Beginner's Guide To Feng Shui by Ken Cohen.

Feng Shui is the Chinese art and science of harnessing the earth’s energy to promote health, prosperity, and harmony in one’s living space. From Oprah to Architectural Digest, Feng Shui has entered the mainstream – yet, for many, the complex formulas and diagrams taught in popular books have been difficult to master. Now, with The Beginner’s Guide to Feng Shui, listeners can learn the simplest and most powerful form of Feng Shui available anywhere – xing shi, the school of Feng Shui best known throughout China. Qigong master Ken Cohen teaches its authentic practices for transforming any home or office in just 70 minutes. 1 CD, 70 MIN, AW00681D, $15.95

Beginner's Guide To Dream Interpretation by CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES

Access the Wisdom of Your Dreams From five to seven times each night, we dream – and glimpse into a reality not normally available to us. Now Jungian psychoanalyst and author Clarissa Pinkola Estés explores the symbols, themes, and insights of these “letters” from our unconscious, with the beginning student in mind. From common dreams such as flying, falling, or being chased, to the seven types of unusual dreams, The Beginner’s Guide to Dream Interpretation demystifies popular misconceptions and offers concrete techniques for recalling and uncovering the hidden meanings of your dreams for inspiration and guidance. For anyone eager to make sense of these “gifts from the Dreammaker,” here is an accessible new primer from this eloquent authority on dreams and their archetypal power.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Dreams: what they are – and where they come from
• A simple, creative approach to dream interpretation
• Recall exercises, dream associations, and other tools from psychoanalysis
• 1 CD / 1.25 HRS AW00680D, $15.95

Beginner's Guide To Healthy Eating by ANDREW WEIL.

With his best-selling book Eating Well for Optimum Health and popular public television specials, Dr. Andrew Weil has helped millions to cut through the confusion, hype, and often conflicting advice on what we should eat to feel our best and live longer. On The Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Eating, America’s most trusted natural health physician teaches the essentials of how to eat for optimum health and pleasure – distilled into one information-packed and easy-to-absorb audio course. 1 CD, 74 minutes, AW00682D, $15.95

Beginner's Guide to Meditation by Shinzen Young.

What if scientists discovered a way to calm and clarify the mind ... transform fatigue into energy ... and even improve your health – all at the same time? They have: it’s called meditation.

With The Beginner’s Guide to Meditation, you will learn how to start using simple yet effective techniques – proven at medical centers and clinics worldwide to promote physical and emotional health. Respected teacher Shinzen Young explains how meditation works, what different methods offer, and guides you through specific practices that can radically improve the way you think, feel, work, and connect with others.

HIGHLIGHTS:
• Bring mental focus and inner calm to any situation
• Defuse stress and difficult emotions
• Includes a 3-part session to get you started right now
73 MINUTES/ 1 CD (available on CD only) AW00609D, $15.95

Beginners' Guide to Forgiveness

How to Free Your Heart and Awaken Compassion by Jack Kornfield, PhD. This is practical Wisdom for healing and improving our lives Forgiveness is possible. Jack Kornfield explores why forgiveness personally and globally is essential to your health and happiness, and how you can start using this timeless practice to transform emotional wounds into healing and understanding of yourself and others. It is the first step in cultivating a deeper compassion.

Drawing from his background in meditation and psychology, Kornfield reveals the path to forgiveness and the way out of our pain.. Once you understand your own suffering, compassion arises naturally, so you can extend it to others as well as yourself.

HIGHLITES:

• How forgiveness can be coupled with strength and self-protection
• The practices that lead to forgiveness of yourself and others.
• Includes a self-guided meditation.
• 73 MINUTES/ 1 CD (available on CD only) AW00656D, $15.95
  

Buddhism for Beginners by Jack Kornfield.

