In a culture that prizes being busy over taking the time to rest, how are you doing with maintaining harmony and proportion? If you feel as if you're constantly on a hamster wheel, this guide will afford you the perfect excuse to stop, take a breath, make the time, and create the space necessary to reexamine your way of 'being' with the (B)(A)(L)(A)(N)(C)(E) method. But since balance doesn't just HAPPEN, you'll get the 'equilibrium overhaul' you need through the intentional use of vignettes, thought-provoking questions, activities, and techniques. With intention as your compass, your direction will become clearer as you engage in the practice of the tools offered, allow yourself a little bit more grace, and keep believing that everything always works out exactly as it should. Here's to an intentionally graceful juggle!

Nautilus Book Awards Winners for 2007 (category: Self-Help/Psychology/ Personal Growth) "Like many people, Kathleen Hall found that despite great success and material wealth, she had yet to identify purpose, meaning, and balance in her work and her life. She left her Wall Street firm and devoted herself to understanding the relationships between mind, body, and spirit, and between professional and personal fulfillment. Since then, she has studied with great spiritual leaders including the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and the exiled Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. She has also learned from medical experts like Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind-Body Institute. Inspired by those diverse influences, Dr. Hall has written A Life in Balance, a guided journey to joy, peace, and an intentional life grounded in the four roots of the SELF: * Serenity. Find what brings us peace, and channel it into everything we do * Exercise. Align the body with energy and health through walking, yoga, martial arts, and more * Love. Build community and relationships that heal others as well as ourselves * Food. Pay attention not just to what we eat, but to what we experience through all our senses Our lives pull us in many different directions; to find happiness, we must first create balance. Filled with wit, wisdom, and compassion, A Life in Balance will help any reader identify and stay true to his or her authentic self."

This book is about becoming more aware, purposeful and intentional with ourselves and our lives. It delves into the process of making choices and decisions, overcoming adversity, becoming more aware of our emotions and creating more fulfilling relationships with ourselves and others.

Are we in control of our own development in adulthood, or are we shaped by circumstances beyond our control? By adopting the concept of intentional self-development (ISD), this text outlines an action-theoretical approach to human development that emphasizes both an individual’s ability to shape their own development throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which this potential is limited. By examining general age-related changes and critical life events, Intentional Self-Development and Positive Ageing explores the adaptive cognitive-motivational processes that generate positive development in adulthood, including developmental tasks, cognitive changes, life-stage transitions, and biological and neural processes. Leipold goes on to discuss the concept of positive ageing, highlighting the flexibility of the term and evaluating it from multiple perspectives to demonstrate its subjectivity, as well as its importance. This text also discusses the importance of resilience in positive development, contributing to the search for conditions conducive to positive life conduct across the lifespan. This book will be essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying lifespan development and gerontology, positive psychology, or health psychology, as well as researchers in those fields. It will also be of interest to developmental counsellors, clinicians, and other applied occupational groups who are seeking to understand the psychological basis of actions.

"[The book] answers three questions: What heals in counseling and therapy and how? What actions in clinical decision making ensure an optimal outcome for the client? And why are some clinicians more successful than others, apparently remaining so over time? Incorporating citations across multiple disciplines, referencing authorities in both CBT [Cognitive Behavioral therapy] and psychodynamic models, and interwoven with composite case material and session transcripts, this book unmasks the dialectic between goals and process in clinical work."--Provided by publisher

Do you derail yourself or do you propel yourself toward success? Your decisions lead to your destiny. You can make good decisions or bad decisions. These decisions are very often based on your mindset. Recognizing the power of your mindset is essential to reaching your destiny. Your mindset includes your goals, values, beliefs, and mode of work. It provides the framework for how you think, how you behave, and why you make decisions. Understanding your mindset puts you in control of your life. The 21st century world of work requires workers to make good and relevant decisions. This book contains thought-provoking insights into your decisions that drive your success. It speaks to anyone who would like to create and navigate a personal environment for individual success toward a desired destiny.

The availability of practical applications, techniques, and case studies by international therapists is limited despite expansions to the fields of clinical psychology, rehabilitation, and counseling. As dialogues surrounding mental health grow, it is important to maintain therapeutic modalities that ensure the highest level of patient-centered rehabilitation and care are met across global networks. Research Anthology on Rehabilitation Practices and Therapy is a vital reference source that examines the latest scholarly material on trends and techniques in counseling and therapy and provides innovative insights into contemporary and future issues within the field. Highlighting a range of topics such as psychotherapy, anger management, and psychodynamics, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for mental health professionals, counselors, therapists, clinical psychologists, sociologists, social workers, researchers, students, and social science academicians seeking coverage on significant advances in rehabilitation and therapy.

This book was designed to help readers create a professional perspective of integrating care with knowledge and skill. It also advocates establishing healthy and helpful relationships for the benefit of people who seek counseling assistance. Built on the rich tradition of caring advocated by many leaders in the field, this book distinguishes itself by recognizing the importance of intentionality in caring. The book guides readers through a brief presentation that assists them in their development as intentional helpers. Chapters include: The Heart of Helping; Intentionality and Cå Anatomy of Intentional Cå Creating Caring Messages; Doing for Oneself What You Expect of Others; and Beyond the Helping Relationship. For counselors, social workers, and professional helpers.