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Elevated Existence February 2017 Spiritual, Self-Help Book Picks

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Each month, a ton of new spiritual and self-help books hit the market. It’s easy to get overwhelmed or miss out on some new releases.

We created Elevated Existence Monthly Book Picks to help our readers narrow down their search, and make sure they don’t miss some great options!

Here are the picks for January 2017. They are listed below in alphabetical order. Click on each title to go directly to Amazon and find out more about the book.

essential-kundalini-yoga“Essential Kundalini Yoga: An Invitation to Radiant Health, Unconditional Love, and the Awakening of Your Energetic Potential,” by Karena Virginia & Dharm Khalsa
Created for the modern practitioner, this book by kundalini yoga teachers Karena Virginia and Dharma Khalsa, offers clear, comprehensive instruction — and step-by-step pictures — in the key insights and practices of kundalini yoga, including kriyas, breathing techniques and more. From philosophy and lifestyle and working with anatomy and physical asana, to activating our energy bodies, Essential Kundalini Yoga is a practical and in-depth manual for the beginner or advanced practitioner.

the-five-side-effects-of-kindness-david-hamilton“The Five Side Effects of Kindness: This Book Will Make You Feel Better, Be Happier & Live Longer,” by David R. Hamilton, PhD
Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain, impacts the heart and immune system, is an antidote to depression and even slows the aging process. We’re actually genetically wired to be kind. In his new book, David Hamilton shows the effects of kindness are felt daily throughout our nervous system, and when we’re kind we feel happier and our bodies are healthiest. Learn how kindness makes us happier, is good for the heart, slows aging, improves relationships, is contagious and more.


inkspirations-love“Inkspirations Love by Design: Coloring the Divine Path to Manifest Your Soulmate,” by Arielle Ford
Twenty years ago, author Arielle Ford created a system to manifest her soulmate using the principles of the Law of Attraction: techniques, visualizations, rituals, and prayers. Within six months, she found her soulmate and now husband, and she set out to teach others to do the sema with her book “The Soulmate Secret.” Now, her miraculous methods are paired with the romantic artwork of internationally acclaimed artist Manja Burton in this first of its kind transformational coloring book.  This step-by-step guide contains simple, yet specific exercises and information to create the frequency of love in your life. By coloring each page with a clear intention, readers will mindfully and creatively raise their awareness to make their deepest desires for love come to fruition.

let-it-go“Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life,” by Peter Walsh
Whether selling your family home, blending households into a new home, or cleaning out your aging parents’ home, decluttering guru Peter Walsh aims to help with his new book. He recently went through the process of downsizing his childhood home and dividing his late parents’ family possessions and realized making these decisions about mementos and heirlooms creates strong emotions and can be an overwhelming chore. In “Let It Go” he shares how to understand the emotional challenges that accompany downsizing; establish a hierarchy of mementos; calculate the amount of stuff you can bring into your new life; and create strategies for dividing heirlooms around family members without drama.

miracle-mindset-jj-virgin“Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son and Life’s Hardest Lessons,” by JJ Virgin
Celebrity health expert and four-time New York Times bestselling author, JJ Virgin reveals how one life-altering event — when her 16-year-old son was in a car accident with a hit and run driver who left him for dead — taught her to tap into a new mindset, trust her instincts and defy the odds, ultimately saving her son’s lif and her own. She shares the lessons she learned that can help others create their own resilient mindset, and how to transform daily habits to endure the difficult battles in life.

 

miracles-at-work-emily-bennington“Miracles at Work: Turning Inner Guidance into Outer Influence,” by Emily Bennington
Author and career expert, Emily Bennington takes on the viewpoint of “A Course in Miracles” and merges it with mindfulness practices, social and emotional intelligence, and her own proven strategies for on-the-job success. Learn how to anchor in your aware self on the job; use the Course method for reorganizing your energy in each moment; navigate conflict with ease; and more.

