Self-Improvement audiobooks

Money and Spirit

By: Jacob Needleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Money has become for our generation what sex was for the earlier generations," says philosopher Jacob Needleman, "a force that is at the back of almost everything people do, but which we're not yet able to face without hypocrisy." In this refreshingly candid and insightful interview, Needleman discusses the meaning of money and its place in the... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled: Mythology and Human Nature - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Escaping Into Life

By: Shinzen Young

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most challenging problems we face in life is that we don't know how to concentrate. In this dialogue Young, a Westerner who lived as a monk in Japan and learned Vipassana meditation, emphasizes the importance of self-observation and focus as the way to personal freedom. Read more

Learned Optimism - Abridged

By: Martin E. P. Seligman

Narrated by: Martin E. P. Seligman

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ARE YOU HOLDING YOURSELF BACK?
Without knowing it, most of us impose limits on our achievement and our happiness by approaching life's problems and challenges with unnecessary pessimism. Now, Dr. Martin Seligman, a pioneer in cognitive psychology and motivational research, tells you how to identify your own self-defeating thought patterns --... Read more

Of Kings and Warriors

By: Robert Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Within each of us are four fundamental archetypes--King, Warrior, Magician and Lover--which Robert Moore describes as "programs for human emotional, behavioral and mental functioning." These archetypes need to be recognized and integrated into our lives for us to achieve maturity and self-realization. Read more

Where Riches Lie

By: Paul Hwoschinsky

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Money and wealth are not the same thing, asserts Hwoschinsky, a venture capitalist, wilderness photographer and author. By using a "non-financial balance sheet" to identify the assets which, more than money ever could, indicate our aliveness and true wealth--our health, relationships, education, vision and creativity--we can begin to integrate... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Chemotherapy

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Guided imagery for chemotherapy is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to soothing music, to achieve specific healing goals. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact on physical comfort and positive attitude. This particular audio program has been distributed by oncology... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You Fight Cancer

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Guided imagery is a hypnotic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to soothing music, to achieve specific healing or wellness goals. Repeated listening once or twice a day for 2-3 weeks ensures maximum impact. The guided imagery shows listeners natural ways to fight cancer with a narrative that imagines tumors... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Multiple Sclerosis

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This guided meditation for multiple sclerosis (MS) is designed as a natural, mind-body treatment for MS, to complement standard medical treatment. It is particularly effective aid in combating fatigue, stress and pain. Continued listening to positive affirmations and guided imagery for multiple sclerosis will bolster energy, mood and motivation,... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Support Your Recovery From Stroke

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A large body of research over the past decade has shown that imagining desired movement in a stroke-affected limb increases motor function recovery, and is a powerful rehabilitation aid, alongside other therapies in programs for recovery after a stroke. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided narrative and powerful affirmations on this audio... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You Manage Diabetes

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Offering affirmations and guided imagery for diabetes, this recording has been endorsed and distributed by AADE, the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Embedded in this soothing, hypnotic meditation for diabetes are suggestions designed to help lower blood sugar naturally. The narrative invokes images in a relaxed, focused state of... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled: the Taste for Mystery - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Taking Off the Colored Glasses

By: Robert Nozick

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author and professor of philosophy at Harvard University,Robert Nozick shares his reflections here on happiness, spirituality, pain and suffering. “The world is unsuspectedly rich if one approaches it with the right attitude,” he tells us, and encourages us “to pay a particular kind of attention to this world, and to view it... Read more

Personal Disarmament: Darkness and Light

By: Deena Metzger

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, playwright, author and psychotherapist, Metzger takes us on an extraordinary journey into the pain and the ecstasy of engaging life to the fullest. She describes her transformative experience with cancer and how the process enabled her to redesign her life, appreciating the simple and listening to the silences. Highlighting this dialogue... Read more

Wenn Frauen zu sehr lieben - Die heimliche Sucht, gebraucht zu werden (Ungekürzt)

By: Robin Norwood

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Zu sehr lieben" bedeutet etwas ganz anderes als "zu viele Männer lieben" oder "sich zu oft verlieben" oder "einen anderen Menschen zu aufrichtig und zu tief lieben". "Zu sehr lieben" bedeutet: sich für einen Menschen bis zur Selbstaufgabe verzehren, diese Besessenheit mit Liebe gleichsetzen, zulassen, dass sie die eigenen Gefühle und einen... Read more

NLP

By: Charles Faulkner, Gerry Schmidt, Kelly Gerling,...

Narrated by: Charles Faulkner, Gerry Schmidt, Kelly Gerling,...

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NLP: A Powerful Technology for Producing Change


When we first encountered NLP more than a dozen years ago, we realized it represented a paradigm shift, a completely new way of thinking that makes heightened achievement levels and personal transformation possible.

Here's the great reality about NLP: If one person can do something, anyone else... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Don’T Worry--Be Happy

By: Marsha Sinetar

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the Hansel and Gretel myth as a metaphor for life, psychologist and writer Sinetar speaks to those who are attempting to live their deepest calling in the midst of a seductive world. She emphasizes the power of a positive view without being pollyannish, and stresses how optimism is essential for the creative process to unfold. Read more

Spiritual Social Action

By: Catherine Ingram & Allan Hunt Badiner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

There is ground for hope in the transformative power of right action, and in this dialogue the focus is on the combination of spiritual power with social activism. The effect of truth in action is compelling as both Ingram and Badiner point to those whose lives are making a difference throughout the world. For anyone seeking to balance the inner... Read more

Authentic Power: Between Energy and Matter

By: Gary Zukav

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Venturing beyond the realm he opened with the classicThe Dancing Wu Li Masters (Bantam 1980), Zukav expands his vision, penetrating the fascinating complexities of human experience with a new theory of personal reality. He explains how we create the events in our lives with our thoughts and intentions, and puts us in touch with an ability to... Read more

Beyond Blame, Guilt and Shame

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Trained as both a biologist and a psychologist, Joan Borysenko has had a lifelong interest in the connections between science, psychology and spirituality. Exploring ways to shed self-blame and the pessimism of unhealthy guilt, she retrieves the wonder and mystery of being alive, and reviews the 21 telling “expressions” that indicate excessive... Read more

If You Haven't Got the Time to Do It Right When Will You Find the Time to Do It - Abridged

By: Jeffrey J. Mayer

Narrated by: Jeffrey J. Mayer

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Work smarter, not harder

Executives pay $300 an hour for Jeffrey J. Mayer to clear their desks and organize their offices. Now in this hands-on, result-oriented program, he takes you step-by-step through his remarkable system that will leave your desk top and your day free of clutter.

Did you know that: 60 percent of all your paper... Read more

Beware the Naked Man Who offers You His Shirt - Abridged

By: Harvey Mackay

Narrated by: Harvey Mackay

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay knows about life at the top--and knows what it takes to stay there. Now, he tells you how to get there too, with dozens of common-sense lessons from all walks of life. Whether you're selling, managing, or punching the clock, you'll find the questions and the answers you need to questions like: Do you do what... Read more

Seeing With the Heart

By: David Whyte

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet and workshop leader Whyte tells us, “Poetry belongs in many parts of our lives. It can bring mythological and concrete worlds together.” He takes us on a journey from the outer world of the Galapagos Islands where he was a Naturalist Guide to the inner world of an emerging poet. Read more