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  How to Listen - An Ancient Guide...

  Plutarch, Jeffrey Beneker

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  A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is the foundation for living well.” In this volume, Jeffrey Beneker presents a vivid and accessible new translation of Plutarch’s classic essay about how to become a skilled listener, complete with an inviting introduction and the original Greek on facing pages.Plutarch is most famous as the author of Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. But he was also an expert on teaching and learning and How to Listen is arguably one of his best pedagogical works. A proponent of active listening well before its time, Plutarch explains the skills we need—and the obstacles and distractions we must overcome—to become effective listeners. Good listening requires, above all, an acknowledgement of our own ignorance in certain subjects and a commitment to gaining knowledge. We must set aside pride and envy so we can respect the expertise of others. We must also train ourselves to see through style and focus on substance, to discriminate between weak and strong arguments, and to criticize ideas fairly and accurately.Filled with shrewd insights and advice, How to Listen shows how to cultivate a skill that everyone who wants to learn and live well must master.

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  Body Rites - A Holistic Healing...

  PsyD Shena J. Young, Aishah...

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  A written companion and workbook for listeners seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma. 
   
   
   
  Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centers remembering as a means of survival. 
   
   
   
  This workbook is the first of its kind: a resource of rituals divided into four healing journeys for Black women, femmes, and nonbinary survivors of sexual assault. The experiential workbook moves beyond prescriptive self-help models by providing a gentle guide and liaison to explore the impact of sexual trauma on the mind, body, heart, and spirit. It is an invitation to heal holistically, drawing upon psychophysiology, lived body wisdom, trauma-informed embodiment practices, kinship and ancestral connections, and African spiritual practices. Most urgently, this book is a series of intimate conversations with your "self"; and remembrance that healing lives at the core of your intuition.

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  Seclusion: Celebrating Jamaica -...

  Andrew Brodber

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  This book has beautiful poetry about Jamaica’s flora and fauna in part as well as glimpses of some of her people. As we celebrate Jamaica’s 60th Jubilee and my 50th this year I think the works must go forth for the readers and listeners pleasure.

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  Anger Management - Overcome Rage...

  Travis Cooper Goleman

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  Experiencing anger? 
  Anger is a raw emotion and is what makes us human.  
  Though uncontrolled anger can be dangerous, it can also be used to your advantage.  
  Once you figure out how to distinguish, manage, and channel it, it won’t control your life. 
   Anger can vary from gentle irritation to seething red anger and can be triggered by different events and situations.  
  Here, you'll learn how to recognize your triggers, how to get to the foundation of your anger, and how to channel it. 
  This book will help you with your emotional problems, and you will discover:Types of anger and where it comes fromHow emotions create angerAnger-related disordersWhen anger is wrongHow to take self-control in every situationHow to turn anger into positivity 
   And more, much more!

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  Positive Affirmations for Black...

  Zahra Jackson

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  Empower Their Dreams 
  An inspiring collection of affirmations specifically crafted to nurture the self-esteem and ambition of young Black children. Young listeners will discover positive affirmations and motivational messages that celebrate their unique identities, dreams, and potential. 
  This is a reminder that Black kids can achieve anything they set their minds to. From embracing their heritage and culture to fostering resilience and confidence, "Positive Affirmations for Black Kids" provides an uplifting and inclusive resource for kids and parents alike, and will:Inspire confidence and self-esteem.Nurture ambition and self-worth.Allow children to embrace their heritage and culture.Feel comfortable in their own skin.Help them create the future you know they deserve.

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  Elemental And Ancestral Spirits...

  Gerald Massey

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  The two primary elements were those of darkness and light: Sut was the power of darkness, Horus the power of light. In one representation the two elements were imaged by means of the black bird of Sut and the white bird, or golden hawk, of Horus. Thus we can identify two elemental powers, as old as night and day, which are primeval in universal mythology; and these two powers, or animistic souls, were divinized as the two gods Sut and Horus with the two birds of darkness and light, the black vulture and the gold hawk depicted back to back as their two representative types or personal totems. –from “Elemental and Ancestral Spirits, or The Gods and the Glorified” It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists, but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a “hidden history” of humanity, and those who approach all human knowledge from the perspective of the esoteric. Gerard Massey’s massive Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World–first published in 1907 and the crowning achievement of the self-taught scholar–redefines the roots of Christianity via Egypt, proposing that Egyptian mythology was the basis for Jewish and Christian beliefs. Here, Cosimo proudly presents Book 3 of Ancient Egypt, in which Massey explains how the original elemental spirits of early humans were transformed into deities, and how the concept of a “soul” developed from animalistic representations of natural forces. Peculiar and profound, this work will intrigue and delight readers of history, religion, and mythology. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including A Book of the Beginnings and The Natural Genesis.

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