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In this stressful world, Yoga transcends religious differences and helps millions of people worldwide to reconnect with their inner life, to find peace of mind in a world of conflict and distractions, and to recognize their inner joy, power and health. Encompassing more than just physical postures, Yoga is a spiritual science, a way of life which grants peace, balance, and freedom from suffering.

This audiobook contains a collection of spiritual tales designed to calm your mind and help you experience the Power of Now. These selected stories prove that the basic teachings of ancient Hinduism share the same elementary truths than those presently taught by Eckhart Tolle, as evidenced by the writings of Swami Sivananda, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, and other renowned Hindu masters.

In 1943, realizing she is on the wrong bus, eight-year-old Rosabelle is dropped off and left by the side of the road. All she wants is to get to Taos - the place of her birth. Now, 72 years later, Rosabelle is the last person alive to tell her family’s story. From the seat of an “overturned bucket” she recounts the adventures and traumas of her mother’s life.

A treasure map to finding your unique best self outside the margins of what everyone says you should be, this quick-listen assist helps you create a doable daily ritual that fits perfectly with your unique yourself. Conceived and born during the Covid Season of 2020, Shine helps you find your balance and keep it. The soothing lyrical style meets you where you are and encourages you to find your bliss, no matter what is happening around you.

The wide range of useful information contained in How My Brain Works can help the listener in many ways: basic understanding of this unique organ, advice for anyone concerned about the possibility of a cognitive problem, and the wisdom of the author’s experience in helping her many patients and others to keep their brains healthy and working at their highest level.

Secrets. Lies. Silences. Stories told by parents and their families to protect themselves. A father who defends his wife despite her damage to their daughter’s health and welfare. A mother, shielded by her husband, who perpetuates murderous acts of violence against the daughter, and keeps secret her husband’s sexual “play” with the young girl.

Strawberry Roan tells memorable stories of the life of Judy Beil Vaughan, from growing up on a horse ranch to medical school and practicing medicine in New Mexico’s state-funded hospitals in Las Vegas. The author relates youthful adventures and adult conflicts as she juggles her profession, family, and deep involvement with her father’s horse breeding legacy.

Banged-Up Heart by Shirley Melis is an intimate and clear-eyed account of finding love late and losing it early - and of the strength it takes to fall madly in love a second time, be forced to relinquish that love too soon, and yet choose to love again. When her husband of 30 years dies suddenly, Shirley Melis is convinced she will never find another man like Joe. Then she meets John, a younger man who tells her during their first conversation that he has lived for many years with a rare but manageable cancer.

Broken down in small bite-sized topics that are relevant for self-growth and actualization, this book outlines the many nuggets of wisdom to overcome obstacles for continual self-improvement.

Leona is cast into bewildering disgrace and poverty with a baby, a violent husband, and shattered faith. She hacks through the bones of her Mennonite naiveté to confront harsh realities. This riveting and morally unflinching memoir, recommended by Ms. Magazine, delivers intense suspense, humor, and unusual wisdom.

Written by Ralph M. Flores, illustrated by family and friends, and published posthumously, these 13 fables, adapted for audio, are fractured in that some are spin-offs on Aesop's Fables and Navajo coyote tales, but all show topical twists unique to Ralph's wry, indulgent humor. The moral at the end of each fable, if we didn't realize sooner, alerts us to the animal characters that are stand-ins for human fools.

Eli Cutter is a knight-master in an ancient order created to advise the president of the United States. Because of the mental toll from their job, knight-masters retire at a young age. Cutter has retired to Taos, New Mexico, but on a trip to Vail, Colorado, he rescues the current president. Seeing Cutter display unusual skills, the current president asks if Cutter can assist him solving crimes that fall through the cracks of bureaucracy.

Posthumous poems written and collected over a lifetime by Ralph M. Flores, author of The Horse in the Kitchen, El caballo en la cocina, Tales from La Perla, and The Illustrated Fractured Fables.