Top 10 Inspirational Books – August 2015

Welcome to this month’s Aspire Magazine Top 10 Inspirational Books list! You’ll discover inspirational and empowering books, written by women and for women, each dedicated to sharing a universal message of love, hope and self-empowerment. Through their wisdom-filled books, these visionary female authors are illuminating the path for women on the journey of healing and self-discovery. Add these transformational books to your inspired living resource library.

Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga
by Anodea Judith

As the architecture of the soul, the chakra system is the yoke of yoga—the means whereby mind and body, heaven and earth, and spirit and matter are joined together in the divine union that is the true meaning of yoga.
In this long-awaited book by acclaimed chakra expert Anodea Judith, you will learn how to use yoga’s principles and practices to awaken the subtle body of energy and connect with your highest source. Using seven vital keys to unlock your inner temple, you will be guided through practices that open and activate each chakra through postures, bioenergetic exercises, breathing practices, mantras, guided meditation, and yoga philosophy. Includes beautiful step-by-step photographs for each of the poses.

 

Turn Your Dreams into Reality: Simple Techniques to Get What You Want
by Gini Graham Scott, PhD

Empower yourself to get what you want, feel more satisfaction at work and in your personal life, and prosper in all that you do. Filled with easy-to-learn yet powerful strategies and techniques, Turn Your Dreams Into Reality helps unleash your creativity, improve your relationships, be more persuasive, and increase your energy.
Using visualization, the law of attraction, intuition, meditation, and more, this book provides the tools you need to gain everything you want in life, love, and career. Through practical exercises and comprehensive instruction, you’ll turn problems into possibilities, and then transform those possibilities, and then transform those possibilities into success.
 

How To Find Your Purpose After 40: The Secret To Unlock Your Gift To The World
by Susan Paget

Are you ready to once and for all find out what your life’s purpose is but worried that it’s too late? In “How To Find Your Purpose After 40 Susan Paget leads you through breakthrough exercises that will help you find that bit of personal magic, that only YOU possess. By investigating all corners of your life – the past, present and future – this is a practical step by step guide for uncovering your point of difference. You’ll not only find that “thing” that brings you fulfillment, you’ll discover that in finding your true purpose at midlife, you will indeed, make a difference in the world. Susan Paget is a blogger, podcaster and the author of “Be Your Own Change Guru: The Ultimate Women’s Guide For Thriving At Midlife”.

 

Everyday Ambassador Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World
by Kate Otto

In a world of limitless technology, we are more connected than ever before but our hyper-connected lifestyles threaten our ability to know ourselves and interact with each other. By focusing on the four core values that allow us to become truly “connected” in tech-centric societies—empathy, patience, focus, and humility—Kate Otto demonstrates that the power of technology is not in the tool, but in the intention of the person using it.

The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda: An Easy Guide to a Healthy Lifestyle
by Michelle S. Fondin

Ayurveda, the “science of life,” is a complete wellness system that includes all that we associate with medical care — prevention of disease, observation, diagnosis, and treatment — as well as self-care practices that are generally absent from Western medicine. This truly holistic approach considers not just diet, exercise, and genetics but also relationships, life purpose, finances, environment, and past experiences. In this thorough and practical book, Michelle Fondin guides you gently through self-assessment questions designed to zero in on your needs and the best practices for addressing them, such as eating plans, addiction treatment, detoxification, and techniques for improving relationships.

 

Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within
by Karen Hering

Whether you approach this book primarily as a reader or a writer, you can open a rich correspondence with yourself and learn what your own heart has to say. Karen Hering offers a path of self-exploration and a contemplative practice of writing that engages memory and imagination, story and poetry, images and the timeless wisdom of world religions and mythology. It will open your ear to your own truths while opening your heart to the world around you.
Blending writing prompts, meditations, and stories, this book invites you to begin wherever you are and discover your own unique relation­ship with language, spirituality, and the world around you. The next chapter is yours to write, and Writing to Wake the Soul offers all you need to write it.
 

Divine Magic: The Seven Secrets of Manifestation
by Doreen Virtue

You have natural magical abilities that can elevate your life to a whole new level, as well as heal and help your loved ones and clients. The original teacher of this Divine magic was an Egyptian sage named Hermes Trismegistus. His teachings, called “Hermetics,” were only taught verbally or in very cryptic writings.
Now in Divine Magic, Doreen Virtue presents a clearly edited version of The Kybalion, written in understandable and modern language. She gives comments and practical suggestions based upon her own success in using Hermetic teachings for healing and manifestation. With Divine Magic, you can master your moods, release negativity, manifest new levels of abundance, and attract wonderful opportunities in all areas of your life.

 

Awakened by Autism Embracing Autism, Self, and Hope for a New World
by Andrea Libutti

Physician Andrea Libutti began the work of reconstructing herself after her oldest son was diagnosed with severe autism several years ago. Distraught and seemingly hopeless at the time, a series of unfolding events moved her from sleepwalking through life toward a personal journey of inner transformation. She immersed herself in research surrounding the causes and treatments for autism, and after several years of learning she has come to understand the disorder from a physical, emotional, and spiritual perspective.
In Awakened by Autism, Andrea shares her journey and the knowledge she has gained along the way. Awakened by Autism is both a memoir and a practical guide for healing our children—and a starting point for healing our planet.
 

Sell with Heart: How to Grow Your Business with Love and Authenticity
by Caitlin Cogan Doemner

Drawing on her personal journey as she learned to sell from a place of authenticity and confidence, Caitlin Doemner shares 13 Principles of Sales that emphasize abundance, collaboration and an attitude of love and service that transcends the deal on the table. As sales and leadership are both expressions of influence, when you master the art of sales, you unlock your potential as a more articulate visionary, more compelling leader, and more effective world changer. Fear, shame and resistance will melt away as you start each sales conversation from a place of love and authenticity, when you sell with heart. Close bigger deals more often while having FUN throughout the entire experience. Show up as your true self with a genuine desire to transform your clients’ lives and you will be unstoppable.
 

 

Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness
by 27 Soul-inspiring Women (Linda Joy)

INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER!! Best-selling publisher Linda Joy brings you a powerful collection of stories from twenty-seven amazing women who have entered a brave new world of conscious, deliberate, positive-and most of all, happy-living. Through trials and triumphs great and small, these fearless female leaders prove that true fulfillment is the result of connecting to inner wisdom and making choices which honor the truths revealed there.  These honest, authentic stories from real women will make you smile, cry, and maybe even laugh out loud-but more importantly, they’ll prove to you that everyone, no matter her background or circumstances, can make the powerful choice to be happy!