Audiobooks by Jim Colajuta

Ikigai: A Purpose in Life: Focusing on Life Goals Improve Performance and Happiness

"The day you decide that your life is your own is the best day of your life. There will be no apologies or excuses. No one could lean on, rely on, or point the finger at. The gift is yours; it's an incredible journey, and you're solely responsible for its quality. This is the first day of your life. Having a purpose in life is one of the most fundamental human needs. Ikigai, a Japanese concept, means 'a reason for being.' It refers to living a fulfilling life. Many different activities can provide people with a sense of purpose in life. These activities can range from volunteering to providing social support to the elderly and even caring for pets, all linked to increased happiness, better health outcomes, and longer lifespan. Everyone is equipped with an ikigai. Your ikigai is the reason you get up in the morning and want to live fully and cheerfully. Your ikigai isn't something you make; it's something you're born with. The Japanese believe that discovering one's ikigai necessitates a long, contemplative search that can lead to life satisfaction and meaning. All you have to do is dig far enough to locate it. Your ikigai lies at the crossroads of four circles: what you enjoy, what the world requires, what you can be compensated for, and what you're skilled at. "

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jessica Andrews (Narrator)

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How to Reprogram and Heal your Microbiome Balance: Everything You Need to Know About Microbiomes and

"The microbiome consists of microbes that are both helpful and potentially harmful. Most are symbiotic (where both the human body and microbiota benefit), and some, in smaller numbers, are pathogenic (promoting disease). In a healthy body, pathogenic and symbiotic microbiota coexist without problems. But dysbiosis stops these normal interactions if there is a disturbance in that balance — brought on by infectious illnesses, certain diets, or the prolonged use of antibiotics or other bacteria-destroying medications. As a result, the body may become more susceptible to disease. Microbiota stimulates the immune system, breaks down potentially toxic food compounds, and synthesizes certain vitamins. Amino acids, including the B vitamins and vitamin K. Sugars, are quickly absorbed in the upper part of the small intestine. Still, more complex carbohydrates like starches and fibers are not as easily digested and may travel lower to the large intestine. The microbiota helps break down these compounds with their digestive enzymes. The fermentation of indigestible fibers causes the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) that the body can use as a nutrient source but also play an important role in muscle function and possibly the prevention of chronic diseases, including certain cancers and bowel disorders. If microbiota is vital to our health, how can we ensure we have enough of the right types? You may be familiar with probiotics or perhaps already using them. These foods naturally contain microbiota or supplement pills containing live active bacteria — advertised to promote digestive health. In this book, you will learn about the microbiome, the role of probiotics, and how to rebalance them."

Jim Colajuta (Author), John Sullivan, Mike Sullivan (Narrator)

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Women Victims of Hidden Abuse: Healing From Psychological and Emotional Abuse Suffered by Women With

"Emotional abuse in intimate relationships is a serious issue because it is motivated by power and control rather than respect and love. They say that emotional abuse is the foundation or umbrella for all types of abuse, including physical and sexual abuse. Although emotional, psychological, and financial abuse is not illegal, it is a form of domestic violence that can lead to criminal abuse. This book focuses on the emotional abuse experienced by victims who are women in a marriage or cohabiting relationship. This book aims to understand the dynamics within these relationships and the victimization process that occurs throughout these relationships. The book concludes with several recommendations for emotional abuse victims' healing."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Cloe Jacobson (Narrator)

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The Quick And Easy Guide To Building Better Boundaries: How to Install Stop Signs and Borders to Pro

"Personal boundaries are the restrictions and norms we set for ourselves within relationships. Healthy boundaries allow people to say 'no' to others when necessary. Still, they are also comfortable with closeness and personal connections. This restriction determines what we are ready to accept (or reject) as a suitable and safe method for others to engage with us. We may set personal limits for everyone we contact and specific boundaries for certain individuals at other times. Setting expectations begins with knowing and establishing your boundaries via your words and actions. Setting healthy personal boundaries is necessary for maintaining a positive self-concept or self-image. With this Quick and Easy Guide to Building Better Boundaries, you will learn the effectiveness of your boundaries, identify various boundary types, and identify methods to enhance them. "

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jim Chapel (Narrator)

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The Relevance of Emotion Regulation: Learning To Manage Your Emotions In Healthy Way And Bring More

