Inprint - New Books of interest by Jeanne Spiro

The New Golden Rule: An Essential Guide to Spiritual Bliss by Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. (Hay House, $17.95, Paperback.)

As children, we all learned the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” but apparently this was wrong. According to visionary physician and yogi Dharma Singh Khalsa, you can’t respect others until you learn to respect yourself, which he explains how to do in his new book The New Golden Rules: An Essential Guide to Spiritual Bliss.

Dr. Dharma shares the four steps you can take in your daily life that allow you to live each day in a more happy, loving, and meaningful way. The four steps are: Discover Your Miracle; Listen and Agree; Dissolve Your Blocks; and See the Other Person As Yourself. Simple, but very powerful.

Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa is the President and Medical director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation International. He writes about the connection between spirituality and our health.

The Hidden Souls of Words by Mary Cox Garner. (Select Books, $21.95, Hardcover.)

The Hidden Souls of Words explores the hidden and forgotten layers of meaning behind the words we use, revealing in each of them a core of divine wisdom—a word’s “soul.” A deeper understanding of these words, their profound and powerful spiritual natures, will reveal fundamental truths that connect all of us. Implementing the information contained in this book will empower your communication while opening your heart, enlightening your mind, and healing and transforming your spirit.

Author Mary Garner shows how true knowledge of the meanings of worlds helps us to communicate effectively, and assists us in gaining life-changing insights abut ourselves and others through the enlightened use of language—the primary tool necessary for global peace.

Blessingways: A Guide to Mother-Centered Baby Showers by Shari Maser, CCE. (Moondance Press, $14.95, Paperback.)

Baby showers are a recent phenomenon that sprung up in the United States after the World Wars. In our great American melting pot, they replaced a multitude of cultural traditions, traditions that honored and pampered expectant mothers, helped pregnant women prepare to care for an infant, and welcomed a new baby. Blessingways combines the most mother-centered of those traditions with creative new ideas for encouraging, honoring, nurturing, and supporting pregnant and adoptive mothers. They are not about getting ready for the material needs of the baby; instead they about honoring womanhood and motherhood.

This innovative guidebook offers all the inspiration and information women need to create unique Blessingway celebrations. It includes a step-by-step guide to planning a personalized mother shower, imaginative invitation ideas, unique Blessingway ceremonies, inspiring stories, suggestions for including men and children, and an extensive resource guide.

Happiness: The Real Medicine and How It Works by Blair Lewis. (Himalayan Institute Press, $14.95, Paperback.)

Am I Happy? It’s a powerful question and one that we’ve all asked ourselves. And all of us, at the very core of our being, have a deep longing to answer affirmatively. Guess what? The answer really is “yes.” In this thought-provoking book, Blair Lewis explains that happiness is our natural state. It’s right there, obscured by the desire for possessions, the guilt we heap on ourselves, the need for approval, and the constant demands on our time. We don’t create happiness, we reveal it. And in the process we benefit wholly, both spiritually and physically.

Lewis begins by exploring a series of traits that happy people possess. He then offers an array of tools—from hatha yoga to herbs to meditation techniques—that help us foster these traits in our lives. Throughout the book he shares his own struggles with the same obstacles that keep most of us from perennial joy. He urges us to attain this joy; that it is the first and foremost goal of human birth.

The Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture by Matthew D. Bauer. (Avery, $14.95, Paperback.)

Today’s lifestyles take an increasing toll on our bodies, leading to migraines, lower back pain, joint disorders, asthma, allergies, and many other conditions. While no one knows how these therapies first began and many people remain skeptical, a growing number of modern Americans look to the ancient practices of acupressure and acupuncture to heal their bodies.

Matthew Bauer, a licensed acupuncturist and natural remedy advocate, delves deeply into the traditions and benefits of these therapies. He reveals how Chinese healing can augment modern Western medicine and gives us a way to break free from pain and prescription drug dependence. Taking a three-tiered approach, he covers the development of acupressure and acupuncture under the Eastern methods of science, describes simple methods that we can practice, and explains how these methods, used alone or with Western therapies, can help cure dozens of health problems.

Body, Mind, and Soul: Kabbalah on Human Physiology, Disease, and Healing by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Gal Einai Institute, $23.95, Hard Cover.)

The body-mind connection is a well-documented fact in today’s medical paradigm. Yet, long before recent scientific research uncovered this natural linkage, it was described in Kabbalistic healing manuals, with one important difference—there it was understood to be a link between body, mind, and soul.

Body, Mind, and Soul explains Kabbalah’s centuries-old perception of human physiology, its view on how to maintain overall health, and how this is dependent on our spiritual wellbeing. Rabbi Ginsburgh says that the phenomenon of disease is one of separation or estrangement. When disconnected from our innermost self and our spiritual Source, illness manifests. Were we to understand the true source of our ailments, and give full expression to our yearning to connect with our life Source, we would have not need of external remedies

In Your Dreams: The Ultimate Dream Dictionary by Mary summer Rain. (Hampton Roads, $19.95, Paperback.)

We all dream every night. According to Mary Summer Rain, our dreams are full of meaning if we are willing to investigate and use them as tools on our journey of personal transformation. She has written In Your Dreams to give us a dictionary for unlocking the messages our souls send us as we sleep.

This is an updated and expanded edition of her previous guide. It includes more than 6,000 new entries and will appeal to a whole new generation of readers seeking to understand the hidden meaning of dreams. It distills the essence of our dreams into concise definitions that reveal the spirit inherent in even the most mundane of images.