The Big Book of Stress Relief Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Feeling Better [Paperback] Review

Perhaps I was looking for the wrong thing.I expected a book on how to relieve stress with quick little games to do at the beginning of a business meeting.Instead, the 'games' in this book sound more like therapy sessions.Most are meditation and message exercises.
One example:The Glittering Roof, where you have everyone close their eyes and you, the facilitator, read a 2.5 page verbal 'fantasy' in a calm and soothing voice to the group.At the end, everyone discusses how they felt.There are many exercises like this in the book.
Another example (my favorite): The Beastly Boss.Again you start the group off with breathing and imagery exercises.Then you pair everyone off.One person assumes the role of Beastly Boss. The other the role of Exemplary Employee.The Beastly Boss then 'acts insensitively' while the Exemplary Employee employs more breathing and imagery techniques to remain cool.Then they switch.Puh-leez!Can anyone think of a quicker way to be sent to a remote location than to try this on your co-workers?
This is not for corporate profesionals...

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These quick games, exercises, and activities are designed to reduce stress wherever and whenever it strikes, in meetings, in front of the computer, or when dealing with difficult people.Psychology Today Editor-In-Chief Robert Epstein has created fifty 1-3 minute games based on STRESS-PROOFING, an original system derived from scientific research that makes stress reduction effortless and effective.
For everyone from deskbound office workers to managers in meetings, this is the latest addition to one of McGraw-Hill's best-selling book series:

Helps alleviate high-pressure situations at home and at work.
Includes comprehensive life-planning and life-organization activities.
Requires less then 3 minutes to play most of the creative, relaxing games.

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Life without the Monsters: A practical guide to overcoming fear, anxiety, and depression [Paperback] Review

I have met this lady and she is very engaging.Her book is a wealth of information on how to beat the anxiety that sometimes cripples us.She is refreshing, kind , and has been there herself.I highly reccomend this book to those of us who need a strong guide on how to beat the anxiety, blues, and trials of life today.

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Did My First Mother Love Me?: A Story for an Adopted Child [Hardcover] Review

This book addresses the needs of adopted children who feel the pain of having lost their birthparents. They may "miss" them--which is really an expression of loss.
Written by an actual birthmother who gave up her child, the book tells adopted children that their birthparents loved them but could not care for them. The book speaks of the sacrifice and love involved in placing a child in another home, in terms that even small children "get."
For parents, the book also includes an article by Jeanne Warren Lindsay, "Talking with your Child about Adoption." It explains key points that parents should make when talking with their adopted children--they were born like everyone else, being adopted is normal and natural and it's forever. And of course, their birthparents did not "abandon" them, but loved them in the best way they could. Alyssa A. Lappen

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Inner Yoga: Selected Writings of Sri Anirvan (Paperback) Review

One of the most comprehensive texts on the "inner technology" of a practice toward Being. It is a book one can read repeatedly over the duration of ones life, each time finding something quite new that one could not take in before, marking the growth of ones own being.To be honest, one needs a great deal of preparation to begin to understand at all what is being presented here, the summary of the life's work of one of this ages most serious seekers.

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In Inner Yoga, Sri Anirvan reveals the true substance of yoga. Anirvan, a lifelong scholar and practitioner, combines knowledge of tradition, experience derived from meditation, and great independence of mind to illuminate the heart of yogic teaching. He explains the eight limbs of Patanjala Yoga in the light of India's spiritual traditions and fills each chapter with insights on the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Gita drawn from a lifetime of study. This thoughtful book offers serious students new insight into the discipline of yoga.

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Sun (Board book) Review

I think it can be a bit of a struggle to find beautiful board books. Typically, these chunky books made expressly for toddlers lean towards humorous text, often with bright colors set against plain backgrounds. I do enjoy those type of board books, but also welcome the softer tones and quiet words of Sun and Star. They offer the great indestructible board book format we all love, but with a slightly more traditional, old-fashioned appearance.

Sun is about all the places and animals affected as the sun rises in the morning. It wakes the birds and the grazing cow in the sweet meadow and shines straight through the wax-filled hives to rouse the bees. The barn mice are greeted good morning by the sun's warm rays in their cozy nests each morning. And of course, children worldwide can feel the sun streaming through their windows, signaling them to hop out of bed and start their day!

The companion book, Star, takes a similar approach to the night sky. Just as the sun wakes us for the day, the star's soft light lets us know when bedtime is drawing near. The little star looks out over the clear water and sees everything on the ocean, even the sailor's little black cat nestled in the bottom of the sailor's boat. The star shines down on lambs in the pasture, their eyes heavy with sleep. The star shines over the houses, and spies the baby sleeping in his crib. Night time has come for everyone.

Both books are beautifully illustrated with muted colors and flowing lines. The watercolors by Anna Pignataro are completely magical - it's like having a tiny set of paintings created just for you. Repetitive, rhythmic text make these the perfect books to reach for at bedtime or before the afternoon nap. Sun encourages the world awake with its bright rays, while Star settles the world back to sleep with its soft gleam. Two truly lovely board books that would make a great gift for new parents.

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Towards the End of the Morning (Kindle Edition) Review

Michael Frayn's 1967 Fleet Street novel draws unavoidable comparison with Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop", and that it comes off looking pretty good speaks volumes for Frayn's talent. It tells the story of John Dyson, a middling newspaper man slipping towards the end of his youth and towards the end of his foundering career. It also parallels the end of British print media in its traditional form as it gradually gave way to Americanization, i.e. the unavoidable slip towards television. But Frayn's portrait is a fair one: he isn't suggesting the lager-soaked world of British print was any better than what replaced it. He exploits the humorous potential of both. His dramatization of British class-based social anxiety and the irritating bullishness of American upstarts are both spot-on. Frayn's introduction to this edition interestingly explains the origins of the novel and the actual people and experiences on which it is based.

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A sublimely funny comedy about the way newspapers try to put lives into words.' SpectatorMichael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.'Towards the End of the Morning certainly keeps you laughing, but the jokes illuminate the characters and their destinies with a clarity that makes you miss a heartbeat after the laughs.' The Times'The most delightful, sophisticated novel: Michael Frayn is probably England's funniest writer.' New York Times'A gem of a comic book. It's a brilliant, fast game of poker with the author holding all the best hands.' Vogue

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The Morning After (Kindle Edition) Review

Could her "gift" for sexual healing really be a curse that dooms Nikki McClellan to an eternity of flings? What's the point of being supernaturally sexy, if the men in her life are so supercharged after making love they immediately hop away looking for the next woman's bed? A future as a one-night wonder is enough to make her give up the effort.

That is, until she meets Dylan Cain. Suddenly Nikki understands the meaning of lust at first sight. And best of all? Not only has Dylan stayed until morning, he's come back for more...lots more?

[1st in the Sexual Healing series]

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Could her "gift" for sexual healing really be a curse that dooms Nikki McClellan to an eternity of flings? What's the point of being supernaturally sexy, if the men in her life are so supercharged after making love they immediately hop away looking for the next woman's bed? A future as a onenight wonder is enough to make her give up the effort.That is, until she meets Dylan Cain. Suddenly Nikki understands the meaning of lust at first sight. And best of all? Not only has Dylan stayed until morning, he's come back for more...lots more!



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