The individual book excerpts are found on each of our other blogs. The schedule for each is:

(1) Answers by Email has creativity, core (basic), and health books under Books tag.

(2) Changemaker Groups has personal development books under Books tag.

(3) Changemaker Library has spiritual direction books under Books tag.

(4) Healing For You has meditation, peace of mind, and stress reduction books under Books tag.

(5) High Energy Life Plan has exercise and food books under Books tag.

For the Changemaker Library, we will be including the basic features of some books you may want to use. All of the books used are the choices of Changemaker without solicitation from any author or publisher. At the beginning of the post, we have listed the name of the book, the author, the ISBN number, and a link where you can order the book if you choose. The rest of the post includes actual content from that book for you to better be able to determine if this is a book for you.

I keep my special books together and use them frequently. I call them my textbooks as I seek direction time and time again from them. The Changemaker Library presently has 50+ books that we are recommending. This library can be acquired gradually either for your individual work or resources for the Changemaker Groups that you begin.

The Changemaker Library has ten separate topics. The topics are:

CORE BOOK TITLES

Complete Guide to Pilates, Yoga, Meditation Stress Relief

New Choices in Natural Healing for Women: Drug Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

Stress Control for Peace of Mind

CREATIVITY BOOK TITLES

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom

Prosperity Pie: How to Relax About Money and Everything Else

The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart (Companion to The Artist’s Way)

EXERCISE BOOK TITLES

8 Minutes in the Morning

Complete Guide to Pilates, Yoga, Meditation Stress Relief

Escape Your Shape: How to Work Out Smarter, Not Harder

Essential Stretch: Gentle Movements for Stress Relief, Flexibility and Overall Well-Being

Move Your Body Tone Your Mood

Shape Walking: Six Easy Steps to Your Best Body

Workouts for Dummies

The World’s Fittest You: Harness the Power of Interval Training-and Get On the Road to Fitness in Just One Month

Yoga for Weight-Loss: The Effective 4-Week Slimming Plan for Body, Mind and Spirit

Yoga: Three in One: Three Complete Home Workout Programs

FOOD BOOK TITLES

Barbara Kraus’s Calories and Carbohydrates

Change One: The Breakthrough 12-Week Eating Plan

Your Perfect Weight: The Diet-Free Method Developed by the World’s Leading Health Magazine

HEALTH BOOK TITLES

The Holistic Herbal Directory: A Directory of Herbal Remedies for Everyday Health Problems

New Choices in Natural Healing for Women: Drug Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine

You The Owner’s Manual: An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger.

The 7 Secrets of Slim People

MEDITATION BOOK TITLES

Complete Guide to Pilates, Yoga, Meditation, Stress Relief

The Meditation Year: A Seasonal Guide to Contemplation, Relaxation, and Visualization.

Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life.

PEACE OF MIND BOOK TITLES

Peaceful Mind: Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Psychology to Overcome Depression

Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart

Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere

Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

Turning the Mind Into An Ally

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK TITLES

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips From a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life

Journal to the Self: Twenty-two Paths to Personal Growth

Keep Your Paycheck, Live Your Passion

The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-day Program to

Cleanse Your Mind, Life Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul

Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

More Language of Letting Go

Naomi’s Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life

More Language of Letting Go

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION BOOK TITLES

The 12 Steps for Adult Children

Barefoot on Holy Ground: Twelve Lessons In Spiritual Craftsmanship

Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life

The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life

The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions

Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-Discovery

Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart: The Taoist Path Through Stress and Spirituality

Simplicity: Finding Peace By Uncluttering Your Life.

STRESS REDUCTION BOOK TITLES

Complete Guide to Pilates, Yoga, Meditation Stress Relief

Essential Stretch: Gentle Movements for Stress Relief, Flexibility and Overall Well-Being

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water

Stress Control for Peace of Mind

Stress: 63 Ways to Relieve Tension and Stay Healthy

Naomi’s Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life

Naomi Judd

ISBN 0-7432-3663

One of the questions for discussion in the back of the book says that Naomi Judd believes that life gives us a test first and our lesson comes later. When she was struggling as a single mom in L.A., she realized that in order to survive emotionally, she had to forgive herself and others and release unnecessary mental, emotional, and spiritual toxins. She remembered this experience when confronted with life-threatening hepatitis C, and letting go of stressors stimulated her immune system.

From all her life experiences, Naomi has included 20 choices to transform your life. These are:

1) Peace of mind is the goal

2) Change your mind, change your world

3) Life is a series of multiple-choice questions

4) You can reverse any curse

5) You can be anything you want, but first you have to understand what is standing in your way

6) Become a detective and investigate your past

7) Personality: It’s all relative

Know forgiveness, know peace—no forgiveness, no peace

9) Your strengths and passions are the essence of your happiness

10)Intuition is your secret guidance system

11)Risk allows you to become who you were meant to be

12)You’ve got to love that person in the mirror

13)You become whatever you think about all day

14)Your mind is in every cell of your body

15)Worry and fear are dispensable parasites of your brain

16)Resign as the general manager of the Universe

17)Find a new, stronger life urge

18)You and I may not have it all together, but together we

we can have it all

19)Develop the eight characteristics of a survivor personality

20)Love heals the giver as well as the receiver

The eight characteristics of a survivor personality are: (1) a strong spiritual belief, (2) a strong support system, (3) a sense of humor, (4) a connection to nature, (5) goals and a purpose to work toward, (6) good nutrition, (7) regular exercise and rest, (8) an open belief system.

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