This book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, analyzing the modes in which such anxiety presents itself. Drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, the author builds on the work of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud to offer an understanding of modern anxiety culture as the reverse side of risk culture, which stabilizes itself by concealing or making familiar the social phenomena of risk society. Through explorations of memory, politics, art, clairvoyance, notions of national community, and identity, this volume sheds light on the fissures in our culture where anxiety appears, thus revealing its underlying volatility. A study of the ruptures in our modern culture, Anxiety and Lucidity will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, anthropology, and philosophy with interests in late modern culture.

Learn how to wake up in your dreams for creative insights and beautiful spiritual adventures The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a quick and easy guide to help you get lucid fast. Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips and a unique Lucidity Quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the techniques that work best for you. When you are lucid in a dream, you can choose to ask your unconscious mind for guidance, perform healing magic, seek creative solutions to problems, and explore the dream realm more profoundly than ever before. With over sixty practices and fifteen tailor-made lucidity programs to get you started, this hands-on guide helps you set up your own custom program for achieving lucidity as quickly as possible. Focusing on how to get lucid, stay lucid, and guide your dreams, this book shows how to transform your nightly slumber into an exciting spiritual adventure that fills your life with meaning.

Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book's fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who, collectively, have published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal articles. The editors' introductory chapter frames the book's subtext: that mind-brain theories embodying the constraints of individual differences in subjective experience should be given greater credence than nomothetic theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe research and theory pertaining to individual differences in conscious sensations — specifically, individual differences in pain perception, phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two succeeding chapters focus on individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters address individual differences in altered states of self-consciousness — dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and various clinical syndromes. (Series B)

Have you ever walked into the venue of your event and felt like your nerves simply couldn't handle it? Have you ever shown hesitation on the field, afraid to take a decision? Maybe experienced tunnel vision and your gestures and movements became awkward, slow and fluctuating in effectiveness? Losing lucidity has a drastic negative impact on your performance and it is vital to learn how to regain it quickly. The state of lucidity involves ongoing action that calls for discernment, the correctness of perception, decision, emotional stability and action of the individual. This book is packed with practical exercises that will have an immediate impact on leveling you up to the lucidity state and ultimately your performance.

Is anxiety and fear a problem for you? Have you tried to win the war with your anxious mind and body, only to end up feeling frustrated, powerless, and stuck? If so, you’re not alone. But there is a way forward, a path into genuine happiness, and a way back into living the kind of life you so desperately want. This workbook will help you get started on this new journey today! Now in its second edition, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety offers a new approach to your anxiety, fears, and your life. Within its pages, you’ll find a powerful and tested set of tools and strategies to help you gain freedom from fear, trauma, worry, and all the many manifestations of anxiety and fear. The book offers an empowering approach to help you create the kind of life you so desperately want to live. Based on a revolutionary approach to psychological health and wellness called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this fully revised and updated second edition offers compelling new exercises to help you create the conditions for your own genuine happiness and peace of mind. You’ll learn how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. You’ll also discover ways to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion, and use these qualities to weaken the power of anxiety and fear so that you can gain the space do what truly matters to you. Now is the time. Nobody chooses anxiety. And there is no healthy way to “turn off” anxious thoughts and feelings like a light switch. But you can learn to break free from the shackles of anxiety and fear and take back your life. The purpose of this workbook is to help you do just that. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. You can live better, more fully, and more richly with or without anxiety and fear. This book will show you the way. -- Recent studies support for the effectiveness of ACT-based self-help workbooks as a low-cost treatment for people experiencing anxiety. (Ritzert, T., Forsyth, J. P., Berghoff, C. R., Boswell, J., & Eifert, G. H. (2016). Evaluating the effectiveness of ACT for anxiety disorders in a self-help context: Outcomes from a randomized wait-list controlled trial. Behavior Therapy, 47, 431-572.)

“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.

To reach the power of lucidity means being able to free yourself from the manipulations of the collective unconscious and the human matrix and its standards of battle and scarcity. Lucidity is the knowledge key for evolutionary deci- sions that will bring you peace and happiness to enable the connection with the divine matrix through the higher self. People would normally conduct themselves through life searching for satisfaction of their necessities and desires without deeper questioning and therefore, by the law of attraction, they create their own dimension of karmic repetitions. Their own psychic metaverse. Without realizing it, they become reactive to the here and now by using an illusionary filter of traumas or future expectations instead of living and optimizing the only possible reality. The present moment. Only the neutral mind awakening is capable of clea- ring the meaning of our existence!

