Collection: Spirituality & Religion

Emma Norris guides you in setting purposeful plans that are right for you and nurturing a healthier approach to prioritizing, so you can live a more value-based life.

She'll guide you through monotasking, batch working, productivity, and resting--not quitting.

As we face uncertainty from all directions and new obstacles at every turn, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. This state of mind leaves little room to figure out what we want to do and lots of room to doubt ourselves. We can fill up our days, but it doesn't always mean we are being productive. Or we can have lots of plans and not know exactly where to start to achieve what we want.

Having more mindful productivity habits can combat these challenges by helping you keep track of your goals and accomplish them. You can pick the right methods to achieve things without feeling stress, anxiety, or the pressure of external factors while also improving your focus and living a purposeful life. Life doesn't always go as planned, and when that happens, we want to be prepared to be our most productive selves.

Each chapter of this book is tailored to help you achieve mindful productivity. You'll learn to:

• Pursue progress over perfection
• Embrace the chaos
• Set boundaries
• Create realistic objectives
• Practice mindfulness
• And much more

You'll not only nurture a more stress-free lifestyle, but also learn to embrace the unexpected challenges that may come your way. You will learn how to cultivate productivity into your everyday routine, so you are able to achieve anything you set your mind to without the pressure of doing everything.

With Progress Over Perfection, you'll find the courage and the resolve to do what you want to do without having to compromise your plans to fit the pressures of everyday society. It's possible to be your true self and achieve anything you want, even among the chaos.

The Live Well series from Rock Point invites you to create a life you love through multiple acts of self-discovery and reinvention. These encouraging gift books touch on fun yet hardworking self-improvement strategies, whether it's learning to value progress over perfection, taking time to meditate and slow down to literally smell the roses, or finding time to show gratitude and develop a personal mantra. From learning how to obtain more restful sleep and creating a healthy work/life balance to developing personal style and your own happy place, the Live Well series encourages you to live your best life.

Other books in the series include: Find Your Flow; Be Happy; Seeking Slow; Finding Gratitude; Eff This! Meditation; The Joy of Forest Bathing; Find Your Mantra; It Had to be You; Men's Society; Genius Jokes; The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep; Beating Burnout; Ayurveda for Life; Choose Happy; and You Got This.

Discover the profound and enduring wisdom of "The Kneeling Christian," a classic work on prayer originally published in 1924.

A cherished book that has transcended time and crossed denominational boundaries, "The Kneeling Christian", at its core, champions the transformative power of prayer and its central role in the Christian's relationship with God.

Emphasizing the paramount importance of prayer, the author encourages readers to cultivate a deeper and more meaningful connection with God. Through the act of prayer, believers can not only communicate with their Creator but also seek divine guidance and bask in the profound presence of the Almighty.

"The Kneeling Christian" underscores the indispensable role of unwavering faith in God. It urges readers to approach Him with trust and confidence, emphasizing that faith is the bedrock upon which the most profound spiritual experiences are built.

Throughout its pages, this timeless treasure provides practical advice on various aspects of prayer, from the posture of prayer to the content of petitions and the frequency of communion with the Divine. Personal testimonies and anecdotes are woven into the narrative, illustrating the incredible power of prayer to transform lives and circumstances.

Reprinted and translated into numerous languages, "The Kneeling Christian" stands tall as a testament to the enduring legacy of its message-a call to kneel in faith, humility, and reverence, and experience the limitless power of prayer in one's spiritual journey.

A collection of inspiring essays with frank and compassionate advice for those dealing with terminal illness or the death of a loved one, from the pioneering author of On Death and Dying and On Grief and Grieving

As a pioneer of the hospice movement, Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross was one of the first scholars to frankly discuss our relationship with death. By introducing the concept of the five stages of dying, her work has informed the lives of countless people as they face the grieving process. This classic collection of four essays--based on Dr. Kubler-Ross's studies of more than twenty thousand people who had near-death experiences--illuminates her sensitive, original, and even controversial findings on death, dying, and the afterlife.

Now with a new foreword from Caroline Myss offering a personal perspective on Dr. Kübler-Ross, On Life After Death presents writings that challenge and encourage us to approach the end of life not with trepidation, but with clear-eyed, compassionate love.

Embrace the Queerness of your family, take ownership of your journey, and use your voice to bring light to your communities.

When Nia Chiaramonte came out as a trans woman to her wife Katie, she knew she would be met with a loving response. But she was less sure where this would leave their relationship, their marriage, and their family. Even murkier was what would happen when they began to bring their extended family, friends, and broader community alongside them on their journey of identity formation as a Queer family. They needed a guide for what lay ahead.

Now, drawing on their own experiences as well as their expertise in psychology, spirituality, and family systems, Nia and Katie Chiaramonte offer the tools they wish they'd had for their journey. Embracing Queer Family is a guidebook for Queer families on how to live into their true selves and strengthen their communities through radical love, acceptance, and mutual healing. With hands-on tools for learning and reflection in each chapter, this needed resource tackles issues of inclusion and acceptance and offers practical advice for how individuals and families can honor themselves and find transformation for their whole community through love.

