This is David Deida's acclaimed primary sourcebook on masculine spiritual practice. It explores the most important issues in mens lives from career & family to women & intimacy to love & spirituality
- for every man who wants to live a life of integrity, authenticity, & freedom.
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The Weight, Hypnotherapy & YOU Weight Reduction Program: An NLP & Hypnotherapy Practitioners Manual, gives practitioners a complete, fully-scripted, ready-to-use weight reduction program that addresses the epidemic problem of obesity in adults. This book gives step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions for managing, conducting & marketing a unique program that can expand a practice, constitute a niche offering, or add a new, valuable & profitable service to an existing practice. This unique program is based on actual clinical experience & published research on the efficacy of hypnotherapy as a viable tool in weight management. The book

Includes:: examples of office forms & marketing materials, as well as a CD-ROM containing a Client Workbook with take-home readings & assignments. This program will help your clients stay motivated & on-track with their nutrition & exercise plans, while working at an individual pace. The book covers the practitioners preparation: the program background, relevant research, prerequisite skills, training & knowledge, how to screen clients, office forms, as well as ethical, safety, & marketing considerations. The eight scripted sessions cover the clinical interview & outcomes, reframing overeating, self-hypnosis, stress management, sensible food choices, the relationship with food, exercise, & lasting results. The book tells readers how to motivate recalcitrant clients & how to market the program in ones own community to build a referral network.

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The Western Herbal Tradition provides a comprehensive & critical exploration of the use of plant medicines through 2000 years of history from Dioscorides to the present day. It follows each of the 27 herbs through a wide range of key sources from European, Arabic & American traditions including Greek, Roman & Renaissance texts. A rich discussion of the historical texts is balanced with current application & research. The herbs have been selected on the basis of common use by practising herbalists. Each illustrated monograph contains: Species, identification & botanical description; A study of the characterisation & medicinal use of the plants consistently drawn; from featured herbals which

Includes:: the authors own translations from the Latin; Assessment of past & current texts in the transmission of herbal knowledge; Consideration of traditional therapeutics, including humoral & physiomedical approaches; Suggestions towards a modern experiential approach through Goethean methodology; Current evidence on pharmacological constituents; Review of evidence on safety; Recommendations for internal & external uses, prescribing & dosage.

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In The Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer, a naturopathic physician & acupuncturist helps readers with cancer detoxify their systems, identify proven cancer-fighting foods & supplements, & make lifestyle changes that will help them live longer, healthier lives while undergoing treatment for cancer. ...

The scientific work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) represents a style of learning & understanding which is largely ignored today. The approach of modern science is largely detached, intellectual & analytical, & it is increasingly recognized that many of our contemporary problems stem from the resulting divorce from nature. By contrast, Goethe's way of science pursued understanding through the experience of the 'authentic wholeness' of what was observed. Working with the intuitive mode of consciousness, Goethe aimed at an encounter with the whole phenomenon in its relationship with the observer. In his way of seeing, rather than dividing merely in order to categorize, we should investigate the parts of an object in order to reveal the true nature of the whole. In this invaluable study, Henri Bortoft examines the phenomenological & cultural roots of Goethe's ways of science. He argues that Goethe's insights, far from belonging to the past, represent the foundation for a future science. This new science of nature, involving other human faculties besides the analytical mind, can provide understanding & explanation in a way which our present scientific attitudes, & the culture they serve, desperately lack. ...

Get well quickly through the power of wild raw berries. Learn the power of raw enzyme & flavonoid-rich wild berry extracts made from the far north of Canada & about the power of raw Amazon berrry extracts. Find out how wild berries & extracts can: provide energy & muscular strength; clean toxins from the body; cause excess weight to be burnt; help rebuild the circulatory, digestive & immune systems; improve skin tone & beautify hair. ...

This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 & is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its combination of meticulous illustrations & the use of keys to aid recognition. For this new edition, the Latin names have been revised in accordance with the current classification system. It is now published as the ideal book for the serious student of British & north-west European wild plants, providing a bridge between picture identification guides & the non-illustrated academic floras. ...

The Wild Medicine Solution: Healing with Aromatic, Bitter, & Tonic Plants As people moved into cities & suburbs & embraced modern medicine & industrialised food, they lost their connection to nature, in particular to the plants with which humanity coevolved. These plants are essential components of our physiologies
- tangible reminders of cross-kingdom signaling
- & key not only to vibrant physical health & prevention of illness, but, also, to soothing & awakening the troubled spirit. Offering examples of ancient & modern uses of wild plants in each of the 3 classes
- from aromatic peppermint to bitter dandelion to tonic chocolate
- Masé provides easy recipes to integrate them into meals as seasonings & as central ingredients in soups, stocks, salads & grain dishes as well as including formulas for teas, spirits & tinctures. Providing a framework for safe & effective use as well as new insights to enrich the practice of advanced herbalists, he shows how healing "wild plant deficiency syndrome"
- that is, adding wild plants back into our diets
- is vital not only to our health, but, also, to our spiritual development. Blending traditional herbal medicine with history, mythology, clinical practice & recent findings in physiology & biochemistry, herbalist, Guido Masé, explores the three classes of plants necessary for the healthy functioning of our bodies & minds
- aromatics, bitters & tonics. He explains how bitter plants ignite digestion, balance blood sugar, buffer toxicity & improve metabolism; how tonic plants normalise the functions of our cells & nourish the immune system & how aromatic plants relax tense organs, nerves & muscles & stimulate sluggish systems, whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. He reveals how wild plants regulate our heart variability rate & adjust the way DNA is read by our cells, controlling the self-destructive tendencies that lead to chronic inflammation or cancer. The book: Explains how 3 classes of wild plants
- aromatics, bitters & tonics
- are uniquely adapted to work with our physiology because we coevolved with them; Provides simple recipes to easily integrate these plants into meals as well as formulae for teas, spirits & tinctures; Offers practical examples of plants in each of the 3 classes, from aromatic peppermint to bitter dandelion to tonic chocolate.








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An inspiring look at one of the most commonly misunderstood female health issues. Dr. Christine Northrup believes that the change is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be fixed, but a mind/body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence. Dr. Northrup shows women how they can make menopause a time of personal empowerment & positive energy
- emerging wiser, healthier, & stronger in both mind & body than ever before.
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