Inprint - New Books of interest by Jeanne Spiro

Get the Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler. (HCI, $19.95, Hardcover.)

When people and therapists have a problem they can’t fix, they call Richard Bandler because he delivers, often with miraculous results. Hailed as one of the geniuses in the field of personal change and the father of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Bandler has helped tens of thousands of people around the globe rid themselves of seemingly incurable phobias, fears, anxieties, addictions, negative habits, and past traumas, often in a single session.

Get the Life You Want is Bandler at his best, sharing his remarkable insights, signature wit, and more than thirty-five NLP techniques that will bring about quick and lasting change in every area of our life—from breaking free of toxic or non-productive relationships, to improving emotional health and enjoying more success in social and work situations, to bettering our physical health by ending habits like smoking, overeating, and lacking the willpower to stick to an exercise routine.

While traditional therapists focus on the whys of our problems, NLP fast-tracks us to finding solutions instead. Bandler claims that by putting his techniques into practice, we can literally change our brain chemistry without expensive drugs or endless therapy sessions, and that we will learn how to run our own brain and finally get the life we want and deserve.

Returning to My Mother’s House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine by Gail Straub, foreward by Christiane Northrup, M.D. (High Point, $21.95, Hardcover.)

Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the world to find meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamental within her was missing. Many years after the death of her mother, she undertook a period of soul-searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in the direction of the masculine, her successful life of outer accomplishment and committed social activism having come at the expense of a rich and satisfying inner life. She also realized that she was following the path paved by her mother, a woman whose spiritual abandonment, even more than the fact of her premature death, had haunted and driven her since the age of twenty three.

Her search took her around the globe where she encountered this longing to retrieve sacred feminine wisdom among women everywhere. Finding her way back to her innate female wisdom restored a sense of balance between external and internal, activism and contemplation, and public and private, and gave her a sense of equanimity that had eluded her for decades. Straub’s story is for anyone who has ever struggled to build and sustain an interior life in our driven and fast paces society, and for mothers and daughters everywhere.

Soul Visioning: Clear the Past, Create Your Future by Susan Wiseheart. (Llewellyn, $19.95, Paperback.)

In Soul Visioning, Susan Wisehart teaches us how to create a life of passion and purpose by following our soul’s wisdom. Using breakthrough methods such as Energy Psychology (acupuncture for the emotions without the needles), guided journeys, forgiveness practices, and past life and life-between-lives regression, she offers techniques to heal the unconscious beliefs that block the awareness of our true spiritual identity and life purpose.

The soul-visioning journey connects us with our Higher Self to guide us into the ideal expression of our soul in work, relationships, health, finances, and spirituality. A seven step process includes methods and exercises that help release unconscious beliefs and behavior that sabotage the soul’s purpose. Powerful and inspiring case examples with long-term follow up interviews demonstrate the remarkable results that Wisehart’s clients have experienced from these life changing techniques. Also, several guided audio journey are available as free MP3 downloads to assist in the connection to our soul’s wisdom.

Susan Wisehart will be speaking at the Chicago IANDS/iSee event in Evanston on Saturday, October 18th. See full page ad in this issue or go to www.chicagoiands.org for information. She will also be giving a workshop at Infinity Foundation on October 18th. For details, go to www.infinityfoundation.org.

The Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile by Edwin Mullins. (BlueBridge, $24.95, Hardcover.)

In 1309, anarchy in Italy forced Pope Clement V to move the seat of the papacy, for the first and only time in history, away from Rome, to the city of Avignon in the south of France. Seven successive popes remained there in exile for the next seventy years, and Avignon came to be, albeit briefly, one of the great capitals of the world. Soon after Pope Gregory XI had returned to Rome in 1377, the Great Schism occurred, and Avignon became home to the antipopes for nearly another thirty years.

The Popes of Avignon is a remarkable and engrossing tale, bringing together the sweeping events surrounding the so-called “Babylonian captivity” of the popes and the broader story of 14th-century Europe, one of the most turbulent times in the continent’s history. It was a dark time of fear, ferocity, and religious agony, which saw the suppression of the Knights Templar and the Cathars, the first onslaught of the plague, and the beginning of the Hundred Years War. But it was also a shining time of castles and cathedrals, beauty and art and spiritual fervor, the decades in which Giotto and Simone Martini painted, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Wyclif wrote, Meister Eckhart preached sermons and Julian of Norwich had her visions. Edwin Mullins portrays the colorful power players of these times, and their abuse of power, their corruption, and the outrageous luxury and glamour they created.

A Good Night’s Sleep: A Drug-Free Solution by Jan Sadler. (Healing Arts Press, $16.95, Paperback.)

In A Good Night’s Sleep, Jan Sadler teaches the skills needed to break the patterns and frustration of insomnia. She explains how to overcome stress and restlessness through meditation and deep diaphragmatic breathing, how to prepare for sleep through positive visualization, and how to quiet mental chatter with awareness and physical techniques such as the Stop/Cancel/Change and Shakeout exercises.

Sadler addresses how to reduce dependence on sleeping pills, determine the amount of sleep we truly need, and most important, how to retrain ourselves to sleep soundly. She provides a two week sleep diary and shows step by step how to identify and analyze any underlying daytime and pre-bedtime habits that can disturb sleep. In addition, the accompanying audio CD presents six relaxation and visualization techniques, including a Peaceful Sleep Bedtime Routine, a twenty minute guided relaxation practice designed to ease us into a deep and peaceful sleep. By revealing the keys to quality, drug-free sleep, A Good Night’s Sleep enables us to reclaim control of our sleep cycle and our life.

The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide: 77 Simple Strategies for Serenity by Kate Hanley, Ms. Mindbody. (Skirt!, $14.95, Paperback.)

From bad hair days to broken hearts, constipation to computer crashes, The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide offers effective, time proven techniques to modern problems that can be done even in the midst of the messiest, million mile an hour day. It urges us to conquer everyday stress with a dash of Zen and a large helping of humor.

This is a practical guide for quickly taking charge of our well-being when we need it most. Kate Hanley gives clear, step by step instructions on how to relieve specific stressful situations—asking for a raise, dealing with motion sickness, going on a first date—with simple exercises that can be done at work, on public transportation, or in social situations. Drawing on yoga, meditation, nutrition, mindfulness, and breathing techniques, this book helps us learn how to speak our body’s own language and, simply, to feel better regardless of age or fitness level.

Is Acupuncture Right for You? What it is, Why It Works, and How It Can Help You by Ruth Lever Kidson. (Healing Arts Press, $14.95, Paperback.)

Is Acupuncture Right for You? is regarded by many practitioners as the most concise and useful book to introduce prospective patients to the principles, processes, and benefits of acupuncture. One of the oldest healing therapies known, acupuncture has now become a popular and recognized alternative to Western medicine, particularly for the treatment of chronically painful conditions. While Western medicine manages conditions primarily with drugs and/or surgery, acupuncture focuses on treatment of the person as a whole by identifying and relieving energetic imbalances and blockages throughout the body. Addressing these disruptions in the energy flow, or vital force, of the body treats not only the physical symptoms but also the underlying cause of the ailments.

Ruth Lever Kidson explains the fundamental principles of traditional Chinese medicine that underlie acupuncture and how practitioners use this information to make their diagnoses and select treatment options. Using case histories of acupuncture patients, she shows what to expect from a consultation and treatment session and also offers advice on how to find a good practitioner. Anyone considering acupuncture for treatment of a health condition will find their questions answered and their concerns allayed by this informative book.