At the heart of all Buddhist wisdom lies one astonishing truth: that a way out of suffering and into a more deeply fulfilling life is not a myth, but a reality available to you the moment you open your eyes through the power of skillful inquiry. For generations, this fact has been proven again and again by those who have learned and tested for themselves what the Buddha taught. Now, with Buddhism for Beginners, celebrated teacher and author Jack Kornfield invites you to experience for yourself the gifts of this vast spiritual tradition. Created specifically to address the questions and needs of first-time students, this full-length retreat on audio offers an ideal way to learn Buddhism’s essential principles and insights. Join this gifted speaker, as he guides you through:

• Buddhism’s cornerstone teachings, including the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path to inner freedom, the meaning and varieties of karma, the Ten Perfections for opening the heart, the inner tools of samadhi and Prajna (concentration and insight), the Four Great Immeasurables, the Buddha’s last great teaching, and many other topics

• The principles of meditation practice, covering such fundamentals as clarifying awareness and focusing your mind; overcoming distractions and other inner obstacles; using heart-centered practices to sprout the seeds of compassion and loving-kindness, and more.

• Wisdom stories, poetry, teaching parables, and inspiring true accounts distilled from Buddhism’s many historical branches – plus, invaluable advice gleaned from Kornfield’s own years of experience as a student and a teacher The ancient Buddhist scripture The Path to Purification poses this riddle: “The world is entangled in a knot. Who can untangle the tangle?” You can, taught the Buddha, by learning to see things clearly and simply, as they actually are. Now, with Jack Kornfield’s Buddhism for Beginners, you will find the tools and teachings you need to begin this great inner adventure of self-discovery and freedom.

Buddhism for Beginners Highlights:

• The Eightfold Path – How your actions, words, aspirations, and other choices guide your spiritual direction
• The Four Noble Truths – What the Buddha discovered about the cause of suffering, and the reality of enlightenment
• Mindfulness, rapture, equanimity, and the four other keys to Buddhist meditation
• How to tap into greater awareness of your body, feelings, and thought processes
• The Buddha’s profound insights into impermanence and the “self”
• How to overcome worry, restlessness, frustration, and other obstacles in your practice
• Dwelling in the Divine Abodes of Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
• How karma really works: the nature of cause and effect, and the four types of karma
• Earth, Air, Fire, and Water – using the four elements as a map to your inner territory
• The Ten Paramitas (“Perfections”) for fully opening our hearts
• Buddhist psychology – the connections between meditation and Western psychotherapies
• “The Buddha’s Last Teaching” on why each of us must reach beyond even Buddhist ideas
• A complete 12-session retreat on the essentials of Buddhist practice and thought, designed with the beginner in mind

  Buddhism for Beginners, 6 CD's, AF00084, , $69.95

Prayers, Mantrams and Invocations

gathered by Torkom Saraydarian and the staff of AEG. This text represents the most comprehensive and diverse collection of prayers and mantra from every major spiritual and religious tradition. Many of these are rare prayers and difficult to find. This collection has taken three decades to compile. A total of 106 prayers and mantra collected from many sacred writings. A perfect companion to use during your times of meditation and prayer. 109 pages, spiral bound. Included is one set of five prayers flags, plus an explanation of the meaning of prayer flags. $24.95

Meditation for Beginners: How to Start a Meditation Practice by Jack Kornfield.

Over the past decade, the number of Buddhist meditation centers in the U.S. has more than doubled. Many more mediators practice in the Christian, Jewish, transcendental, and other traditions. Until now, however, surprisingly few teaching aids have shown beginning practitioners the most fundamental techniques of meditation.

Meditation For Beginners: How to Start a Meditation Practice (VIDEO) by Jack Kornfield. Meditation is a doorway to freedom open to anyone at any time. Meditation for Beginners is a complete video introduction to this ancient art, which shows you step by step how meditating can help you feel truly alive and connected with the treasure each moment brings. Jack Kornfield introduces you to the "insight" practice of meditation, showing you how to use its principles to cultivate a profound inner calm and gain freedom from needless mental suffering.