"Daily, we all experience emotions, both happy and negative. Most of us learn how to control, express, and cope with our emotions healthy as youngsters. Emotion regulation is more challenging for some people, sometimes due to terrible childhood events like abuse or trauma, sometimes due to a biological vulnerability to emotional sensitivity, and sometimes due to not being shown or taught how to manage challenging emotions. We can learn to modify what feeling we experience, how intense it is when we have it, and how we react to it since emotions are not absolute and everlasting. Emotion regulation promotes psychological well-being and aids in the management of bad life events and stress. There are various advantages to having better emotion regulation strategies to handle your emotions. Individuals who exercise emotional regulation are more robust and manage better with life's stresses. They have more effective coping mechanisms and are more tolerant of stress. Emotion regulation is a protective factor against anxiety and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, children who can control their emotions have greater flexibility in their thinking and higher focus, impulse control, and problem-solving abilities. These advantages cascade, resulting in more self-assurance, emotional well-being, and general satisfaction."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Chloe Jacobson (Narrator)

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All You Need to Know about Metaverse: Complete Survey on Technologies, Extended Reality, Artificial

"Since the Internet's popularity in the 1990s, cyberspace has continued to evolve. We have developed several computer-mediated virtual environments, such as social networks, video conferencing, virtual 3D worlds, augmented reality apps, and Non-Fungible Token Games. Such virtual settings, albeit non-permanent and disconnected, have enabled us to achieve varying degrees of digital transformation. Metaverse was invented to further encourage the digital revolution in all aspects of our physical life. The notion of an immersive Internet as a massive, unified, persistent, and shared realm is at the heart of the Metaverse. While the Metaverse may appear futuristic, fueled by emerging technologies such as Extended Reality, 5G, and Artificial Intelligence, our cyberspace's digital 'big bang' is not far away. Metaverse is a closed compound word: Meta (a Greek prefix meaning 'after, after, or beyond') and the universe. In other terms, the Metaverse is a post-reality universe. This continuous and durable multiuser environment combines physical reality and digital virtuality. Metaverse offers the ability to address the basic limitations of web-based 2D e-learning tools in distant online education. As the Metaverse's new worlds emerge, early entrants begin to contribute ideas. This is a fantastic opportunity to impact how people live and conduct business for the foreseeable future. However, it brings a new level of responsibility: trust will be crucial to adoption. Organizations must evaluate how they develop a responsible Metaverse and set the norms for all that follows."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jessica Andrews (Narrator)

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Brain Addicted and Deep Psychology: Understanding Addiction as a Psychic Phenomenon and Using the Bi

"Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disorder that involves intricate connections between brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and a person's life experiences. Addicts utilize substances or participate in obsessive behaviors, which they frequently continue despite negative consequences. Many, but not all, people begin using drugs or engaging in an activity voluntarily. Addiction, on the other hand, can take over and impair self-control. People suffering from addiction lose control over their activities. They want and pursue drugs, alcohol, or other substances at any cost, even destroying friendships, harming family, or losing employment. A healthy brain encourages healthy behaviors such as exercise, eating, and socializing with loved ones. It accomplishes this by activating brain circuits that make you feel great, urging you to repeat those activities. On the other hand, when you're in danger, a healthy brain prompts your body to react rapidly with dread or alarm, allowing you to escape from harm's path. If you're tempted to do something questionable, such as eat ice cream before dinner or buy the stuff you can't afford, the front regions of your brain can help you evaluate if the consequences are worth it. However, when you become hooked on a substance, the typical hardwiring of beneficial brain functions can start to operate against you. Drugs or alcohol can alter your brain's pleasure/reward pathways and trap you into wanting more and more. Addiction can also activate your emotional danger-sensing circuits, causing you to feel nervous and tense even when you aren't using drugs or alcohol. While standard psychology sees addiction as a brain condition, depth psychology sees addiction as an internal psychic process, a calling that unites the soul and ego. This book delves deeply into addiction as a psychic phenomenon. The study proposes a way for recovery, based on the Bible and the tale of Exodus, by transforming the mentality from servitude to freedom."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jim Chapel (Narrator)

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Psychic Empath: Moral and Biological Basis of Emotional Empathy and Its Relationships with Religion,

"Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people are going through, see things through their eyes, and put yourself in their shoes. Essentially, it is placing yourself in another person's shoes and experiencing what they are experiencing. When you witness someone suffering, you may be able to imagine yourself in their shoes and empathize with their situation. While most people are aware of their own sentiments and emotions, getting into another person's head can be more difficult. People who can empathize can 'walk a mile in another's shoes,' as it were. It enables people to comprehend the feelings of others. Watching another person suffering and reacting with apathy or even hate is unfathomable for many people. However, some people who respond this way plainly show empathy is not a universal response to others' pain. Empathy is thought to have crucial neurological components, according to research. The ability to mirror and duplicate the emotional responses that others would feel if they were in comparable conditions. While empathy can sometimes falter, most people can sympathize with others in many scenarios. This ability to perceive things from someone else's point of view and empathize with their feelings is crucial in our social lives. Empathy permits us to comprehend others and, in many cases, motivates us to act to alleviate another's suffering."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jessica Andrews (Narrator)

