BookBites

Looking for a little inspiration for your own journey? Check out these great books to help you find your way. See below to learn more about the books and click to buy!

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert (of The Last American Man) grafts the structure of romantic fiction upon the inquiries of reporting in this sprawling yet methodical travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. Plagued with despair after a nasty divorce, the author, in her early 30s, divides a year equally among three dissimilar countries, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence. First, pleasure: savoring Italy’s buffet of delights — the world’s best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners — Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. ‘I came to Italy pinched and thin,’ she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise ‘betwixt and between’ realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair. Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year’s cultural and emotional tapestry — conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor — as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression.” Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Angels Gather Here: Nine Angelic Aspects of Human Life on Planet Earth (Volume 1)
By Guru Singh

We are the ultimate manifestation of an infinite and glorious GOD-mind. Before coming to Earth, we consciously roamed as Spirit in the cosmic spheres collecting the purpose-filled elements and values to build our physical, emotional and mental bodies in a fervent drive to exist. This drive was coming from the depths of our spiritual DNA — ancient messages — vital dreams — perspectives of purpose, all combining into a great potential life. Now that we have this life, we have at our disposal the incredible technology of the physical realm as well as the cosmic ones to draw from. One of these realms — most helpful to our life on Earth —- is the Angelic one. To master this incomparable opportunity of being alive, being on Earth, being magnificent and being Hu-Man; Angels gather around us in legions to assist our journey. Angels know the purpose and the dreams in the depths of our hearts. This book is filled with mantric-messages that can help us to help them to do just that. Calling on your Angels will find magic working for you, in you, and all around you . . . all the places that the Angels gather.

Guru Singh DD, mss, is a third generation yogi and master of Humanology, Kundalini Yoga and meditation, teaching throughout the world with his wife Guruperkarma Kaur. It is their over-arching vision and spiritual mission to reach humanity personally, while teaching globally. Guru Singh is a life-long musician, composer, author, and Minister of Sikh Dharma with a Doctorate of Divinity.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
by Miguel Don Ruiz & Jose Don Ruiz

Since 1997, The Four Agreements has transformed the lives of millions of people around the world with a simple but profound message.

Now bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz and his son, don Jose Ruiz, collaborate with this powerful sequel The Fifth Agreement.

The Four Agreements provides the foundation for breaking thousands of agreements that create needless suffering and with The Fifth Agreement you recover all the power of your authenticity, which is who you really are when you are born.

Don Miguel Ruiz is the international bestselling author of the Toltec Wisdom series, including The Four Agreements (over 7 years on The New York Times bestseller list), The Mastery of Love, and The Voice of Knowledge. He continues to share the wisdom of the ancient Toltec through lectures, workshops, and journeys to sacred sites around the world.

Don Jose Ruiz was chosen by his father to carry on the centuries-old family legacy of healing and teaching. For the past 7 years, he has lectured widely across the United States and at sacred sites around the world.

BookBites

BookBites: What better way to SEX it Up this Spring then by reading a little more about the movie, “Sex and the City 2” and discovering more about Carrie in Candace Bushnell’s new book, The Carrie Diaries. See below to learn more about the books and buy it!

Sex and the City 2: The Stories. The Fashion. The Adventure. (Hardcover)Fast of the heels on the wildly popular companion to Sex and the City: The Movie comes this equally sexy and stylish companion to the sequel.

Sex and the City 2 picks up two years after the first movie left off, and finds our four favorite friends embarking on the trip of a lifetime to the exotic world of the Middle East. The book gives readers an all-access tour of the movie-making process, with juicy behind-the-scenes stories from writer and director Michael Patrick King and writer and star Sarah Jessica Parker, as well as Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and the movie’s other key cast members and special guest stars; a look at the challenges of filming in both New York and the Middle East and the work that went into choosing the locations and building the sets; and even the never-before-told story of “The Movie That Wasn’t.” Fans will also savor the book’s comprehensive fashion section, with page after page of mouth-watering photographs showing every look worn by the four stars—along with detailed label information for every piece of clothing, from dresses to shoes to bags.

Full of exclusive stories and images readers won’t find anywhere else, this luxurious volume is a must-have for fans who simply can’t get enough Sex and the City.

The Carrie Diaries, By Candace Bushnell
The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation.

Before Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She’s ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, and a friend’s betrayal makes her question everything.

With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself and evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious and poignant, we’ll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City, where her new life begins.

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BookBites: Shovel It!

