionals of all kinds reconnect with themselves and their patients, find joy, and build resilience. Healers need healing too. Mindful Medicine shares simple mindfulness practices and brief meditations that fit easily into the demanding schedule of a healthcare worker’s day, creating an experience of less stress and more presence, connection, ease, and flow. Addressing topics such as connecting with yourself and your patients, the role of the Inner Critic in medicine, and rescue remedies for times of stress, this book offers evidence-based support for the many challenges of healthcare work. These short practices are an invitation to replenish the passion of healthcare work and douse the flickering...>>

“Wisdom at Work: The Awakening of Consciousness in the Workplace” by Let Davidson

"Wisdom at Work sparkles with powerful visions and hands-on examples of people doing it well, discovering the workplace as a natural setting for soul-making and deep soul work. Offers practical methods for integrating inner spiritual aspiration and the outer work of earning money, face to face with the realities of demanding jobs. This work explores the workaday world as a place of spiritual growth, service, and awakening to the non-dual."...>>

“A Sea Witch’s Companion: Practical Magic of Moon and Tides” by Levannah Morgan

"This book is for all those who love the sea, who have thrilled to the sight of the full moon rising over the ocean, who feel the pull of the tides, and who have dreamed of making sea magic. You will learn how the moon, sun, and sea together create the magical ebbing and flowing tides and how to work with them. You will experience the spiritual power and beauty of the goddess of sea and moon and learn how to forge your own deep and abiding relationship with her. You will discover how practical magic and folk customs have been used to protect us against the might of the sea, and to ward off...>>

“The Creative Trance: Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process” by Tobi Zausner (incomplete)

"In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or meditations for self-transformation that may access states beyond trance, becoming gateways to transcendence. Artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows how creative trance not only operates in scientific inventions and works of art in all media, but is also important in creating and recreating the self. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology and post-materialist psychology, this book investigates...>>

“Hidden in Plain Sight: Esoteric Power Training Within Japanese Martial Traditions” by Ellis Amdur (revised and expanded second edition)

"Ellis Amdur's writing on martial arts has been groundbreaking. In Dueling with O-sensei, he challenged practitioners that the moral dimension of martial arts is expressed in acts of integrity, not spiritual platitudes and the deification of fantasized warrior-sages. In Old School, he applied both academic rigor and keen observation towards some of the classical martial arts of Japan, leavening his writing with vivid descriptions of many of the actual practitioners of these wonderful traditions. His first edition of Hidden in Plain Sight was a discussion of esoteric training methods once common, but now all but lost within Japanese martial arts. These methodologies encompassed mental imagery, breath-work, and a variety of physical techniques, offering the...>>