Uitleg van de wijze waarop spirituele verdieping de kwaliteit van het dagelijks leven kan verbeteren.

Beschrijving van een methode, om door tien seconden geconcentreerd nadenken te komen tot de oplossing van problemen, mede door het gebruik van lichamelijke sensaties.

Most people "throw out" their back and think that's why their back hurts, but nothing could be further from this truth. Discover underlying, hidden, causes of back pain-where pain really comes from and how to stop in once and for all fast. Popular treatment approaches like pain medications, muscle relaxants, steroid injections, surgery, chiropractic treatments, acupuncture, and massage therapy may be helpful in relieving pain temporarily, but they often fail to deliver lasting relief because they don't address what's actually causing the pain. The "secret" to fast, long lasting relief is to focus your treatment on addressing the "hidden" causes of your pain, not just the symptoms, and The 7-Day Back Pain Cure shows you how.

This book explains recent scientific discoveries and provides findings such as how women's and men's brains process information differently, ways to learn faster and trick the brain into storing information permanently, and how to change one's mood without drugs or therapy. Building Mental Muscle introduces mind exercises to develop skills in the six zones of real-world problem solving -- executive and social, memory, language, emotional response, computation skills, and creative spatial visualization. Seventy-six puzzles, games, and self-tests allow the reader to apply the theories and exercise the brain as if it were a bicep.

Handreiking om door middel van oefeningen en opdrachten aan de hand van de joodse kabbala een beter en succesvoller leven te leiden.

Beschrijving van de zeven energiecentra in het menselijk lichaam, die van belang zijn voor onze energiehuishouding.

Basisprincipes van de theorie en praktijk van de rationeel-emotieve therapie.

Psychologische studie over de tegengestelde menselijke behoeften aan intimiteit en individualiteit.

Naslagwerk voor beginners en gevorderden die een gezondere leefwijze proberen te krijgen door de combinatie van ayurveda en yoga.

Given the salience of the terms 'Salafism' or 'Jihadi-Salafism,' not only in specialist analysis but also in the media, the currents of Islamic thought grouped under these terms are poised to become more widely known. Yet much western analysis suffers from a lack of sophistication and discernment on this important doctrinal trend in contemporary Islamic thought, so that 'Salafism' is some what liberally employed to denote, with far too much specificity, a phenomenon that is only opaquely defined to the western reader. The contributors to "Global Salafism" are careful to map out not only the differences in the Salafist schools, but also to underscore the fluidity of this broad doctrinal tendency. They examine the phenomenon both in its regional manifestations - which demonstrate surprising diversities, ambivalences and contradictions - and in its shared essential doctrines. In so doing they highlight the ambivalences inherent in Salafism itself, and the Salafist believers' claim to be reviving Islamic thought for the modern age - albeit through the paradox of 'out-antiquing the antique' by appealing to a greater, older, purer authenticity. With considerable subtlety the tensions between the local and the global aspirations of exponents and claimants to the 'Salafist method' are explored and the parallels and divergences weighed. This is a unique book that can justifiably claim to be pioneering, as it is the first of its kind to take the phenomenon of Salafism as a whole, and address the task of defining what is, despite its crucial importance, a relatively neglected field.

Known only for the virtues of its sexual practice, ancient Tantric ideology is a universal and wide-reaching ideology virtually ignored in the West. In Tantra: The Cult of the Feminine, one of Europe's foremost Tantric authors and teachers, Andre Van Lysebeth, gives readers a balanced, well-informed, modern examination of the secret teachings and symbolism of Tantra. Espousing no dogma, Tantra involves a search for reality that contradicts neither science nor religion. For Tantra, all of the myriad energy forms in the universe -- gravity, nuclear cohesion, electromagnetism -- exist throughout the cosmos. "Scientifically speaking, the universe is a gigantic continuum ranging from sub-atomic to astronomical dimensions. Tantrists have perceived this unity for over thirty-five centuries," points out van Lysebeth in his introduction. Originally published in 1992, Tantra has become the classic text on the subject, the source for serious students. Eight full-color illustrations and 36 line drawings complement a comprehensive and contemporary explanation of Tantra, complete with meditations. Andre does a remarkable job of bringing ancient theories into the modern world.

