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This by far is one of the best guided imagery cd's I've have every purchased I look forward to listening to it every day. Soothing voice and music. Not only has it helped my lower my blood pressure, but I don't feel as agitated as I normaly do. I highly recommend this cd.

Sure, a positive outlook is beneficial to help support good health. But lets not get carried away with hype. Andrew Weil is famous for his brand of hype. I was at first taken in by his personality, seemingly rational arguments, and great presentations. In time, as I found reality still in existence, Weil's hypnotic influence was just not sustainable. Save your money. Do not believe in modern day saviors. They all offer artificial techniques for dealing with the natural realities of life. It's like using fertalizers and toxic chemicals to manage your garden. Ultimately, this is harmful to the ecology, unhealthful, and is never sustainable. False teachings of any kind, are like this concept of gardening. Instead, believe in a higher power, and believe in yourself. Keep later day Messiahs' hands out of your pockets.

I really liked the first CD (intro) which explains the mind body connection and how important meditation and guided imagery is. This is a good meditation and I listen to it on my Ipod while travelling or any other time that I feel stressed.

I haven't opened the product yet. Seller/shipper did fine. Received product as promised.

Follow the instructions and have these two cool gentleman guide you to healing and relaxation. Three guided imagery sessions included. I always feel better after doing one of the sessions. Also bought the "Self-healing with sound and music" by Kimba Arem that is recommended - it will take you away - to Asia, Austrailia and the deep blue sea (whale sounds). If more people listened to these cd's the world would be more relaxed and healthy! Try it you'll like it.

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When my wife was pregnant with our son, we actively looked for resources that would ease the change for my daughter. This was a great resource that really helped.

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I have owned this CD and all Michaels audio for years, and it seems to find me when I most need it. I can always rely on Michale Meade to give me a helping hand in making sense of difficult times and situations that often seem hopeless. I know where to go when I'm confused. The way Michael speaks, the words, poems, incredible stories all weave together in a spellbinding way words dont adequately explain....AND it makes good practical sense too! Not just etheral mumbo jumbo which most people think of when hearing the word myth, mythology or storytelling. Highly recemmend to anyone who cares enough about their own journey, people and our planet...

I am in the middle of listening to all of the Michael Meade CD's I can find. This one is one of the best so far (although they are all pretty great). So many gems of wisdom that resonate with life as it is lived. I love his stories and poems from Stafford, Hafiz, Rumi, e.e. cummings and more. In this talk he is focusing on the emotional life and how our culture has twisted that for most of us and the toll that it takes on our spirit. I love his humor and witty political commentary, connecting our inner experience with the culture we are immersed in. VERY easy to listen to, great New York accent! And one of my favorite Michael Meade quotes "A false sense of security is the only one there is." ENJOY!

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I love 5 Rhythms and this is an easy way to practice on my own. Not in love with the music, but it works really well anyway!

Never thought I could get into ecstatic dance, never thought I'd feel comfortable enough to let go. Boy was I wrong. I loved it. It went by so fast. Doing it in my house probably helped w/my comfort level, but who cares. It was great and I got some great cardio. The great thing is at it's at your own level...choose what you want to do and how hard you wanna work depending on your mood.

This DVD has a 30 minute guided dance as well as 2 hours of dance music with images for you to use when you want to dance for longer and let go... The guided dance is great, not too intrusive and very similar to an actual Gabrielle Roth class (there are no set steps- you just tune into your body and allow IT to guide YOU) Even though it is only 30 minutes I always feel refreshed and relaxed when I am done.

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A superb film on the subject of an isolated woman who survives in her own world and the inevitable difficulties when she is confronted with the alternative. Liam Neeson is brilliant as the dedicated Doctor who takes the trouble to investigate, understand the strangely cropped linguistics of Foster, and realizes the fundamental stability of her situation despite the sometimes eccentric behaviour that she evinces. The battle with the establishment and their knee jerk reaction towards forced institutionalization is brilliantly complemented by the non involved Psychiatrist who gradually is drawn into the investigation that Liam's character undertakes and eventually comes to his side as a no longer disinterested ally. The ending, which will not be revealed here, is superbly satisfying. There are many ways this film could have gone all wrong. But the director, producers and wonderful skills of top notch actors made it into the masterpiece that it deserved to be. Oscar level performance by Jodie Foster. A great film on several levels, satisfying, and it manages to include a powerful statement against the prevailing forces of medical dehumanization which are now under fire from many different quarters. Highly recommended!!

