Stress may be the number one threat to health and happiness in the 21st century. For the stressed-out reader who can't afford a daily massage, here are 365 simple, effective ways to promote relaxation. From simple thoughts to exercises to food, this book offers hundreds of tips. Fun-to-read gift-book format makes this perfect for anyone with too much stress in their lives.
Energize your life through simple steps that promote bodily health and personal peace. From nutritional advice to chanting rituals and visualization exercises, Stephanie Tourles delivers easy-to-implement techniques and friendly advice to help you live life to its fullest. Learn how to boost alertness by taking a walk after a thunderstorm and understand the rewards of music baths. This idea-a-day book will keep you active and focused in a world that seems to grow busier every moment.
Provides practical information on water supply, plumbing, heating, electricity, home improvements, gardening, landscaping, lawn care, greenhouses, country cooking, farm animals, barns, fences, pets, and small-scale farming
Throw out your diet books. Forget deprivation, starvation, failure, and aggravation. Instead, settle in with this compact guide, which clearly explains how to combine the powers of your mind, body, and spirit for natural weight loss. The result will be a remarkably healthier you. The knowledge and insight in these pages will motivate you to transform your life and help you lose weight permanently. Beginning with your mind, Dr. Schenker describes how you have the power to improve all aspects of your health. Moving on to your body, she shares tips for relaxation, exercise, and three different diet and lifestyle programs. Concluding with your spirit, she asserts there are no limitations, except those you acknowledge. Achieving a mindset of unlimited potential is based on faith, no matter what your religious practices may be. Dr. Schenker shares hundreds of tips in this extremely inspiring and motivating book. Your self-confidence will soar as you shed both the weight of doubt and the weight of extra pounds. Combining the powers of your mind, your body, and your spirit will usher a new level of wellness into your life, one that's been insulated by your excess weight.
Want to plan the perfect—and most original—shower for the bride-to-be? Or maybe you're having a co-ed shower for the future newlyweds! Either way, inside this must-have party guide, you'll discover fabulous ideas for everything from creating the perfect guest list and invitations to great party games, unique themes, and fun favors, as well as basic essentials for any kind of shower. You'll also learn how to incorporate elements of the bride's or couple's life to make the shower more personal. Your shower will be talked about for years to come when . . . -Guests dress like their favorite diva at the DIVA PARTY -The bride gets a newly decorated room during PICK A ROOM, ANY ROOM -Everyone enjoys a day of pampering at the LAP OF LUXURY shower -Guys and gals experience "Bourbon Street" at the MARDI GRAS shower -And so much more!
The Art of Healthy Eating is a nutrition and health education manual supported with public and cultural health knowledge and experiences. The manual promotes natural ways of living and eating. It helps readers determine basic nutritional status of food and explores what happens when humans and other animals eat the process of digestion, and metabolism. What are vitamins and minerals? How can people balance their weight? An encyclopedia that can be used to research and detect reasons for ailments as well as assist in maintenance of health, it contains samples of health programs, natural eating, and examples of daily menus that the reader can follow and adopt. The relationship of nutrition, food intake, and the practice of modern medicine needs a complete overhaul. Despite all the books, videotapes, CDs, DVDs, E-zines, Web sites, and television shows on health, conventional medicine, and alternative health, many of the advances in health and health medicine are still unknown to regular people. The purpose of The Art of Healthy Eating is to help you develop a thorough understanding of nutrition and its effects on prolonging a healthy lifestyle.
No other book offers so many easy-to-use and diverse stress-relief techniques in a uniquely attractive gift package. With a different technique or tip for each day of the year, no other book offers such a wide range of ways to release stress and anxiety, all set in an attractive illustrated design that will make dipping in for inspiration a joy. All the practices are effective yet also easy to follow, even if you have never tried them before, and range from energy techniques such as simple shiatsu, to quick stress fixes such as visualizing a blue bubble, to methods of life simplification such as avoiding a news overload and rationing your evenings out, to inspiring visualizations such as imagining yourself as the sky or as a lotus floating on water. This is one of the first two publications in a new 365 series from Watkins, showcasing easy, accessible and effective approaches to dealing with our demanding modern lives. Readers are free to work through the book in any order they like, either using the chapter headings to deal with aspects that they feel need particular attention (for example, home, work, relationships, mind and spirit, or stress and emotions), flicking through at random or selecting ideas in chronological order. There is no need to subscribe to any particular belief, lifestyle or long-term practice; this is simply a collection of brilliantly effective ideas that together have the potential to transform lives.
Like a course from an expert teacher, "Organizing Plain & Simple" is grounded in the fundamentals and enriched with philosophy, anecdotes, tips, and illustrations. Smallin takes a personalized, nonjudgemental approach to explaining how to access each individual's situation and suggesting where to start. Two-color illustrations throughout.