This book examines the body's role in learning, by reviewing recent scientific insights into the ways that movement initiates and supports mental processes. Part 1 focuses on the brain and physical development, emphasizing the growth of the body/mind capacities with which we learn. It explores three distinct but interconnected kinds of body/mind processing: sensation, emotion, and thought. It also examines the ties that bind body, emotion, and thought together and looks at how movement anchors thought. In part 2, the book discusses the importance of movement and introduces Brain Gym, a coordinated set of integrative movements to enhance learning. Part 3 examines the need to manage stress, nutrition, and other physical requirements of learning. Stress is seen as extremely damaging to learning potential and as the root cause of many of the learning problems seen in people labeled as hyperactive or having attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. (Contains extensive reference notes for each chapter.) (DB)

Beschrijving van darmklachten en andere gezondheidsproblemen ten gevolge van parasitaire infecties, waarbij de samenhang tussen voeding en de schadelijke invloed van parasieten op de darmen centraal staat.

The book that will forever change the way we talk to each other at home, at work and in love DO YOU WANT BETTER CONVERSATIONS with your lover, your colleagues at work, your family, friends or strangers, or yourself? Conversation explains what kind of talk charmed and excited people in the past, and why we talk differently today. It explores the art and the history of conversation and how it can be the key to a happier, more interesting future. It shows how women have changed the ways lovers speak, how families avoid silence or boredom, how your work can damage or improve the way you converse, and what role there is for the tongue-tied and shy. This book will enable you to see more clearly what you want to talk about, and what conversation can do to your life. Conversation began as a series of talks broadcast on the BBC. They proved to be so popular that they were recently published in book form to great success in Britain and throughout Europe.

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalized -- depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than knowing it more profoundly -- and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed. Yet as we move further into the strange new dimensions of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary than ever before. This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of our future in the world, we must reclaim the ability to imagine and redress the balance of influence between imagination and science.

Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination draws us back to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, essential to our knowing reality to the full, and to our very humanity itself."

This edition of Martin Ostwald's revised version of J. B. Skemp's 1952 translation of Statesman includes a new selected bibliography, as well as Ostwald's interpretive introduction, which traces the evolution in Plato's political philosophy from Republic to Statesman to Laws--from philosopher-king to royal statesman.

Speltherapie, culturele therapie en bewegingstherapie zijn vaktherapeutische disciplines gericht op verwerking en ontwikkeling via doen en ervaren. Speltherapie biedt kinderen een veilige omgeving voor emotionele expressie, terwijl culturele en bewegingstherapieën zich richten op creativiteit en lichaamsbewustzijn. Dr. H. van der Drift was een invloedrijke geneesheer-directeur van de psychiatrische inrichting Wolfheze (Pro Persona). In 1957 publiceerde hij een belangrijk werk over de toepassing van speltherapie, culturele therapie en bewegingstherapie in psychiatrische inrichtingen. Van der Drift speelde een grote rol in het ontwikkelen van meer zinvolle bezigheden binnen de psychiatrie, waarbij de ontmoeting tussen mannen en vrouwen tijdens het werk bijdroeg aan het herstel van een normale levenswijze. Hij publiceerde ook over de verpleging en behandeling van geestes- en zenuwzieken.

In Honor, History, and Relationship Stephen Darwall explores the idea of a second-personal framework for morality and its foundations, in which we are committed to morality by presuppositions that are inescapable when we relate to others (person to person). He expands on the argument set forth in The Second-Person Standpoint to explore the second-personal framework in three further settings. The first concerns a fundamental difference between the form that respect and the concept of person take in honor cultures, on the one hand, and the shape these assume in morality conceived as equal accountability, on the other. One essay explores this difference directly while others investigate related themes of justice versus retaliation and vengeance for insult and injury to honor, including in the writings of Adam Smith and Nietzsche on ressentiment. A second setting concerns the role of second-personal ideas in the development of a distinctively "modern" moral philosophy, beginning in seventeenth-century Europe. Two essays here discuss the centrality of second-personal notions in two formative modern natural law theorists: Grotius and Pufendorf. And two others concentrate on the role of reciprocal recognition in Kant and Fichte, respectively. A third group of essays treat the second-personal structure of interpersonal relations. There are three essays in this group: one on promising as a second-personal transaction between promiser and promisee, a second on what it is to be with another person, and a third on the role of second-personal standing in personal relationships.

