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Lissa Rankin, M.D. Chloe Goodchild Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul Transforming Your Life through the Power of Sound Hay House, 25.99 North Atlantic Books, $19.95 Pub date: May 5, 2015 THE FEAR CURE Books/Music Spring 2015 George Beinhorn THE JOYFUL ATHLETE The Wisdom of the Heart in Exercise & Sports Training Crystal Clarity, $18.95 How can athletes train for maximum performance and joy? George Beinhorn, a veteran runner who worked as an editor at Runner’s World, was paralyzed from the chest down for three years. No sooner had he recovered than a spiritual teacher urged him to start running—there would be no time for self-pity. For the next 40 years, he studied the careers of hundreds of athletes and discovered ways to make training both scientific and personally rewarding. The Joyful Athlete tells a riveting story of groundbreaking research that reveals why our bodies thrive when we cultivate expansive thoughts and feelings, and how scores of athletes at all levels have found success by “feeling-based training.” Carol Deppe THE TAO OF VEGETABLE GARDENING Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity Chelsea Green Publishing, $24.95 Gardening for maximum effect with minimal effort— that’s the Tao approach to growing vegetables, and plant-savvy garden writer Carol Deppe teaches growers how to find the right balance. Her how-to advice includes cultivating the wisdom to know when to tend plants and when to let them be, applying just the right amounts of water and fertilizer, managing blight on tomatoes, building a seed bank, and creating an abundant, no-fuss garden of greens—just plant and harvest! This profound and informative guide offers all levels of growers practical methods, and a deeper essence, of organic gardening. 6 Fear can be as damaging to our health as smoking, stress, or poor nutrition. But it can also be a blessing, waking us up to what needs healing in our lives. Doctor Lissa Rankin, author of Mind Over Medicine, studied the link between fear and disease, and offers a journey of transformation—if we’re willing to take it. In The Fear Cure, we learn that fearful thoughts create physiological changes. We learn to distinguish between true fear and false fear, tune into our courageous “Inner Pilot-Light,” change our dread of uncertainty into a doorway of possibilities, and free the part of ourselves that is never afraid. Padma Venkatraman A TIME TO DANCE Nancy Paulsen Books, $17.99 Veda is a young girl with a talent and passion for classical Indian dance, but a car accident leaves her learning to dance again from scratch with a prosthetic foot. The story of her resulting spiritual growth weaves an intricate web of love and support shared between family and friends, students and teachers. The entire novel is told through Veda’s own poetry, vivid and moving in its immediacy. This is a beautiful gem of a book, and exactly what young-adult fiction needs as a balance to the current dystopian trends. Your NAKED VOICE Both science and spirituality agree that every particle of matter is a form of resonance or vibration. The human voice is quite literally a mouthpiece of this truth; there is no form of expression more tied to our identities than our voices. With simple inspirational exercises, this book by renowned voice teacher Chloe Goodchild gives readers the tools to guide them in a process of sound healing and soul communication that is guar