Mindfulness & Meditation Audiobooks | Religion & Spirituality

Playing Dead: A very personal meditation journey

Brought to you by Penguin. From Hollywood star of Misfits and The Umbrella Academy and host of hit podcast The Earth Locker, Robert Sheehan, comes his heartfelt journey to inner peace. Meditation is a whole dimension without time, a profound reminder of the eternal being of You. Many of us often feel challenged by the question of what gives our lives true meaning. What are we searching for? How do we know we are on the right path? In Playing Dead, Robert Sheehan shares intimate reflections on his own search for purpose, looking back at this journey so far and sharing the lessons he has learnt along the way. Meditation is at the heart of Robert's route to awakening and here he reveals how we can welcome practice into our daily lives to nurture a quiet mind and content heart. In a world where our conscious attention is constantly up for grabs, Playing Dead shows how we can retain our power and give our minds the rest they need. ©2024 Robert Sheehan (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Robert Sheehan (Author), Robert Sheehan, TBD (Narrator)

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The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World

Unlock your infinite potential in every area of your life and become your own inspiration. Using the concept of Light as a tool for personal and spiritual growth, bestselling author and entrepreneur Jessica Zweig challenges readers to hit the proverbial “light switch' and illuminate their own lives. Rooted in the Pleiadian teachings of Light as “Information,” “Truth,” and “Love,” Jessica’s philosophy teaches readers to name, claim, and reframe their inner darkness in order to unlock their infinite potential and remember who they truly are. Jessica Zweig is the founder of a multimillion-dollar business, a bestselling author, and a social media phenomenon—but her path was not an easy one. The Light Work distills the highly-evolved spiritual concepts she learned along the way into practical applications, delivered with Jessica’s signature straight-talk. How-to’s, exercises, and journal prompts interweave with Jessica’s powerful personal story to create a guidebook to a more inclusive, loving, and Light-filled life. Within these pages lies radical self-empowerment, because—as Jessica says—when you can claim all parts of yourself (your dark and your light, your power and your shame, your sh*t and your shine), you become… unstoppable. You become the Lightworker.

Jessica Zweig (Author), Jessica Zweig, TBD (Narrator)

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Enneagram in Real Life

Certified Enneagram coach Stephanie Barron Hall shows you how to use the Enneagram as a tool for self-discovery and a practical way to achieve growth. Stephanie Barron Hall is using social media to bring the power of the Enneagram to a new generation of followers, teaching them how to successfully move beyond understanding to practical application—how to actually make changes in their own lives. In Enneagram in Real Life, Hall explains how to apply the Enneagram to your life. Finding your type is just the beginning of your story. Drawn from her years of study and practice coaching thousands of people, Enneagram In Real Life includes relatable stories from real clients, tangible growth practices and frameworks, and actionable advice you can use to incorporate the Enneagram’s transformative power into your life, career, communication, and relationships.

Stephanie Barron Hall (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Four-Way Path: The Indian Mantra for Happiness, Success and Purpose

Brought to you by Penguin. THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF IKIGAI INTRODUCE YOU TO A NEW LIFE-CHANGING SECRET Why am I alive? What should I do with my life? What is my purpose? The answers to these questions can be found in the timeless wisdom of the ancient texts, philosophers and traditions of India. In Hindu philosophy, there are four goals in life that all human beings share: morality, prosperity, pleasure and freedom. These are the points of the Four-Way Path, a journey into knowing yourself better and discovering your purpose. Inspiring and comforting, this book taps some of the oldest and greatest spiritual practices to help you awaken your creative potential, free yourself from stress and fear, and live longer and with greater energy. By following the Four-Way Path to balance yourself and your desires, you can unlock the key to a successful and meaningful life. ©2024 Francesc Miralles & Héctor García (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Francesc Miralles, Héctor García (Author), Danish Farooqui, TBD (Narrator)

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Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice

Bestselling author and teacher Natalie Goldberg shares her inspiring personal journey out of a devastating period of writer’s block and back into a life of growth, creativity, and healing. Natalie Goldberg has been writing for the past fifty years. But at the beginning of the pandemic, she suddenly wasn’t able to write anymore. Her imaginative wellspring had dried up, and she was forced to ask herself: what do I do when what has always worked for me doesn’t work anymore? In this beautifully written, inspiring personal account, Natalie shares her harrowing journey out of creative paralysis and back onto the page. When all of her tried and true methods – meditation, sitting still, writing practice – stopped working, she had to take drastic action. She got into her car and left New Mexico in search of a new inventive source. In her journey through the western states, she visited famous literary sites, searching for the spark that would reignite her ability to write. And, next to Hemingway’s grave, she found it. “Get going,” he seemed to say to her, and she did. Now, Natalie shares her story of traveling through literary and personal memory to clarify her way forward, struggling to make sense of her difficult relationships with parents and teachers, and digging into her long-held grief. Ultimately, she discovers how to write through the emptiness in order to fill up the world with compassion, healing, and renewed liveliness. For anyone struggling to reconnect with their own creative source, Writing on Empty is a gentle and instructive guidebook back to remembering what truly matters.