Jodie Foster plays Nell, a young woman who lives all alone in a secluded forest in North Carolina. She's been living with her late mother her entire life, and now she's in complete isolation with only a handful of people ever realizing her existence. She has her own language, her own shelter, and her own look at the beautiful world around her. Jerome and Paula (Liam Neeson & the late Natasha Richardson) are doctors who examine her language and her communication skills. These will help them figure out if Nell is able to handle the real world (the world that she has hardly any knowledge of). This has to be one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The woods and lakes of North Carolina are magnificently shot. The music by Mark Isham is ambient and effective. The look and feel of this film is extraordinarily beautiful. Plus, this is one of Jodie Foster's finest performances. Her unusual movements and behaviors are almost flawless when seen onscreen. Neeson and Richardson are also fantastic as the two doctors who realize that Nell is more than just a so-called "wild child." Jeremy Davies, Nick Searcy, Richard Libertini, and Robin Mullins make a fine supporting ensemble. Now, some people have criticized this movie for being too melodramatic. The only scene that I found a bit melodramatic was the courtroom scene near the end. It does feel slightly operatic in an unnecessary way, but that's my only complaint. This film has sheer beauty all over it. It looks like it just turned into a brand new favorite of mine. Grade: A-

Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson were wonderful, but Jody Foster literally becomes another being and it is fascinating to watch. The ability for self expression beyond words is beautiful. The cinematography was fantastic..the night scenes of Nell nude on the rock in the river looked like a Maxfield Parrish painting. Loved it.

Nell has an excellent heartwarming plot. I recently viewed this movie on HBO and not only was riveted to the screen but thought my 79 year old Christian mother would also enjoy Nell. She loved it ! And watched it twice. Great movie and money well spent.

Even though I purchased this as a gift for my little's brother's birthday, I have yet to watch it myself, but I understand it is an excellent film by others who have watched it.

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Cheers is always a winner but this season has "Simon Says" with the great John Cleece. If you are a John Cleece fan it is a must see.

There are two Era's to the Cheers criteria as a fans view. You were either a Dianne Chambers fan or a Rebecca Howell fan. This season ends the Dianne Chambers Era, so its an end to the collection of her. Yet it has to complete the Rebecca Era beginning. So either way its a must have.

