Resultados Editorial "Recorded Books" en Salud y bienestar

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. In this new edition of his groundbreaking classic work, Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates the ways this positive state can be controlled, not just left to chance.

La obesidad es un mal de nuestro tiempo que origina numerosasenfermedades y que afecta cada vez a un mayor número de personas. Principalmente está causada por una conducta alimentaria caracterizadapor comer mal, sin control, sin placer y a destiempo.

La Dra. Martín despliega aquí los aromas y colores del silencio, el cual constituye la puerta, a la vez que el meollo mismo, de la vivencia no-dual. Toda práctica tradicional tiene ineludiblemente un aspecto encaminado a llevar al practicante hasta el silencio. Es en ese momento, en que se detiene la actividad incesante del pensamiento, donde reside la oportunidad de contemplar directamente lo que es tal cual es y sin atributos: la Realidad en toda su pureza, libre de las distorsiones de la charla mental.

Muchas veces caemos en el error de pensar que nuestra mente está limitada, que no es capaz de albergar en su interior la conexión que nos conduzca a otros mundos, a otras realidades o otros planos de energía. A través de este libro, el lector que se esfuerce un mínimo en trabajar con su psiquismo podrá descubrir un mundo diferente que le conectará con la esencia de los poderes de la mente.

When you listen to music, do you prefer lyrics or melody? Intricate harmonies or driving rhythm? The “real” sounds of acoustic instruments or those of computerized synthesizers? Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you. She explains that we each possess a unique “listener profile” based on our brain’s reaction to seven key dimensions of any record: authenticity, realism, novelty, melody, lyrics, rhythm, and timbre.

Vivir con diabetes es una guía que proporciona toda la información que precisan los enfermos y quienes con ellos se relacionan (familares y cuidadores). Su cualidad fundamental es que está escrita desde el punto de vista del paciente. Por ello, además de tratar extensamente la faceta médica, también incorpora ese lado humano que ni el médico ni la medicina contemplan.

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.

Aprende a centrar más la mirada en ti y a añadirle pimienta a tus relaciones. Únete a ese grupo de mujeres,encantadoramente seductoras, que no se quedan mirando el pasado sino que toman sus propias decisiones porqueestán seguras de que lo mejor está aún por llegar. Solteras, casadas, divorciadas y vueltas a casar, las cuarentonas del siglo XXI, a diferencia de sus antecesoras, son seguras, dueñas de sus destinos, fuertes, decididas y emprendedoras. Se han redescubierto y han dejado atrás la menopausia emocional.

Tantalizing, eye-opening, and witty, Watching Porn is a provocative book about an average girl’s foray into the porn industry and the people who make it what it is, both in front of and behind the camera.

Truena, Mente Perfecta de Mario Satz, es una recopilación de proverbios de diversos países y culturas que nos presenta a lo largo de la narración. Estos proverbios describen muy bien al ser humano desde diversos puntos de vista en diversas circunstancias y a lo largo de la historia. Son fáciles de recordar, muy hermosos. Satz con este libro hace un análisis muy meticuloso de la condición del ser humano remarcando la inteligencia, la intuición, la sabiduría con que fueron escritos estos proverbios.

Drawing on decades of experience in treating fibromyalgia, Mayo Clinic Guide to Fibromyalgia offers research-supported, practical strategies that can help anyone with fibromyalgia live their best life now. From personal stories of people living with fibromyalgia to the compassionate expertise of its medical editors, this book seeks to first connect with people who have fibromyalgia in a way that they may not have experienced from loved ones and even doctors.

Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship - the heart of medicine - is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality.

There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.

The comprehensive fifth edition of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book draws upon the knowledge and expertise of more than 4,500 physicians, scientists, and researchers. Prior editions of this trusted medical reference guide have sold more than 1.5 million copies. And with 38 chapters, this new, updated edition will provide the information people need to check symptoms; understand prevention and treatment options; and so much more.

More people than ever before have diabetes. Unlike years ago, you have a good chance of living an active and healthy life with diabetes—provided you work with your health care team to take the necessary steps to control your blood sugar. This title covers the prediabetes stage and taking charge to prevent diabetes, types of diabetes, symptoms and risk factors, treatments and strategies for managing your blood sugar, avoiding serious complications, advances in insulin delivery and new medications, and recipes.

A best-selling author and neuroscientist offers five proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success.

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research - and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction - this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the consequences of sexual addiction and dependency.

Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Brain on Music) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today.

There is a mountain of hype around positive thinking. But have you noticed that positive thinking doesn’t, well, work? That's because positivity is just an emotion, and at the end of the day it doesn't change the reality of the situations we face. The Simple Shift turns positive thinking on its head and transforms it into something practical - a way of adopting beliefs that can change the way you see reality and make major obstacles into easily resolvable issues.

Innumerable stories, from the Homeric epics to the New Testament, and from Oedipus Rex to Hamlet, explore the realization or failure of second chances—outcomes that depend on accident, acts of will, or fate. Such stories let us repeatedly rehearse the experience of loss and recovery: to know the joy that comes with a renewal of love and pleasure and to face the pain that comes with realizing that some damage can never be undone. Through a series of illuminating readings, the authors show how Shakespeare was the supreme virtuoso of the second chance and Freud was its supreme interpreter.