"Your Extraordinary Powers: Mind Control, Manifesting, and Spiritual Growth" is a transformative and enlightening non-fiction book, an anthology of wisdom, guiding readers on a profound journey of self-discovery and personal growth. It is a comprehensive guide, providing a compilation of insightful concepts, practical tools, and compelling strategies to empower readers to tap into the incredible potential of their own minds to manifest their dreams and align with the deeper truths of existence. "Your Extraordinary Powers" explores the remarkable potential of the human mind, providing practical tools, techniques, and insights for harnessing the power within to manifest desires, expand your consciousness, achieve spiritual goals, and lay the foundation for a rewarding and fulfilling life. This journey is not about magic or mysticism; it's about realizing your untapped potential and unlocking the doors to a more fulfilled and purpose-driven life. The book begins by delving into the incredible potential of the human mind. It explores the conscious and subconscious aspects of the mind, the power of emotions and intentions to influence your world, and how to use thought to affect and create your reality. You’ll learn how to develop inner awareness and raise your level of consciousness to increase your energy, power, and frequency to take control of your mental landscape. Readers are introduced to various practical mind control techniques, such as mediation and mindfulness, visualization, affirmation, breathing exercises and self-awareness skills to achieve mental and emotional balance. Going deeper, we delve into the science behind the power of thought, exploring topics such as quantum physics, the holographic universe theory, simulation theory, and alternate realities The book continues by exploring the concept of manifesting, deep diving into the four pillars of manifesting, how to co-create with clear intentions using the Law of Attraction, and tools that will assist you to transform your desires into reality. Manifesting with an abundance mind set and a higher purpose, and in accord with divine timing and synchronicity will increase your understanding and empower you to succeed on every level. You’ll also learn strategies on how to overcome self-doubt and limiting beliefs, banish fear, conquer self-sabotage and tackle negative mental patterns using humor and emotional intelligence, helping unlock your extraordinary personal potential. The book places a strong emphasis on the connection between mind and spirit to develop an inner awareness, and how mental clarity and spiritual insights can help us align with our true purpose and live a more authentic and fulfilling life. We investigate how to gain spiritual insights by raising our vibrations, recognizing our unity and interconnectedness with others, and tapping into our intuition, encouraging us to link with our higher selves and gain spiritual enlightenment. We also explore the historical and traditional concepts and principles for manifesting and spiritual growth, traveling around the world and back in time to see how our ancestors discovered and developed their spiritual potential and how you can incorporate their tried-and-true techniques to help with your own practice of self-discovery. In addition, we address numerous self-care methods and techniques that can address mental and emotional disease as well as helping to keep your body, mind and spirit strong and healthy.

The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night’s rest. With the art of lucid dreaming—or becoming fully conscious in the dream state—you can find creative inspirations, promote emotional healing, gain rich insights into your waking reality, and much more. Now, with Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Stephen LaBerge invites you on a guided journey to learn to use conscious dreaming in your life. Distilled from his more than 20 years of pioneering research at Stanford University and the Lucidity Institute—including many new and updated techniques and discoveries—here is the most effective and easy-to-learn tool available for you to begin your own fascinating nightly exploration into Lucid Dreaming. Guided dream practices include: Two trance inductions into the lucid-dream stateTwo daytime exercises designed to trigger lucid dreams at nightLaBerge’s breakthrough MILD technique for increasing lucid-dream probability fivefold or moreA Tibetan-yoga dream practice Includes digital access to audio tracks.

When this important work was originally published in 1950--the first book in this country on anxiety--it was hailed as a work ahead of its time. This book is the result of several years of exploration, research, and thought on one of the most urgent problems of our day. Clinical experience has proved to psychologists and psychiatrists generally that the central problem in psychotherapy is the nature of anxiety. To the extent that we have been able to solve that problem, we have made a beginning in understanding the causes of integration and disintegration of personality. But if anxiety were merely a phenomenon of maladjustment, it might well be consigned to the consulting room and the clinic and this book to the professional library. The evidence is overwhelming, however, that men and women of today live in an “age of anxiety.” If one penetrates below the surface of political, economic, business, professional, or domestic crises to discover their psychological causes, or if one seeks to understand modern art or poetry or philosophy or religion, one runs athwart the problem of anxiety at almost every turn. There is reason to believe that the ordinary stresses and strains of life in the changing world of today are such that few if any escape the need to confront anxiety and to deal with it in some manner. This study seeks to bring together in one volume the theories of anxiety offered by modern explorers in different areas of our culture, to discover the common elements in these theories, and to formulate these concepts so that we shall have some common ground for further inquiry. If the synthesis of anxiety theory presented here serves the purpose of producing some coherence and order in this field, a good part of the writer’s goal will have been achieved.