Author: Rachel Freiman Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing ISBN: 9781544514659 Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
There has to be a trick to this, right? At this point, you're certain you've inherited a gene preventing you from hitting your health and fitness goals because years of new diets and routines have gotten you nowhere. Clearly, getting healthy just isn't meant for you. But it's not you, it's them. The diets and routines you've relied on in the past never did the trick because you don't need a trick to get healthy; you simply need to learn how. In Becoming Mindstrong, Rachel Freiman shows you how to create lifelong habits by training your mind along with your body. Relying on math, science, and a whole bunch of humor, she teaches you nutritional concepts that are impossible to forget. No shakes, wraps, or magic pills required. Instead, you'll learn how to rewire your brain to abandon self-critique, become your own best coach, and choose behaviors that support your goals. No matter how many times you've stopped and restarted a plan to get healthy, this is your chance to start fresh, learn the truth, and never look back.
Author: Zachary Kaiser Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350245275 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 201
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We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute – but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices are artificially changed. Zachary Kaiser explores the harmful social consequences of this idea - balanced against speed and ease for the user - and how design practice and education can respond positively. - Concepts of freedom vs convenience - Smart objects and manipulation - Real world information transformed into data - Technology's decisions made on our behalf
Author: Al Kavadlo Publisher: ISBN: 9781942812005 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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In Zen Mind, Strong Body, acclaimed bodyweight exercise expert Al Kavadlo presents his "philosophy of fitness"--a philosophy that has allowed him to endure injury-free, while achieving some of the world's most challenging movements, be it the One-arm Pull-up, the Human Flag, the Stand-to-stand Bridge, or the Front Lever. It's also a philosophy that's allowed Al to sculpt a magnificent physique--while maintaining an ever-burning passion to further develop his calisthenic excellence.Al's "secret sauce"? A Zen-like attitude to physical cultivation--which marries intense focus with a light-hearted "joy-in-the-journey." Zen-like too, is Al's insistence on intuitive simplicity and his celebration of personal, direct experience as the most trustworthy teacher.Zen Mind, Strong Body culls 26 of Al's favorite articles, elaborating his position on a wide spectrum of fitness subjects from diet and supplements, to machines and free weights, to cardio options, to mental training. For Al, though, all roads finally lead to Bodyweight Exercise--as the supreme path for all-around, everyday athleticism and practical functionality.Want what Al Kavadlo has? Absorb the hard-earned, earthy training wisdom in Zen Mind, Strong Body--and you will be on your way.
Author: Taner Remzi Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1514442051 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 96
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I have compiled this for many reasons. I have found I take solace and enjoyment in writing, expressing myself surprisingly well, in an articulate and entertaining way. It started as writing paragraphs of my unique observations, and explanations of my song themes, attempting to detach myself. Having a Turkish background whilst growing up in Australia also contributes to my unique experiences and views. After I garnered interest in a publisher, I started writing about everything. So I thought why not be one who writes a record of family memories, with nostalgic insights into times passed? It’s also an invaluable chance to explain the workings of my unique mind and giving people an inside view of my frustrations in life and the field of music. I’ve also included lyrics to some of my music as a teaser or prelude if you should want to discover some tracks that are available. I thought it easier to avoid names, except in the public eye. I refer to many people both past and present. Those of you who know me will know who you are if I refer to you. People will relate with my experiences and struggles. Above all, it’s giving my life more meaning and rhyme, realizing I’ve perhaps achieved more than I ever realized. That, I hope, will be the catalyst for the most exciting and productive times in future years.
Author: T.M. Luhrmann Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691211981 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 256
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The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people—as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see supernatural agents everywhere, as the cognitive science of religion has shown. But it isn’t easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort—by changing the people who do it and giving them the benefits they seek from invisible others—helps to explain the enduring power of faith. Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more. A fascinating account of why religious practices are more powerful than religious beliefs, How God Becomes Real suggests that faith is resilient not because it provides intuitions about gods and spirits—but because it changes the faithful in profound ways.
Author: Corey Croft Publisher: Fly Pelican Press ISBN: 1999073053 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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Most self-help books will describe remedies and issue lessons to escape the perverted spiral of depression and anxiety. They will aim at improving the quality of one's life and inform choices and states of mind that nurture a healthy and productive psyche. Not this book. Things can always get worse, and baby, they probably will. My life was, is and will probably always be painfully average. I am the glistening standard of what it means to be normal. My grades, my looks, my jobs, my partners, everything, dead-center in the median of ordinary. Most of us are like that, at least that's what Alex says. Oh, Alex? He's my best friend. He's attractive and cool and mysterious and says things that I've thought better than I could ever say them. See, I've always known my mediocrity and was trying to be ok with it. But Alex, he seems to think I'm capable of more. He's my best friend and he's anything but average. He's also kind of a dick.
Author: Max Strom Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1602399808 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 241
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In this inspiring work, yogi Strom looks beyond the often written about philosophies of yoga to what he sees as the purpose of this practice: to help with the journey within.
Author: Asmait Yohannes Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1982254874 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 144
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What would like to change about your life? Are you willing to begin this process by making the simple admission that you are your own savior? Your life begins by understanding you have everything to succeed in life within you. You don’t need anyone or anything to be happy and content. In Become Your Own Savior, author Asmait Yohannes empowers women throughout the world to discover their inner superhero. She discusses how the most remarkable thing about finding your inner superhero is that once you discover it, and you know it’s there, you can never lose it. It’s time we, as women, let our inner superheroes out to play. It’s time we celebrate our own powers, and it’s time we rejoice in what we offer to the world rather than trying to find it somewhere else. It’s time women across the globe help each other unleash the superpowers within. Yohannes encourages us to see how strong we are as women. In Become Your Own Savior, she guides us to becoming a better version of ourselves.
Author: Rachel Freiman
Author: Zachary Kaiser
Author: Al Kavadlo
Author: Taner Remzi
Author: T.M. Luhrmann
Author: Daniel Barron
Author: Corey Croft
Author: Robin Talley
Author: Max Strom
Author: Asmait Yohannes