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Accounting Principles: Quick Guide to Learn the Principles of Accounting to Manage Business

"Accounting is critical to our economy's success. It enables large-scale production by providing methodical management help. It provides a common platform on which the many parts of the business—investors, bankers, government, labor, owners, and management can meet to present the results of corporate activities. It serves as a foundation for progressive planning as a method of recording corporate history. Accounting also serves the public interest as a professional activity with high standards specified by a written code of ethics. Because our economy is becoming more complicated and specialized, there is a growing demand for more and better-skilled accountants. This book was produced to assist potential accounting students and those currently studying the subject."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jim Chapel (Narrator)

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The Child Attachment Handbook: How to Parent a Child and Create a Safe and Healthy

"Infants are born with a variety of intrinsic behaviors that help them survive. In times of need or suffering, the infant's attachment behavior allows them to bring others towards them. Infants that have experienced a solid attachment bond acquire a strong expectation of feeling protected and safe, allowing them to explore their surroundings with greater confidence. Our attachment instinct, shared by most mammals, is a fundamental adaptation for survival in infancy. When newborns are scared, anxious, feel ill, or are threatened, their attachment system is triggered. In this stage, infants will commence proximity-seeking behaviors such as weeping, clinging, or following with their eyes in babies, and more verbal or complex behaviors in older children toward their primary attachment figure (normally a parent or the main caregiver). The attachment method can be removed once proximity and reassurance have been reached. Seeking help and the various techniques an individual takes to get aid are the foundations of the attachment process. Based on repeated contact with significant others, the child develops a set of mental models of itself and others in social interactions in response to parenting behavior. These early attachment interactions are critical for subsequent social relationships, emotional and stress regulation capacities, self-control, mentalization, and emotional maturity. As a result, a child who forms insecure or disorganized relationships, maybe due to mistreatment or placement in several foster care homes, is more likely to suffer in these areas and exhibit emotional and behavioral challenges."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Jim Chapel (Narrator)

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Assertiveness Training Guide: The Importance of Connecting Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Sp

"We live and work in a multicultural world where we are called upon to cooperate. Decisiveness and the improvement of emphatic connections in associations are methods of cooperating. The upsides of receptiveness, trustworthiness, trust, and regard are survived by how we speak with and work with one another. Our ability to work with our disparities, recognize as opposed to denying them, challenge and back one another, comprehend our differences, and track down our likenesses, is the way to authoritative and business achievement. Just when we feel esteemed for our identity and know how to esteem ourselves would, we be able to genuinely esteem others. We can make more grounded associations with one another and assemble 'greater' connections that are decisive and comprehensive of distinction. Associations that genuinely embrace variety give amazing open doors to individuals to foster more prominent mindfulness, familiarity with their disparities, and to see one another and cooperate to accomplish remarkably. This book demonstrates how individuals are having an impact and opening up opportunities for people to be their 'best selves' in their work and appreciate 'greater' I'm OK: You're OK connections because of the grit of people, gatherings, groups, and pioneers to create emphatic and comprehensive associations."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Chloe Jacobson (Narrator)

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Helpful Habits For Baby Sleep: Factors Influencing Sleep Behavior in Infancy and Early Childhood

"Sleep is a nebulous and ubiquitous concept. It is a behavior that all living animals engage in. It draws a lot of attention in the media and research. Sleep is also crucial to a child's healthy development and overall well-being. Infant sleep is perplexing and unpredictable, despite its obvious importance. Caregivers frequently express concerns about adjusting to sleep deprivation and persistent sleep variations. Most parents find night waking a disruptive and depressing behavior that frequently leads them to seek professional advice or turn to a self-help book or friends for help. Sleeping through the night is one of the most important sleep-related ideas and milestones associated with Western industrialized settings. This accomplishment brings many caregivers relief and rejuvenation after weeks or months of sleep deprivation. In any situation, getting newborns to acquire sleep habits representing their cultural context is a significant achievement. Strategies for achieving sleep vary greatly depending on cultural standards and beliefs. While there are definite advantages to getting enough sleep as a child, sleep deprivation is tough to handle. When parents thought their infants' sleep was an issue, they had greater levels of overall parenting stress. Whether actual or perceived, sleep deprivation changed mental well-being and influenced responses to stressful caregiving settings. Sleep is important since it aids in infant growth and development, affects caregivers' overall performance and mental well-being, and affects how new parents view, react to, and interact with their babies."

Jim Colajuta (Author), Chloe Jacobson (Narrator)

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