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Powerful Sleep - by Kacper Postawski - How to Sleep Less and Have an Abundance of Energy a testimonial from Mark Shiel, Hereford, United Kingdom I have successfully reduced the amount of time I sleep by 2 hours a day already from reading this ebook! I just realized in typing that how much time that actually is! That's an extra working day and more time to relax in one week! As someone that reads and listens to a lot of self help information one thing I would never have thought about researching sleep, yet it is so important.

I was sleeping too much time away and still feeling tired which was limiting my effectiveness no matter what time management strategies or other things I learned. Sometimes I have found it hard to judge how effective techniques I have learned in the self help area, this one was easy. If I don't follow the advice in the book I end up feeling worn out, restless and tired the next day. This book explains everything you need to know in a highly and easy to understand manner, It's not rocket science, it just works. ~ ~ ~ > more testimonials about Powerful Sleep

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Ray Sahelian MD. Mind Boosting Secrets * Marge couldn't remember her phone number... but now her brain's 20 years younger... * Alice was about to get fired, but now she's super-productive... * Michael's depression disabled him, but this secret reversed it in just 3 days... * Diane was drooping with chronic fatigue, but now she's peppy all day...

> Dr. Ray Sahelian uses only natural vitamins, minerals, nutrients and extracts... was extensively trained in nutrition, receiving a degree in this science from Drexel University, and his medical doctorate from Thomas Jefferson Medical School... The shelves at your local health food store are piled high with so-called "mind-boosting" supplements. And some of them can have a powerful, positive effect. But, as Dr. Sahelian reveals on pages 9-11, many are worthless in the form they're sold -- and some can undermine your brain's health if taken as directed on the label. > also see Ray Sahelian products on page: supplements : mental & physical health

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Stephen J. Bull The Mental Game Plan

Michael Clarkson Competitive Fire  [on elite athletes]

Edward De Bono Edward De Bono's Super Mind Pack: a mixed media set from the pioneer of `lateral thinking' techniques.
[Feed mag.:] "A Rhodes scholar who has held appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge, and who pioneered "lateral thinking" techniques, De Bono here provides an interactive, step-by-step course in "Thinking for Doing," which includes 100 games and exercises to improve your mental agility and teach you how to think more creatively, a 96-page book, two double-sided game boards, five sets of number cards, two dice and value cards, plus triangular counters, hexagonal pieces, score pads, and number discs."

Stephen Fabian Clearing Away the Clouds: Nine Lessons for Life from the Martial Arts
"Stephen Fabian, a professor of anthropology at North Central College in Illinois, shares with readers the benefits of over 20 years of training in Asian martial arts systems. He spells out these lessons in chapters on embracing a way, accepting responsibility for your actions, controlling the breath, focusing, developing self-discipline, training hard, being patient, persevering, and cultivating a mind of no-mind." [review: Frederic Brussat, Values & Visions Reviews www.spiritualrx.com]

Howard Ferguson The Edge : The Guide to Fulfilling Dreams, Maximizing Success and Enjoying a Lifetime of Achievement 
[Customer Comments:] Howard was my coach and motivated and drove you to believe in yourself under all conditions. .. The Edge captures the great words of various athletes and how these exceptional leaders in their sport delt with all avenues of adversity. I, today, still use these quotes and words of motivation to bring out the very best in myself and in the people I manage in the sales arena."

David Gamon Building Mental Muscle
"This book includes short reports on results of academic research into how the human brain functions, plus tests and mental exercises related to each short report. The editors selected only topics that can be put to practical use in everyday life and that can be understood without scientific background. They clustered the reports into six ways you use your brain: Executive/Social, Memory, Emotional, Language, Math and Spatial. Linked with each text report is a Self-test of brain function you can administer to yourself, or an entertaining Exercise of the brain function related to what you learned from the report."

Tom Gegax Winning in the Game of Life: Self-Coaching Secrets for Success
[excerpt:] "Our eyes are bleary from reading business-success tomes and taking notes at "achievement" seminars. Still, we're left asking the same questions: What makes us tick? What makes us sick? What drives us? While the average American works more hours than ever, little of the effort actually helps us understand anything about ourselves. Crowded out by the often manic push for success, simple, reflective inquiry rarely hits anyone's radar screen. .. we often fail to notice the unexplored world within."

Kenneth Giuffre The Care and Feeding of Your Brain : How Diet and Environment Affect What You Think and Feel   [author:] "Based on the best researchers in the field, my attempt at helping you choose how to have optimal brain function (conventional and alternative approaches)... It covers the effects of foods, suppliments, herbs,lifestyle, prescription/OTC/illegal drugs on the brain with respect to alertness, memory, mood, sleep, sexual function, stress, and aging."