BookBites: Shovel It! Kick-Ass Advice To Turn Life’s Crap Into The Peace And Happiness You Deserve – By Debbie Robins
With our world turned upside down, there has never been more CRAP to shovel. In Shovel It! Kick-Ass Advice To Turn Life’s Crap Into The Peace And Happiness You Deserve, best-selling author Debbie Robins, along with her celebrity friends (Deepak Chopra, Sandra Bernhard, Julia Ormond, Rosanna Arquette, Daniel Powter, among others), share their important life strategies on how to retrieve one’s balance, peace, and happiness when the crap hits the fan. Like the best-selling book Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, Robins charms us with her humor and profound pragmatism. Her theme is a compelling one—that our attention to our “inner ecology” is as critical as our commitment to our outer ecology. Her tips, born out of a dynamic and high-powered life as a Hollywood producer, career coach and corporate consultant, are transformative and certain to enlighten readers.

About the AuthorDebbie Robins is a highly respected corporate, executive and career coach with deep roots in the entertainment industry. Along with her renowned private practice, she is the co-founder of scoreBIG, a consulting firm passionate about innovation. Prior to her consulting work, Debbie was, for over twenty years, an established Hollywood film and television producer. She was President of Roland Joffe’s Warner Brothers Company, produced six films, developed many more, and was a Vice-President at Disney.

It is not unusual to hear clients of Debbie Robins exclaim that their lives have been dramatically changed for the better due to their work together. Her passion is helping you create the life you want. She does that through her private coaching practice, corporate consulting company, blog on the Huffington Post, personal advice column in The Washington Times Communities section, and books (best-seller Where Peace Lives and Shovel It! Kick-Ass Advice To Turn Life’s Crap Into The Peace And Happiness You Deserve). Debbie is affiliated with The Rockport Institute of Career Coaching and Counseling in Washington, D.C. and has a Masters degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University Of Santa Monica in Los Angeles.

BookBites: Hand Me a Wrench

BookBites: Hand Me a Wrench, My Life is Out of Whack – By Laura Hansen

Overview:
Actually, that wish isn’t far from what is possible in understanding your life and how to live it according to your vision. Hand Me a Wrench, My Life Is Out of Whack reveals the mechanics of our lives, and how to build the life we wish.

Based on Laura Hansen’s over 20 years as a spiritual coach and mentor to tens of thousands of people, her lighthearted approach helps you solve the mysteries of your life. Far beyond “think positive”, Laura’s 10 Life Mechanics exercises and tools show you new, down-to-earth ways to examine the underlying “what,” “how,” and “why” of your life experiences – so that you can truly take charge and make your life your own.

About the Author (See Expert BIOS insert url on LB page)
Laura Hansen is a highly respected spiritual activist, author, TV and radio personality, teacher, intuitive and guide. Her unique work has inspired tens of thousands of people through individual spiritual profiles, teaching, seminars, private coaching, speaking engagements, and the media.

Download chapter www.handmeawrench.com

For Valentine’s Day: Nina’s ALL time Favorite LOVE BOOK recommends

For Valentine’s Day: Nina’s ALL time Favorite LOVE BOOK recommends In the Meantime – By Iyanla Vanzant

Iyanla Vanzant offers practical guidance on a wide variety of spiritual matters. In the Meantime will be a revelation to anyone who dreams of finding true love. Vanzant encourages you to use the meantime as an opportunity to prepare yourself for true love. The first order of business is to clean house, starting with the basement–the place in the psyche where you store your most destructive thoughts. Room by room, Vanzant takes you through a metaphorical cleaning of the soul. This way, when your meantime days are over and love finally comes knocking on the front door, you’ll have a clean house to welcome love into.

About the Author
Iyanla Vanzant was born Rhonda Harris on September 3, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated summa cum laude in 1983 from Medgar Evers College with a BA in public administration, and obtained her MA in spiritual psychology in 2001 from the University of Santa Monica. She is the founder and president of the Inner Visions Spiritual Life Maintenance Center in Silver Springs Maryland.

In 2000, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine and in 2001 hosted her own short-lived talk show Iyanla. Three years later, she joined Rhonda Britten on the television series Starting Over as a life coach. She has also been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her books have appeared five times on the New York Times Bestseller List.

She lives in Maryland with her husband Adeyemi Bandele and has three children, Damon, Gemmia and Nisa.

BookBites: Secrets of Attraction

Secrets of Attraction: The Universal Laws of Love, Sex, and Romance – Sandra Anne Taylor

It’s been called “the secret behind The Secret,” Sandra’s first book was published in September 2001. 5 years before the Law of Attraction came into most people’s consciousness Sandra wrote the book.