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority - democratic consent, public opinion, science - yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.

"Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues that a radically new style of thought--pure sociology--can. Conceived by the sociologist Donald Black, pure sociology makes no reference to psychology, to any single person's intent, or even to individuals as such. Instead, pure sociology explains behavior in terms of its social geometry--its location and direction in a multidimensional social space.

Is Killing Wrong? provides the most comprehensive assessment of pure sociology yet attempted. Drawing on data from well over one hundred societies, including the modern-day United States, it represents the most thorough account yet of case-level social control, or the response to conduct defined as wrong. In doing so, it demonstrates that the law and morality of homicide are neither universal nor relative but geometrical, as predicted by Black's theory.

Als aanstaande vader schrijft de auteur een brief aan zijn dochter. Met een mengeling van schroom en ontboezeming, in lyrische bewoordingen én met een flinke dosis realisme schrijft Abdelkader Benali aan zijn pasgeboren dochter. Het wordt een openhartige brief over de liefde voor haar moeder, zijn blijdschap en onzekerheid over het vaderschap, zijn eigen jeugd en opvoeding volgens de Marokkaanse traditie, en de band met zijn ouders. Hij vertelt over de schoonheid van kunst, maar ook over racisme, discriminatie en geweld en probeert zo de wereld te duiden waarin zij zal opgroeien.

This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism and cultural pluralism. The book now includes two new chapters on citizenship theory and multiculturalism, in addition to updated chapters on utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism, socialism, communitarianism, and feminism. The many thinkers discussed include G. A. Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, William Galston , Carol Gilligan, R. M. Hare, Catherine Mackinnon, David Miller, Philippe Van Parijs, Susan Okin, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, John Roemer, Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer, and Iris Young. Extended guides to further reading have been added at the end of each chapter, listing the most important books and articles on each school of thought, as well as relevant journals and websites.Covering some of the most advanced contemporary thinking, Will Kymlicka writes in an engaging, accessible, and non-technical way to ensure the book is suitable for readers approaching these concepts for the first time. This second edition promises to build on the original edition's success as a key text in the teaching of modern political theory.

Admiraal William H. McRaven sprak in 2014 bij de diploma-uitreiking van de Universiteit van Texas. Hij vertelde hoe zijn opleiding tot Navy SEAL hem zijn hele leven lang heeft geholpen om succesvoller en gelukkiger te zijn.Zijn speech ging viral en werd meer dan tien miljoen keer bekeken. In Maak je bed op vertelt hij meer over de principes die hem niet alleen in zijn militaire carrière veel hebben opgeleverd, maar ook daarbuiten. Met leuke voorbeelden en wijze lessen toont hij dat discipline en doorzettingsvermogen voor iedereen binnen handbereik zijn. Hoe haal je meer uit jezelf, ga je uitdagingen aan en overwin je tegenslagen? Begin de dag met je bed opmaken.

Beschrijving in verhaalvorm van een managementstrategie voor kwaliteitsverbetering.

Een vernieuwende visie op cocreatie, een keuzesysteem dat toepasbaar is op iedere situatie en in elke professionele omgeving. De werkelijkheid beweegt altijd: van verleden naar toekomst, van idee naar realiteit. Ook professioneel worden we voortdurend geconfronteerd met keuzes die de toekomst beïnvloeden. Succes hangt af van hoe je krachten bundelt met JA en NEE. JA leidt naar wat je wel wilt, naar mogelijkheden en enthousiasme. NEE sluit risico's uit of spaart middelen voor wat je belangrijk vindt. Ja en Nee nodigt je uit om actief aan de slag te gaan met jezelf, je organisatie en de wereld. Je merkt onmiddellijk resultaat op basis van de keuzes die je maakt. Met 39 oefeningen en 9 gereedschappen om teams en projecten vooruit te helpen.

Pleidooi voor een volwassen en gelijkwaardige relatie tussen arts en patiënt.

Columns over de lasten maar ook lusten van het vaderschap en de verzorging en opvoeding van een jong dochtertje.