Whether you are a Queer person on the journey of self-awareness, an ally looking for resources, or a family member seeking advice for how to navigate a loved one's coming-out process, this book is for you.

A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis.

When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering compound.

The ayahuasca trips provided Londoño an instant reprieve from his depression and became the genesis of a personal transformation that anchors this sweeping journalistic exploration of the booming field of medicinal psychedelics. Londoño introduces readers to a dazzling array of psychedelic enthusiasts who are upending our understanding of trauma and healing. They include Indigenous elders who regard psychedelics as portals to the spirit world; religious leaders who use mind-bending substances as sacraments; war veterans suffering from PTSD who credit psychedelics with changing their lives; and clinicians trying to resurrect a promising field of medicine hastily abandoned in the 1970s as the United States declared a War on Drugs.

Londoño's riveting personal narrative pulls the reader through a deeply researched and brilliantly reported account of a game-changing industry on the rise. Trippy is the definitive book on psychedelics and mental health today, and Londoño's in-depth and nuanced look at this shifting landscape will be pivotal in guiding policymakers and readers as they make sense of the perils, limitations, and promises of turning to psychedelics in the pursuit of healing.

The Grace-Giving Leader offers ten secrets for leaders to take their influence and experience to another level to develop your team, ministry, and people you lead, all while experiencing greater personal wholeness and leadership success. She starts by asking readers: Are you worn out, striving for success? A question most readers can answer with an emphatic yes. Many of us spend our entire leadership life lost in performance and striving for success. In effect, we work to earn what God wants to give us for free-grace. Like many of you, Jan Greenwood's journey has included pain and failures, but it has also included healing and triumphs. By God's grace, she discovered some life-transforming leadership principles that help her lead and mentor effectively. If you grasp these ten secrets, you can take your limited experience, resources, or influence and find greater wholeness, health, and leadership success.

An intimate guide to self-acceptance and discovery that offers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness within the framework of a Western understanding of self.

For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn't come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy--Epstein shows how "the happiness that we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be." He encourages us to relax the ever-vigilant mind in order to experience the freedom that comes only from relinquishing control.

Drawing on events in his own life and stories from his patients, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart teaches us that only by letting go can we start on the path to a more peaceful and spiritually satisfying life.

This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.

The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government scientists in the 1940s. Antigravity technology, originally spearheaded by scientists in Nazi Germany, was another high priority, one that still may be in effect today. Now for the first time, a reporter with an unprecedented access to key sources in the intelligence and military communities reveals suppressed evidence that tells the story of a quest for a discovery that could prove as powerful as the A-bomb.

The Hunt for Zero Point explores the scientific speculation that a "zero point" of gravity exists in the universe and can be replicated here on Earth. The pressure to be the first nation to harness gravity is immense, as it means having the ability to build military planes of unlimited speed and range, along with the most deadly weaponry the world has ever seen. The ideal shape for a gravity-defying vehicle happens to be a perfect disk, making antigravity tests a possible explanation for the numerous UFO sightings of the past 50 years.

Chronicling the origins of antigravity research in the world's most advanced research facility, which was operated by the Third Reich during World War II, The Hunt for Zero Point traces U.S. involvement in the project, beginning with the recruitment of former Nazi scientists after the war. Drawn from interviews with those involved with the research and who visited labs in Europe and the United States, The Hunt for Zero Point journeys to the heart of the twentieth century's most puzzling unexplained phenomena.

What People are Saying About the Spooky Series... "If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard, or felt an unseen hand brush against you on a mountain in Maine, you will love Spooky New England. And if you don't believe in ghosts--you will." - Michael Carlton, Editor, Yankee Magazine "Spooky New England is one of those books that you cannot put down until you reach the end...This is the ideal book for curling on the couch on a rainy afternoon and enjoying an entertaining read." - Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine "The author lets the stories speak for themselves which is virtue not possessed by many folklore books... " - Dennis Phillips, Top 1000 Reviewer, Amazon.com "If preparations for Halloween have put you in an eerie frame of mind, S.E. Schlosser has the perfect book for you..." - Donna McCrohan Rosenthal, Ridge Writers "The great thing about this book is that, like most folklore, it seems like you've read or heard most of the stories before. They exist in the periphery of our memory, and reading them again is like coming home to hear familiar stories from a favorite grandmother..." - Matt Staggs, Skullring.org

Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are!With the gut as a central axis of vigour, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic science, modern research and nutrition with a special emphasis on food chemistry.In this comprehensive book, she shares the tools that shaped her life and advises on how you can use food to preserve your health and reverse diseases.

We all need help centering ourselves to serve ourselves and our world. In this small, beautiful book, the Kogi--a remote and ancient tribe in the mountains of Colombia--offer their learnings. They pose nine provocative questions to help people around the planet to spiritual peace.

