mind and body

A guide to daily meditation, with healthy recipes and exercise routines.

Offers readers 12 tips for managing stress and anxiety, including practicing time management, staying active, and keeping a journal.

Discusses how exercise improves one's capacity to learn and handle stress, anxiety, depression, attention deficit, addiction, hormonal changes, and aging.

Presents tweens and teens with a hands-on guide to mindfulness, meditation, breathing, and yoga. Includes step-by-step directions, colorful artwork, and simple exercises.

Pioneering brain detective V.S. Ramachandran investigates four mysterious psychological cases. See breakthrough research in phantom limb syndromes, the power of the mind in pain control, how seizures can result in intense spiritual experiences, and how research from brain injuries helps teach about the normal brain.

Explores scientific evidence that mind really can affect body, citing studies done by scientists and not just New Age and spiritual healers showing the mind's ability to physically change the human body, such as in the story of Iraq War veterans using a kind of virtual arctic mind world to heal burn wounds.

An introduction to the study of psychology; simplifies some key theories by tracking their origins in the writings of prominent thinkers; and poses thought-provoking questions.

Readers will learn about the five main parts of the brain and their special functions.

Presents a guide to understanding the full potential of the brain and its relation to the rest of the body. Discusses how to use this knowledge to expand one's ability to achieve happiness, health, and spiritual growth and offers tips on overcoming common challenges that might hold one back.