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’Will get you through even the toughest commute.’ Elle Plug in, relax and unwind. Have you ever wondered how it might feel to change your relationship with stress? To give yourself a chance to mindfully live each day to the full and sleep deeply and soundly through the night? Join gong...

The Wu Wei Wisdom Podcast is a weekly conversation about life challenges and life lessons, emotional and spiritual health issues, and tools to help you live in effortless flow - ‘wu wei’.The ancient Taoist principle of wu wei is little understood in the West, and we believe it’s the secret to health and happiness in modern life!Your hosts are David James Lees, an ordained Taoist monk, emotional and spiritual health teacher and consultant, and Alexandra Lees, a mindset and business coach.If you are suffering from emotional pain, stress or depression; struggling with self-criticism or ...

From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds. Everyone has a basic understanding of...

Narcissism in the family of origin isn't often discussed. Many emotionally abusive behaviours from parent to child have become socially acceptable; because they're so prolific, they're normalised, and humans repeat relational patterns, passing the baton of trauma from generation to generation, until someone decides to change it. You're Not the Problem shows you how to recognise these behaviours and realise the profound impact they have had, and still have, and to see the patterns they form in our relationships with parents, partners, friends, and colleagues.

This is one of a series of meditation recordings by Glenn Harrold and Ali Calderwood, which are based upon the ancient solfeggio musical scale. Each note in this scale has specific healing properties, and this recording resonates to a frequency of 741hz which is associated with the colour blue and the element of ether. Glenn Harrold’s acclaimed vocal delivery and guided meditation combined with Ali Calderwood’s deep and moving soundscapes tuned to 741hz combine to create an amazingly powerful meditation recording

Bloomsbury presents All the Way to the River, written and read by Elizabeth Gilbert. In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. In 2000, Elizabeth...

I'm sure your first question is: Can you actually learn a foreign language while you’re asleep? According to a Swiss research study in 2014, the answer is unassailably yes! In this study, a group of German speakers was given a list of unfamiliar Dutch words to study. Half were instructed to get some sleep while they listened to long lists of Dutch words and translations. The other half was instructed to stay awake. Four hours later, they were tested and the group that listened while they slept had significantly higher recall.

After more than twenty-five years of smoking, I honestly believed I would die a smoker. Like many people trying to quit smoking, I tried nicotine gum, patches, hypnosis, e-cigarettes, cold turkey and sheer willpower. Every attempt ended the same way—I went back to cigarettes. Alcohol wasn't far behind.

The legendary British actor Terence Stamp reads the book that he says 'changed his life'. This is an exploration of our existence and a journey towards enlightenment. In what the author calls 'the fine print' at the start of the book, David Carse wrote: 'There are many books out there that will help you to live a better life, become a better person, and evolve and grow to realise your potential as a spiritual being. This is not one of them....'

'Uplifting' Daily Mail Up and down the country, people love Ruth Langsford's zest for life and ability to find the humour in any situation. Every day through her work at Loose Women, she meets people who have been through the most astonishing highs and lows. Her warm and open interviewing style...

If you’re suffering from a past traumatic experience, you’ve doubtless been presented with a number of possible treatments. Some of these might help, and others, not so much. And some of these treatments will be more involved and expensive than others. Surprisingly, one of the best places to start if you’re looking for an alternative route is with guided therapeutic imagery.

Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match their sport had ever known.

What keeps us from having the relationships we want? Why can’t we find the right partner? Why do we repeat the same painful patterns? How can we keep love alive? The children we once were live inside us, and our early relationships are the templates for our later emotional and sexual...

In this darkly funny and irreverent memoir, the daughter of a mail-order bride unpacks her undocumented childhood in America. The perfect listen for fans of the jaw-dropping twists of 90 Day Fiancé and the emotional gut punch of I’m Glad My Mom Died. Growing up undocumented in Houston, Texas...

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....

206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness? Why is a gut feeling so much smarter than you think? And why is 90% of you not even human? You...

The story of poison is the story of power.... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners...

In ADHD: Get Beyond the Label, clinical psychologist Dr. Kyler Shumway and neuroscientist Dr. Elizabeth Aslinger explore the reality of ADHD from both a clinical and a personal perspective, looking at what it really means and how it influences everything from attention and emotion to motivation and memory. Across six lectures, you’ll trace where ideas about ADHD came from, how it’s been framed over the years, and what the science tells us.

On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner at a restaurant in Boulder, Colorado. The two had met five years before while Coyle was writing his bestselling book, Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. But this time, Tyler had something else on his mind. He finally wanted...

Brought to you by Penguin. The ground-breaking new book from former Special Boat Services Sergeant Jason Fox, star of Channel 4’s SAS Who Dares Wins and bestselling author of Battle Scars. Whether serving in the Special Forces, rowing oceans or investigating some of the world’s most...