Natalie Goldberg (Author), Natalie Goldberg, TBD (Narrator)

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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence

Love, Freedom, and Aloneness is a classic Osho text that is newly fresh and pertinent to today's complex world where freedom and connecting are more important and more fraught than ever before. We are striving for both freedom and connection. However, until we learn to live with that freedom, and learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we are denying ourselves the possibility of finding love and happiness with someone else. Osho shows us that love can only happen through freedom and in conjunction with a deep respect for ourselves and the other. Is it possible to be alone and not lonely? Where are the boundaries that define “lust” versus “love”...and can lust ever grow into love? In Love, Freedom, and Aloneness you will find unique, radical, and intelligent perspectives on these and other essential questions. In our quickly-changing world, free of out-of-date morality, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and to find fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole.

Osho (Author), Natalie Naudus (Narrator)

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The Energy Advantage: How to Go from Managing Your Time to Mastering Your Energy

How do you maximize your success and impact as a leader while maintaining your stamina and sanity? The answer doesn't lie in simple "efficiency." It's not about making better use of your time and resources. It's about understanding how energy works and how to tap into its power. Many people live lives of intense, and false, emotional compartmentalization. For example, they strive to be one person in the corner office (invincible warrior) and another person at the dinner table (sensitive spouse), and they struggle to keep those two lives from bleeding into and contradicting each other. But as it turns out, this takes a tremendous amount of energy and is almost always impossible. One person can't be two different people. So how do you live an integrated life of fulfillment, purpose, and success? How do you create an alignment between head, heart, and the creative power that is in coherence with your true self? The answer is both simple and complex: You need to move from managing your time to mastering your energy. For more than a decade and a half, Ricardo Sunderland has worked with the leaders of some of the largest and most recognizable companies in the world. He has learned firsthand that for today's leaders-at all levels in their organizations-mental and physical energy are no longer all you need for success. Today's leaders must bring emotional and spiritual energy to their roles and create a space in which both they and their team members feel safe to challenge each other, grow together, and thrive. Given this major leadership challenge, leaders must gain the energy advantage. You will learn: - What gives you energy. - How to identify the energy blockers that are holding you back. - That every situation presents a choice for you to unlock the transformational source of energy within you. - The path to gaining the energy advantage on seven distinct levels.

Ricardo Sunderland (Author), Fred Sanders, Ricardo Sunderland, TBD (Narrator)

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Modern Tantric Buddhism: Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice

This essential guide to socially engaged Tantric Buddhism reveals how modern practitioners can use the wisdom of the Vajrayana to confront systems of power and abuse. Today, a new generation of Buddhists searches for ways to adopt Vajrayana while staying true to its historical legacy. Modern Tantric Buddhism unpacks the principles and applications of this esoteric practice in an accessible and meaningful manner, connecting its roots to a socially engaged, modern-day dharma. Taking a traditional Tibetan pedagogical approach, Lama Justin von Bujdoss divides the book into 3 thematic sections: • Body, as it applies to physicality and embodiment • Speech, or ethical action • Mind, the context of awakening Von Bujdoss challenges assumptions about what it means to be a socially engaged Buddhist, and presents Tantra as an ideal vehicle for critically examining today's most pressing social issues while confronting the structural inequities of patriarchy, sexism, colonialism, and racism within Buddhist institutions.

Justin Von Bujdoss (Author), A'rese Emokpae (Narrator)

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I Fight, You Fight: The noble way to growth and happiness

The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a diagnosis of C4 quadriplegia, Alex's first words to his brother Zac were, 'If I fight, you fight.' These words became a war cry as Alex's friends, family and community rallied around him, watching in awe as he fought to regain control over his body and defy his diagnosis. From learning to breathe and move again to travelling the world, starting his own business, and even going skydiving, Alex's story is about the power of mastering your own mind, finding happiness and taking risks to achieve your goals - no matter how out of reach they may seem. Full of warmth, humour and insight, this is a book that will teach you principles to live your life by, written by a young man who has put them into practice. I Fight, You Fight is so much more than an inspiring memoir - it's a philosophy for living life to the fullest.

Alex Noble (Author), Alex Noble, TBD (Narrator)

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Which Way Is Up?: Finding Heart in the Hardest of Times

A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage-from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis. Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisis-undergoing cancer treatment during the pandemic-and offering contemplative prompts for inner-reflection and a meditation practice in each chapter, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Susan Chapman demystifies the three main types of fear people experience (frozen, awake, and core), and how to meet each with love. This heartfelt guide from someone who's been there and done the work will help us get through life's challenges and restore our equilibrium, while also inviting a valuable opportunity for personal growth. Which Way Is Up? draws from traditional Buddhist teachings on the bardo, a Tibetan word most often associated with the period between death and rebirth. Chapman likens the bardo to abrupt episodes in our lives when things seem to turn upside down and we can't find our footing. In such times of not-knowing, our fearful mind tends to panic trying to make sense out of our experience. Instead, Chapman meets the listener in their groundlessness to show how these turning points can force us to let go of our assumptions about the future and allow something new to be reborn.

Susan Gillis Chapman (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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A Book of Balance: Kogi Wisdom for a Good Life and Thriving Earth

Lucas Buchholz (Author), Johnny Rey Diaz, TBD (Narrator)

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A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game, uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function, he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel's unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially. This unsparing portrait argues that a person's true strength does not reside solely in one's body but also in the ability to face unfathomable adversity and still be able to love and treasure life.

Jeff Duncan, Steve Gleason (Author), Daniel Cummings, TBD (Narrator)

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