Psychology - Psychology

This fun and accessible guide presents clear and concise ways that you can begin —-right now—- to live a happier and more meaningful life. You will learn how to feel more peaceful and be more productive by replacing the automatic ways you react with new perceptions of yourself and the world.

The book is rooted in his father's work in the area of attitudinal healing (Love is Letting Go of Fear, published in 1979, which has sold over 1 million copies), and is organised around twelve simple principles each of which is elaborated on with amusing anecdotes. The basic thrust is that regardless of your circumstances, you have it within your power to be happy now. Jampolsky gently leads the reader on the path to true happiness.

In Eastern culture the concept of the coexistence of the feminine and masculine within the divine is commonly accepted. But in the West we have overemphasised the masculine in the divine and we have seen many global tragedies as a result. Now we are seeking to regain balance as evidenced in the resurgent interest in the wisdom of the Goddess and ancient matriarchal religions. But as Dr. Schaup's work explains the Divine Feminine has been with us all along hidden in ancient Christian scripture and taking many different forms and names in Eastern and Western culture alike. She is Sophia or Divine Wisdom. Dr. Schaup heralds a paradigm shift in our concept of god with this provocative chronicle of the manifestation of the Divine Feminine throughout history and in the world's diverse cultures. By tracing Sophia's presence Dr. Schaup's work does not simply advocate a return to matriarchal worship but serves as a beacon in the quest of our time to overcome alienation between human and nature man and woman human and God. Dr. Schaup explores Lady Wisdom in Biblical Scripture Sophia in the Old Testament Lilith and Sophia's counterparts in the Andean Hindu and Chinese religions. Examining the patriarchal dilemma Dr. Schaup brings to light the work of Christian mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen Jacob Boehme and the Russian Sophiologists. She places emphasis on the work of Otfried Eberz a contemporary Sophiologist who makes a radical appeal to modern women to reclaim the consciousness of the Goddess. Dr. Schaup shows Sophia to be a universal figure representing wisdom femininity motherhood and sexuality. She writes especially for women coming from a Christian background who are interested in expanding their quest for spiritual wholeness.

Barbara Hannah studies the psychic processes that move people to strive for wholeness of personality an integration of all innate capacities. Since this inner drama manifests itself with special intensity in the lives of creative individuals she has taken up the biographies and literary productions of five major English novelists—Robert Louis Stevenson Mary Webb and Charlotte Emily and Anne Bronte—along with one nonliterary artist: Branwell Bronte. Not only do Stevenson Webb and the four Brontes take on fresh unsuspected dimensions but the concepts of analytical psychology are also broadened and deepened as Barbara Hannah indicates how contemporary people may gain insight from these examples in their own efforts to strive towards wholeness.

• Explores the tactics used to control consciousness, such as
misinformation, debt systems, fear conditioning and the distraction
of entertainment and technology
• Reveals the emerging mechanisms for neurogenetic evolution within
our brains that will enable us to throw off the shackles of mental
control
• Explains how to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious
evolution and restore our connection with Nature and the Divine

Within society there exists a silent war. The battlefield is our everyday lives: our education, our work, our leisure, our emotional and spiritual well-being and our thinking and perceptions. Our very sense of “reality” is deliberately engineered to work against conscious evolution and preserve social norms. In short, we are all part of a war of consciousness. And the opportunity is at hand for us to win.
Assessing the ways modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity obedient and distracted from their inner lives, Kingsley Dennis presents an eye-opening investigation of the way our minds have been programmed to preserve incumbent power structures and their rules. He exposes the tactics employed for thousands of years by the elite to control our minds, including misinformation and propaganda, debt systems, consumerism, religious doctrine, scientific authority, economic “uncertainties,” fear of terrorist attacks and armageddon, distraction through entertainment and technology, as well as the false belief that we are separate from Nature and the Divine. Despite these obstacles, humanity is awakening to culture's imposed limits on perception through an accelerating rise in collective empathy and awareness.

