May 2009 Books
The Little Book on Relationship; The Live Food Factor; Linking Nutrition to Mental Health
The Little Book on Relationship
How to Guide Your Life with Meaning,
Purpose and Power
If you could go back to age seventeen, would you? Not I. No, no, no, no, no. At that age I had no idea who I was. I felt lost and empty, groping for some inkling as to what life was all about.
John English reports having had a similar experience. One day, a thought popped into his head: he was the one responsible for having created the spot he was in! Examining that thought, he went on to realize that it is how we see ourselves and other people that gives rise to our problems in relationships.
The Little Book on Relationship is a guidebook to navigating the seas of life, to making the most of all of our relationships with the purpose of enhancing not only those relationships but our inner life as well. Through our interactions with others, he shows us, we can see who we are and come to know ourselves.
John is an international speaker, shamanic healer and successful entrepreneur with a focus on helping people shift to live in the power of their spirit. In this book, he shares some of the techniques he has gathered from ancient teachings, including the Toltec Medicine teachings of the Q'ero lineage, to explore his potential as a luminous being and easily shift his perception to keep his relationships running smoothly.
As a former Castaneda enthusiast, I was reminded of Don Juan adjusting Carlos' assemblage point.
The Little Book on Relationship is an eminently readable little book to assist you in making perceptual shifts that will enrich your life.
—Chiwah
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The Live Food Factor
A Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet
We all want to be healthy. Within the range of what we know and consider practical and socially acceptable, each of us makes some level of commitment to nurturing body, mind and spirit. The question is: How's it working?
The revised, expanded, updated second edition of The Live Food Factor is a wealth of information on why and how to incorporate live foods into our busy 21 st -century lives.
How would you like to have more energy than you know what to do with? Be youthful and slender, with a radiant glow, full hair, and a charismatic, energetic personality? Move to a higher level of clarity and creativity?
The buzz about raw foods has given us an inkling of the amazing improvements in quality of life eating raw can deliver. But isn't it difficult to adapt to a raw diet?
“Eating a raw food diet is easier and more fun than you can imagine,” author Susan Schenck tells us. Afraid you'll miss your comfort foods? “[As] you learn to prepare some of the popular raw food recipes, including rich desserts and gourmet dishes, you will soon realize that raw foods can be equally comforting.”
The book includes a ton of compelling stories of health regained through raw eating, an in-depth examination of supporting scientific data, tips for surviving socially in a non-raw society and avoiding backsliding, and, of course, page after page of raw food recipes.
The first edition won the IPPY award for “Most Progressive Health Book of the Year.” This edition includes Natural Hygiene sections by Victoria BidWell, as well as forewords by Dr. Vetrao and Victoria Boutenko. Reviews from the raw foods community are lavish with praise.
I can't imagine any better gift to yourself than this book, along with a commitment to read it and apply its wisdom to your life, even if that only means increasing the percentage of raw foods in your daily diet.
—Chiwah
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Linking Nutrition to Mental Health
A Scientific Exploration
The mind-body connection goes both ways: just as negative thinking can create disease in the body, poor nutritional habits can create havoc in the mind.
In Linking Nutrition to Mental Health, clinical dietician Ruth Leyse-Wallace explores the connection between mental and nutritional health in our society and offers recommendations for putting groundbreaking research discoveries into practice to vastly improve our quality of life.
Here's something I learned: Vitamin B 12 deficiency can show up as irritability, apathy, sleepiness, suspiciousness, emotional instability, memory problems, mood swings and difficulties with concentrating, reasoning and abstract thinking. Given that aging is often accompanied by a decrease in B 12 levels and that a vegetarian diet provides none of this vitamin, some of us should sit up and take notice. In psychiatric patients, she tells us, Vitamin B 12 deficiency may surface as organic brain syndrome, paranoia, violence and depression. So… Get your B 12 !
I recommend this book as a useful reference. Ruth presents a synthesis of breakthrough scientific research from around the world, assembled in anwell-organized fashion. For most of us, this would not be a book we'd choose for casual reading. If you're looking to find the nutritional link to what ails you, however, it might be just the ticket.
—Chiwah
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