Books: 5 Summer Reads for Self-Improvement

Looking for a good read this is also beneficial to your mental health and spirit? Check out these newly released books to help your mid, body and soul.

Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

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Miracles Now by New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein will help readers eliminate stress and find peace—even if they only have a minute to spare.
Loved by twenty-somethings everywhere, Bernstein is a guru for the modern age. She brings 108 techniques to combat our most common problems—from addiction and anxiety to burnout and resentment, inspired by some of the greatest spiritual teachings.
She breaks down each technique Spirit Junkie style—with meditations, assessment questions, and step-by-step guidance—while incorporating lessons from A Course in Miracles and Kundalini yoga.
Readers benefit from the techniques, and will be able to share them, as each practice has been boiled down to a 140-character description—or Miracle Message—which can be tweeted, pinned on Pinterest, posted on Facebook, or shared on Instagram.
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Holy Shift! 365 Daily Meditations from A Course in Miracles by Robert Holden 

A Course in Miracles has inspired teachers like Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Jerry Jampolsky, Sondra Ray, and Gabrielle Bernstein. With more than two million copies in print, in over thirty languages, individual students and study groups study it daily around the world.
Every page of A Course in Miracles offers pearls of wisdom on love and fear, forgiveness and healing, happiness and inner peace. This beautiful book, with its insightful aphorisms and delightful poetry, is perhaps the most widely quoted book on psychology and spirituality in modern times.
Robert Holden has studied the daily lessons offered in A Course in Miracles for twenty years. He teaches workshops and gives talks on the Course across the world. He is a patron of the Miracle Network in the UK. In Holy Shift, Robert has selected 365 of his favorite passages from A Course in Miracles to serve as daily meditations throughout the year.
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You Are What You Imagine: 3 Steps to a New Beginning Using Imagework by Dina Glouberman 

Be guided step by step from difficult times through a turning point to a new beginning. Practice imagery exercises based on a 3-step approach to new beginnings: The catalyst, The turning point and the new beginning.

 

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Nothing Changes Until You Do: A Guide to Self-Compassion and Getting Out of Your Own Way by Mike Robbins 

 40 inspiring stored from former professional baseball pitcher Mike Robbins, who had an arm injury that benched him for good. Mike looks at looking at life in a new way after his baseball career come to an end. Explore the real-life tales and get an inside look at themes spanning from the importance of trusting yourself, the benefits of vulnerability, the strength inherent in embracing change, self-acceptance, critical self-percection, insecurity, unkindness, compassion , love and more. This book shows you how to get out of your own way and make peace with yourself.

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 Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins

A book designed to let go of the obstacles to Enlightenment and become free of negativity. David R Hawkins work as a clinical psychiatrist lead him to seek the most effective ways to relieve human suffering in all of its many forms. The mechanism of surrender that Dr. Hawkins describes can be done in the midst of everyday life. The book is equally useful for all dimensions of human life: physical health, creativity, financial success, emotional healing, vocational fulfillment, relationships, sexuality, and spiritual growth.