Excerpt from Five Good Minutes®

As you experiment and practice with the five good minutes exercises, you will learn to apply consciously your attention, intention, and wholeheartedness. You will see for yourself the power of being present and acting with intention while doing specifically guided exercises. Beyond the exercises, you may even discover more ways to apply these same principles throughout your life.

Excerpt from Five Good Minutes®

From our perspective, five minutes of clock time begins to change into something much more powerful and interesting when you are present (attention is in the present moment, and not lost in thoughts of past or future), when you set a clear intention for your actions, and when you act wholeheartedly. When you apply attention, intention, and wholeheartedness to the exercises in this book, which are aimed at cultivating peace and relaxation, deepening awareness and connection to life, enhancing relationships, and developing kindness and wisdom, then your five minutes truly becomes five good minutes.

Excerpt from Home Without Going Crazy

Shaming signals, quite naturally, bring us to the topic of guilt, which is the internal version of shame. Guilt lock explains one of life’s great mysteries: how you can feel so bad about a given event and still do nothing about it. Guilt lock is the emotional equivalent to gridlock, and it is just as paralyzing.

excerpt from The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50

Hang gliding. Studying Russian history. Opening a bookstore. Sitting in the hammock and staring at the clouds. After fi fty, the attitude should be “It’s my turn now, dammit,” and even if it’s still a few credit card payments off, you can start thinking about what your dream might be. You can even plan for it.

excerpt from Everyday Bliss for Women

After I emerged from years of paralysis, I felt a tremendous need to apol­ogize for being slow, overweight, and lacking in strength. I did this by telling the story of my broken back to everyone I met, elaborating on both how much I had suffered—and was still suffering—and how hard I was working on my recovery.

Thanks to brilliant, caring friends and an extraordinarily dedi­cated yoga teacher, I realized that I wasn’t simply a broken-back story and got on with living my life.

by guest blogger Kathryn R. Simpson, M.S., author of The Perimenopause & Menopause Workbook and The Women’s Guide to Thyroid Health

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Excerpt from Making the Grade with ADD

People with ADD can find it rather easy to use their credit cards. It’s easy to forget that you’re spending real money. You just hand the cashier a plastic card; you don’t actually see the money leaving your pocket. And, since people with ADD are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, they may have a tendency to engage in “retail therapy,” raising their credit card bill.