About the Author
Sandra Anne Taylor has been a counselor in private psychological practice for more than 25 years. Her practice encompasses hypnosis, guided imagery, and cognitive and cellular restructuring for the treatment of addictions, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She works with individuals, couples, and corporations on the energy of interpersonal relationships and life-enhancement skills. She is an accomplished author, having published 3 books and numerous articles, and a highly motivating and inspiring international speaker and corporate consultant, giving radio interviews and lecturing throughout the world on healing, quantum psychology, and the energy dynamics of personal, financial, and relationship success, offering practical yet powerful life-changing techniques.

Sandra’s first book, Secrets Of Attraction: The Universal Laws of Love, Sex and Romance, published in 2001 by Hay House is available worldwide grew out of her passion for the “meta” physics of quantum physics. When she applied these scientific principles to the relationship issues which her clients were dealing with, she found that they worked with incredible regularity — and brought amazing results.

BookBites: Enchanted Love

Enchanted Love – Marianne Williamson

Three of Marianne Williamson’s previous bestsellers — A Return to Love, A Woman’s Worth, and Illuminata — explored the issue of relationships. Now, in this deeply personal collection of essays, prayers, and self-reflection, she turns to romantic love.

In Illuminata, Williamson wrote that “we experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.” Now, in Enchanted Love, she writes that “enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.” High romance, she says, “is not about past or future. It is not about practicality. It is not about society or worldly routines. It is an audacious ride to the center of what is, at the heart of every person. It is a bold and masterful inquiry into what two people really are and how we might become, while still on earth, the angels who reside within us.”

About the Author

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. Her latest book, The Age of Miracles hit #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Among her other 9 published books, four of them — including A Return to Love — were #1 New York Times Bestsellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” — often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address – is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne’s other books include Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, The Gift of Change and Emma and Mommy Talk to God.

Marianne does a daily podcast on Oprah.com called MiracleThought.

She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves home bound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a U. S. Department of Peace.

In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”

BookBites

BookBites: Four Books on Life and Energy

1)    Energy Leadership – By Bruce D Schneider

In Energy Leadership, renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider teaches how to understand the most important personal resource of all — energy, and shows how to harness it to achieve success in the workplace, the home, and in the world at large.

This engaging and fast-paced story clearly explains how managers and leaders from all walks of life can use the principles of Energy Leadership to inspire themselves and others to achieve extraordinary results in whatever they do. Schneider provides insight into a cutting edge coaching process he has developed, which has positively impacted the lives of tens of thousands of people in both the corporate and private sectors.

You will learn how to:

•    Recognize the seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the workplace.

•    Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire peak performance.

•    Become powerful leaders who motivate themselves and others to reach their true potential.

•    Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and strategies for overcoming these and other obstacles to success.

•    Develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenge, and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence, and loyalty in others.

If you always try to inspire others but sometimes feel like something is missing, something is. Energy Leadership puts you in touch with the missing link between your ambitions and your ability to achieve them.

Question to ponder: Do you consider yourself a powerful leader personally and professionally? If not, why not?

For more information:

iPEC Coaching
Phone: 866-72COACH  Email: Email iPEC Coaching

2) You Can Heal Your Life – By Louise Hay

This is a must have for anyone wanting to understand how thoughts affect the body. This New York Times Bestseller has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

Louise’s key message in this powerful work is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life! Packed with powerful information—you’ll love this gem of a book and it’s a wonderful book to have handy for those times when you need it!

Question to Ponder: Do you believe that thoughts can change how you physically feel?

Hay House
(800) 654-5126 Ext 2 (United States)
http://www.hayhouse.com

3) The Reconnection – By Dr. Eric Pearl

Why are prominent doctors and medical researchers all over the world interested in the extraordinary healings reported by the patients of Eric Scott Pearl?
What does it mean when these patients report the sudden disappearance of afflictions such as cancer, AIDS-related conditions, and cerebral palsy?

And what does it mean when people who interact with Eric report a sudden ability to access this healing energy not just for themselves, but for others, too? What is this phenomenon?

Well, you might have to reconsider everything you’ve read up until now about conventional healing. The “new” frequencies of healing described by Eric Pearl transcend “technique” entirely, and bring you to levels beyond those previously accessible to anyone, anywhere. This book takes you on Eric’s journey from the discovery of his ability to heal, to his well-deserved reputation as the instrument through which this process is being introduced to the world. But most importantly, The Reconnection reveals methods you can use to personally master these new healing frequencies.

Question to Ponder: Do you believe you have the power to heal your life?