For its first four seasons, Cheers was an almost flawless series. But at the beginning of season five, a number of factors conspired to create a seriously bumpy start. For one, there is an evident tension in the air directed at Shelley Long. Whereas in earlier seasons, Ted Danson and Shelley Long would be smiling into each others eyes in almost every scene (that special magic chemistry they had), here Danson, as well as the rest of the cast, can barely bring themselves to make eye contact with her at all. Perhaps the tension came from Shelley Long's attempts to remove Kelsey Grammar from the show, or perhaps it was the inklings that Long might "abandon" Cheers - and maybe sink it in the process. The impossible-to-conceal bad vibes are highly evident in the first batch of episodes, and effectively kill the magic between the two leads. Secondly, for the first time ever, the Cheers writers made a serious mistake. For the first four seasons, the back and forth tension between Diane and Sam was played just right - stretching the rubber band, but never breaking it. But, in the first episode, by making Diane reject Sam's proposal, they wrote themselves into a temporary corner. Now, Sam was forced to play angry and grumpy (which just doesn't work) and Diane was morphed into a love-struck undignified idiot (which works even less and seriously cheapens the character). In other words, Sam just wanted Diane to go away, while Diane was hopelessly in love with him. That wasn't the kind of sparring or sexual tension that had made Cheers so wonderful in previous years. In fact, it is downright awkward to watch. Of course Sam loves Diane - she is his only salvation from becoming an ageing and ever more lonely Lothario. It is evident that this turn threw Ted Danson, as Sam just doesn't feel in character for those early episodes doing little more than looking angry. In fact, this was a shift in Sam's characterisation that never really went away right to the end of Cheers - in order to be able to lose the character of Diane, Sam was made to no longer really care. That was a mistake. The old dynamic: The neurotic intellectual who needed to just chill out a bit and the ageing stud who needed to stop running away from himself was shelved forever. "I am the best thing that could have happened to you!" Diane one screamed at Sam. And ever since Sam met Diane, he once told her, he has begun thinking and caring about stuff - even reading War & Peace. Now, the producer's dislike of Shelley Long slowly killed that whole dynamic, and in the eyes of this reviewer, cheapened the show forever. Thirdly, this was the year that the famously bad Eighties aesthetics finally caught up with the show. Shelley Long is given an appalling mullet hairstyle, big shoulder-pads and pale unflattering clothing. It may seem like a small thing, but it looks dreadful. In previous years, Long's hair was beautiful as was her clothing, but the season 5 look just adds to the caricature of the idiot love-struck Diane. When Long ties her hair back in a few episodes, it is amazing how much better (and more like Diane) she looks. One suspects that many of these factors may again have been sub-conscious attempts by the writers and producers to sabotage the role of Diane to make it easier to continue the show without her. And the tension in the air was evidently so bad that they had to write an episode where the entire cast has a huge food fight! Thankfully, the almost unwatchable grumpy Sam and idiot love-sick Diane concept is diluted by the episode "Everyone Imitates Art" (It might be best to skip all season 5 shows before that) - in which we finally get a very touching sense again that Sam really does care about Diane (he has saved every letter she ever wrote him). And after that, the season kicks off again (evidently, things were patched up with Shelley Long, as around here, the cast start making eye-contact with the actress again and Danson starts grinning at her in that magical way once more) but it never really climbs to the highs of the first four seasons. Some of these missteps perhaps helped contribute to the later held idea that Long's Diane was "spent" and that it was better for her to leave and the series start afresh. It is true that the Diane in the early episodes of this season is unbearable to watch - but then again so is Sam. Some Cheers fans feel that the post-Long Kirstie Alley years cheapened the character of Sam Malone by regressing the additional dimensions that someone like Diane offered him and that the great Cheers magic was never really re-captured after Shelley Long left. Of course, there is no way that Sam and Diane could have not gotten married and Diane remained on the show. That too would likely have snapped the rubber band and seriously eroded credibility, not to mention viewer patience. But Cheers was a show that took risks (like when polling told the writers to get Sam and Diane together asap, and instead they upped the tension by having Diane date Frasier in season 3) - so perhaps in this spirit, had Shelley Long stayed on, the writers would have thumbed their noses at the conventional wisdom that suggests that marriage would effectively kill the Sam Diane dynamic. Marriage would have enabled Diane to have a rational reason for staying at Cheers as a co-owner. She could have annoyed Sam with her poetry nights and attempts to bring in an upper-class crowd. They still could have had the usual fights and even separations. But we'll never know. Yes, Shelley Long made a huge career mistake by leaving the show - both Ted Danson and Kirstie Alley developed successful film careers while remaining behind the bar at Cheers, while Shelley Long faded away somewhat, which is a shame as she is truly an outstanding actress of the first degree. In the final episode of the entire series - in season 11 - Diane returns, but again the writer's bitterness at Long hasn't fully dissipated. Now, Sam and Diane agree that they were basically just good in bed together and little more. Is that what made Cheers fans love the show in the first four years? Again, Diane is cheapened and through that so is Sam and so is Cheers. Anyway, season five has a very, very disappointing start, but eventually picks up, albeit not to the standards of the first four seasons. However, the final goodbye episode with the lovely Shelley Long is very touching.

It's hard to decided on a star rating for this season. In terms of hilarity, I found Seasons 3 and 4 funnier - and those were utterly hilarious seasons. Season 5 is imperitive though for anyone following the Sam and Diane romance as it ties up ends that had been in the making for a long time (namely the prior 4 seasons) so it will be essential to anyone following the series. While this season is funny and entertaining without a doubt, it doesn't score as high in laughs as previous seasons, and one reason for that is the preoccupation with Sam and Diane's impending marriage. However, while this season perhaps did not quite meet previous season levels of gut laughs, there are many moments of real thought provoking drama, proving again that while Cheers was a comedy, it was also a show of some depth in the issues that it non-chalantly tackled. Perhaps it was the right time for Shelley Long to leave the show, but seeing her leave in that final episode was somewhat like saying a last goodbye to an old friend. Diane as a character was obviously not without her faults, but in spite of those, she brought in concepts of higher education, literature, poetry, the arts - AND vanity, snobbery, and pretentiousness - how much more fodder could a character bring to a show? In previous seasons Diane often vasicilated between sexy and cute and vain and high-brow, but in this season she truly reaches an apex of exasperating self-centeredness that will leave the viewer almost crying out at more than one of her stunts! She usually manages to relent at last, or is it Sam's easy-going nature that brings things back into the realm of stomachability. I'd not like this season alone to stand as full representation for her character. But even so, I found that at the end of the season, she'd more or less won me over again - well, I wouldn't want to marry her ;) - but to tell you the truth, it seemed to me that finally Sam stopped the wedding. You'll have to judge for yourself. In reality, Long had decided already that season 5 would be her last even though producers had offered her ridiculously high amounts of money for her to continue. Whether it was for spending more time with her kids, or to pursue a movie career, Long left after this season. I've yet to go back through the Rebecca shows on DVD and am looking forward to it, but as I grew up with the Diane era myself, these first 5 seasons are more or less gold for me. All of the characters in this show are unique and form an incredibly varied yet cohesive unit. I'd give this season 4.5 stars in terms of humour. In terms of 'the saga', it's indispensable.