Exploring the biology of consciousness, Dennis reveals the emerging mechanisms for neurogenetic evolution within the brains of gifted individuals, psychics and visionaries and the coming increases in solar and magnetic energies that will activate them within all of us.

Explaining how we can free up mental and emotional energy to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution, he shows that by taking back our minds and changing the way we think, we can restore our connection with Nature and the Divine and lead humanity into a new age of harmony and awareness.

The death of a parent, sibling or friend is devastating for the teenager. Apart from death, the most common way young people experience grief is through divorce, separation, a re-marriage or creation of a blended family. Other triggers include loss of home, pets and personal property through fire, flood, obesity or poor body image.

TEENAGERS AND GRIEF is an important guide for teenagers and parents alike. Parents will find ways to help their children by showing them how to cope with loss and helping them to express their grief, thoughts and feelings. There is, also, critical information on when parents need to seek urgent outside help. Several teenagers express their feelings in the book and these give us an insight into the depths of their grief.

Basing his study on Jung's archetypal theory-especially that of initiation-THRESHOLDS OF INITIATION represents thirty years of testing the theory in analytical practice. Joseph Henderson considers archetypes to be predictable patterns of inner conditioning that lead to certain essential changes and shows the parallels between individual psychological self-development and the rites that marked initiation in the past. Dr. Henderson's topics include the uninitiated; return of the mother; remaking a man; trial by strength; the rite of vision; thresholds of initiation; initiation and the principle of ego-development in adolescence; and initiation in the process of individuation. This is essential reading for an understanding of the universal nature of initiation especially as it relates traditional initiatory practices to Jung's theory of archetypes.

Carl Jung spoke of pistis, the trusting heart. He said that this fundamental capacity for trust is the precursor to faith and that without this essential quality, faith in something greater - faith in one's own process, faith in the wholeness of the psyche - is impossible. For the author of this book, pistis involves the ability to trust one's own subjectivity, one's felt sense, regardless of whether it jibes with what is externally acceptable or valid, regardless of the outcome.

In THE TRUSTING HEART, Dr. Aanavi writes about his experience over the past twenty-plus years, both as a person in recovery and as a clinician. The book is about his exploration, his process and his commitment to both the profoundly personal and the remarkably vast. It is about telling the stories of one's experience and committing to the integrity of one's felt truth and to following one's energetic thread wherever it might lead.

The author of influential books such as Force Under Pressure and Stoning the Keepers at the Gate, Dr. Lawrence N. Blum is a renowned expert on the psychology of police officers. With TURNING TRAGEDY INTO VICTORY, he returns to and expands on the important subject of how to best help those who have sworn to protect and serve when they are the ones who have fallen.

According to Blum, officers' lack of knowledge and skill in controlling the stress of the moment has increased their risk of being killed, assaulted or making mistakes that cost them dearly in career or family relationships. Through visceral, real-life accounts of officers that he has personally worked with, he identifies pitfalls, errors and traps that are created when officers lose control over how their brains and bodies react to unexpected crises; explains why and how this lack of control occurs and provides mental, emotional and behavioral tools that have proven highly effective at enhancing performance. Above all, Blum says, officers must learn the important lessons that come from their experiences and commit themselves to the quest for mastery in law enforcement: in other words, to turn tragedy into victory.

This book is an indispensable resource for those who are police officers, those who work with them and those who wish to keep them safe among the increasing dangers and challenges of today's society.

With an unshakable mind, you can cope with any difficulty life may bring. An unshakeable mind is a state that can be symbolized by an iceberg—beneath the part of you that is visible to others is a vast bulk. In the case of the mind, this is a reserve of inner treasure accumulated through learning and experiences. An Unshakable Mind describes ways to build inner confidence and develop a firm character based on a spiritual perspective. Viewed from a spiritual standpoint, life is a workbook for developing the soul. With a willingness to learn from everything that life presents you with, good and bad, any difficulty can be transformed.