For more information contact:
1 888 ERIC PEARL (1 888 374 2732)
http://www.thereconnection.com

4) Bare Melcessities – By Melanie Lutz

“You reach a point where tears are friends beckoning a truth you had locked away in a drawer.”

Melanie Lutz takes a powerful look at closing the door on a life that isn’t working, to begin again, and in doing so she offers a gift to anyone who has questioned the life they are living, and wanting more.

Whatever it is that causes you to crack open. To want to break free of past limiting patterns. You’ll find in this book. Melanie confronts her own life with immense courage and such deep honesty and integrity, that we are all the better for it. Written in the throws of pain and heartache The Bare Melcessities takes an illuminating look at a year spent starting over after divorce. It is story that begins and ends with letting go of everything. A story of faith. A story of coming home. When you start loving yourself. There’s nothing that is not possible.

Walking out… Waking up… Getting Bare…

Question to Ponder: Do you have the courage to change your life?

BookBites

This month’s BookBites we have decided to feature several of my favorite titles.

The first book from Don Miguel is a wonderful book, Mastery of Love that talks about learning to love YOU and get out of the drama in relationships.

Secrets of Attraction is probably my favorite love book this last year in that it talks about energy as it relates to LOVE. As Shakespeare says, “there is nothing either good or bad – but thinking makes it so.”

The last book being featured is from our own LifeBites expert,  Dr. Debra Mandel, Dump That Chump!, a book that came out several years ago, but a fun and informative book — The title says it all!

Enjoy — Nina

Mastery Of Love – By Don Miguel Ruiz

In The Mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz examines the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships. Using teachings from the three Toltec Masteries –  Awareness, Transformation, and Love – as a foundation, he exposes the fallacies and misplaced expectations about love that permeate most relationships. He gracefully shares his wisdom through delightful and engaging stories that clarify each point and bring his message to life. Some of the themes the book explores include the destructive war of control; why domestication and the image of perfection lead to self-rejection; the dual tracks of fear and love; body needs versus mind needs; and how to finally accept and forgive ourselves and others.

Secrets of Attraction: The Universal Laws of Love, Sex and Romance – By Sandra Anne Taylor

The author reveals how the Universal Laws and even quantum physics and personal energy fields actually direct the course of relationship destinies. Sandra Anne Taylor reveals how the Universal Law directs the course of your relationships. Energy is the centre of all life, and your energy is the centre of all you attract. With this guide, discover why your energy has more impact on relationships than looks, intellect or financial status.

 

Dump That Chump: From Doormat to Dive in only Nine Steps – a Guide to Getting over Mr. Wrong – By Dr. Debra Mandel

Too many intelligent, attractive women these days find themselves trapped in destructive, unhealthy relationships, or simply settling for far less than they deserve.

In Dump That Chump!, psychologist, author, columnist, and speaker Dr. Debra Mandel offers an essential nine-step program that will enable you to recognize the “red flags” and walk away from unhealthy relationships. Combining sensitivity with a positive “take charge” approach, Dr. Mandel provides checklists, quizzes, true stories, and exercises to help you restore your self-esteem and rid yourself of guilt and shame—so you can Dump That Chump! once and for all, and turn your love life around.

Questions to ask yourself:

1. How committed are you to finding love?

2. How committed are you to loving yourself?

3. How committed are you to your relationship?

BookBites: This I Believe II

This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

For this month’s book bites, we are profiling the second collection from the This I Believe series – This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. We are particularly charmed by this book, as the stories and voices are as individual as those who wrote them and each one reveals a unique life lesson. This book will truly make you ponder – what do I believe?

And, be sure to check out New York Times bestselling first book, This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

In this second collection derived from the extraordinarily popular and influential National Public Radio program This I Believe, seventy-five essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that begins the book’s title. With contributors who run the gamut from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to ordinary folks like a diner waitress, an Iraq War veteran, a farmer, a new husband, and many others, This I Believe II, like the first New York Times bestselling collection, showcases moving and irresistible essays.

Included are Sister Helen Prejean writing about learning what she truly believes through watching her own actions, singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore writing about a hard-won wisdom based on being generous to others, and Robert Fulghum writing about dancing all the dances for as long as he can. Readers will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change.

Here is a welcome, stirring, and provocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of people—whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best.

About the Author
Jay Allison, the host and curator of This I Believe, is an independent broadcast journalist. His work appears often on NPR and has earned him five Peabody Awards. He is the founder of the public radio stations that serve Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Cape Cod, where he lives.

Dan Gediman is the executive producer of This I Believe. His work has been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Marketplace, Jazz Profiles, and This American Life. He has won many of public broadcasting’s most prestigious awards, including the duPont-Columbia Award.