Robert Goldman Brain Fitness   "Robert Goldman holds a Ph.D. in steroid biochemistry, founded the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is an adviser to the Journal of Longevity Research. In Brain Fitness, he makes a valid point that's been proven by recent studies: your brainpower, like the muscles of your body, can be expanded through exercise. .. Through various self-quizzes, charts, and self-tests, Brain Fitness helps you determine what state your brain is in now--and helps you boost your memory power accordingly."

Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ for Character, Health and Lifelong Achievement

Jack Groppel The Corporate Athlete: How to Achieve Maximal Performance in Business and Life  "Executives and employees in the new millennium can protect their health and happiness and continue to perform at high levels only by doing what athletes do--train," Groppel writes. "You must become a Corporate Athlete, which means adapting the training mentality of elite, high-performance athletes." His program is hardly "a quick fix," Groppel admits, but rather a demanding (albeit versatile) and multifaceted process with explicit short- and long-term guidelines. He clearly explains how carbohydrates and proteins, stretching and aerobic activity, and even ethics and values affect performance at work, for example, and offers practical suggestions for incorporating them into an already overcrowded day."

Ronald Gross. Peak Learning

Robert Haas. Eat Smart, Think Smart: How to Use Nutrients and Supplements to Achieve Maximum Mental and Physical Performance   [review from Library Journal:]  "Haas, a celebrity nutritionist .. promotes the idea that appropriate use of nutrients and dietary supplements will allow us to reach our peak physical and intellectual levels."

Mia Hamm Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life
"Once you experience success -- and you will if you put in the work -- you shouldn't be afraid to celebrate it. Unless you feel good about what you do every day, you won't do it with much conviction or passion. So celebrate what you've accomplished, but also raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed."

Thich Nhat Hanh The Art of Mindful Living

Ned Herrmann The Whole Brain Business Book
"Ned Herrmann conducted studies on the preferred thinking modes of various groups of people with different areas of brain dominance. As a result of these studies he arrived at a circular model of the brain divided into four quadrants (instead of the two halves formerly associated with "right brain-left brain" thinking) Each of the four quadrants represents a thinking mode such as "analyze","Organize","personalize" and "strategize". [review from Mental Athletics Programme site]

Shozo Hibino Creative Solution Finding : The Triumph of Breakthrough Thinking over Conventional Problem Solving
"In their book, "Breakthrough Thinking", the authors offer a unique process for solving problems. In this follow-up book, they present more insight into the history of thinking and problem-solving approaches, while providing research that explains why Breakthrough Thinking is successful. Based on well-researched studies, this volume offers a new and creative approach to solving problems called Full Spectrum Thinking, a process that helps individuals plan, design, improve, and find more solutions."

Lydia Ievleva Inner Sports : Mental Skills for Peak Performance

Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Sacred Hoops - Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
On one wall hangs a wooden arrow with a tobacco pouch tied to it - the Lakota Sioux symbol of prayer - and in other locations are a bear claw necklace, an owl feather, a photo of a white buffalo. This is, unexpectedly, the team room of three-time national champion basketball players, the Chicago Bulls. The team's inner sanctum has been made a sacred space by Phil Jackson, one of the most successful coaches in NBA history. Born in Deer Lodge, Montana of Pentecostal ministers, Jackson has studied psychology, Eastern and Native American philosophy and religion, and practices Zen meditation.  

Susan Jackson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow in Sports
[amazon.com synopsis:] Two leading experts on "the flow state" explain the phenomenon as it occurs in sports and provide seven keys for creating favorable conditions for unleashing the power "flow" of mind and spirit. Endorsed by Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson."

Jacob Jordan Total Mindbody Training : A Guide to Peak Athletic Performance

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.  Wherever You Go There You Are   [Amazon.com review:] "To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the past, the future, or the multitudinous distractions of modern life. In brief, rather poetic chapters, he describes different meditative practices and what they can do for the practitioner. The idea that meditation is "spiritual" is often confusing to people, Kabat-Zinn writes; he prefers to think of it as what you might call a workout for your consciousness."

Lawrence Katz Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises "The exercises are scientifically based on the latest research from leading neurobiology labs around the world including Larry Katz' own research in the Dept. of Neurobiology lab at the Duke University Medical Center. .. The exercises use your five senses in unexpected ways that shake up your daily routines. It's not at all like having to sit down with paper and pencil to do what can be an intimidating puzzle or word game. Neurobics have been developed to be easy, fun and offbeat."

Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. The Better Memory Kit: A Practical Guide To The Prevention And Reversal Of Memory Loss
..encompasses an innovative, clinically proven medical program to prevent and reverse all types of memory loss, including Alzheimer's disease. It's based on more than a decade of research and clinical experience.
"In The Better Memory Kit, Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa shows us how the best of alternative and conventional medicine can really help us build a better memory. Well done." - Leeza Gibbons, TV/radio personality and founder of The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation

Dan Kirschenbaum Mind Matters: Seven Steps to Smarter Sport Performance

Ronald Klatz M.D.  Ten Weeks to a Younger You: Grow 10 Yrs Younger in 10 Weeks With New Therapeutics of Anti-Aging Med. "...outlines real life measures that every person can implement during a ten-week period to optimize mental and physical well being. This how-to guide is the authentic work of the President of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), a society of more than 7,000 physicians and scientists from fifty countries who believe that aging is not inevitable..."

Gerald Kushel Reaching the Peak Performance Zone : How to Motivate Yourself and Others to Excel

James Loehr The New Toughness Training for Sports : Mental, Emotional, and Physical Conditioning...
[Booklist:] "...examines what mental toughness is and how to achieve it, thus allowing even average athletes to compete at their optimum level. .. solid practical tips on such matters as training and overtraining, the importance of recovery (relaxation) following stress, and the concept of training cycles. For professionals and weekend warriors alike."

Dan Millman Body Mind Mastery

Michael Murphy. In the Zone : Transcendent Experience in Sports

Shane Murphy The Achievement Zone: An 8 Step Guide to Peak Performance in All Areas of Life
"The chief sports psychologist for the United States Olympic Committee from1987 to 1994 presents eight simple steps that readers can use to improve their lives: focus, concentrate, energize, be consistent, stay calm, think like a winner, keep emotions in check, and think creatively."

John Murray Smart Tennis: How to Play and Win the Mental Game

Robert M. Nideffer. Psyched to Win

John R. Noe Peak Performance Principles for High Achievers

Terry Orlick In Pursuit of Excellence : How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

M. Scott Peck Golf and the Spirit
[Library Journal:] "Scott uses the game of golf to illustrate how we often struggle against ourselves: the golf course mimics the journey of life. Each chapter begins with a brief aphorism and then goes beyond the mechanics of golf to explore ways of successfully managing emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the game, and of life itself."

Ruben Perczek. The Zen of Peak Performance: Meditation Practices for Focus, Clarity, and Calm

David Perlmutter, M.D., and Carol Colman. The Better Brain Book:  The Best Tools for Improving Memory
and Sharpness and for Preventing Aging of the Brain
Playing into our culture's obsession with maintaining youthfulness, neurologist Perlmutter and coauthor Colman say the "typical" signs of brain aging -- losing your keys, forgetting appointments, having trouble multitaskingòaren't necessarily inevitable and are actually preventable. They divide their book into three tiers: factors affecting mental function, tools for developing a better brain and specific brain disorders. Perlmutter, who runs a Florida health center, is quite concerned with showing how brain aging can be prevented and clarity can be regained by making dietary adjustments. He and Colman also warn of the dangers of using prescription or OTC drugs that may be "interfering with your brain's ability to function at optimal levels." > from review in the Self Improvement Newsletter

Henry Reed Your Mind : Unlocking Your Hidden Powers   [author:] "Mind organizes and creates patterns. A good mind is one that is particularly perceptive of patterns. A creative mind can see unusual patterns that others ignore. An alert mind is aware, awake and present in a situation, ready to recognize old patterns and create new ones."

Richard M. Restak Older and Wiser : How to Maintain Peak Mental Ability for As Long As You Live
[Publishers Weekly:] "Filled with specific advice and simple exercises, this groundbreaking guide from acclaimed neurologist Dr. Richard M. Restak draws on the latest scientific research to help maintain -- and increase -- brain power at any age. Contrary to common belief, the human brain does not necessarily deteriorate with age, but can work just as well, if not better than a young one. The key, says Dr. Restak, is keeping the brain active. His 30 practical suggestions offer a new and positive approach to mental fitness..."

Marcia Reynolds Being in the Zone: The Secrets of Personal Excellence

Michael F. Roizen Real Age : Are You As Young As You Can Be?  "Dr. Michael Roizen, a preventive gerontologist at the University of Chicago... has compiled a list of 100 health-related factors, among them tobacco and alcohol use, diet, prescription and over-the-counter drug use, your parents' health, even pet ownership and the highest educational level completed by your spouse, and worked all these into a quiz to determine your "real age." .. He then explains how to follow a personalized age-reduction plan using a range of methods.."