 

napoleon-hill-power“Napoleon Hill’s Power of Positive Action,” by Napoleon Hill
Those who enjoy the power of positive action have been shown to accomplish more, have less stress, live with fewer regrets, become more self-disciplined, and demonstrate personal persistence. These qualities contribute to making our world a better place to live, and this book, published by the Napoleon Hill Foundation based on the writings and work of “Think and Grow Rich,” author Napoleon Hill, will provide the tools to help adopt a positive attitude, achieve better physical health, gain freedom from fear, find harmony in relationships and more.

 

natural-solutions-for-cleaning-and-wellness“Natural Solutions for Cleaning & Wellness: Health Remedies and Green Cleaning Solutions Without Toxins or Chemicals,” by Hallie Cottis
Transform your house into a toxin-free home with this practical guide by Halle Cottis, who goes beyond using vinegar and baking soda and provides powerful recipes to clean the entire house from the inside out. With ingredients such as salt, rubbing alcohol and castile soap, one can create indoor cleaners like the All-Purpose Disinfectant Cleaner, Powder and Liquid Laundry Detergent and Streak-Free Window Cleaner; and outdoor solutions, like Natural Garden Pesticide, Heavy-Duty Grill Cleaner and Screen Cleaner. Halle also uses turmeric, coconut oil and epsom salt to create concoctions that alleviate common ailments such as headaches and migraines, swimmer’s ear, cough and sore throat, and ease even the more difficult-to-treat health conditions such as eczema, poison ivy and poison oak, digestive system troubles and emotional issues like PMS, anxiety and seasonal depression.

 

the-power-of-attention-sarah-mclean“The Power of Attention: Awaken to Love and It’s Unlimited Potential with Meditation,” by Sarah McLean
Acclaimed meditation teacher Sarah McLean shares how to direct your attention toward aspects of yourself and your life you most want to flourish, expand and thrive in her new book “The Power of Attention.” Each chapter offers modern, practical ways of applying the practices of meditation and mindfulness so that you become more intimately connected to yourself, honor your feelings and desires, and express your unique talents and gifts in the world.


the-stress-proof-brain-melanie-greenberg“The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity,” by Melanie Greenberg PhD.
Offering powerful, comprehensive tools based in mindfulness, neuroscience and positive psychology, author Melanie Greenberg helps you put a stop to unhealthy responses to stress — such as avoidance, tunnel vision, negative thinking, self-criticism, fixed mindset and fear. Instead, you’ll discover unique exercises that provide a recipe for resilience, empowering you to master your emotional responses, overcome negative thinking, and create a more tolerant, stress-proof brain.

 

unshakable-tony-robbins“Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook,” by Tony Robbins
After interviewing 50 of the world’s greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom. No matter your salary, your stage of life, or when you started, this book will give you the tools to help you achieve your financial goals more rapidly than you ever thought possible. Discover how to put together a simple, actionable plan that will deliver true financial freedom; how to protect yourself and family form the inevitable crashes and corrections in investing; the fastest way to put money back in your pocket and more.

what-the-dead-taught-me-about-living-well“What the Dead Have Taught Me About Living Well,” by Rebecca Rosen
Author and medium, Rebecca Rosen has been a medium for more than two decades, and she knows with absolute clarity that the spirit world is always trying to get our attention. Our departed loved ones and spirit guides intervene in our lives daily to let us know that our real-life struggles have a rhyme, a reason, and a purpose and that we’re not alone to figure it all out. In this new book, which takes you through a day in her life, she shares daily practices and spiritual tools she relies on to recognize and interpret signs from our loved ones on the other side and more.

 

you-are-the-universe-deepak-chopra“You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters,” by Deepak Chopra
New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world. What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know about reality? Chopra and Kafatos tell share how we have reached just such a point. In the coming era, the universe will be completely redefined as a “human universe.” You Are the Universe literally means what it says–each of us is a co-creator of reality extending to the vastest reaches of time and space.