This was a refreshing piece of nostalgia. Many people remember this series as the highest rated show on TV in its day. The charm is still there, and it's still just as fun. It is interesting to see the development of the character Frazier, which became a very successful spin-off. This product is delightful.

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In the movie jenifer lopez gets knocked out by a female weight lifter and gets carried over the weigh lifters shoulder for awhile. it is a good movie, i thought that was the best part. the rest is hard to understand. all in all, i would buy it specially those who r lopez fns.

Bring the price down and you might actually sell the bluray of this movie. Probably a single layer bluray and I was a little disppointed with how it looked compared to some others. It just didn't look like they put any time into making it look as good as it could. This movie at times has very vivrant colors that still shine through and there is some natural grain, but I think this movie would look best being as pristine as possible. It actually appears darker than I remember the dvd being. I got it off one of the side vendors for $14 and so I am happy I didn't blow much money on this bluray. Sound is nothing special either in my opinion. I would give the movie 4/5 for some of the sickest visuals ever and 3/5 for the bluray release. Maybe they will come out with a better version in the future.

I don't like to embellish anything, but I LOVE this movie. Even Jennifer Lopez's bad acting can't bring it down (although Vincent D'Onofrio's is superb). The artistic vision is incredible. Some of the things portrayed makes you wonder how they were even able to think it up in the first place. The settings that take place in the minds are mind-blowing (pun intended). This is definitely one of the 5 best movies ever to watch while under the influence (the others being "Avatar," "Hero," "What Dreams May Come," and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" - feel free to come up with your own list :]).

A unique combination of horror movie and technothriller, The Cell is a highly innovative, visually marvelous film with emotional depth and strong characters. The movie launches with two seemingly disparate plot threads, and takes its time in bringing them together. One thread involves a new kind of experimental technology that can sync up brain waves and put one person 'inside' the mind of another. In this case it allows a psychologist (Jennifer Lopez, in probably her best role and performance) to enter the minds of comatose patients and work with them in their own head. Her main patient is a little boy who's physically capable of emerging from his comatose state, but unable to get past some kind of mental block. Lopez, as Catherine, has been involved in a long process of repeatedly entering the child's mind (he knows he's in a coma, by the way), which is represented by landscapes created entirely from each patient's memories or imagination, to try and win his trust and coax him out of whatever mental block he's in. The second opening thread involves an FBI hunt for the extremely warped, sadomasochistic serial killer Carl Stragher (Vincent D'Onfrio, who's amazingly creepy in here), who captures and films his victims before killing them by drowning in a big glass tank of his own construction, then makes 'human dolls' of them. When the FBI, with agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn, turning in a tremendous performance that's totally different from his usual comedic roles) in the lead, finally catches up with him, Stragher is shot and rendered comatose. One recent abductee is still missing, and the FBI's psychological department, which is aware of the experimental work going on with Catherine and her team, decides to take the unorthodox step of asking the researchers to become involved to try and find the location of the still-missing abductee. The worlds that exist inside Stragher's mind, where Catherine finds herself, are bizarre almost beyond words. The history and origin of Stragher also quickly comes to light, where it's revealed that the serial killer Stragher is only one part of a multiple personality that fractured early in his childhood, due to horrific abuse. Trying to explain a serial killer's background through a tormented past can be tricky - if it works it can come off powerfully and really shake the viewer; if it fails it can come off banal. Fortunately, it works here - just through the brief glimpses we see of the child Stragher, yeesh, you can see why the guy went completely insane. Some unexpected complications arise inside Stragher's mind. One - more than one of his personalities can be present simultaneously, including not only the mental image the killer Stragher has of himself (which is even more twisted and deadly than the 'real-world' killer) but the original child Stragher, existing as he was before his personality split. The child Stragher is innocent of any wrongdoing, is another victim of violence; the killer Stragher is the persona that's absorbed all the darkness, rage, hate and perversion. Second complication - you're normally safe when projected by this technology into another person's mind. In Stragher's case, it turns out that if the mind becomes convinced by what it's perceiving that this world and its experiences are real, then, in a kind of Nightmare On Elm Street-twist, you can actually be killed by what happens to you inside this strange world. The visuals are awesome, and the characterizations are vital: the unnerving contrast between the two facets of Stragher; the powerful, implied backstory to Agent Novak; and the potent depiction of Catherine as driven not by a quest for fame or scientific discoveries, but by a compassionate, deep drive to help the child patients that she develops an almost maternal attachment to. Inside the Stragher mind, this includes the child version of Stragher, who she's driven to protect not only from his older counterpart, but from the incidents of his real-life past that continue to re-occur inside his subconcious. Also worth mentioning is the unique, captivatingly exotic musical score by Howard Shore. The only shortcoming is length. With all the different things going on in here, the 107-minute run time leaves a few aspects resolved a bit too quickly. The Cell, as great as it is, could have easily benefitted from another 20-30 minutes. Yes, I know that' coming up on the two-and-a-half hour mark; some movies just call to be a bit longer than others, though. All in all though, the couple of aspects that go too quickly do not detract too much from the whole. Still a great movie that thrills, haunts and intrigues. Four-and-a-half stars. P.S. if you like this one you may also want to check out the similarly themed (but more obscure, and often under-rated) Unspeakable.

