Borysenko, Joan

Meditations for Relaxation and Stress Reduction

Joan Borysenko, best-selling author and lecturer, leads you through 2 empowering meditations: 1. Breath of Life, Breath of Love: This breath-centered meditation gently guides you through each part of your body, helping you establish contact with the life force within each cell and balance your body's energy. 2. Stretching and Relaxation: This series of simple meditative stretches and self-massage instructions are deeply restorative to body, mind, and spirit.

Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

Pocketful of Miracles: Prayer, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year

As the seasons change, so do our lives. In this unforgettable book, Joan Borysenko offers a unique, organic means of drawing personal strength and spiritual succor from the wondrous cycles of nature. Drawing on the ancient wisdom at the core of the world's religions, the guidance of the four great Archangels that stand at the gates of the Medicine Wheel, and her own deep mystical experience, she has divided the book into twelve inspiring monthly sections. Each reflects such emotionally significant themes as Forgiveness, Rebirth in Love, and Spiritual Healing. And each provides daily meditations, prayers, and affirmations that help you let go of fear and realize the light of peace and compassion that dwells throughout the universe . . . and within your own heart.

As the seasons change, so do our lives. In this unforgettable book, Joan Borysenko offers a unique, organic means of drawing personal strength and spiritual succor from the wondrous cycles of nature. Drawing on the ancient wisdom at the core of the world's religions, the guidance of the four great Archangels that stand at the gates of the Medicine Wheel, and her own deep mystical experience, she has divided the book into twelve inspiring monthly sections. Each reflects such emotionally significant themes as Forgiveness, Rebirth in Love, and Spiritual Healing. And each provides daily meditations, prayers, and affirmations that help you let go of fear and realize the light of peace and compassion that dwells throughout the universe . . . and within your own heart.

Meditations for Self Healing and Inner Power

Best-selling author and lecturer Joan Borysenko leads you through two empowering meditations: 1. Gratitude: Healing Images: This meditation begins with acknowledging and expressing gratitude to our bodies. We then invite physical healing by allowing light and love to penetrate each cell of our beings. 2. Concentration and Awareness: The two traditional schools of meditation practice are concentration and awareness. This meditation offers guidance in achieving these two states of power.

The Hoffman Process: The World-Famous Technique That Empowers You to Forgive Your Past, Heal Your Present, and Transform Your Future

For more than 35 years, the Hoffman Process has been recognized as one of the most potent transformational processes; however, the 8-day residential program is out of reach for most people. Now, Tim Laurence reveals this powerful methodology with warmth and clarity. Using practical exercises, personal stories, case histories, and insightful commentary, Laurence skillfully teaches how to identify and resolve the inherited patterns of behavior that cause emotional and spiritual pain. In this book readers will learn powerful ways to:

Break the compulsive patterns that run your life, exercise your own free will, and regain control of your thoughts and behavior
Free up energy by releasing your pent-up resentments and directly experience your own spirituality
Identify what you really want in life, and finally make the changes you have been putting off for years

The Hoffman Process is endorsed by an extraordinary array of experts and leaders from all walks of life, and it includes the results of a grant research study proving the long-term effectiveness of the Process.

Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson

2 cassettes / 2 hours, 30 minutesRead by the AuthorFrom the bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind: an accessible guide to healing the destructive effects of guilt.The reaction by parents, teachers and peers to our own actions often determines our sense of self - how confident we feel and how secure we are about our place in the world.--When self-blame and pessimism begin to overtake self-esteem and optimism, the rest may be emotional, physical and spiritual distress. In Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Answer, Dr. Joan Borysenko, a Harvard Ph.D., explores this mind/body connection as she offers personal and professional advice for journeying toward recovery and self-love.Here at last is an insightful and uplifting approach for turning the teachings of guilt into the lessons of love.

From the bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind: an accessible guide to healing the destructive effects of guilt. The reaction by parents, teachers, and peers to our own actions often determines our sense of self--how confident we feel and how secure we are about our place in the world. When self-blame and pessimism begin to overtake self-esteem and optimism, the result may be emotional, physical, and spiritual distress. In Guilt Is the Teacher, Love Is the Lesson, Dr. Joan Borysenko, a Harvard Ph.D., explores this mind/body connection as she offers personal and professional advice for journeying toward recovery and self-love. Here at last is an insightful and uplifting approach for turning the teachings of guilt into the lessons of love.

A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle

Women have always known that we are cyclical creatures, strongly influenced by our daily, monthly, and yearly rhythms. Finally, we have a book that examines these natural cycles as gifts rather than weaknesses or curses. Dividing the female life span by the mystical number of seven years, Joan Borysenko reveals the biological forces that drive our physical, emotional, and spiritual development. This is a pragmatic book filled with groundbreaking medical research; it is also a book that dares to explore the link between female biology and female mystery.

Biologist and psychologist Joan Borysenko helped chart new territory in mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School-and created a new map of that territory in one of the first bestsellers in the field. Now the author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind reveals the interconnected loop of mind, body, and spirit in women. This pioneering book will teach women how to maximize their health and well-being as well as discover the extraordinary power that comes with each stage of the feminine life cycle.

A Woman's Journey to God

"God as a jealous, punitive white Anglo-Saxon male with a long beard and a longer arm lacks appeal for many contemporary women," writes Joan Borysenko. In an attempt to address and mend the rift between women's experience of God and how God is presented through male-dominated religions, Borysenko offers this book of feminine exploration. Initially, Borysenko speaks to healing one's relationship with a seemingly judgmental or exclusive God. She then moves beyond how religion may or may not have failed individual women, into how the feminine collective tends to know and touch God.

Not surprisingly, Borysenko speaks to women's intuition and creativity as surefire lifelines to God. Women rely on relationships as a means to spiritual growth, explains Borysenko, whether it be with lovers, friends, or children. She also examines women's icons--from the gentle and nurturing "Our Lady of Guadeloupe" to the fiery goddess Kali who births and then devours her children, just like Mother Nature does. On an organizational level, this ambitious book can seem a bit scattered--an easy fault to ignore. As more and more women join together from all religions and orientations to tell their spiritual stories and claim their paths to God, books such as these make excellent guides and companions. --Gail Hudson

More and more women are abandoning the religious beliefs they were raised with to search for a more authentic-and feminine-spiritual path. In this evocative book, Joan Borysenko-a leading authority on women's spirituality-shows women how their spiritual discontent can pave the way to a deeper, more meaningful faith.

Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom for Your Journey

Your Sacred Quest: Finding Your Way to the Divine Within (Your Coach in a Box)