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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Perhaps no other person has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the contemporary landscape of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Through a number of research studies, and through Kabat-Zinn's pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-ren…
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We know that practicing mindfulness in everyday life can help us reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being, but what about its effects on physical and emotional pain, especially when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting? Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief is a soothing program with …
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From the bestselling author of Full Catastrophe Living comes a brilliant work that explores the principles and practices of mindfulness. A simple and straightforward introduction to Buddhist meditation from one of the country's leading authorities on stress-reduction techniques, Wherever You Go The…
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Les enfants d'aujourd'hui sont souvent agités, dispersés, stressés. Comment les aider à s'apaiser? Comment leur apprendre à se concentrer? La méditation est un outil simple et efficace. Elle s'adapte parfaitement aux besoins des petits et leur procure des bénéfices immédiats. Ce livre original et p…
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This workbook teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a clinically proven program for alleviating stress, anxiety, panic, depression, chronic pain, and a wide range of medical conditions. Includes an MP3 CD with 21 guided meditations.; Also available as an eBook.
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Laissez-vous guider par Yupsi, le petit dragon, à travers cette initiation pour la méditation des enfants, dès 3 ans. Une introduction destinée aux parents permet de comprendre les multiples bénéfices de la méditation, dès le plus jeune âge. Des contes mettent en pratique l'apprentissage théorique …
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A complete overview of all of Thich Nhat Hanh's practices for children. "Planting Seeds" is full of hands-on activities to help children and adults relieve stress, increase concentration and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, and improve communication. It includes over 30 full-color illustra…
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Stress. It can sap our energy, undermine our health if we let it, even shorten our lives. It makes us more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, disconnection and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows yo…
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The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food, and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what m…
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This exercise CD gives an understanding of how to do pelvic floor muscle exercises. It leads the listener with weak pelvic floor muscles through an exercise routine and progresses to more advanced exercises. It is recommended that the listener first see a physiotherapist with expertise in treating …
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Using relaxation techniques for 20 minutes a day has been significantly proven to increase pregnancy length and weight of an infant with moms who are experiencing pre-term labor. This recording mixes scientificaly accurate image and metaphoric imagery to bring about the relaxation response. Track 1…
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The Period of PURPLE Crying® program aims to change knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of primary and temporary caregivers towards early infant crying, especially inconsolable crying, and its link to shaken baby syndrome. The program aims to educate the primary caregiver (mom) before the increase…