I heard a lot about this movie and finally got around to watching it. It was better than a lot of the same old stuff they pass off for horror. There was a lot of originality and it kept your interest through out the movie. It was not as scary as people told me it was. The horse scene is bizarre. I bet if we could see into other people mind's there would be a lot of weird and frightening stuff. The weightlessness reminded me of the sensory deprivation tanks in 'Altered States'.

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Basicly this is a very good book about how the human mind of an athlete is coping with all kinds of situations, fears and what to do to change one's mind. I loved to read it but it could have been much shorter. More to the point.

Your Performing Edge, the new 4th edition is absolutely the best resource I've ever come across for creating success in my personal and professional life. I use it for my sports training and for my professional development in my business. I also use the Your Performing Edge Comprehensive Learning System, a 12-CD set, which is a great companion to the book, with visualization exercises, a workbook, and hundreds of tools for performing my best. I love the Free ,Mini Ecourse that Dr. JoAnn created on her website, www.sports-psych.com Lots of great tools, insights and ideas for my training - a great resource that I use every day. Thanks.

If you improve your mental performance, you will improve your physical performance, This book will show you how to start with your mental outlook and go from there.

This is one of the best books I have read. It is a psychology book with a sports theme. Loved it!!!

Your Performing Edge is quite simply the best book i have ever read on the subject of improving mental performance. I am a keen amateur golfer with a 4 handicap and a great natural athelete. Like everyone, i was searching for that "miracle" to help me break through the next barrier - my mind. I have read and studied a number of other books and programs about improving mental performance. While many gave you the answers to "what" you need to do, none gave you the answers to "how" to improve. Dr. JoAnn Dalkoetters insights, lessons and tips are the most valuable resource ever produced on the subject. Combine this book with her Personal Coaching Program and you have, what i consider to be, the most powerful program available. I am now playing the golf i have always dreamed of. Your Performing Edge is a must read for anyone seriously considering improving their mental approach to atheletics, life, business or otherwise.

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This book will help the rookie sailor to know the ways around the ship from knots to sails and from Bow to Stern. It will become a usefull companion for references on maneouvres and on-ship safety measures.Very recommended.

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Basicly this is a very good book about how the human mind of an athlete is coping with all kinds of situations, fears and what to do to change one's mind. I loved to read it but it could have been much shorter. More to the point.

Your Performing Edge, the new 4th edition is absolutely the best resource I've ever come across for creating success in my personal and professional life. I use it for my sports training and for my professional development in my business. I also use the Your Performing Edge Comprehensive Learning System, a 12-CD set, which is a great companion to the book, with visualization exercises, a workbook, and hundreds of tools for performing my best. I love the Free ,Mini Ecourse that Dr. JoAnn created on her website, www.sports-psych.com Lots of great tools, insights and ideas for my training - a great resource that I use every day. Thanks.