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• Four complete meditations that you can practice at your own pace
• 1. Awareness of the Breath
• 2. Working with Body Sensations
• 3. Awareness of Thought and Feelings
• 4. The Practice of Loving-Kindness.

90 minutes, Video, $19.95.

Meditation for Beginners,

as described above by Jack Kornfield also available CD. The strength of this program is that it is more in-depth than and covers the topic in further detail. Jack uses clear language and step-by-step demonstrations to show you how simple it is to start - and stick with- a daily meditation practice. You will experience results as he gives you and essential education in Insight Meditation. Includes 2 CD's, 2. 1/2 hours., AW00523D, $24.95

Beginner's Guide to The Chakras by ANODEA JUDITH .

Have you ever felt energetically “out of tune?” Had trouble managing your emotions? Or just wanted to feel more grounded and present?

With The Beginner’s Guide to the Chakras you will learn how to balance and energize your body’s “chakras” – the seven spinning centers of energy that regulate your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Join acclaimed instructor and author Anodea Judith as she introduces you to your Chakra system and shows you how to start grounding yourself ... overcome inner blocks to pleasure and power ... open your heart ... communicate more openly ... awaken your intuition ... and deepen your spiritual connections. Includes a complete 38-minute guided Chakra journey.

HIGHLIGHTS:
• Explore your Chakra centers
• Identify energy imbalances
• Develop your personal power
• Enhance your ability to love
• Spark your creativity, and much more
73 MINUTES / 1 CD (available on CD only) AW00612D, $15.95

The Power of Mantras:

How to Use Sacred Words for Protection, Abundance, Creativity and Healing, by Thomas Ashley-Farrand. On this series, Ashley-Farrand reveals the full scope of mantra practice for the first time on audio. Listeners learn to use dozens of specific mantras immediately. This is an excellent English language source that teaches how to into mantras with precision.
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Two 90 minute audio tapes, $18.95

Mantra: Sacred Words of Power, by Thomas Ashley-Farrand.

In 1978, Thomas Ashley-Farrand traveled to India for the first time, where he astonished the spiritual community there with his perfect command of mantra, the practice of using specific "sacred sound syllables" for spiritual and material transformation. Now, 20 years later, he shares for the first time his mastery of this ancient spiritual art on Mantra: Sacred Words of Power. Here is the first English language audio curriculum that teaches you how to use mantras to enhance the powers of your mind, influence the environment around you, and deepen your spiritual practice.

In the Vedic tradition of India, the universe is said to be birthed from pure sound. All around us, this symphony of subtle energy vibrates is unfolding, creating all that is seen, unseen, touched, tasted, and expressed in the seven sense.. This is a comprehensive series on understanding, using and practicing the art of mantra. Listeners will learn practical ways and means to use mantra effectively. This is an in-depth English language source that teaches how to use mantras with precision.

"The power of mantras comes not from the meaning of the syllables," teaches Ashley-Farrand, "but from their direct vibrational effect on our body’s physiological and energetic systems." He also teaches, "Sanskrit is an energy-based language, and mantras are spiritual formulas for working with this energy. They are designed to eliminate obstacles as we progress spiritually, and to help us make energetic progress toward the good." With Mantra: Sacred Words of Power, you can begin practicing these powerful chants to heal and change your own life

LEARN MORE ABOUT:

• Mantras: what they are, and how to use them
• When, where, and how often to chant mantras for maximum benefit
• How to use mantras to clear your chakras for better health
• The Vedas and the Upanishads – history’s "mantra stockpiles"
• The "40-day" principle for gauging the effects of your mantra practice
• "Seed mantras" – elemental energies crystallized in sound
• The Gayatri "master" mantra – vessel for all spiritual potencies
• Dozens of Buddhist and Sanskrit mantras taught step by step in English.
• 6 CD's, $69.95