Ray Sahelian MD. Bottom Line's Mind Boosting Secrets!
* Marge couldn't remember her phone number... but now her brain's 20 years younger...
* Alice was about to get fired, but now she's super-productive...
* Michael's depression disabled him, but this secret reversed it in just 3 days...
* Diane was drooping with chronic fatigue, but now she's peppy all day...
> Dr. Ray Sahelian uses only natural vitamins, minerals, nutrients and extracts... was extensively trained in nutrition, receiving a degree in this science from Drexel University, and his medical doctorate from Thomas Jefferson Medical School...The shelves at your local health food store are piled high with so-called "mind-boosting" supplements. And some of them can have a powerful, positive effect. But, as Dr. Sahelian reveals on pages 9-11, many are worthless in the form they're sold -- and some can undermine your brain's health if taken as directed on the label.

Ray Sahelian MD. Mind Boosters: A Guide to Natural Supplements that Enhance Your Mind, Memory, and Mood

> also see Ray Sahelian products on page: supplements : mental & physical health

Dennis Selder Smart Skiing: Mental Training for All Ages and Levels of Skill    [reader:] "This book has been a long time coming. Dr. Selder provided me with the mental skills and techniques to enhance my physical performance on the slopes. He has the ability to break down the complex workings of mental moguls and translate them into easy steps that I can follow to improve both my skill level and my overall enjoyment of this great sport."

Martin Seligman Learned Optimism: What You Can Change... and What You Can't
"We can control our thoughts as we can our muscles... One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think."

Marsha Sinetar Developing a 21st-Century Mind

Robert Singer Peak Performance and More

Gary Small, MD. The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young
[Publishers Weekly:]  Neuroscientist Gary Small says that middle-aged people need to realize that they are "all one day closer to Alzheimer's disease." He gives prescriptive tips for "brain fitness," among them: minimize stress, do puzzles and brainteasers, even eat antioxidant fruits and vegetables like prunes and blueberries.
[reader:]  After a string of disappointments from the the self-help section of my local bookstore I've finally found an exception: a book that actually helps... it delivers exactly what it promises: "a strategy to keep your brain young." Dr. Small deftly reduces a lifetime of esoteric research into a straight-ahead, easily-understood, entertaining book that explains the process of how the brain ages and what we can do to slow it down.
  < Gary W. Small, M.D., is Director of the Aging and Memory Research Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

Gary Small, M.D. The Memory Prescription : Dr. Gary Small's 14-Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young
Director of the UCLA Center on Aging, Small (The Memory Bible) presents his "boot camp for the brain" program, which pulls together the four most well-proven strategies for brain and body health: mental activity, physical conditioning, stress reduction and a "healthy brain diet." Small admits no one has found "the fountain of youth," but claims to be "among the billions awaiting a first sighting." In the meantime, he suggests using this book's memory assessment tests, basic low-fat meal plans and brain-teasing exercises to achieve "quality longevity." [Publishers Weekly]

David Sobel, M.D.; Robert Ornstein.  The Healthy Mind Healthy Body Handbook

Karlene Sugarman Winning the Mental Way..

Richard M. Suinn. Psychology in Sport

Vernon Kitabu Turner. Soul Sword: The Way and Mind of a Zen Warrior

Steven Ungerleider Mental Training for Peak Performance : Top Athletes Reveal the Mind Exercises They Use to Excel

David Weeks Secrets of the Superyoung   "Dr. David Weeks [head of Old Age Psychology at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland] draws on a survey he made of selected members of what he calls the Superyoung... Energy, resiliency, and adaptability are the three major qualities contributing to being Superyoung. One should not only live in a stimulating environment, Weeks says, but actively take part in it. Continuing social contacts are necessary for breadth of outlook and interests, he stresses, and altruism and stewardship are also vital. .. The book's final section... advises about improving memory, brain power, creativity, keeping fit, and eating well."

Jean M. Williams Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance

Anna Wise The High-Performance Mind : Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Healing, and Creativity
"The High Performance Mind is clear, sharp, quick, and flexible. Thinking feels fluid. Emotions are more available and understandable, easier to work with and transform to a desirable state. Information flows easily between the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious levels. Intuition, insight and empathy increase and are integrated into normal consciousness. Imagination and creativity are accessed and begin to manifest. Spiritual awareness expands and you have a greater feeling of choice, freedom, and mastery."

Gary Zukav Authentic Power : Aligning Personality With Soul
[from Oprah.com:] "Author of Oprah's favorite book, The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav is no stranger to the effects of the power of choice. .. Gary suggests that you roadmap your choices. Early on, his choices were driven by the anger and emptiness that consumed him... As a former Green Beret, he realizes, "I needed my uniform to make me feel worthy, and I was so angry that I wanted to kill. And I went to Vietnam looking for that." .. Every choice he made was for personal gain and for control over others. .. Then, something magical happened. He discovered quantum physics, which as he says, "always produces the most meaningful conversations about the most deepest philosophical questions possible." This led him to write The Dancing Wu Li Masters... According to Gary, how we choose to deal with struggle will determine the kind of life we lead. "Intention is the basic choice that you make."
 

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