If you improve your mental performance, you will improve your physical performance, This book will show you how to start with your mental outlook and go from there.

This is one of the best books I have read. It is a psychology book with a sports theme. Loved it!!!

Your Performing Edge is quite simply the best book i have ever read on the subject of improving mental performance. I am a keen amateur golfer with a 4 handicap and a great natural athelete. Like everyone, i was searching for that "miracle" to help me break through the next barrier - my mind. I have read and studied a number of other books and programs about improving mental performance. While many gave you the answers to "what" you need to do, none gave you the answers to "how" to improve. Dr. JoAnn Dalkoetters insights, lessons and tips are the most valuable resource ever produced on the subject. Combine this book with her Personal Coaching Program and you have, what i consider to be, the most powerful program available. I am now playing the golf i have always dreamed of. Your Performing Edge is a must read for anyone seriously considering improving their mental approach to atheletics, life, business or otherwise.

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I have read a lot of sleep books. And some of the original research articles on young children and sleep. I have twins, and by 12 months, someone was waking up every hour. My husband and I had been too tired to try to solve our sleep issues. After a year of waiting for things to get better, I couldn't do it anymore. I appreciated some of the ideas in the No Cry Sleep Solution, but they didn't work for our family with twins. Some of the Cry It Out books seemed really extreme, and didn't seem to present all sides to an issue. Then I found Mindell. I love the way she summarizes research clearly, and without bias. Her suggestions are practical, well explained, and realistic. She gives ranges you can work with. These techniques, with some modifications, absolutely worked for our family. I recommend (or buy) this book for all new moms. My best advice is, read about sleep BEFORE the baby's (babies') birth so you can be prepared.

We sleep trained both our kids with this method and never looked back. It was the number one best thing we did with our babies.

Helpful information, but nothing you can't find online or in magazines. I bought this at the recommendation of my pediatrician, and I read it (skipping over the ages that didn't apply to my family), but I ended up following the advice of my friends and family who've recently sleep-trained their kiddos.

This book was a life saver for me when my three children were small. I am now buying it for my sister and her first baby. The book offers practical advice without judgement. If you can stick to it for 4 days you will revolutionize your sleep habits, even when you exclusively breast feed like I did. Have hope! My children have been good sleepers for years now, even with a family history of light sleeping. You will not go wrong with this book.

We started with "The Baby Book" by Dr. Sears, then tried, "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" and then "The Secrets of the Baby Whisperer." We were really at our wits' end. The major issue wasn't actually that our baby wasn't sleeping through, but that she was having a really hard time napping and she was crying like crazy every bedtime. We were trying not to let her cry but she was totally inconsolable, screaming right in our arms! We would be driving her in desperation to get her to go to sleep and sometimes she would still scream. It was heartbreaking. Finally I got really desperate for a solution to my poor baby's anguish and looked online to see whether anyone in the sleep world was actually a PSYCHOLOGIST who specialized in sleep. Lo and behold, Jodi Mindell. She is truly an expert. Long story short, my baby now LOVES her crib. If we forget to put her down when it's time, she looks at us and says "Nigh night." She has no more negative associations with sleeping and she's a GREAT sleeper. 12-hour nights, plus usually 2 90-minute naps during the day at 13 months old. It took about 3 nights for bedtime to work (the longest she cried during that time was 20 minutes, which was already less than she cried when we'd tried to hold her or rock her to sleep!) and about 2 weeks or so for naptimes to get in gear. The three hallmarks of Mindell's method are: 1. Reliable scheduling. For about a month our naptimes and bedtimes (and waking times) were literally to-the-minute. It worked. It actually even worked for me. I'm pregnant and I was able to set my own internal clock to take an afternoon nap when my baby does! 2. Routine, routine, routine. Bedtime and naptimes in our house now have an exact routine that is the same every single day. Same items, same order. Same books! I think this was the key for our daughter. She really relies on her routines. 3. Going to sleep on their own. Now, this doesn't mean you can't go in the room, or that you can't comfort your child if they need you. But you can't help them sleep. No rocking, nursing, feeding, driving, patting, etc. We went in and checked every 5 minutes and if she was really scared and not just fighting sleep we would pick her up, calm her down and put her back. Now she grabs her binky, says "nigh nigh" and lays down! Mindell also offers an alternative where you get to this gradually. So you could stay in the room for a while and get farther away or whatever if you don't want to do any crying at all. I will also add that our baby, who we and everyone else thought was just a "fussy baby," turns out to be the happiest person in the world. We thought she had tummy problems, teething problems, all kinds of things. Well, now she's smiling, giggling and babbling 95% of the time. Sleep is a miracle cure!

