Bibliography and Resources

Books

Daniel Amen. Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance. New York: Harmony Books, 2005.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D. The Creating Brain: the Neuroscience of Genius. New York: Dana Press, 2005.

Sharon Begley. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

Joan Borysenko, PhD. Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007.

Julia Cameron. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2002.

Rick Carson. Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way. New York: Quill, 2003.

Jean Carper. Your Miracle Brain. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Marla Cilley. Sink Reflections. New York: Bantam Books, 2002.

Norman Cousins. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient. New York: Norton, 1979.

Gavin De Becker. The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence. New York: Dell, 1999.

Donna Eden. Energy Medicine: Balance Your Body's Energies for Optimum Health, Joy, and Vitality. New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 1999.

Paul Ekman. Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Tapas Fleming. You Can Heal Now: The Tapas Acupressure Techniques (TAT). Redondo Beach, CA: TAT International, 1999.

Howard Gardner. Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Shakti Gawain. Creative Visualization. Novato, CA: Nataraj Pub./New World Library, 2002.

Daniel Goleman. Social Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 2006.

Temple Grandin. Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons, 2005.

Byron Katie. Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life. New York: Crown, 2002.

Sally Kempton (Swami Durgananda). The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience. South Fallsburg, NY: SYDA Foundation, 2002.

Jack Kornfield. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path. New York: Bantam Books, 2001.

Anne Lamott. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York : Anchor Books, 1995.

Joel and Michelle Levey. Luminous Mind. San Francisco: Conari Press, 2006.

Priscilla Long. Begin Again: The Portable Mentor for Practicing Writers. (forthcoming) Eric Maisel. Ten Zen Seconds. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007.

Ragini Elizabeth Michaels. Facticity: A Door to Mental Health and Beyond. Seattle, WA: Facticity Trainings, 1991.

Marvin Minsky, M.D. Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Patricia Potter-Efron and Ronald Potter-Effron. Letting Go of Shame. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1996.

Steven Pratt and Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods Proven to Change Your Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

John Ratey. A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain. New York: Pantheon, 2001.

Lorin Roche. Meditation Made Easy. New York: Harper San Francisco, 1998.

Sharon Salzberg. Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness. Boston, London: Shambhala, 2004, 1995.

Susannah Seton and Sondra Kornblatt. 365 Energy Boosters. San Francisco: Conari Press, 2005.

Renna Shesso. Math for Mystics : From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Sections and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry. San Francisco: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2007.

Andrew Weil, M.D., and Gary Small, M.D. The Healthy Brain Kit. Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2007.

John Wright, Dr. Wright's Guide to Healing with Nutrition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.

Web sites

cosmeticsdatabase.com (Environmental Working Group Cosmetics Database)

csrees.usda.gov/Extension (state extension offices)

the-dma.org/consumers/offmailinglist.html (Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service)

donotcall.gov (eliminate junk calls).

drweil.com (Dr. Andrew Weil, alternative medicine)

enneagraminstitute.com (Enneagram: theory of nine personality types)

faculty.washington.edu/chudler/index1.html (Neuroscience for Kids—and adults, too)

flylady.com (organizing your home)

foodnews.org/ (Environmental Working Group—food)

freerice.com (vocabulary and hunger-support)

ldrc.ca/projects/miinventory/miinventory.php (multiple intelligence strengths)

mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp (Seafood Watch Program from the Monterey Bay Aquarium)

mcphee.com (Archie McPhee's toys and amusements)

myersbriggs.org (Myers Briggs test)

napo.net (National Association of Professional Organizers)

oceansalive.org (Oceans Alive easy-to use list of safe fish)

pollutioninpeople.org (toxic chemicals in humans)

psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/bachorowski/laugh.htm. (recorded laughs)

restfulinsomnia.com (how to renew when you can't sleep)

smart-kit.com (online puzzles and brain games)

tatlife.com (Tapas Acupressure Technique), tftrx.com, and emofree.com (psychological acupressure)

umm.edu/altmed/index.htm (University of Maryland Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

watoxics.org/homes-and-gardens/factsheets/vinyl (Washington Toxics Coalition overview)

watoxics.org/homes-and-gardens/resources-treated-wood (treated wood)

watoxics.org/issues/pbde/pbde-resources (safe furniture choices)