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Stress is a fact of life in the modern world, whether the source of the stress is problems at home or trouble at work. This guide offers effective ways to deal with stressful situations and achieve mental, physical and spiritual relaxation. Focusing on quick and easy stress-beating routines, Erica Brealey offers routines for variety of situations and locations. The book is geared to those who are short on time, so ten minutes fighting stress will be a realistic and achievable goal. The programme is also designed to help people to relax and to avoid stress in the first place.
Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the Essex townhouse they shared from 1945 until 2008 painting them as Zeligs of British society. The names recorded inside make up an astonishing supporting cast - from Francis Bacon to Lucian Freud to Randolph Churchill to John Minton. Successful artists, although not household names themselves, writing Dicky and Denis off as just footnotes in history would be a mistake. After Denis's death in 2010, Jon Lys-Turner, one of two executors of the couple's estate, came into possession of an extraordinary archive of letters, works of art and symbolically loaded ephem...
Listen to your heart, live with gratitude, and find your bliss. Women have a great many challenges to deal with in their lives. Among the most ubiquitous of those challenges is self-care. Too often they are focused on caring for others and not themselves. Low self-esteem, anxiety and depression are all too common when their lives are less fulfilling than they might be. Yet deep within, women have a tremendous resource - a capacity for real joy that is not dependent on anything external. It is always available, regardless of circumstances. And, when women tap into that deep wellspring of joy, nothing is impossible.This is a book that encourages and inspires women to care more deeply for thems...
Written by leading international experts, this book helps students and practitioners to better understand and cater for the needs of our ageing population. It examines: how services can be provided to meet the expectations and needs of a growing population of ageing citizens within a cost-effective, social justice and positive ageing framework how resources allocated to aged care can be distributed equitably to better meet the demands associated with housing, retirement, service provision and care how health promotion principles can contribute to a healthy older population. Investigating current critical debates in health and social science, the book explores innovative new approaches to aged care and ageing. By using international examples and a multidisciplinary approach, this comprehensive textbook provides a broad understanding of ageing from a social perspective and analyzes concepts of ageism, healthy ageing and positive ageing.
Para wanita mempunyai banyak tantangan yang harus dihadapi dalam hidup mereka. Salah satu tantangan yang paling umum adalah mengurus diri sendiri. Sering, mereka terlalu fokus mengurus orang lain sampai-sampai lupa mengurus diri sendiri. Eileen Campbell mendorong dan menginspirasi para wanita untuk lebih mengurus diri mereka dan untuk menjalani tantangan hidup dengan keberanian dan sukacita. Dari 150 renungan inspiratif yang ada dalam buku ini, semuanya dimulai dengan kutipan inspiratif, diikuti dengan renungan penuh makna, dan disimpulkan dengan sebuah penegasan. Renungan-renungan itu menawarkan berbagai topik, seperti: • Menemukan keberanian • Mengembangkan kesadaran • Menghapus rasa iri dan bersalah • Menerima tantangan hidup • Menemukan tujuan sejati • Mempraktikkan kebaikan • Menanamkan optimisme • Mensyukuri nikmat Teman harian ini adalah spa untuk jiwa kita. Itu adalah sumber yang akan memungkinkan para wanita merasakan sedikit kedamaian dan merangkul hidup yang ringan dan penuh harapan.
We are all overwhelmed with technological input in our daily lives -- whether it is our mobile phone ringing, our Blackberry bleeping or emails that pour in endlessly -- we are all becoming hyperstimulated and unable to switch on (concentrate) or switch off (relax) because we're all on permanent standby. As a result, we have lost the art of concentrating properly. Luckily, this cutting edge personal development book is here to help readers navigate their way through the deluge and provides the tools we need to learn how to concentrate and focus. Rooted in scientific fact and research, it includes a detailed look at how your brain works, what inhibits brain function and concentration and covers things such as lack of down-time, distraction, poor lifestyle habits and stress. Featuring techniques and exercises to help improve concentration, it is guaranteed to help us all improve the way we work and the way we live our lives.
′It is an engaging text, which could be of value to a wide audience. I would have no hesitation in recommending this book to my own mature students who were interested in understanding their learning more fully, or indeed to my colleagues teaching mature students′ - ESCalate This is an inspirational and highly practical book for students returning to study. Liz Hoult provides an easy-to-read and reassuring guide to learning. Why is it that some people are able to do what seems so enormously difficult and possibly illogical and to succeed so spectacularly? What is it that these learners are able to do that others find so difficult? Learning Support: A Guide for Mature Students explores ho...