Self-Mastery

 

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life

 

The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Why is it that, despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness—and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment.

 

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

The book's central insight--that the key to leadership lies not in what we do but in who we are--has proven to have powerful implications not only for organizational leadership but in readers' personal lives as well.

The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium

 

The Book of Qualities

From Beauty to Compassion, from Pleasure to Terror, from Resignation to Joy -- here is an insightful exploration of the rich diversity of human qualities.

 

Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential

Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs.

Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy

Christine Caldwell, a pioneer in the field of somatic psychology, has created an original model for working with body wisdom that is known as the Moving Cycle. She offers practical exercises that demonstrate how we can take in more of what our bodies are telling us.

 

Holding the Center: Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion

As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children.

 

The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work into a Work of Art

This set of simple techniques, including meditation, breathing exercises, openness, and play--Aiki--leads gently to a reordered state of mind.