 

you-have-4-minutes-to-change-your-life-rebekah-borucki“You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation and True Bliss,” by Rebekah Borucki
After years of suffering from anxiety and depression, both as a child and as an adult, Rebekah Borucki took control of her mental and physical health by establishing a rigorous fitness and yoga routine that quickly evolved into her own regular, homegrown 4-minute daily meditation practice. Her 4-minute meditations combine mantras, affirmations, breathing and bodywork techniques, and the book includes 27 different practices.

 

Dr. David Hamilton: Science, Healing & Self-Love

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Known for his books on the power of thought and the mind when it comes to healing, Dr. David Hamilton recently released his new book “I Heart Me,” focused on the scientific power of self-love, and how we can use the mind and emotions to change how we feel about ourselves — and create wellbeing, success and more.

Elevated Existence Magazine interviewed Dr. Hamilton for its March 2015 issue cover story, and below is a sneak peek at some of the insights found in the article!

The Healing Power of the Mind
The first book Dr. David Hamilton published after leaving his job as a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, where he was building drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer, was “It’s the Thought That Counts: Why Mind Over Matter Really Works.” It focused on the mind body connection, and the connection between our consciousness and the world — all backed by scientific research.

“While working as a scientist, I started to notice how many people were recovering on placebos for drugs we were spending a quarter of a billion dollars developing,” he tells Elevated Existence. “I started looking into the mind body connection while I was working full time, and I realized there was so much information out there nobody seemed to know about.”

So he resigned from his job and started to weave together his scientific background with consciousness, spirituality and the mind body connection. His book “How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body” shows how positive thinking and visualization can work remarkably well when it comes to healing physical ailments and disease.

“After I published my first book, people would come up to me at lectures and workshops and tell me how they used the mind body principles to heal themselves,” he notes. “People were visualizing cancer tumors shrinking, for example, and they were all intuitively using the same mind body principles like visualization. I started looking into the neuroscience and psycho immunology so I could build a framework and understanding I could explain to my mom, dad or anyone off the street. There was so much science that validated it.”

In the book, he shares a Harvard study where volunteers played a series of piano notes up and down a scale for two hours, over five consecutive days. The scientists saw significant changes in the area of their brains connected to the finger muscles. By the fifth day, the brain had grown like a muscle and was significantly bigger. They also had a group of people who visualized playing the piano in the same way rather than actually doing it, and they also had their brain mapped to measure the results.

“Amazingly, the same regions of the brain had changed to the same extent as those who were actually playing the notes,” he says. “The brain was not making any distinction between those who were actually playing the keys on the piano and those who just visualized playing the keys. I use this example to help people understand, what you think about, what you imagine, really has an effect. It gives people faith in themselves.”

I Heart MeVisualization for Self-Love
In the book “How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body,” Dr. Hamilton shares a variety of visualizations and techniques to heal the body of physical ailments. In his new book, “I Heart Me,” he explains how visualization can also change our brain when it comes to self-love.

“Instead of visualizing inside the body, like you would do to shrink cancer or make a blood vessel healthier, what you do is visualize moving your body,” he tells Elevated Existence. “Visualize how you are walking, standing, speaking, breathing, from a place of ‘I am enough.’ Watch yourself interacting with people where you had previously acted in a way you felt small. Watch yourself standing tall, speaking with confidence, saying the things you want to say. Because the brain can’t distinguish real from imaginary, you are now rewiring the brain.”

If done on a regular basis, we can actually shape the circuits of the brain and will find ourselves functioning in the world with the kind of body language we are imagining, he says. And it only takes five minutes of visualization a day.

“It’s like a fast forward way of changing how you actually function in the world,” Hamilton says, explaining if we want to speed up the process even more, we can do it for 10 minutes, three times per day. “Five minutes is easier for people, especially with the busy lives we have. But you will start to notice a change, and it won’t even feel like you had to put much effort into it.”

For more from Dr. Hamilton, see the full March 2015 issue of Elevated Existence, which includes an article on author Mira Kelley and past life regression; a Course in Miracles column from Gary Renard and more!