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Teaching Smarter with the Brain in Focus is a practical teacher professional guide to enhances learning at a deeper level. It is inexpensive and so pragmatic compared to most brain sources/materials I have purchased. She is specific listing games, graphic organizers and different ways to engage students in collaborative tasks and cooperative groups. Her startegies are research based and fit standards of teaching including recent research facts on attention, music in the curriculum, etc.. I just heard her at the Brain and Learning Conference in Dc and like her book was a wealth of information. Mary Ellen Gavin

My entire school staff is reading this book for ways to improve our interaction with our students. This offers a research based perspective on learning and teaching!

There is only one word for "Teaching Smarter with the brain in Focus" ...Amazing! Her chapter on Lesson Design is worth the price of the book alone. Easy to read, well-illustrated and helpful to use, Scholastic has provided another winner. Dr. Sarah Armstrong uses many great real life examples from classrooms and schools; she has obviously "been there and done that" which makes her advice so much more relevant. She encourages thinking in the classroom and avoids "Telling the information". This is a very thought provoking topic in this age of "teach the test'. Sarah introduces active engagement/involvement through role-play, simulation, music, visual arts, etc and explains how these techniques can help the brain become better at learning. I especially liked the different memory systems. I have started to use several of them myself to help my long-term memories. I occasionally teach adult education classes and I will use Sarah's innovative book for future lessons! Sarah Armstrong has a real winner here for helping educators and teachers develop thinkers. Whether you are a first year teacher or a senior educator, "Teaching Smarter with the Brain in Focus" can help you in every aspect of teaching. It is a "Must Have" for discerning teachers! Sam Hendricks, author of "Fantasy Football Guidebook"

Wow... Dr. Armstrong has provided educators with a guide to lesson planning and classroom instruction that can be used every day!! I have worked as a teacher, principal, curriculum & instructional leader, as well as educational consultant. Never have a seen such a great guide with clear direction to how to use the brain research to support student learning. Thanks, Sarah!!

Would you like to teach the way you know works best but cannot defend your methodology as research based? Well here is your defense in one skinny little book. Yes, that music in the background of your classroom does have a scientifically researched significance to learning. Dancing on the playground to the rhythm of the times table is far more fun and makes learning easier, than sitting in straight, quiet rows trying to memorize 7x6 or 8x6. Dr. Armstrong makes the scientifically researched connection between how the brain learns and what we do in the classroom. She gives us the science behind the art of teaching that great teachers just seem to know. If I were the principal of your school, you would be reading this book with me this fall and we would probably be sitting in comfortable chairs with headphones on.

Reviews

This album is so good for the stressful time that so many of us have. Play the album, start relaxing, then you are ready to do whatever you want to do.

My husband and I purchased this in an attempt at relaxing and help with sleeping. THIS IS JUST CLASSICAL MUSIC using Andrew Weil's name. The entire write up states that sounds were put together in a certain way to promote healing. I believe it is just a money making scheme. Go out and purchase any classical music CD instead of wasting your money on this one.

Generally, I do not find that classical music relaxes me as does Andrew Weil's "Breathing: The Master to Self-Healing". I find that excerpts of complete concerti etc. bothers me; I want to hear the whole piece. For others this cd works extremely well.

This is a beautiful CD, so calming and relaxing. Just 'what the Dr. ordered'!! I will probably order more for my adult children.... you can't go wrong with this one!

Wow, this artfully designed musical collection truly does what it says - the psychoacoustics technic really works! Carefully selected classical pieces and soft instrumentation make this an absolute delight to listen to. However, what I originally purchased this for was to have some relaxing ambient background music to play while I'm working - and this definitely does NOT work - it's too relaxing! The songs are specifically ordered to be gradually slower and softer, and I can't get through half the songs before I want to take a nap. So for daytime ambience, I don't recommend it. If you're looking for a late-night wind-down or a cure for insomnia, I could not recommend it more highly. You'll be ready for sweet dreams in snoozeville by track 11, no drugs required!