This edition of the classic self-help bestseller is fully revised & updated to reflect the newest developments in the mind-body field today The Journey was born of Brandon Bays' extraordinary experience of healing from a football-sized tumour without drugs or surgery in 6 weeks Forced to go beyond the limits of known alternative therapies (she had been working in mindbody healing for two decades) she was catapulted into a remarkable soul-searching & ultimately ground-breaking healing journey Bays pioneered a remarkable healing technique that guides us directly to the root cause of a longstanding difficulty
- emotional or physical
- & then gives us the tools to resolve it At the most sophisticated nexus of mind-body healing today The Journey offers a simple imaginative process that is a revolutionary way to actually access memories held in specific parts of the body bringing the latest findings of energy medicine into a fast effective technique that anyone from a CEO to a child can use

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Building on the success of his Life with Full Attention A Practical Course in Mindfulness Maitreyabandhu here offers a challenging but profoundly useful work on how to practise Buddhism in everyday life Drawing on examples from the life of the Buddha as well as weaving in astute references to poetry & art Maitreyabandhu gives an easily understood outline of the system of spiritual life as undertaken by Buddhists in the Triratna Community The journey starts with our own mind particularly when we begin to look into the truth of things
- the truth of the old man on the escalator the friend in hospital the coffin we help carry to the graveside What we find in our guide the Buddha is a man with a 'fit' mind a healthy happy non-neurotic honest-to-goodness mind To get fit we need to work on becoming a happy healthy human being We need to integrate our thinking faculty with our emotions We need to wake up to thought & tune in to direct experience & we need to work against the ever-rising tide of trivia dissipation & overstimulation of the modern world Maitreyabandhu takes us on this journey with practical week-by-week exercises focusing on cultivating mindful awareness being happy integrating & simplifying our lives knowing ourselves & truly being ourselves
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A haunting echo of today this beautiful book explores the unimaginable decision to abandon home in the face of war ...

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Junior Magazine Design Awards (best Picture Book & Best New Talent categories) & the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award 2013! 'A thought-provoking story with a powerful message about conservation' says The Guardian's Julia Eccleshare Other titles from Frann Preston-Gannon include Dinosaur Farm (March 2013) both in paperback & box set The ice is melting so Polar Bear sets off in search of a new home Join him on his adventures across the seas & discover the many friends he meets along the way This beautifully illustrated story has a powerful message of conservation & is full of things for parents & children to talk about Frann was the winner of an amazing Sendak Fellowship & spent a month living with the great Maurice Sendak himself at his home in Connecticut USA She worked on The Journey Home during her stay ...

-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 13000 copies -This action-packed book is ideal for teaching different colours & types of transport & for developing map-reading skills -AR Level 39 -This splendid sing-along b ...

Anthony C Yu's translation of The Journey to the West initially published in 1983 introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time Written in the sixteenth century The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang one of China's most famous religious heroes & his four supernatural disciples in search of Buddhist scriptures An adventure rich with danger & excitement this seminal work of the Chinese literary canon is by turns allegory satire & fantasy With one hundred chapters written in both prose & poetry The Journey to the West has always been a complicated & difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language & the content of its plot But Yu has successfully taken on the task & in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate & accessible The explanatory notes are updated & augmented & Yu has added much new material to his introduction based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism & scholarship on Chinese religious traditions He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system Perhaps most important Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible ...

Anthony C Yu's translation of The Journey to the West initially published in 1983 introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time Written in the sixteenth century The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang one of China's most famous religious heroes & his four supernatural disciples in search of Buddhist scriptures An adventure rich with danger & excitement this seminal work of the Chinese literary canon is by turns allegory satire & fantasy With one hundred chapters written in both prose & poetry The Journey to the West has always been a complicated & difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language & the content of its plot But Yu has successfully taken on the task & in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate & accessible The explanatory notes are updated & augmented & Yu has added much new material to his introduction based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism & scholarship on Chinese religious traditions He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system Perhaps most important Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible ...

Anthony C Yu's translation of " The Journey to the West" initially published in 1983 introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time Written in the sixteenth century " The Journey to the West" tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang one of China's most famous religious heroes & his four supernatural disciples in search of Buddhist scriptures An adventure rich with danger & excitement this seminal work of the Chinese literary canon is by turns allegory satire & fantasy With one hundred chapters written in both prose & poetry " The Journey to the West" has always been a complicated & difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language & the content of its plot But Yu has successfully taken on the task & in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate & accessible The explanatory notes are updated & augmented & Yu has added much new material to his introduction based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism & scholarship on Chinese religious traditions He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system Perhaps most important Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible ...

In 1949 four Chinese women recent immigrants to San Francisco meet weekly to play mahjong & tell stories of what they left behind in China United in loss & new hope for their daughters' futures they call themselves the Joy Luck Club Their daughters who have never heard these stories think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives
- until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts The international bestseller
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller TV & radio presenter Kate Garraway has a lot on her mind She's turned 50 & suddenly seems to have MANY questions about EVERYTHING Should she get plastic surgery? Will the menopause ruin her life? What's the secret to making love last? Can anyone really deal with the idea of death? & why oh why did nobody tell her how important big knickers would be?! As she tries to find what's useful amongst the deluge of advice we are bombarded with Kate discovers a lesson on why women in their midlife & beyond should be loved & celebrated especially by themselves ...