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A Pain Psychologist’s Handbook For Living And Thriving With Chronic Pain This book is an educational /
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TWILIGHT of DEMOCRACY: The Seductive Lure of AUTHORITARIANISM
self-help guide for learning how to manage living with persistent pain. There are several mind-body exercises to master, which will reduce suffering as the reader becomes practiced in their use. In the book, we will discuss the nature of pain, stress, the impact of distress on the experience of pain and ways of caring for one’s self. The goal is to become an excellent
By Anne Applebaum 2020; Random House and Doubleday, a division of Penguin (New York);
381 pages (PB), $36.00 ISBN-10: 0385545800
Ten years before Stalin’s Great Terror and six years before Hitler came to power, French essayist Julien Benda already feared that the writers, journalists, and essayists who had morphed into political entrepreneurs and propagandists would goad whole civilizations into acts of violence. And so it came to pass. ~ Excerpted from Twilight of Democracy Anne Applebaum is an acclaimed writer, and Twilight of Democ- racy does not disappoint those expectations. She clarifies the theme of this riveting yet troubling journey as a cautionary tale that “given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.” This book is a literary and historical journey of successful and un- successful efforts within the United States to establish self-govern - ment. “The ancient philosophers always had their doubts as to the strengths of a democracy to prevail.” So did America’s founding fa - thers as they forged ahead with their republican form of government. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 created the Electoral College as a hopeful safeguard against a possible demagogue seeking a “road to tyranny.” However, it is viewed today as “a rubber stamp body with no power,” or “more recently as a mechanism that gives outsized influ - ence to small groups of voters in a few states.” Alexander Hamilton and many others in colonial America “read over and over again the history of Greece and Rome, trying to learn how to prevent a new democracy from becoming a tyranny. In his old age, John Adams was once again reading Cicero, the Roman states- man who sought to halt the deterioration of the Roman Republic, even
conservator of the ecological system that is you and learn to keep yourself in physical-mental and spiritual balance. In this practical guide for sufferers of chronic
pain Dr. Appel presents strategies for pain reduction garnered from over 4 decades of clinical practice as a pain psychologist.
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A guide to embracing your ascension into 5D consciousness $16.00 • Paperback • 160 pages 27 b&w illustrations ISBN 978-1-59143-531-0 Living Your Best 5D Life Timeless Tools to Achieve and Maintain Your New Reality Maureen J. St. Germain
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