"Just as we are both sitting here and talking, this is how we can live well. All of this you will write in the book."--Mama Jose Gabriel, a spiritual guide of the Kogi tribe, to author Lucas Buchholz

For centuries, the Kogi have lived in seclusion in Colombia's remote Sierra Nevadas, known as "the heart of the world." But in recent years, concerned by the environmental degradation they have experienced in their villages and forests, a few emissaries from the tribe emerged to bring an urgent and loving message to the West--advice on how to live in harmony with the earth.

Buchholz was invited to their home to receive and transcribe this message. A Book of Balance takes us on a journey into a startlingly beautiful landscape and into a sacred space: the traditional fireside circle held regularly by the tribe. In this circle, members consider key questions essential to their community.

In this slim volume of spiritual introspection, they ask us to share in their practice, posing nine questions that focus our minds and hearts on who we are, who we can become.

Throughout we hear the words of the Kogi elders, wisdom that offers revelations, inspiration, and direction for our everyday lives.

A beautiful book to own, to share with friends, and discuss in community.

Find your inner peace and guide others to theirs with this complete collection of Yoga Nidra resources for all experience levels. The Book of Yoga Nidra Meditation Scripts is an invaluable companion for yoga teachers, practitioners, healing & wellness providers, and anyone wanting to facilitate Yoga Nidra sessions for themselves or others.

With these 30 Yoga Nidra scripts, each accompanied by beautiful visualizations and complementary Restorative yoga poses, mudras, and mantras, you'll have all you need to lead inspired and fulfilling sessions. Each unique script is designed to guide you into a state of deep relaxation so you can emerge empowered to manifest joy in every aspect of your life.

In this book, you'll have all you need to effortlessly guide meaningful Yoga Nidra practices for yourself or others:

- 30 Yoga Nidra meditation scripts filled with beautiful visualizations and inspiring imagery for practitioners and facilitators of all experience levels

- A wide range of practice session themes, lengths, and scientifically proven techniques

- Easy-to-follow script format for effortless delivery and the flexibility to adapt the scripts to meet your needs

- An introduction to Yoga Nidra and the use of Sankalpa, our heartfelt intention, for manifestation and joy

- Yoga Nidra benefits

- Yoga Nidra posture and prop options for maximum comfort

- How to prepare for the meditative journey of Yoga Nidra

- How to facilitate Yoga Nidra sessions for yourself or others

- Journal prompts for self-inquiry and self-discovery along with encouragements to support your evolving practice

- Complementary Restorative yoga poses, mudras, mantras, and creative activities to easily expand your Yoga Nidra sessions

- Instructions for 9 Restorative yoga poses, including step-by-step guidance and illustrations to support a deeper meditative experience

Heartful and easy to use, these scripts invite you on a meditative journey into yourself for:

Self-Love Embodying Joy Deep Relaxation & Rest Unlocking Intuition Affirming Your Heart's Intention Gratitude Forgiveness Healing Restoring Mental Clarity Manifestation Cleansing Chakra Energy Rejuvenation Sleeping Well Inner Peace Harmonizing with the Seasons and more...

Find peace and calm while you color cute cats

Spending time with cats is a proven way to lift your mood and relieve your stress--and the same is true for coloring! Discover a fun and soothing way to combine the two with the Stress Relief Cat Coloring Book. Inside, you'll find a whole collection of realistic and relaxed felines to color--with any shapes, shades, and patterns you choose. From sleeping kittens to playful tabbies and calicos, you'll spend hours feeling calm and creative as your worries disappear.

35 feline designs--Use your favorite art supplies to color cats in their natural habitats--like curled up in a sink, playing with string, and more!
Coloring for adults--These detailed cat designs are restful, but intricate enough to keep your brain and hands engaged.
One-sided pages--Every illustration is printed on a single side of the page so you can share and display your favorites.

Grab this cat coloring book today and let your stress melt away!

First published in the 4th century A.D., Anthony the Great's biography was authored by Christian Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. Since its original release, the book has helped spread the beliefs, practices and arduous faith of Anthony the Great to a wider audience. A significant progenitor of the monastic tradition, Saint Anthony lived an ascetic lifestyle in the deserts of Egypt. Although not the earliest of religious figures committed to this tradition, through his actions and preaching Anthony helped popularise and spread principles that would contribute heavily to the establishment of Christian monastic orders in Europe and beyond. One famous event in St. Anthony's life was his encounter with the supernatural in the remote reaches of the Egyptian desert. This occurrence, wherein the otherworldly presence tried to tempt him away from his spartan philosophy of living, has experienced much coverage in Western art and literature.

Change Your Story, Change Your Life is a practical self-help guide to personal transformation using traditional shamanic techniques combined with journaling and Carl Greer's method for dialoguing that draws upon Jungian active imagination. The exercises inspire readers to work with insights and energies derived during the use of modalities that tap into the unconscious so that they may consciously choose the changes they would like to make in their lives and begin implementing them.