Bøger udgivet af HOURGLASS BOOKS

Attention is the glue that holds our lives together. What we attend to, steers our behavior and directs our happiness. Your happiness- is determined by how you allocate your attention. Through Meditation, we are able to adapt a more peaceful mind, improve memory, and become more productive in life. In time, meditation reduces ill-tempered impressions, anxious energies, and helps us to be more understanding and loving toward others. Meditation doesn't have to be intensive to be effective. Five minutes each day, sitting quietly and limiting the left-brain's noisy thoughts, assists us in centering ourselves and becoming much more attentive. " Meditation Equals Happy Self " By doing something as simple as coloring, studying, or gazing at the complexity each illustration this coloring book, Shading The Power Of The Mandala, carries, you are effectively training your brain to be less active and teaching it to properly focus. In essence, you are MEDITATING...

Universal symbols and signs are the language of the Soul. They're also the language of Dreams. Every sign and symbol is important. Throughout recorded history, signs and symbols have left lasting impressions in the hearts and minds of many. Signs are normally very gentle. By their given nature, they do not demand a response nor do they direct us to take an action. Through their appearance however, we are given a spiritual reveal or quite possibly, a suggestion to change our course in life. This is where your intuitive awareness is most effective in understanding how to claim the message, or the meaning, in your sign or your symbol. Just by coloring, studying, and gazing at the complexity and the deeper meaning each one of these illustrations holds within, we learn to feel connected, alive, and intrigued. One step, one day, and one coloring page... at a time.

Grief is a difficult and very lonely journey. "Shading The Colors of Grief and Healing" is the first coloring book of its kind and was designed solely for teens/young adults who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Studies have shown that meditation helps the spirit to heal. One very popular technique to quiet the mind is through artistic speech. While visiting each of the thirty-two intricate illustrations provided in this unique coloring book, and in a quiet and reflective activity, a path toward healing can begin. Every journey that winds through grief is different. No two paths are the same. Your thoughts and your feelings are very unique to you. It is so important to take the time to "breathe", and coloring can give you that space to be still with your deepest inner thoughts. To begin to survive your loss, and your grief, is to acknowledge the pain that resides within you.

Grief is a difficult and very lonely journey. "Shading The Colors of Grief and Healing" is the first coloring book of its kind and was designed solely for adults who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Studies have shown that meditation helps the spirit to heal. One very popular technique to quiet the mind is via artistic speech. While visiting each of the thirty-two intricate illustrations provided in this unique coloring book, and in a quiet and reflective activity, a path toward healing can begin.

Featuring essays, poetry, and fiction, this insightful anthology delves into global problems such as the endangered planet and the effects of war and hate as well as individual struggles like the death of a loved one and the consequences of aging and illness.

us & them: bridging the chasm of faith, explores the common experience of faith that believers in all religions share, despite our differences in specific practices and beliefs. We deepen our faith as we broaden our appreciation for the faith of others. This small book of interfaith theology unfolds the ethical implications of this premise, with twenty chapters on such topics as humility, conscience, compassion, idolatry, and skepticism.

Nineteen vivid and compelling stories explore the often charged and tender relationship between a daughter and her father. Includes such notable authors as Pam Houston, Sandra Cisneros, Aimee Bender, Antonya Nelson, Bliss Broyard, Heather Sellers, Steve Almond, Peter Ho Davies, Dan Chaon and others, along with exciting new discoveries. Guest editor Gina Frangello of the award-winning Other Voices magazine, with foreword by Elissa Schappell of Tin House and Vanity Fair. With its universal family theme, Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters is sure to meet a big reception, reaching out from its literary origins to embrace a broad readership with these beautiful and challenging stories.