Books

Following you’ll find a list of the books that have helped and inspired me over the years in three categories:

  1. health and well being;
  2. meditation and Buddhism;
  3. society and values.

One word of caution on the wellness front.  In the case of complex health challenges, there rarely is one single book that holds all the answers.  Many books offer well-intended advice that may help many of others, but would send you or me into a tailspin.

Each and every one of us is different. We each need to find our own unique ways of staying healthy or recovering once we are ill.  Knowing oneself is of crucial importance when it comes to health and well-being.

That being said, every one of these books, single chapters, or sometimes even a single paragraph have been a gem in my life at one point or the other. To your health!

On health and healing

  • Adrenal Fatigue, Wilson, ND
  • Breaking the Vicious Cycle, Gottschall
  • Dealing with Food Allergies (2003), Vickerstaff Joneja
  • Energy Medicine, Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality,Donna Eden
  • Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain, A Survival Manual, Starlanyl
  • From Fatigued to Fantastic, Teitelbaum
  • Full Catastrophe Living:   Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Heal Yourself with Qigong, Gentle Practice to Increase Energy, Restore Health, and Relax the Mind, Friedman
  • Home Safe Home, Dadd
  • Molecules of Emotion, Pert
  • Prakriti, Your Ayurvedic Constitution, Svoboda
  • The Touch of Healing, Burmeister
  • The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook, Davies
  • Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain, Finando
  • Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma, Levine

On meditation and Buddhism

  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
  • The Joy of Living:  Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
  • Joyful Wisdom:  Embracing Change and Finding Freedom by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
  • Carefree Dignity:  Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind by Tsoknyi Rinpoche
  • It’s Up to You:  The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path by Dzigar Kongtrul
  • The Healing Power of Mind by Tulku Thondup
  • Boundless Healing, Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body by Tulku Thondup
  • Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
  • The Places That Scare You:  A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Pema Chodron

Society and personal values

  • Ethics for a New Millennium, the Dalai Lama