MANTRAS FOR ABUNDANCE

Sacred Chants to attract health, Love and Fulfillment into Your Life by SRI ANANDI MA Abundance is measured by the plenitude of health, love, self-understanding, and satisfaction in your life.. For more than 5,000 years, the spiritual teachers have evolved the science of sacred sound to help us attract and receive these blessing. Shri ANANDI Ma, helps you to overcome subtle blockages that inhibit the factors of abundance in yo life. One (CD), 77 minutes, AW00648D, $15.95

BREATHING: THE MASTER KEY TO SELF-HEALING, CD by Andrew Weil. The health you enjoy today, and for the rest of your life, begins with your next breath. In fact, breathing is so crucial to your body's ability to heal and sustain itself that Dr. Andrew Weil says: "If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly."

On Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing, listeners will learn a complete course of eight breathing exercises that Dr. Weil uses in his own life, and has prescribed to hundreds of patients over the past two decades, DR Weil reports that these breathing exercises get more favorable response from patients than anything else he teaches.

To learn the art of healthy breathing, Dr. Weil turned to Eastern traditions, including yoga, which view the breath as a vital link to the prana, or energy of the universe. In easy-to-follow language, he explains the secret of breathwork's power over your health, and its remarkable ability to influence – and even reprogram – the nervous system. From increasing energy – to lowering blood pressure – to improving circulation – to beating anxiety disorders without drugs – Breathing is a practical introduction to the benefits of breathwork, presented by the best-selling author and physician who has taken the miracle out of self healing, and made it available to all.

CD format. 2 hours, 2 CDs, $24.95.

Insight Meditation Kit: Self-Guided Meditation Course by Sharon Salzburg and Joseph Goldstein.

"I've always wanted to learn to meditate, but how do I get started?" Join Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein - two of American's most respected instructors- for a step-by-step course in Insight Meditation. Learn at home, at your own pace, with this complete curriculum. Course includes.

A 240 page Insight Meditation workbook - This workbook is designed as a compete self-guided curriculum. Organized into nine lessons, your workbook features more the n 75 step-by-step mindfulness exercises, question and answer sections, glossaries, and photographs illustrating correct meditation postures.

Two, 70 minute compact discs - Six meditations teach you these cornerstone practices in the Insight Meditation tradition.

Twelve Insight study cards - Reinforce your practice with the daily reminders of the fundamentals of meditation in a convenient portable form. AW00553, $29.95

BEGINNER'S MIND...is a new compilation CD series by these three leading meditation teachers...Jack Kornfield / Sharon Salzberg / Pema Chodron.

The secret of meditation practice, taught the great Zen master Suzuki Roshi, is shosin,"beginner's mind," a boundless and original mind that is compassionate and alert, and open to receive all possibilities. Three leading voices in American Buddhism have been gather together to teach the traditional meditation techniques that make this beneficial meditative awareness available to anyone who wishes to practice what they are teaching. Over four hours of instruction from three of America's most respected meditation teachers. Offered for the first time as a collection, Beginner's Mind is a excellent for new and old meditation students alike that includes:

Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield. Easy-to-try meditations for anyone who has ever thought about learning to meditate, but didn't know how to get started. Covers the basics of breathing, postures, overcoming distractions, and much more.

Loving-Kindness Meditation by Sharon Salzberg, the author of the bestseller, 'A Heart as Wide as the World,' teaches Metta practice, or compassionate thinking, the classic Buddhist meditation method for using love to heal yourself and your relationship to the world around you.

Pure Meditation by Pema Chodron. “Chödrön demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives.” —Publishers Weekly Pema Chödron, one of the West’s most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition accessible in today’s world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one boxed set. The Pema Chödrön Collection includes: Pure Meditation—step-by-step instruction in Tibetan Buddhism’s pinnacle practice for transformation and letting go.

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As an authoritative guide to Buddhism’s fundamental practice, Pure Meditation is destined to become a cornerstone of Pema Chödrön’s body of work – a collection already treasured throughout the English-speaking world, 6 CD's, $69.95

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